Live from New York: Are Geospatial Platforms Dead?
Live from New York: Are Geospatial Platforms Dead?  
Podcast: Earthsight
Published On: Sun May 03 2026
Description: (00:00) Sick New Jingle(00:20) Double IPA (01:20) The Gang Struggles to Define a Platform: Metadata, Storage, Compute, APIs(11:20) The Value of a Platform(16:00) What If, What If, What If We Replaced Geospatial Platforms with Claude(24:00) Custom Use Case Development vs Platforms(27:00) Money Money Money, Chris' time as a traveling Google Cloud Salesman, Analytics Companies, Skytruth's Sentinel-1 Pipeline, Honestly This Conversation Kind of Meanders a Bit.(34:00) Ask Not What Platforms Can Do For You