Chris Holmes
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Chris Holmes
@opencholmes.bsky.social
Working towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial future, through involvement in GeoParquet, Planet Labs, Taylor Geospatial Engine, Fiboa, STAC & Source Cooperative.
I think my favorite (pictured in the gif) is the ability to select multiple
@overturemaps.bsky.social
layers and then have the plugin download them all at once. I'm pretty confident it's now the easiest way to get a bunch of Overture data for your area of interest.
February 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm incredibly pumped that we'll be launching 'phase 2' of the TGE initiative that lead to Fields of The World (fieldsofthe.world) and fiboa (github.com/fiboa). And I'd like to invite you to join us!

See tgengine.org/tge-innovati... for the full post, and read on for some more information.
February 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Taylor Geospatial Engine just published a blog post I wrote about a demo we put together to show the potential of using a custom LLM interface to explore interoperable field boundary data. Check it out at tgengine.org/exploring-fi...
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
My Overture/Source Coop/Cloud downloader QGIS plug-in is live! It lets you download a GeoParquet or GeoPackage for just your view port from hosted GeoParquet files.

Check it out at plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis... and install it by searching for 'GeoParquet Downloader' in the QGIS plugin manager.
December 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Yeah, and they go back 7+ years. Near daily imagery lets you get pretty close to cloudless imagery over quarterly or monthly cadences.
December 4, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Got this working with my (still unannounced except for here) QGIS plugin. Not as fast as Overture since the files themselves aren't spatially partitioned (yet), but a big improvement from the previous release, as it's GeoParquet and works! Cool to see it on Hugging Face.
December 4, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Anybody up to test out my new QGIS plugin and confirm it works? I'm waiting for approval on plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis... but you can download and add as a zip from github.com/cholmes/qgis.... Enables download of the viewport of Overture, source.coop or any GeoParquet URL.
December 2, 2024 at 7:44 PM