Most GIS professionals reach a crossroads at some point in their career. You can stay where you are, relying on traditional desktop workflows, or you can step into the deep end of modern GIS: cloud systems, data engineering, automation, and scalable analysis. I faced that fork in the road years ago. I didn’t have a […]

Cloud-native geospatial workflows are finally becoming accessible to everyday GIS analysts. Instead of downloading giant zip files or managing your own S3 buckets, you can now stream geospatial data directly into your tools using modern formats like GeoParquet, COG, and PMTiles. One of the platforms leading this shift is Source Cooperative, a data sharing project […]

Foundation models are changing what’s possible in geospatial analysis. Tasks that once required thousands of labeled samples and expensive GPU training can now be performed instantly using pre-trained models built on massive Earth observation datasets. One of the best examples is the new NASA–IBM Prithvi model, hosted on Hugging Face. It can classify cropland types, […]

GIS is changing fast. The datasets are bigger, the workflows are more complex, and the expectations for what a GIS professional can do have never been higher. Yet despite this shift, most GIS analysts are still relying on the same desktop tools and button-driven workflows they learned years ago. That gap is exactly where opportunity […]

One of the most talked-about issues in geospatial right now is the wide pay gap across GIS roles. You can find entry level jobs paying barely above the U.S. median income right next to roles at the same company paying well into the six figures. This is not just an isolated problem. It is a […]