July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
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Geospatial analysis in the big data world
Volume and velocity pose some challenges for geospatial analytics. The data size can easily be too large to analyze with a desktop GIS tool. It could even be too large to handle effectively in a relational database with spatial extensions. Due to the intensive computational requirements of geospatial functions, near real-time response can also be a challenge.
There are some options for geospatial analysis with tools built specifically with big data in mind. Elasticsearch is an open source distributed search engine. It can scale from one server to hundreds of servers, and it has some spatial search functions. You can search for locations within a certain distance of a latitude and longitude point, ...