A few months ago I got a message from the person I will shortly introduce on LinkedIn. The idea was simple (and one that I had been interested in working on) – partner up to share more resources to the geospatial community on the overlap between geospatial and earth observation. Now for me EO is […]
Was big data in GIS ever a thing? When we talk about big data in geospatial and GIS, it tends to open up quite the debate. On one hand, you have the promise of detailed insights and the ability to understand our world in ways weāve never imagined. On the other, thereās the stark reality […]
Esriās integration of DuckDB hints at modern GIS progress, but is it enough to shed its legacy systems?
Here are the two questions I get asked most often by people online or at events: Hereās the unfiltered and direct answer to the second question: it took almost a decade, and Iām still learning. Today, I want to give you a transparent look into my journeyāfrom my first attempts at learning to program to […]
Earlier this year I wrote aĀ postĀ which addressed the ubiquitous phrase in the geospatial industry that 80% of data contains a spatial component. The problem with this statement is that there is no single source where this stat line came from, even though it has been used widely for years. Some have tried toĀ trackĀ thisĀ down, but I […]
