IBM's PAIRS Geoscope helps developers wrangle geospatial data

IBM today announced PAIRS Geoscope, a new experimental cloud-based service that makes it easier for developers to work with large amounts of geospatial data from across a wide variety of sources. The service handles ingesting, integrating and managing the data and allows developers to focus on their queries.

Indeed, it’s the part of the service that handles the data ingesting and indexing that sets PAIRS Geoscope apart from other big data analytics services. It can take in anything from geotagged IoT data from sensors to weather data, census data, aerial imagery and even tweets or news data from the Google-backed GDELT Project.

If you are interested in how IBM does this, you’re in luck, because the team recently published a paper that goes into more detail about how this integration engine works. From the developer’s perspective, though, the most important feature here is that PAIRS converts all the data into common formats and units and automatically aligns all the spatial data.

IBM says that it built this service on a “highly-scalable, cloud-based repository especially crafted for the complexities of geospatial-temporal information.” And while there is a REST API that developers can use to access the service, there also is a web-based interface that makes it easy to select different layers, manipulate them and combine them to generate new queries.

If you would like to give PAIRS Geoscope a try yourself, just head over to the project’s homepage and give it a shot. Currently, it looks like using any of the public data sets in the service’s repository is free and the service will walk you through the process, making this one of the easiest tools to play with this kind of data.

Comments

Paytm eyes Rs 60,000 crore from interbank transactions

Paytm is targeting average monthly interbank account transactions of Rs 60,000 crore through its platform by the end of the year, to be achieved through a new feature of bank transfers that the digital payments company added to its mobile application. Paytm, which already offers users the option of transferring funds between their mobile wallets, opened up bank transfers using UPI(Unified Payments Interface) and IMPS (Immediate Payment Service). UPI and IMPS are run by the National Payments Corporation of India(NPCI) and facilitate real-time interbank transactions. “We have simplified the product for the users allowing them to transfer funds by using the wallet or any connected bank account,” said Deepak Abbot, senior vice president at the SoftBank- and Alibaba-backed company. “We are trying to promote this product for all recurring payments like tuition fees, rent payments, and others…” Adding this feature to the platform is a significant de...

H4 visa issue: Is Trump administration confusing Indian techies?

The Trump administration decided to delay the decision regarding H4 visa. This is supposed to be a good news, but it has nothing but confused the Indian techies working in the US. The department of homeland security (DHS) deferred issuing the proposal to restrict work permits for H4 dependent visas. The decision was supposed to be taken by February 28 but it has now been delayed to the end of June 2018. The move comes just a few days after the Trump administration announced increased scrutiny for H-1B visa approvals, making it rather confusing for existing H-1B holders. Indian families are largest beneficiaries of H-4 visas. H-1B visa holders that move to the US with their spouses can apply for work permit for their spouses. The provision of H-4 visa has helped many Indian H-1B holders find work for their spouses. The department of homeland security (DHS) was planning to issue the proposal to restrict work permits for H-4 visa holders. The government led by the former...

H-1B: Work permit uncertainty cause worry among spouses of visa holders

In recent times, most of the people who came to the US legally with a spousal visa, or H-4, allowed to the spouses and wives and husbands of those who have H1-B, or high tech, visas, are much delighted and cried with euphoria as soon they heard that they would be able to get a work permit. Although H4 visas did not permit a person to work in the US – until 2015, when the Obama rule empowered a regulation that opened the route for several people with spousal visas to get permits, well-known as employment authorization documents (EAD). The help of H-4 visa holders hasn't kept going long, in any case. Bishen and mates who got the work approvals are presently in limbo since the Trump organization showed it intends to end the program this year. In the event that that occurs before they can get new work grants, life partners of H-1B holders in the Seattle region should choose whether to quit working in the United States or leave the nation. However, this relief of H-4 visa-ho...

WallWrites

Search This Blog