Sean Gillies (Posts about lambda)https://sgillies.net/tags/lambda.atom2023-12-31T01:26:22ZSean GilliesNikolaGeodata in the Cloudhttps://sgillies.net/2017/10/14/geodata-in-the-cloud.html2017-10-14T16:21:01-06:002017-10-14T16:21:01-06:00Sean Gillies<p>This past week there was a flurry of blog posts about deploying and accessing
geospatial data in "the cloud." Yes, I'm still putting scare quotes around "the
cloud" in 2017.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://erouault.blogspot.com/2017/10/gdal-and-cloud-storage.html">"GDAL and cloud storage" by Even Rouault</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://medium.com/planet-stories/cloud-native-geospatial-part-2-the-cloud-optimized-geotiff-6b3f15c696ed">"Cloud Native Geospatial Part 2: The Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF" by Chris Holmes</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://blog.mapbox.com/combining-the-power-of-aws-lambda-and-rasterio-8ffd3648c348">"Combining the power of AWS Lambda and Rasterio" by Vincent Sarago</a></p></li>
</ul>
<p>I wrote a post specifically about <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/issues/942">Rasterio and datasets on S3</a> last December. Shortly before that, Chris
Henrick wrote a great post about <a class="reference external" href="https://hi.stamen.com/stamen-aws-lambda-tiler-blog-post-76fc1138a145">preparing data to be deployed on S3 for use
with GDAL and Rasterio</a>.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, the birth announcement for geodata in the cloud came
7 years ago in <a class="reference external" href="http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/425/vsi-curl-support/">"VSI Curl Support" by Christopher Schmidt</a>.</p>
<p>It's remarkable that the authors of HTTP/1.1 foresaw this kind of application
in 1999: <a class="reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.16">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.16</a>.</p>