Community Session: Open Source Spatial Interfaces in the Cloud

Hi everyone, welcome to this week's Versal community session. I am Anumuan from the Versil community team. You have

probably seen me around the community space. Uh for those of you watching this on X, you can join us on community. To interact with us, ask questions in the live chat. Uh if this is your first time joining one of our sessions and you cannot see the chat, no worries. Just sign in with your Versel account from the top of the page button to sign in and navigate back to this page and click going. You will see a chat box where you can chat. We will have some time for Q&A at the end of this sessions. So be sure

to drop your questions in the chat box and we'll discuss them then. Just a reminder, if you're going to use the chat box, be respectful and follow our code of conduct to create a safe environment for everyone. Today we have Dennis who is a principal software engineer at Geolytics uh with us to discuss spatial uh geodata. Hi Dennis, glad to have you here. You're welcome. Hi Anaman, thanks for having us. Um as Anaman introduced, um I'm Dennis. I'm

working as a principal software engineer at uh geolytics um where I'm heading the XYZ map project which is an opensource spatial data interface and it provides us with the capabilities to build location intelligence platforms. Um so the idea of this session is um going to talk like a little bit about goolytics and myself and then I want to show you

this project because it's 100% open source and for us um the open-source community um allows us to get people on boarded and we are consultants so we want to um sell our expertise but the project itself lifts of other people in in the geospatial um sector who help and contribute um can you um do you want to share the

project? All right. Um yeah, as you can see um we are deeply into um VEL. So even our website is hosted at Vel and we're going through rebranding at the moment. So I can show you here the the preview build. Um if you go to our website or directly to our um to our GitHub profile uh you will find the XY Z uh project. So this repository is really

what I want to talk today about. It's um started about 10 years ago. Well, when I joined Geolytics, when it was a startup, I already had the idea about um building an interface which um which simplifies the access to spatial data. So spatial data is um it's data about locations. So it's um

either point data or vector geometries or um indeed raster if we talking in remote sensing and the main interface for this when I started with the project was geoserver um but it required us to set up a geo server and then also build a front end like how you can intact with the data in the browser and um the geoer is written in Java and my Java is fairly