A geospatial career journey
In a post last week, Open Data and AI, I discussed how open data projects are facing a new kind of consumer: AI-automated systems that can pull public data continuously, at scale, and in patterns the original infrastructure was never designed to support. OpenStreetMap is one of the clearest examples. It is globally important, community … Continue reading Prototyping AI-Ready OSM
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
It's been about a year since we rolled out GeoFeeds, a spatial new aggregator along the lines of the old Planet Geospatial. During that time, it's been humming along, and we've added about 90 blog feeds to it. It provides a single, rolling, aggregated feed of posts from those blogs over the previous year. I've … Continue reading GeoFeeds: Now with MCP