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Daniel is a Sr. Solution Architect with 20 years in the Geospatial industry working on public and private sector projects. Daniel's role at Wherobots has him designing everything from demos, to tutorials and to customer solutions, as well as supporting pre and post sales customer success.
Spatial Graph RAG for the Physical World
Introduction RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) has addressed one of AI’s biggest challenges for enterprise users: missing or hallucinating empirical business and real world context . Instead of generating answers from nothing, RAG retrieves relevant documents and feeds them to the model as context. It works. Ask an AI about your company’s Q4 revenue, and RAG […]
Introducing the Wherobots Python SDK
What is the Wherobots Python SDK? The Wherobots Python SDK is a typed Python client for submitting, monitoring, and managing Wherobots job runs. It ships on PyPI as wherobots-python-sdk. One install, one API key, and you’re running spatial jobs from any Python environment: CI/CD pipelines, notebooks, a local shell. The SDK is built for three […]
Streaming Spatial Data into Wherobots with Spark Structured Streaming
Real-time Spatial Pipelines Shouldn’t Be This Hard (But They Were) I’ve been doing geospatial work for over twenty years now. I’ve hand-rolled ETL pipelines, babysat cron jobs, and debugged more coordinate system mismatches than a person should reasonably endure in one lifetime. So when someone says “streaming spatial data,” my first reaction used to be […]
Accelerating Vector and Raster Analysis at GeoPostcodes
How long is too long to wait for a data set to process? In the fast-paced world of data as a service, efficiency isn't just a nice-to-have; it's essential. But for GeoPostcodes, previous updates to the global population movement datasets took about 39 days. This was running on a headless QGIS instance in combination with PostGIS, combining population rasters with postal code boundaries.
Wherobots and PostgreSQL + PostGIS: A Synergy in Spatial Analysis
TL;DR Wherobots (powered by Apache Sedona) and PostgreSQL + PostGIS are complementary tools, not competitors. Use Wherobots for large-scale spatial ETL, processing speed, and distributed analytics. Use PostGIS for data persistence, transactional integrity, and long-term storage. Together, they form a complete spatial data pipeline. At scale, WherobotsDB is up to 317x faster than PostGIS on […]
Quickly and Easily Create Vector Tiles with Wherobots and Overture Maps Foundation Data
Generating map tiles can be challenging and expensive, especially when dealing with large datasets like those from the Overture Maps Foundation (Overture). It’s challenging and expensive because typical solutions are not scalable or performant, which forces you to build workarounds that waste your time and are not economical. Wherobots addresses these challenges using WherobotsDB, a […]
