Mapping The World at Taylor Geospatial

In this episode I sat down with Jennifer Marcus and Isaac Corley from Taylor Geospatial to explore Fields of the World - an open initiative to create globally consistent agricultural field boundary datasets from satellite imagery using AI and cloud-native geospatial infrastructure. Taylor Geospatial, a newly formed research organization, is building openly licensed global datasets as foundational public goods. Jen and Isaac explain the motivation behind the project, the challenges of scaling machine learning beyond well-labelled regions, and why openness in datasets, tooling, and…