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Description
Who is the audience?
Who might want to know this? What other groups or organizations might be interested?
- Anyone working or wanting to start working with spatial data/GIS.
Why is this important?
- There have been many interesting developments and changes in the spatial environment.
What should be covered?
- Package ecosystems/Roadmap?
- Applications?
- @potterzot propose advice about working with spatial data at scale
- @mpaulacaldas would like to learn more about how other R users are using Arrow/DuckDB/PostGIS/splarklyr for spatial analysis with large data.
- @Aariq wonders if the community would be interested in hearing about the work-in-progress geotargets package (developed with @njtierney)
Suggested speakers or contributors
- Who would you like to chat with?
Resources you would recommend to the audience
- Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with R: https://www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial/
- Geospatial packages at rOpenSci: https://ropensci.org/packages/geospatial/