Bill Dollins has been thinking about how to future-proof geospatial data infrastructure.

When we design systems expected to last for years or decades, we tend to ask which technologies will still be around. Will PostGIS still matter in 2046? What about GeoPackage/GeoParquet/PMTiles? Will S3 still be a thing? Will APIs even matter?

I’m increasingly convinced these are the wrong kinds of questions. We should be thinking about how to build infrastructure that doesn’t require us to know the answers.