[willtemperley]

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.

[sylveapp]

Unrelated, but as someone who is on the verge of also creating another GIS offering do you think there is any value to creating a low cost hosting platform centered around data portability? This came out of frustration with the existing landscape of offerings and I put together something that I wish existed.

[willtemperley]

Hard to say without hearing what the product is, but personally I'll avoid anything that wants to lock up my data and charge me for it.

[delfrrr]

Plus one. (I’m the author of GeoSQL.) This is why I personally store data in local PostGIS. The whole map harness is running locally, except for Claude. I did not write SQL since April. I am making 1-2 analytics projects per week.

Here is a video explaining roughly how I work now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOhkE0rPWA