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Wherobots
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Wherobots is the company blog at wherobots.com, writing about data and ai. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Havasu: A Table Format for Spatial Attributes in a Data Lake Architecture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wherobots posts for technical detail on geospatial support in Apache Iceberg and the Havasu project for spatial data lakehouses. The comments point to these posts as references rather than praising them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wherobots is the context engine for physical world data: spatial compute and earth intelligence that ground AI agents and physical AI in the real world.
Most-linked posts?
- Havasu: A Table Format for Spatial Attributes in a Data Lake Architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-20
What Hacker News says?
> Spark doesn't even have geospatial data types and the open source packages that add support leave a lot to be desired. Could you say more about this? I'm curious if you've compared Apache Sedona [0] and what specifically you found lacking? I currently work at Wherobots [1], founded by the creators of Apache Sedona and would love to hear any feedback. [0] https://sedona.apache.org/latest/ [1] https://wherobots.com/
Comment linking /
on “Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB”Submitted Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively as a story · 105 points
HN discussionA more detailed tech review (from Wherobots) of 2 new Geo types can be found here: Iceberg GEO: Technical Insights and Implementation Strategies https://wherobots.com/iceberg-geo-technical-insights-and-imp...
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on “Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively”Submitted Benefits of Apache Iceberg for geospatial data analysis as a story · 16 points
HN discussionWherobots wrote a detailed tech review of the new types. You can find the definition and reasoning there: https://wherobots.com/iceberg-geo-technical-insights-and-imp...
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on “Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively”Submitted Havasu: A Table Format for Spatial Attributes in a Data Lake Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBeside Zarr, there are also efforts to support different types of raster (sort of multidimensional) data such as geotiff and NetCDF. The Iceberg Geo spec was heavily influenced by the Havasu project proposed by Wherobots, which also supports that type of raster data. However, the Iceberg geo spec still only supports only geometry for now. https://wherobots.com/building-a-spatial-data-lakehouse/
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on “Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively”Submitted Exploring Global Fishing Watch Public Data with SedonaDB and GeoParquet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMix and match one's own take on clips/tidbits from random search engine results[a][b] to 'gnarfle the [tex] garthok'[snl][tex] Put all the software engineering discipline/experience towards a diy tool for more creative/interactive instruction on learning L-systems & APL without a spreadsheet grid! Enable a new way to envision/do calculus exercises.[0][1][2][3][4] aka think the equation, see the equation, em(c*c) the…
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on “Ask HN: Volunteer opportunities in science for software engineers?”Submitted Measuring Strait of Hormuz ship traffic and how Big Oil profits from it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spatial SQL API brings the performance of WherobotsDB to your data applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing WherobotsAI for planetary inference and spatial intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Processing a Billion Aircraft Observations Using Apache Sedona as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Overture Maps Data More Efficient with GeoParquet and Apache Sedona as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raster Data Analysis with Spatial SQL and Apache Sedona as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raster Data Analysis with Spatial SQL and Apache Sedona as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Real Estate Data with SedonaDB and Wherobots Cloud as a story · 1 points
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