From Nothing to Eye Candy

Deploy a Cluster

This will actually be quick. The easiest way to have a GeoWave cluster is to just use EMR with the GeoWave bootstrap actions: http://ngageoint.github.io/geowave/documentation.html#running-from-emr-2 Following those steps will give you a GeoWave cluster on AWS within minutes.

Ingest Data

Pick a large interesting dataset of your choice. OSM GPX data is approximately 2.8 billion points and there are some interesting use cases for the aggregation of all of that data, but in this tutorial let's walk through using some GDELT data.

wget http://data.gdeltproject.org/events/md5sums
for file in `cat md5sums | cut -d' ' -f3` ; do wget http://data.gdeltproject.org/events/$file ; done
md5sum -c md5sums 2>&1