Christopher Beddow

CTO at @fotoshihq

Geospatial systems, OpenStreetMap, computer vision, VLMs, AI+maps. Making physical world machine-readable. Montana 🇺🇸 → Schwyz 🇨🇭

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

How can photos improve maps?

How can visual one shots become spatial data?

Others came before, like @panoramio dissolving into Google Maps, machine tagging OSM IDs on @Flickr.

But Fotoshi is built for the future. Join us on this journey! @fotoshihq

https://t.co/yn09uxbdZ4

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@podesta_aldo @giffmana Mix of both. Technology.

Funding research is excellent but researchers will want to work for American companies when they can, if they are top of their field. You would need to create attractive companies. And massively cut tax rates. Otherwise the dream job is abroad.

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@podesta_aldo @giffmana Why not simply directly invest into businesses? It's sort of a proven model

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@BonaVictor In case we can be helpful at @fotoshihq with places photos, give us a look!

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@nic_amadio Does this mean eating and drinking

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@MapMakinMeyers This place looks pretty cool, almost like Yucatan cenotes/craters stuff

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@fellowflywheel @ffaebi Aber in Schwyz auch die Preise so hoch sind... Fast alle Gemeinde.

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@MaxLenormand Yeah the focus on the vision part is really worlds different. I guess in the last if it was easy, it was only easy if you used basic click through templates

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@PietroMiotti I would love to do more of this too. Plenty of parts of the world worth it.

@MoundLore has some good stuff

[Pietro Miotti @PietroMiotti]

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.

72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.

What a time to be alive…

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@majamediaco You can use photos from @fotoshihq to build such a thing, perhaps!

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@vasile23 @panoramio @Flickr @fotoshihq As busy as possible 😁

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

How can photos improve maps?

How can visual one shots become spatial data?

Others came before, like @panoramio dissolving into Google Maps, machine tagging OSM IDs on @Flickr.

But Fotoshi is built for the future. Join us on this journey! @fotoshihq

https://t.co/yn09uxbdZ4

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@NianticSpatial This could work nicely with @fotoshihq

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@_jsolly Time to ask it to build Google Maps

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@MapMakinMeyers Cuba is the UP

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@ffaebi @dean7v And then all the rental cars are using license plates from this Canton... All you have to do is make them all self-driving and then we have arrived at full loop

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@ffaebi The fries are good there though

But the best burger I've had locally is in Hochstückli in a spot run by South Africans

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

Suddenly I wonder if you can spot my house from space by my heat signature while running Codex

[Luke Fischer @lukefischer]

Gas generators run hot. With thermal satellite imagery on SkyFi, you can see which data centers are actually powered up, day or night.

[Christopher Beddow @cbed32]

@ffaebi New to me, sounded like a code name haha. Romansch... Fantastic looking place