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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade


What happens when you embed geospatial capabilities in generalist data tools? More people engaging with geo data.

One of the core questions discussed in the breakouts and in the halls was how to broaden the geospatial audience. DuckDB lowers the barriers to working with geo data to two lines: Prior to this, getting up and running from a cold-start might’ve required installing or even compiling severall OSS packages, carefully noting path locations, standing up a specialized database… Enough work that a data generalist might not have bothered, or their IT department might not have supported it.

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