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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 Spatial Lakehouse 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 10 Mins Read 27 Aug 2026 Learning Wherobots by Building a National AI Data Center Suitability Report This guest post is from a Wherobots user George Chandeep Corea, which covers an exploration of how he used Wherobots MCP with his preferred AI coding tools to build the interactive AI data center site suitability analysis tool below. The following quote is from his own biography. Learning by Doing Below is a working national […] 10 Mins Read 27 Aug 2026 Learning Wherobots by Building a National AI Data Center Suitability Report This guest post is from a Wherobots user George Chandeep Corea, which covers an exploration of how he used Wherobots MCP with his preferred AI coding tools to build the interactive AI data center site suitability analysis tool below. The following quote is from his own biography. Learning by Doing Below is a working national […] 3 Mins Read 5 Aug 2026 Wherobots Now Federates with the AWS Glue Data Catalog AWS customers can now bring Wherobots’ best-in-class spatial intelligence capabilities to any dataset managed by AWS Glue Data Catalog. AWS Glue Data Catalog (GDC) customers use it to manage structured data, like user activity and revenue reports, and complex geospatial data, like parcels, buildings, and mobility datasets. AWS services like EMR, Redshift, and Athena excel […] 14 Mins Read 24 Jun 2026 Spatial Data in Apache Iceberg: Optimizations and Management That Matter Spatial data in Apache Iceberg needs different optimization than tabular data. A geometry column has no natural sort order, so unsorted files carry wide, overlapping bounding boxes and query planners cannot prune them… At all… This behaviour turns a selective spatial filter into a full table scan. A second problem compounds it: one oversized geometry […] 6 Mins Read 26 May 2026 Wherobots MCP Server: Building GEOINT Spatial Pipelines with AI Agents Editor’s note: The Wherobots Spatial Data Catalog is now the Havasu Catalog. I built three national-security GEOINT use cases on the Wherobots stack in days instead of weeks. A Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability (CIV) pipeline with two regional variants, plus a border-corridor analysis on real transportation segments. The Wherobots geospatial MCP server is what made that […] 9 Mins Read 1 May 2026 Spatial Data Processing Platforms: A Comparison of Enterprise and Cloud-Native Options For Data Engineers and Architects Evaluating Spatial Workloads on Snowflake, Databricks, and PostGIS Six platforms dominate spatial data processing today: PostGIS for transactional workloads under 100GB, Snowflake and BigQuery GIS for light spatial enrichment inside a broader analytics platform, Databricks for vector spatial joins on the Lakehouse, Apache Sedona for self-managed open-source distributed spatial compute, […] 5 Mins Read 21 Apr 2026 Spatial Data Pipeline Architecture: PostGIS and Wherobots Together In the world of data architecture, there is a dangerous myth that you have to choose “one tool to rule them all.” We often see organizations paralyzed by the debate: “Should we use a Database or a Data Lake?” A spatial data pipeline architecture built for both large-scale analytics and operational queries is one of […] 6 Mins Read 15 Apr 2026 Iceberg v3 Gets Native Geo Types. It’s More Than a Format Upgrade Introduction Geospatial data touches nearly every industry, and until recently, the open lakehouse had no native way to handle it. Snowflake recently announced Iceberg v3 support with native geometry and geography types. It’s the first major engine to ship the geospatial extensions to the Iceberg spec. These types are now part of the open standard, […] 1 2 3 Next » 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