HIFLD Open Is Dead*, Long Live HIFLD

Before it was HIFLD, it was briefly FGDWG. Before that, it was a nameless thing in its infancy. In those early days, it bounced around between conference rooms in Norfolk, Dahlgren, and Chantilly. I was fortunate enough to be in the rooms where it was born and took shape.  I was a contractor supporting an organization that had been doing critical infrastructure vulnerability assessments for over a decade at that point.

https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/07/02/hifld-open-is-dead-long-live-hifld/

Geospatial, AI/ML, and Infrastructure

The time since I've last posted has been quite busy. I've completely recovered from my previous eye issues and have been able to start traveling again. In fact, I'm writing this post from a hotel room. In addition to my consulting work at Cercana, I took on a role as the CTO of Photometrics AI, a startup dedicated to applying machine learning to the optimization of adaptive street lighting.

https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/06/26/geospatial-ai-ml-and-infrastructure/

It’s perfect treadmill weather.

Todays earworm

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Zd1hLu5AswuxE7xAYLvc9?si=-aJt8KqWTcC0hebAb9G14w&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A75kCd3HgDPwFjwDw8htKXK

And it stoned me to my soul

Great walk to the river yesterday.

It’s wild that I was once so deeply into Windows I built InstallShield packages and now it makes no sense to me.

Happy New Year to Me

As the man said, "Life moves pretty fast." At the start of the year, I had a planned eye surgery that sidelined me for a couple of weeks and then kept me somewhat limited after that. During that recovery, I was further sidelined by a respiratory illness. Five days after getting the all-clear from my eye surgery, the retina in the same eye detached.

https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/05/14/happy-new-year-to-me/

@AtanasE My role is to crack dad jokes, follow orders, and provide financing.

Wife and daughter having serious conversation about colors for daughter’s wedding.

Me: Would you prefer blue or purple for my tux?

We took Annie to her favorite trail for the first time since her surgery. I’ve never seen a dog smile so much.

And the eye bubble is gone!

Booked my first flight since my retina surgery. The bubble is almost gone and I should be in the clear by then. It’s May and I feel like I’m just starting 2025.

My longest and fastest run since sometime in December.

@AtanasE It’s polymorphic, not static.

Wasting no time.

@sgillies Thanks, Sean! I’m ready to get back to it.

Finally got cleared to resume exercise. Time to start climbing back.

A Geospatial Time Capsule

It's amazing what you can find when you plug in an old external hard drive. I recently rearranged my desk and realized that one of the external drives on top of my desktop Linux machine had apparently been unplugged for a while. I plugged it in to see what it held, and there were a lot of files from 2014, including some…

https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/04/09/a-geospatial-time-capsule/

Join us for the DMV GIS Day Midpoint Meetup!

https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/04/04/dmv-gis-midpoint-meetup-2025/