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Are you the TerrAvion? Very impressed by the company you've built, and didn't realize you had a military background.

I've heard it described by the NGA as the "success-catastrophe of big data." They are struggling to figure out wtf to do with a data source like Planet that is daily, everywhere. Change detection has turned out to be WAY harder than anticipated, so most of it goes not only unseen but also un-analyzed. It's a giant waste of valuable information that is still locked up in servers of AWS and Google Cloud.

Haha, that is so kind of you to say. Means a lot coming from the founder of one of the slickest and easiest to use products in the geo world! https://www.amigocloud.com/en/

I don’t think anyone has ever posted something I’ve written to HN, let alone two things in the same day.

Hey this is Joe from the blog post. Holy shit. I didn’t know about any of this.

Wait what? I didn’t know about that post either.

A: Break it into two parts, vector and raster. For the former, focus on Mapbox and associated libraries/standards (VectorTiles, Leaflet, GeoJSON, etc.). JS is the name of the game in vector land—it’s amazing what you can do all on the front end now. For backend/DB tech, look at PostGIS.

For the latter, I’d focus on Python to start. Look at GDAL (and it’s various Python interfaces/wrappers like rasterio), Cloud Optimized Geotiffs, and the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog spec.

In both cases, watch what the leading companies are putting out (Mapbox, Azavea where I work, Development Seed, etc.) and not what OGC is doing. One is a leading indicator, the other is a lagging one. Sorry OGC, I still love you and you play an important role.

B: Get comfortable with the idea of working with Defense. For better or worse, they’re the ones with the budget to take on humanitarian work, disaster response work, even climate change adaptation work. That’s my advice. Possible to avoid it altogether, but only if you work on an app that is domain-focused (eg Trulia) and incidentally geospatial.

A similar product, Google Earth Enterprise is now open source, amazingly. (http://www.opengee.org/)

Not to be confused with Google Earth Engine, which is the most shocking piece of technology I’ve come across in my career and is absolutely free if you can get access: https://earthengine.google.com/

Hey, this is Joe from twitter thread linked. I didn’t post this to HN but it’s nice to see it on here. I was wondering why a weeks-old tweet suddenly started popping off...

One thing I’d like to note—-I have learned a tremendous amount from other people responding to the opinions enumerated in that thread. Some things I’ve even started to question. So I’d love to hear your ideas—-especially if you disagree with me. Just please do it constructively. Sometimes seeing your ideas thrust onto HN without being prepared for it can be a harrowing experience and I’d rather this time around be a productive one.

Much love to the brilliant minds of HN -Joe

Hi stickfigure, this is Joe from the dumb long form twitter thread you just wrote five sentences critiquing. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.