Hey there, I'd encourage you to check out the development currently going on with the GeoTrellis project (http://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis) or talk to the developers on irc (freenode, #geotrellis) as they're currently developing raster processing capabilities with spark as a backend, as well as scala wrappers for JTS (for calculations about geometry features).
--j On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM, neveroutgunned <neveroutgun...@hush.com>wrote: > Greetings Spark users/devs! I'm interested in using Spark to process large > volumes of data with a geospatial component, and I haven't been able to > find much information on Spark's ability to handle this kind of operation. > I don't need anything too complex; just distance between two points, > point-in-polygon and the like. > > Does Spark (or possibly Shark) support this kind of query? Has anyone > written a plugin/extension along these lines? > > If there isn't anything like this so far, then it seems like I have two > options. I can either abandon Spark and fall back on Hadoop and Hive with > the ESRI Tools extension, or I can stick with Spark and try to write/port a > GIS toolkit. Which option do you think I should pursue? How hard is it for > someone that's new to the Spark codebase to write an extension? Is there > anyone else in the community that would be interested in having geospatial > capability in Spark? > > Thanks for your help! > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Is Spark a good choice for geospatial/GIS > applications? Is a community volunteer needed in this > area?<http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Is-Spark-a-good-choice-for-geospatial-GIS-applications-Is-a-community-volunteer-needed-in-this-area-tp4685.html> > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list > archive<http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/>at Nabble.com. >
