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by sylveapp 20 days ago
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.
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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.
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