Apache: Big Data 2016

What is the average predicted temperature of BC from 2050-2099 based on forecasting models? How many tweets containing the hashtag #apachecon were sent from Canada? In general: how do we ask questions concerning location to very large sets of geospatial data? To answer these types of questions, existing large data processing frameworks like Hadoop, Accumulo and Spark need to be "geospatially enabled". LocationTech is a working group inside of the Eclipse Foundation that is home to 4 open source projects doing exactly that: GeoTrellis, GeoWave, GeoMesa, and GeoJinni (sense a pattern?). In this talk, I will give an introduction to what geospatial data is, talk about challenges in processing large sets of geospatial data, and talk about how these four LocationTech projects work with Apache projects to overcome those challenges and let us get the most out of our large geospatial data.