CNG is the place where geospatial data users create the future together. To make the share of knowledge between those data users even smoother, we’ve refined our process for getting blog posts onto cloudnativegeo.org. Whether you want to share a deep-dive technical tutorial, highlight lessons learned from a recent project, or explore ways to strengthen our community, this updated approach makes it simple to propose, write, and publish. The following information can also be found at CONTRIBU...| CNG Blog
Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, and the challenges they believe our community should focus on.| cloudnativegeo.org
Challenges to work on to help the Cloud-Native Geospatial community thrive..| cloudnativegeo.org
A recap of the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium that took place in Vienna, Austria, in June 2025.| cloudnativegeo.org
A recap of the inaugural CNG Conference that took place in Snowbird Utah.| cloudnativegeo.org
We have partnered with thriveGEO to accelerate training and capacity building for cloud-native spatial skills.| cloudnativegeo.org
Seven months ago, we issued A Call to Action for the Data Community to break down geospatial data silos and make GIS a core part of analytics. Today, we’re thrilled to announce two major developments that bring this vision closer to reality: The Parquet specification has officially adopted geospatial guidance, enabling native storage of GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY types Iceberg 3 now includes GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY as part of its official specification Now both Parquet and Iceberg support column...| CNG Blog
Have you benefitted from Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF’s? SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs? Zarr, COPC or GeoParquet? Not just the formats, but the whole ecosystem of tools and data around it? Well I’d like to present you with an incredibly easy opportunity to ‘pay it forward’ and help build and expand the movement. And all you have to do is attend a conference! One that should be a totally awesome experience, the first in-person CNG Conference, from April 30th to May 2nd. I have big dreams fo...| CNG Blog
Cloud-Native Geospatial represents a significant shift in how geospatial data is processed, stored, and analyzed. This approach offers GIS Professionals greater scalability, allowing them to handle massive datasets without relying on traditional and often limited on-premise infrastructure. Additionally, the cloud-native approach enhances collaboration by enabling multiple users to access and work on shared datasets in real-time, regardless of their physical location, helping to eliminate data...| CNG Blog
Want to build your own QGIS plugins and any other geospatial tools? Read this account of using AI tools to code a plugin for QGIS.| cloudnativegeo.org
An overview of the QGIS plug-in development and the motivations behind creating the plug-in.| cloudnativegeo.org
A goal for me this year is to ‘ship more’, so in the spirit of releasing early and often I wanted to share a little new project I got going this past weekend. See https://github.com/cholmes/geoparquet-tools. It’s a collection of utilities for things I often want to do but that aren’t trivial out of the box with DuckDB. It started focused on just checking GeoParquet files for ‘best practices’, which I’ve been working on writing up in this pull request, as I realized that lots of ...| CNG Blog
DuckDB’s functionality has continued to expand, and as of version 1.1 it reads and writes GeoParquet natively, as long as you have the spatial extension installed.| cloudnativegeo.org
Don’t miss this opportunity to make your mark in the cloud-native geospatial community| cloudnativegeo.org
Kyle Barron, Cloud Engineer at Development Seed. You’ve spent years figuring out how to visualize large geospatial datasets in web browsers. Can you tell us a bit about your background and what initially drew you to this area? I have a bit of a nontraditional background; I have virtually no official training in geography or computer science. In college, I was interested in urban and environmental economics, trying to understand how policies shape cities and the environment. I planned to pur...| CNG Blog
This blog post highlights some key talks and posters at AGU 24 you won’t want to miss.| cloudnativegeo.org
We invite you to join us at CNG Conference 2025 in Snowbird, Utah from April 30 to May 2 2025. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Snowbird, Utah, this inaugural event will convene the cloud-native geospatial community to learn from one another and collaborate to make geospatial data easier to access and use. The event will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities, and showcases of open-source projects, all designed to enhance attendees’ sk...| CNG Blog
This week on Wednesday, November 13, the CNG Virtual Conference 2024 will gather data user practitioners, enthusiasts, and newcomers to explore the latest in cloud-native geospatial technology. Come hear keynotes from NASA, Carto, the University of Tennessee, and speakers from many other organizations sharing updates and insights on cloud-native geo. This online event is an inclusive space for anyone curious about cloud-native geospatial, whether you’re an industry expert, an innovator, or ...| Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum - CNG
We are excited to announce the founding CNG Editorial Board, a group of leaders in our community who have graciously volunteered to guide our work.| cloudnativegeo.org
We’re excited to announce the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) membership program. We have changed our name, but not our commitment to making geospatial data easier to access and use. As geospatial data becomes more important, so does the need for a vendor-agnostic, trusted platform to help people understand the true benefits and limitations of geospatial technology. CNG is stepping up to meet this need, providing a neutral forum where geospatial data users can come together and exchange...| CNG Blog
In May last year, we announced the “Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation” as an initiative to “help people adopt patterns and best practices for efficiently sharing Earth science data on the Internet using a cloud-native approach.” Since then, we’ve done quite a bit. We’ve published 29 blog posts and quickly attracted over 1,000 followers on X. We created a new Slack workspace which has over 400 members and 200 monthly active users. Combined with some of Radiant Earth’s previously...| CNG Blog
We are proud to announce the final release of STAC 1.1.0. The focus has been the addition of a common band construct to unify the fields eo:bands and raster:bands. Additionally, Item Asset Definition (field item_assets) - formerly a popular STAC extension - is now part of the core specification. Various additional fields have been made available via the common metadata mechanism, e.g. keywords, roles, data_type and unit. We collaborated closely with the editors of OGC API - Records to align b...| CNG Blog
Introducing STAC GeoParquet, a specification and library for storing and serving STAC metadata as GeoParquet.| cloudnativegeo.org
An overview of the changes in STAC 1.1.0-beta.1.| cloudnativegeo.org
An overview of the fiboa converter tool and how it can be used to create interoperable field boundary data.| cloudnativegeo.org
Chris Holmes and Javier de la Torre argue for geospatial data to move from a niche concern requiring specialized tools to a standard data type that can be integrated seamlessly with other data.| cloudnativegeo.org
An examination of how to develop extensible shared data schemas to make data more interoperable.| cloudnativegeo.org
An introduction to the fiboa (Field Boundaries for Agriculture) ecosystem.| cloudnativegeo.org
An introduction to the fiboa (Field Boundaries for Agriculture) core specification and extensions.| cloudnativegeo.org
Announcing fiboa (Field Boundaries for Agriculture), a new project we’re collaborating on with the Taylor Geospatial Engine focused on improving interoperability of farm field boundary data and other associated agriculture data.| cloudnativegeo.org
How common data schemas and identifiers can enable global cooperation and maximize the value of geospatial data.| cloudnativegeo.org
Some updates on the upcoming 1.1 release of the GeoParquet specification which will include a bounding box column and GeoArrow encoding.| cloudnativegeo.org