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Ben lead's the go-to-market team at Wherobots. He has worked in distributed compute and SaaS applications for over a decade and enjoys customer storytelling, creating mutual value, and building innovative solutions on the edge of what's possible.
What is a Kelvin Wave? Speed, El Niño and 2026 Data
A Kelvin wave is a long, low ocean wave that carries warm water east along the equator in an El Niño. In the 30 days to 10 November 2026, the sea at San Diego stood a record 41.2 cm above NOAA's tide prediction.
What Is an ETL Pipeline? Steps, Examples and Spatial ETL
An ETL (extract, transform, load) pipeline moves data from sources into storage. Learn the steps with examples. Then see a spatial mistake that passed the usual checks: rounding coordinates emptied 27% of Denver's building outlines.
What is an MCP Server? Spatial Context for AI Agents
An MCP server gives AI agents tools to call. With no tools, Claude Code gave no count of San Francisco's buildings. Via Wherobots MCP, it counted 162,538.
What is Spatial Intelligence? Definition, AI, Earth Scale
Spatial intelligence: AI that understands 3D space. Open map data holds a height for 96% of San Francisco's buildings and 0.13% of Nairobi's.
What Is PySpark? Definition, Tutorial, and Spatial Data
PySpark is the Python API for Apache Spark. Learn how it runs, with a short tutorial. Then see a spatial join that took 6 minutes without Apache Sedona's join planning and under a second with it.
Providence, Hartford and Chicago: Best Cities for Halloween
Best cities for Halloween 2026: we mapped haunted houses, Spirit Halloween stores, psychics, graveyards and sunset in 55 big metros. Providence narrowly won.
Farmington Flood: San Juan River’s Biggest Flow Since 1957
At least 29,500 cubic feet a second passed Farmington on Oct 23, the most since 1957. Eight of 79 gauges with 30+ years of peaks set flow records.
What is a Semantic Layer? Definition, Examples, Spatial Rules
A semantic layer defines business terms and metrics once, so every tool gives the same answer. For location data it must also set the boundary, the distance and what counts as inside.
Amid Ukraine’s Strikes, Fire Days at Russia’s Oil Sites Rise as Its Advance Slows
Russia's oil sites had 221 fire days from Jan 1 to Oct 23, 2026, more than any year back to 2019. Russia took 3.1 km² of Ukraine a day, against 11.2 in 2025.
