Geometry and geography columns with a declared CRS
- Geometry Support in Havasu — rewritten around
GEOMETRY(<srid>)andGEOGRAPHY(<srid>)columns: declare the CRS when you create the table, write values that match it, and create tables from queries and DataFrames. - Upgrade Existing Geometry Tables — copy a table whose geometry column has no declared CRS into one that does.
- Cluster by Geospatial Fields for Faster Queries — cluster a column that is not WGS84 by passing explicit bounds to
hilbert.
File Geodatabase and ArcGIS Feature Service readers
Two vector data sources now have reference pages:- File Geodatabase Reader — the
filegdbsource reads a feature class from an Esri.gdbdirectory on local paths or object storage, with no GDAL or Esri native libraries. Covers thelayerandnumPartitionsoptions, the 500,000 row-index entry threshold at which a layer starts to split, how the SRID is resolved, and filter, column, and limit pushdown. - ArcGIS Feature Service Reader — the
arcgissource reads Feature Service and Map Service layers over the ArcGIS REST API, with token authentication, field and geometry type mapping, OBJECTID-range partitioning, and pushdown of filters, column selections, and limits to the server.
Industry Use Cases portal
Spatial Analytics Tutorials vertical now contains an Industry Use Cases portal, organized around the business question that you start with rather than the geospatial solution you’ll eventually utilize.Land Monitoring & Catastrophe Prediction
Facility Management
Site Selection
Fleet Logistics
Agriculture & Forestry
Insurance & Risk
Environmental Monitoring
Last Mile Delivery
What is new
- Eight industry pages: Each covers the recurring spatial questions in that vertical, the output you can expect, and the tutorials that produce it.
- Question-first structure: The portal index groups every question by industry in one place, so you can scan before picking a tutorial.
- Linked to runnable notebooks: Every question points at an existing example notebook.
Claude Connector guide and a VS Code path for your first notebook
New guides
- Add Wherobots as an Official Connector in Claude — connect Wherobots to Claude from the Anthropic connector Directory with OAuth sign-in, no manual MCP configuration.
Updated guides
- Start Your First Notebook now documents the VS Code path alongside Wherobots Cloud, including connecting a kernel and running a local notebook on Wherobots compute.
Amazon S3 Tables catalog guides
Two new guides cover connecting an Amazon S3 table bucket as an Iceberg catalog and querying it:- Connect to Amazon S3 Tables Catalog — the guided Data Hub flow, CloudFormation deployment, and read-only versus read-write access.
- Query Amazon S3 Tables Catalog in a Notebook — read and write your S3 Tables Iceberg tables from a Wherobots notebook.
New SQL function reference pages for Apache Sedona 1.9.1
Reference pages for the functions added in Apache Sedona 1.9.1:- ST_IsLineStringCCW and ST_EqualsExact
- Geography functions: ST_Intersection, ST_MakeLine, ST_X, and ST_Y
Bring Your Own Spark: Databricks and AWS EMR
Two new deployment guides for running WherobotsDB on Spark clusters you already operate:- Bring Your Own Spark (Databricks) — install and configure WherobotsDB on a Databricks cluster.
- Bring Your Own Spark (AWS EMR) — install and configure WherobotsDB on an Amazon EMR cluster.
Query Unity Catalog Tables
New guide: Query Unity Catalog Tables — read and write Databricks Unity Catalog tables from Wherobots, including the Data Hub foreign catalog setup.Geography, bounding box, and measurement reference pages
- Geography function reference backfilled: Pages for the
GEOGRAPHYtype, including ST_Area, ST_Buffer, ST_Centroid, ST_Contains, ST_DWithin, ST_Distance, ST_Intersects, ST_Length, and ST_Within. - Bounding box functions: Box2D functions and Box3D functions, plus ST_Extent and ST_3DExtent.
- Measurement and processing: ST_ShortestLine, ST_3DDWithin, ST_OffsetCurve, and later ST_HausdorffDistanceVertices.
AWS Glue Catalog guides
- Connect to AWS Glue Catalog — add a Glue Catalog from the Data Hub and validate access with guided CloudFormation deployment.
- Query AWS Glue Catalog in a Notebook — query your Glue tables from a Wherobots notebook.
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
New guide: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) — run Wherobots compute in your own cloud account, including the Organization settings and the Allowed compute scoping used by Cloud Connections.MCP server overview and VS Code Extension settings
- Wherobots MCP Server — a platform-agnostic overview that routes you to the setup guide for your agentic tool.
- Extension Settings — the configurable settings for the Wherobots VS Code Extension.
Setup guides for ten agentic development tools
Per-tool guides for installing and using the Wherobots MCP server, each with the configuration and verification steps for that client:Claude Code
Cursor
OpenCode
VS Code
VSCodium
Kiro
Windsurf
Antigravity
Trae
Positron
Getting started with agentic development
- Get Started with Agentic Development — the entry point for using Wherobots from an AI coding tool.
- Install Agent Skills — install the Wherobots Agent Skills so your agent knows the platform’s workflows.
- MCP Server vs CLI — which interface to reach for, and when.
- Browse Your Data — explore your catalogs and tables from the VS Code Extension.