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Joe Morrison
Personal blog · joemorrison.substack.combusinessdata
Joe Morrison's personal blog at joemorrison.substack.com covers business and data. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Open All of the Satellite Imagery Archives”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Joe Morrison's Substack covers the satellite imagery industry, including why it has few companies outside governments, synthetic aperture radar, and open imagery. HN commenters mostly link it as a source on that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Irregular essays on maps, satellites, and the businesses that create them.
Most-linked posts?
- Open All of the Satellite Imagery Archives3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-23
- Why I'm Leaving Azavea to Join Umbra Space2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-18
- The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-18
- How to change the satellite imaging industry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-15
- “Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry: Part II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-03
- Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-29
- Mapping's Future Looks Like Gaming's Past (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
- Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest technology companies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-29
What Hacker News says?
I think you're thinking of this Joe Morrison substack post: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-your-fancy-a... hn post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074177
Comment linking /p/nobody-wants-your-fancy-algorithm
on “Felt”Submitted Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating as a story · 628 points
HN discussionAgreed. I’m biased, but keep an eye on synthetic aperture radar. The physics of those systems allow for monitoring with a pretty different theoretical limit on price-per-revisit from their optical companions: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/why-im-leaving-azavea-to-...
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on “The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want”Submitted The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want as a story · 384 points
HN discussionA newsletter is the same thing as a blog post, right? In that case I think this one about the satellite imagery industry is interesting: https://joemorrison.substack.com/ The main thing you learn is that outside of governments there isn’t much of a satellite image industry. Which is why there aren’t that many posts.
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on “Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?”Submitted Google Maps' moat is evaporating (2020) as a story · 171 points
HN discussionMapwith.ai is a great tool that lets the server draw the shapes of the buildings and roads, though you still have to fill out the data by hand. The tool is maintained by Facebook, but the front-end[1] is a FOSS fork of OSM's RapiD web editor, and OSM is the type of project that strongly benefits from corporate contributions.[2] [1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/RapiD [2] https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/ope…
Comment linking /p/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01
on “OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto”Submitted Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest technology companies as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI hope so. I wrote a whole article about it: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/open-all-of-the-satellite... Even Maxar is starting to deeply discount old imagery via their ARD program: https://twitter.com/marcpfister/status/1541858657473744898?s... RIP Open California, but at least Planet gives away their monthly mosaic of the mid-latitudes now via their partnership with NICFI (non-commercial use): https://twitter.…
Comment linking /p/open-all-of-the-satellite-imagery
on ““Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry”Submitted “Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open All of the Satellite Imagery Archives as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open All of the Satellite Imagery Archives as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Esri Can’t Be Stopped as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Change an Industry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to change the satellite imaging industry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry: Part II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry: Part II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple mental model for understanding the satellite imagery industry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping's Future Looks Like Gaming's Past (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping's Future Looks Like Gaming's Past as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Satellite Imagery Is Not Becoming a Commodity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Leaving Azavea to Join Umbra Space as a story · 1 points
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