#12 Taylor Oshan: Decentralizing Geospatial Data Future of Science by DeSci Foundation

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.