As someone deep into the cutting edge parts of the geospatial industry that few ever see, I’d quibble on some of the points but it is a broadly accurate descrip

As someone deep into the cutting edge parts of the geospatial industry that few ever see, I’d quibble on some of the points but it is a broadly accurate description of the current state. The industry has been comfortably stagnant for many years. A critical distinction that explains much of what we see today is that geospatial analytics has almost no relationship to making maps at a technical level. There is a superficial similarity because they sometimes share presentation layer. All of the popular infrastructure and tooling was designed, either implicitly or explicitly, for making maps. If you want to analyze some physical world behavior using multimodal sensor data, the paucity of viable data infrastructure is insurmountable for most companies. Unfortunately, this is what most organizations want to do these days.