Analysis-ready Cloud Optimized
How many people really need to wrangle 1TB of data on a daily basis? I feel like the word-count / hype-calories expended on “cloud native geospatial” dramatically exceeds the number of organizations that can get value from the architecture. Which is perhaps why ESRI just keeps beavering along with incremental improvements to their desktop oriented, cloud immigrant architecture. - Paul Ramsey
What is architecture but a way to deliver data? I’d argue why ESRI is able to beaver along is because the number of bodies able to productively contribute to the dam is dwindling and keeping the dam maintained is a foundational skillset that needs more accessible pathways.
Everyone can/could/should/will benefit from analysis ready, cloud optimized data. It’s the perfect position to be the one deciding what that analysis is.
“Analysis-ready Cloud Optimized” (ARCO) is an acronym describing the (re)structuring of data for on-the-fly (web based) access to (geo)spatial data. This formatting . As the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation accurately points out however, “There is no one-size-fits-all approach to cloud-optimized data.” h intended to advance that but the one-two punch