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Tom Augspurger Feb 10, 2023

Dask-GeoPandas spatial partitioning performance: https://tomaugspurger.github.io/posts/dask-geopandas-partitions/

A story about how I helped a colleague speed up a workflow a bit with Dask.

Dask-GeoPandas Spatial Partitioning Performance

A college reached out yesterday about a performance issue they were hitting when working with the Microsoft Building Footprints dataset we host on the Planetary Computer. They wanted to get the building footprints for a small section of Turkey, but noticed that the performance was relatively slow and it seemed like a lot of data was being read. This post details how we debugged what was going on, and the steps we took to fix it.

Tom Augspurger Feb 9, 2023

https://tomaugspurger.github.io/posts/pc-january-2023/ Planetary Computer Release: January 2023

The new feature for rendering the Buildings Footprints dataset is great. Check it out: https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/explore?c=30.1000%2C-1.9600&z=13.00&v=2&d=ms-buildings&m=Global&r=Default&s=false%3A%3A100%3A%3Atrue&sr=desc&ae=0

Planetary Computer Release: January 2023

The Planetary Computer made its January 2023 release a couple weeks back. The flagship new feature is a really cool new ability to visualize the Microsoft AI-detected Buildings Footprints dataset. Here’s a little demo made by my teammate, Rob: Your browser doesn't support HTML video. Here is a link to the video instead. Currently, enabling this feature required converting the data from its native geoparquet to a lot of protobuf files with Tippecanoe.