A geospatial career journey
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
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
One of the advantages of writing a blog for nearly twenty years is that you can go back and see how some of the things you wrote about have held up over time. Suffice it to say there are a number of posts that tempt me to hit the delete key. There were times when … Continue reading “Post GIS” Revisited