Pirmin Kalberer

Pirmin is a geospatial software developer since more than 15 years. He has contributed to GDAL, QGIS, T-Rex and several other projects. Pirmin is co-founder of Sourcepole, a Swiss company providing GIS services and solutions.

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Sessions

10-01
10:00
30min
Geospatial programming with Rust
Pirmin Kalberer

Rust is one of the emerging new programming languages which is well suited for geospatial applications and especially libraries. It was originally developed by Mozilla as a long-term replacement for C++. It's a modern language with excellent tooling and Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row.
This talk gives an introduction into Rust and an overview of the current state of geospatial libraries and applications.

Software
Córdoba
09-29
16:00
30min
Cloud optimized formats for rasters and vectors explained
Pirmin Kalberer

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) and FlatGeobuf support efficient access to raster and vector data using the HTTP protocol.

This talk explains how this works behind the scenes (hint: HTTP GET range requests) and what this means for efficient use of these formats.

Software
Humahuaca
10-01
09:00
30min
The state of Vector tile servers
Pirmin Kalberer

Mapbox Vector Tiles are in heavy use since about 5 years now and still one new tile server implementation gets announced every year at least. This talk shows an up-to-date overview of the available technologies and their use.

State of the Art
Córdoba