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GeoSparkViz: A Cluster Computing System for Visualizing Massive-Scale Geospatial Data

In the last decade, geospatial data which is extracted from GPS traces and satellites image has become ubiquitous. GeoVisual analytics, abbr. GeoViz, is the science of analytical reasoning assisted by geospatial map interfaces. GeoViz involves two …

Dissecting GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator in Apache Spark

Researchers and practitioners have widely studied road network traffic data in different areas such as urban planning, traffic prediction and spatial-temporal databases. For instance, researchers use such data to evaluate the impact of road network …

Spatial Data Management in Apache Spark: the GeoSpark Perspective and Beyond

The paper presents the details of designing and developing GEOSPARK, which extends the core engine of Apache Spark and SparkSQL to support spatial data types, indexes, and geometrical operations at scale. The paper also gives a detailed analysis of …