A geospatial career journey
Open data projects are seeing a new kind of consumer in the form of automated systems that can consume public data continuously, at scale, and through access patterns that were not designed with them in mind. People downloading data, building products, or creating derivative services have always been part of the bargain. AI-driven consumption, however, … Continue reading Open Data and AI
My recent work has gotten me thinking about the relationship between skills, as in Claude skills rather than personal ability, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. I am building MCP servers for projects and starting to put together skills that my teams can share across engagements. That work has also overlapped with GeoFeeds, where I … Continue reading A Familiar Pattern for MCP and Skills
I have been circling this idea in a few recent posts. I am not sure this one brings it all the way in for a landing, but it at least feels like it is on the approach. What sharpened it for me were two recent customer conversations where AI was assumed to be part of … Continue reading Does Your Workflow Need A Model?
Summaries of selected talks from FedGeoDay 2026, Day 1, April 2026, US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD Once again, I served on the FedGeoDay organizing committee this year. FedGeoDay continues to be one of the higher-value events on my calendar, and this year was no exception. With a focus on data preservation and federal data stewardship, … Continue reading FedGeoDay 2026: Four Talks Worth Your Attention
Following up on my previous post, I built a new Claude skill to take advantage of the increasing wealth of data online in cloud-native formats like GeoParquet. Given that DuckDB can read from such sources in place, I built the skill to use it to perform spatial analysis tasks on specified data sets. Here is … Continue reading Spatial Analysis with Claude, Part 2