New Data Sources, A Resource Kit, and Improved Living Standards 📊

Add these Geospatial Data Sources to your workflow - 2025 🧩

The location tech industry is rapidly changing. With cuts to government programs, shuttering apps, new tech, and AI trends, data is increasingly hard to find. Check out these mid-2025 data resources to add to your workflow:

🧩Add these Geospatial Data Sources to your workflow - 2025

Often the hardest part of any location based project is the underlying data. Hunting down data sources can be challenging given paywalls, usage rights, documentation, metadata and so on. Here are some great resources to add to your workflow for 2025: OpenStreetMap Export OpenSteetMap is a phenomenal resource both in

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Discussion 🧵

What is that one piece of infrastructure that your city is missing that if built, would dramatically improve living standards?

Of course, public transportation is high on the list. But there are some that surprised me. Some examples include: Power (aging power infrastructure), sewage treatment, connections between public transportation (such as hubs that connect light rail and points of interest).

An interesting discussion on single changes that could improve quality of life in cities.

Essential Geospatial Resource Kit 🌀

Tired of the bookmarks and looking to organize your geospatial tools and resources. Notion is a great place to start (and I've already done the legwork for you)!

Check out my Essential Geospatial Resource Kit:

🌀Essential Geospatial Resource Kit

I’ve gathered lots of great resources and I wanted to share them with you so you can have them all in one place instead of having to organize them or rely on bookmarks.

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On the Playlist 🧫

For some reason I've really been wanting to watch Silicon Valley again. Perhaps this drone/vaporwave/ambient playlist is what did it.

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