Version 1.1.0 of the HIFLD hospital layer is live on HIFLD Next. Here is how to compare it with the version you have been using, record by record, and check the result against satellite imagery.
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Original essays, project notes, talks, and reporting connected to our work.
Public data portals and government intake were both designed for a patient person with a browser. Software now arrives at both, and what an institution builds for it decides whether that traffic comes through the front or around the side.
How a mid-size CPA firm can move K-1, brokerage, and bank statement data into its tax software with per-field confidence, a source trail, and human review.
The documents a leadership team should receive from an AI readiness assessment, and the tests that separate a working plan from a slide deck.
What actually differentiates AI agent harnesses: the machinery is a commodity and the mechanical knobs decay, but the domain context a company curates compounds.
How a manufacturer with 50 to 500 staff can replace the hand-built weekly report with one database, agreed metric definitions, scheduled loads and dashboards, before adding forecasting or plain-language questions.
Five gates and four practical prioritizers for choosing an internal AI pilot that a small operating team can evaluate and maintain.
A day-30 review for deciding whether an internal AI pilot has enough evidence to expand, repair, stop, or keep observing.
How a small or mid-sized organization can move data out of an old ERP, CRM, database or spreadsheet estate, keep its history queryable, and prove the new system matches the old one.
Jeremy Herzog’s State of the Map US talk on making a rescued infrastructure catalog durable and legible to people, software, and agents.
Why we're not completely cooked.
The launch record for a public catalog that makes more than 400 preserved HIFLD Open datasets searchable, previewable, and downloadable.
Reflections on our first year in business, and our learnings along the way.
Rajan Desai on why useful internal AI begins when the people closest to the work can follow a question through company data without losing the evidence.
Atmika Pai describes a conversational restaurant map built with Marauders’ geospatial tools and shaped through collaboration with Fulton Ring.
Why restoring a public dataset requires access, context, maintenance, and a community prepared to keep it useful.
The Guardian’s interactive reporting on the Future Risk Index and the preserved data Fulton Ring used to restore public access.
Jeremy Herzog’s original case note on building a data lake and reporting system for high-volume retail transaction data.