Ground Truth Physical AI news and engineering for real-world data Product news, research, and build notes from Wherobots, the AI Context Engine for the Physical World. Wherobots Cloud News Apache Sedona WherobotsDB Spatial Lakehouse Physical AI Computer Vision RasterFlow Engineering Stories Tutorial Havasu Catalog Earth Observation Use Cases Wherobots for QGIS How Wherobots builds with NVIDIA to let AI see the physical world El Niño 2026, atmospheric rivers, and California’s burn scars Orchestrating Wherobots Jobs from AWS Step Functions Measuring the Strait of Hormuz shutdown with Sentinel-2, WherobotsDB and Overture Maps RasterFlow is now available in Public Preview Sort By Most Recent Most Recent Oldest Categories Havasu Catalog View All Use Cases Knowledge Graph Engineering Earth Observation Tutorial Havasu Catalog Wherobots Cloud Computer Vision Spatial Lakehouse RasterFlow Stories WherobotsDB Physical AI News General Apache Sedona Sort By Most Recent Oldest Categories View All Use Cases Knowledge Graph Engineering Earth Observation Tutorial Havasu Catalog Wherobots Cloud Computer Vision Spatial Lakehouse RasterFlow Stories WherobotsDB Physical AI News General Apache Sedona 9 Mins Read 9 Jul 2025 Exploring the Foursquare Open Places Data with Wherobots Learn how to access, query, and visualize Foursquare’s Open Places dataset using Wherobots. In this tutorial, we analyze coffee shop distribution in San Francisco with a choropleth map—perfect for exploring POI data and spatial insights. 9 Mins Read 9 Jul 2025 Exploring the Foursquare Open Places Data with Wherobots Learn how to access, query, and visualize Foursquare’s Open Places dataset using Wherobots. In this tutorial, we analyze coffee shop distribution in San Francisco with a choropleth map—perfect for exploring POI data and spatial insights. 4 Mins Read 25 Jun 2025 Advancing the Integration of Map Data via Overture’s Global Entity Reference System and Wherobots The general availability of Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (GERS) makes it a lot easier to build intelligence about features of our physical world. 7 Mins Read 8 Apr 2025 Location Intelligence with Isochrones: A Complete Guide Ditch intuition: Use data to optimize location decisions. Where you invest has a long-term impact on a location’s overall profitability. The mantra of “location, location, location” is absolutely still alive. But unlike 20 years ago, you now have the ability to let off-the-shelf data and modern geospatial engines like Wherobots tell you where the ideal physical locations are to invest in, across hundreds of thousands of options, using a few lines of SQL. 10 Mins Read 20 Nov 2024 Overture Data In Wherobots Spatial Data Catalog Effortlessly access and analyze Overture Maps Foundation data with Wherobots. This guide details seamless integration, leveraging our Havasu Iceberg spatial catalog for optimized performance and insightful visualizations. Explore practical examples and unlock new possibilities in geospatial data analysis. 5 Mins Read 13 Jun 2024 Quickly and Easily Create Vector Tiles with Wherobots and Overture Maps Foundation Data Editor’s note: The Wherobots Spatial Data Catalog is now the Havasu Catalog. 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 […] 8 Mins Read 7 Dec 2023 Analyzing The Overture Maps Places Dataset Using Apache Sedona, Wherobots Cloud, & GeoParquet Explore how to analyze the Overture Maps Places dataset using Apache Sedona, Wherobots Cloud, and GeoParquet. Learn how GeoParquet enhances geospatial analytics and unlocks insights into urban dynamics with real-world use cases. 10 Mins Read 20 Aug 2023 Harnessing Overture Maps Data: Apache Sedona’s Journey from Parquet to GeoParquet The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) has recently released its first open-source Parquet dataset… Sign up for our newsletter Be the first to know about releases and industry news. We care about your data; read our privacy policy. SUBSCRIBEΔ