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OK so I said my next blog post was going to be about my aviation photography… But stuff happens !! During my time working at Google, we used to describe Google Earth and Maps as a mirror of the real world. It wasn’t just a marketing slogan; it was a guiding principle. To us, the …
Who else got into geography to change the world rather than just digitise it? If you read Rohan Silva’s recent essay in The Times, you’ll have seen him articulate a shift that is quietly rewiring the way we think about knowledge work. Silva captures a profound transition brought on by the rise of Artificial Intelligence: we …
Read more “AI is moving Geographers from the “how” to “what”!”
Last week I spent a very enjoyable and productive day at the 2026 edition of the Geobusiness exhibition and conference. I was invited to appear on a panel addressing amongst other things the role of the Geospatial Professional in the AI dominated future, I made the point that we as Geographers need to “Up our …
For those of us in the geospatial world, the ability to derive a precise location from a non-GNSS source is always a fascinating technical feat. Over the last year, Starlink users—particularly in the maritime and “off-grid” communities—discovered that SpaceX’s hardware was doing exactly that. By querying the local gRPC (Remote Procedure Call) API of a …
Read more “The End of Starlink’s “Pseudo-GPS”: Security over Utility”
For over half a century, the geospatial industry has operated on a foundational, largely unchallenged premise: the physical world is an absolute reality, and the goal of technology is to measure, index, and represent it with ever-increasing fidelity. Data giants like HERE, TomTom and of course Google built empires by deploying fleets of sensor-laden vehicles …
As Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) it was a pleasure to once again attend a Technical Committee meeting this week in Philadelphia, and while no longer participating in the technical work of the organisation it was an opportunity to take a step back and evaluate the role of …
I had the I had the pleasure of taking part in a discussion over dinner on the topic of Trust when it comes to GeoAI (don’t get me started) at the Royal Society last week, sponsored by InnovateUK as part of their GeoAI Festival. While I think everyone agreed this was very much the …
It’s simply Geospatial! Happy New Year! Remember “WebGIS”? The term itself feels a little anachronistic now, doesn’t it? It conjures images of a distinct, almost revolutionary movement, a time when putting maps and spatial analysis on the internet was a novel and exciting frontier. I know I was there… Today, the very idea of differentiating …
Inspired by an excellent post on LinkedIn by Sam Meek on the problems of the Machine – Man interface with reference to AI, I asked the purely fictional Mayor Vaughn to write a guest post on this very topic.. A Guest Blog by Larry Vaughn, Former Mayor of Amity Island You know me. I’m the …
Read more “The machine-man interface : Notes from Amity Island !”
The sheer volume of Earth Observation (EO) data today—a planetary deluge of multi-spectral, radar, and LiDAR feeds is overwhelming traditional remote sensing techniques. For decades, analysts relied on meticulous, band-by-band spectral science, but this approach is simply unsustainable at scale of “new space”. Enter the hot term of the moment, geospatial embeddings, a core innovation …
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