Data Centres And Water Scarcity
ARKives24d ago
Data Centres And Water Scarcity Vizag and Google’s data centres have been all over my feed this week. Data centres in India use only about 0.02% of the country’s water. That figure is accurate.
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top 68%Why You May Never Get to Put a Number on It
ARKives24d ago
Why You May Never Get to Put a Number on It Published: 14 September, 2026 11 mins(s) read Series: Platform Engineering: Building, Defending and Becoming It Table of contents: This is the second in...
Chitty Kampany
ARKives30 Aug 2026
Chitty Kampany Chitty Kampany turns a Google Sheet into a chit-fund management app - a phone-based collection screen instead of paper registers, and a live, auditable ledger instead of reconciling...
Fix Doesnt Count Until Its Whole
ARKives27 Aug 2026
Fix Doesnt Count Until Its Whole Published: 27 August, 2026 10 mins(s) read Series: Platform Engineering: Building, Defending and Becoming It Table of contents: This is first in a series Platform...
GeoAI: Understanding The New Grammar
ARKives22 Jul 2026
GeoAI: Understanding The New Grammar Table of contents: This is the second part of the Decoding GeoAI series, an attempt to make sense of that new AI language.
GeoAI: Making Sense of a New Language
ARKives30 May 2026
GeoAI: Making Sense of a New Language Table of contents: This article is intended to explain some buzzwords in the modern AI era of Geospatial.
KLA Map 2026, An Ai Experiment
ARKives7 Apr 2026
KLA Map 2026, An Ai Experiment A long-time dream, finally taking shape. My journey with public mapping began back in 2014 during the Koorachundu mapping exercise.
Understanding Base Maps, Tile Services and Vector Tiles
ARKives24 Feb 2026
Understanding Base Maps, Tile Services and Vector Tiles Table of contents: This article explains the Map Tiles and the basic behind it.
Is AI a Threat or an Opportunity?
ARKives4 Feb 2026
Is AI a Threat or an Opportunity? A small experience story! Back in 2021-‘22, when I was building Sparta Maps - our ground truth data collection platform - I remember the long conversations and...
Going Back to Basics
ARKives1 Dec 2025
Going Back to Basics Table of contents: This article is intended to explain some basics of Geospatial, which many will get confused about and some smart ways to ensure you won’t get confused again.
From Passion to Habit: Routes to Daily Mapping
ARKives9 Aug 2025
From Passion to Habit: Routes to Daily Mapping Posts from "Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience Through OpenStreetMap Contributions" series: Table of contents: In the last two parts of the...
2024 Discoveries and Beginnings
ARKives20 Mar 2025
2024 Discoveries and Beginnings Table of contents: In this blog I talk about certain tech and new words which I came across or started working with in 2024.
Standards are Boring, but not Unimportant
ARKives3 Dec 2024
Standards are Boring, but not Unimportant Table of contents: This is the blog version of my talk From Data Silos to Data Sharing-A Geodata Perspective at State of the Map Asia 2024, Cox’s Bazar...
Will Mullaperiyar Dam Break? Some Engineering Truths
ARKives18 Aug 2024
Will Mullaperiyar Dam Break? Some Engineering Truths Published: 18 August, 2024 12 mins(s) read Tags: #Kerala #Impact Stories Series: Mullaperiyar Dam: Fearmongers and Scientific Temperament Table...
There is a Bend on Mullaperiyar Dam? Is Google Map True?
ARKives5 Aug 2024
There is a Bend on Mullaperiyar Dam? Is Google Map True? Published: 6 August, 2024 5 mins(s) read Series: Mullaperiyar Dam: Fearmongers and Scientific Temperament Table of contents: Through this...
From Passion to Purpose: Navigating OSM Contributions
ARKives10 Jun 2024
From Passion to Purpose: Navigating OSM Contributions Posts from "Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience Through OpenStreetMap Contributions" series: Table of contents: In the first part of the...
Over Engineering or Over Accountability?
ARKives9 Jun 2024
Over Engineering or Over Accountability? Yesterday when I was in the billing queue of a South Indian restaurant in the bus stand, an unexpected error in their billing system caused significant...
The Mapping Evolution in My Life
ARKives1 Jun 2024
The Mapping Evolution in My Life Posts from "Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience Through OpenStreetMap Contributions" series: Table of contents: Why are you contributing to OpenStreetMap?
City Expansion: Driving Transit Innovation and Last-Mile Connectivity
ARKives30 Mar 2024
City Expansion: Driving Transit Innovation and Last-Mile Connectivity Published: 30 March, 2024 6 mins(s) read Tags: #Geospatial #GIS #Technology Series: Mobility and Urban Dynamics It’s been a...
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story
ARKives25 Jun 2023
A Cartographer's Lament: The Taj Mahal Story Table of contents: This article is about the vandalism on map License: This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0...