
Kyle Walker
@kyle_e_walker • 18,978 subscribers
Geospatial, AI, open source. Building: https://t.co/LK0sd3EBsx
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My most popular post of the year: mapping 1.7 million Texas oil & gas wells with zero performance lag. Draw a lasso, instantly query operators. There are so many opportunities for advanced GIS + AI to impact oil and gas, helping operators, mineral buyers, brokers, and more.
Kyle Walker542,454 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

I configured my OpenClaw bot to fetch the most recent drilling permits from the Texas Railroad Commission. It grabs the permits, parses the data, maps them over satellite imagery, and sends them over to me via Telegram. The opportunities for AI + GIS in oil and gas are massive.
Kyle Walker180,147 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Nearly 800 swimming pools identified from Mapbox satellite imagery with Meta's SAM3 in a section of Beverly Hills. In the soon-to-be-released {geosam} R package: review results by confidence level, filter, then export. This is shaping into a tool for serious applied work.
Kyle Walker285,468 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Showed my Advanced GIS students Claude Code this week. We built this map of code compliance violations in Fort Worth; heatmap giving way to points on zoom. Used the ArcGIS SDK for JavaScript. Took 10 minutes. Faculty need to be teaching skills for 2026, not for 2016.
Kyle Walker177,056 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

1,890 swimming pools found across a 5 square mile suburban neighborhood with zero-shot image segmentation. Lower the confidence threshold to find even more! Use the interactive explorer in the {geosam} R package to try out Meta's SAM3 for satellite imagery analysis yourselves.
Kyle Walker50,458 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Gemini has always been my go-to LLM for document extraction - but accurate bounding boxes with agentic vision are a huge value-add in the latest Gemini models. Shown: extracting structured data from an oil & gas lease in Ector County Texas with the best bboxes I've seen yet.
Kyle Walker79,504 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

All 8.1 million US Census blocks. Visualized smoothly in 3D. Instant population and housing totals from a lasso selection. All running seamlessly in the browser, no traditional backend. While everyone’s talking about AI, it’s an incredible time for geospatial tech.
Kyle Walker106,768 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

640,000 parcels in Dallas County Texas, visualized in 3D by appraised value per square foot. The data prep? Vector tiles generated in 15 seconds directly from a DuckDB database using my latest geospatial tool, {freestiler}. Package announcement coming tomorrow!
Kyle Walker46,277 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten