The Digital Geographer
If you ve been following my work over the years, you know I spend a good chunk of my time thinking about where spatial data is heading next. Lately, that conversation has been dominated by one topic in particular: Artificial Intelligence. As an advisor to the team at Geolytix, I recently had the pleasure of hosting Read more "Geospatial, AI, and Summer Holidays : The Geolytix Podcast Series"
OK so I said my next blog post was going to be about my aviation photography But stuff happens !! During my time working at Google, we used to describe Google Earth and Maps as a mirror of the real world. It wasn t just a marketing slogan; it was a guiding principle. To us, the Read more "How a banana broke the world’s mirror"
Who else got into geography to change the world rather than just digitise it? If you read Rohan Silva’s recent essay in The Times, you’ll have seen him articulate a shift that is quietly rewiring the way we think about knowledge work. Silva captures a profound transition brought on by the rise of Artificial Intelligence: we Read more "AI is moving Geographers from the how to what !"
Last week I spent a very enjoyable and productive day at the 2026 edition of the Geobusiness exhibition and conference. I was invited to appear on a panel addressing amongst other things the role of the Geospatial Professional in the AI dominated future, I made the point that we as Geographers need to Up our Read more "Geographers are Architects, Not Draughtsmen"
For those of us in the geospatial world, the ability to derive a precise location from a non-GNSS source is always a fascinating technical feat. Over the last year, Starlink users—particularly in the maritime and off-grid communities—discovered that SpaceX’s hardware was doing exactly that. By querying the local gRPC (Remote Procedure Call) API of a Read more "The End of Starlink’s Pseudo-GPS :…