Taylor Oshan has been exploring how use and take advantage of decentralized infrastructure like IPFS and Filecoin for geospatial data. In this podcast we learn what geospatial data actually is - rumor has it it’s about 60% of all data! Then Taylor explains why decentralizing is an important effort and how it can increase the robustness as well as efficiency of data storage and access.

Taylor is a geographic information scientist at the University of Maryland and part of the Easier Data Initiative.