#cloudnativegeo: Approachable

There is considerable technical writing around #cloudnativegeo data formats. For a more accessible introduction, check out the ‘Optimizing Geospatial for the Cloud’ zine by #DevelopmentSeed which uses storytelling to break down technical barriers.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

March 4, 2025

There is plenty of (quite) technical content around cloud-optimized geospatial data formats (#cloudnativegeo, for short). For example, the comprehensive format guide by the Cloud-Native Geo Forum (CNG) or, in the Swiss context, the shorter guide on behalf of GeoStandards.ch.

If you would enjoy a perhaps more accessible approach than studying such technical publications, you may want to look into the cloudnativegeo zine1 recently issued by Development Seed — “Optimizing Geospatial for the Cloud”:

An excerpt from “Optimizing Geospatial for the Cloud”

An excerpt from “Optimizing Geospatial for the Cloud”

You can peruse the short (24 pages) zine online (personally, I could do without the acoustic skeuomorphism2, but that’s just a minuscule quibble).

Interestingly, Development Seed have also published a behind-the-scenes blogpost that explains some of the thinking behind making a zine.

Footnotes

  1. “zine” is short for “magazine” or “fanzine”↩︎

  2. skeuomorphism in digital user experience design is the approach of making a digital thing look and/or behave like their real-world counterpart↩︎