alt Hacker NewsQuestion from an outsider: Who is paying for tools like this? The examples shown on the website (e.g. all streets in Nevada) look nice, but what are those analyses actually used for? I am pretty sure it is not only about having pretty maps but their has to be a business value I don’t see right now.
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lodovic • today at 12:07 PM
This can be very useful for urban planning. you could have an agent investigate the optimal spot for a new datacenter, examine solar power installations, and so on.
20 year GIS dev here. Looks pretty useful for data exploration. I'd say one of the more compelling GeoAI things I've seen.
The problem is there's really a lot of data out there and it's a lot of work to move it around, e.g. between S3 buckets. There's also a ton of GIS SAAS vendors who are pure rent-seekers: I'm looking at a newer offering charging $23 per month for 10GB storage. This has more utility than their offering in my opinion.
The good thing here is that it could keep data provenance because it's SQL over known datasets.