Geoc can create map cubes from your custom data and it can also use well known tiles sets like OSM, Stamen, and USGS.

I recently posted about creating paper craft map cubes using GeoScript Groovy and geoc CLI. This time, let’s use the GeoShell.

GeoShell is an interactive shell for geospatial analysis. It supports vector, raster, and tile datasets and includes a map module.

I recently posted about creating paper craft map cubes using GeoScript Groovy. This time, let’s use the geoc command line interface.

When my daughters were younger, we discovered cube craft paper models as a fun way to create paper toys. I then discovered that you can do the same thing with maps. The cubed Gnomonic projection is perfect for creating simple map cubes that kids can easily print, cut out, and assemble with a glue stick. Let’s use GeoScript Groovy to create a custom map cube.

Natural Earth has vector and raster data. In this post, I will download a Natural Earth Raster and create MBTiles file with prerendered tiles. I wanted to use GeoScript Groovy here to show how easy it is to automate this process. Finally, we will use MBTilesServer to serve our MBTiles file on the web.

Natural Earth data is a great dataset. You can easily download it as shapefiles but I like to bundle these multiple files into a single GeoPackage dataset. I wanted to use GeoScript Groovy here to show how easy it is to automate this process.

I love geology maps. After working on the Mars Geology map project, I wanted to see if I could do something similar closer to home. I wanted to use geoc as much as possible to create a GeoPackage database of WA State geology data with embedded styles that would work in QGIS and geoc.

I recently finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Triology. There are a lot of great maps in those three books and it inspired me to look around and see if I could find GIS data for Mars. I found the https://astrogeology.usgs.gov web site which has awesome surficial geology maps and data of the red planet.

GeoScript Groovy inherits a powerful projection system from the GeoTools project.
After reading a recent article in the Economist about how they choose the right map project, I wanted to see how many of these various projection GeoTools and GeoScript supported.

GeoYaml is a new geospatial format inspired heavily by GeoJSON. The geoc command line application inherited support from the GeoScript Groovy library.

The geoc geometry convert command can read and write geometries in numerous formats. With the addition of GeoYaml to GeoScript, you can now convert WKT to GeoYaml.