My post from Locate Press on helping define what geospatial refers to in the user and developer communities.
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Spark Analysis of Global Place Names (GeoNames)
Spark Analysis on a Large File GeoNames.org has free gazetteer data by country or for the world, provided in tab-separated text files. In this post I show you how to do some simple analysis using DataFrames in Spark. As the global file is 280M compressed and 1.2G uncompressed. This size of file makes it difficult to […]