GeoJupyter community meeting

GeoJupyter community meeting (2026-02-10)¶

Please add new agenda items under the New agenda items heading!

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Attendees¶

Your name / GitHub ID / affiliation / icebreaker

• Matt Fisher / @mfisher87 / Schmidt DSE

• Esha / e5ha / UC Berkeley

• Benny / benjaminszeghy / UC Berkeley

New agenda items¶

• jupyter-xarray-tiler

  • The idea: A toolkit for developers of Jupyter interactive map widgets (ipyleaflet, leafmap, folium, ipyopenlayers) to add support for visualizing Xarray datasets without writing to a file (the typical approach). Uses TiTiler (maybe eventually xpublish-tiles) to serve map tiles. Uses jupyter-server-proxy to enable the JS map app to access the tiles regardless of where Jupyter is running (needs testing).

  • Is this a good idea? Leafmap currently has tooling for visualizing Xarray datasets , but it seems to write the entire array to a memory file to make this work. Does the tiler approach work better on constrained systems (e.g. JupyterHub)?

    • Benny: E.g. on a 4GB JupyterHub instance, would the memory file approach crash the server?

    • Benny: Will find a huge raster for testing!

    • TODO: Compare with other approaches! geojupyter/jupyter-xarray-tiler#22

    • Esha & Benny: Will try some other approaches together tomorrow!

  • Demo

• More clear onramps for new community members

  • Common question: “I want to get involved, but I don’t know where to start!”

  • How can we better surface startable issues for new community members?

  • How can we better direct folks to this location ☝️ How can the website change to serve this need?