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Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By : Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth
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Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By: Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth

Overview of this book

Managing geospatial data and building location-based applications in the cloud can be a daunting task. This comprehensive guide helps you overcome this challenge by presenting the concept of working with geospatial data in the cloud in an easy-to-understand way, along with teaching you how to design and build data lake architecture in AWS for geospatial data. You’ll begin by exploring the use of AWS databases like Redshift and Aurora PostgreSQL for storing and analyzing geospatial data. Next, you’ll leverage services such as DynamoDB and Athena, which offer powerful built-in geospatial functions for indexing and querying geospatial data. The book is filled with practical examples to illustrate the benefits of managing geospatial data in the cloud. As you advance, you’ll discover how to analyze and visualize data using Python and R, and utilize QuickSight to share derived insights. The concluding chapters explore the integration of commonly used platforms like Open Data on AWS, OpenStreetMap, and ArcGIS with AWS to enable you to optimize efficiency and provide a supportive community for continuous learning. By the end of this book, you’ll have the necessary tools and expertise to build and manage your own geospatial data lake on AWS, along with the knowledge needed to tackle geospatial data management challenges and make the most of AWS services.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to the Geospatial Data Ecosystem
4
Part 2: Geospatial Data Lakes using Modern Data Architecture
10
Part 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Geospatial Data in AWS
16
Part 4: Accessing Open Source and Commercial Platforms and Services

Queries and transformations

Geospatial data provides answers to some of our most difficult business questions, but we must know how to ask the questions. While this topic will be introduced here, additional details will be provided in the Querying Geospatial Data with Amazon Athena chapter. In the AWS cloud, you have the option to use traditional SQL clients to query the database directly, or one of the SQL interfaces provided in the AWS console. SQL clients that you may already be familiar with provide a familiar interface to your geospatial data. Amazon RDS and Athena offer convenient interfaces through a web browser that do not require local installation of any software.

If you have an existing Aurora Serverless v1 database with a compatible version of PostgreSQL, the Query Editor tool can be used in the RDS section of the AWS console. There are many flexible options to access your datasets based on your use case and client environment. The Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL database...