The Richest Maps: Open-Source Intelligence & Civic Dashboards (Seeking Collaborators)

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My name is Chris. I am a project architect operating out of NexaVision (nexavision.tech), and I am seeking developers, geospatial engineers, and data auditors interested in collaborating on a fast, lightweight OSINT mapping project.

Maps tell stories. Right now, amidst global conflict and systemic frustration, there are many stories that need to be told. We are building an open-source, web-hosted mapping space designed to visualize massive wealth disparity on a localized level—“The Richest Maps.”

If groups like Palantir can create dashboards for the all-seeing eye, the public deserves their own dashboards to tell their own stories on the ground. We are ingesting open-source county parcel data and cross-referencing it with trusted public databases to map the footprints and assets of the 0.1% on a county-by-county basis. We will be rolling this out to various groups, including the combat veteran community, giving them the tools to visualize systemic inequality in their own backyards.

We have already captured some highly specific datasets (keeping a bit of mystery for now :wink:), but we need to expand.

What We Need: We know you are advanced users. The modern map user is sophisticated, and we need your expertise to help build this ecosystem:

  • Digitizing, auditing, and curating complex datasets.
  • Testing our decentralized magpi ecosystem (we need to run it through advanced import magpi as arcpy tests).
  • Building fast, surgical, vector-based tile environments (GeoServer, PostGIS, Mapbox GL JS / MapLibre).

If you are skilled in Python, R, DB management, or WebGIS, and want to make cool maps that lay the groundwork for change, I would love to connect.

Please reply to this thread or reach out directly if you are interested.

P.S. I will be attending FOSS4G in Hiroshima this year in person. I’d love to meet up, talk.

Best regards,

Chris Project Architect | The NexaVision Verify my OpenPGP Key

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Subject: Update: Atlas is live — seeking pointed collaborators

Quick update from the field. Atlas is live at atlas.nexavision.tech.

What’s running now:

  • 200+ API endpoints ingesting open-source intelligence (GDELT, USGS, FIRMS, SEC EDGAR, FEC, Forbes, UCDP)
  • PostGIS + MapLibre GL JS + deck.gl — no proprietary dependencies
  • 50+ Airflow DAGs for automated data freshness
  • Story mode narrations synced with live map layers
  • Civic engagement pipeline (early voting, rally briefings, wealth mapping)

Where we need people:

Role What You’d Do
Digitizers Manual feature creation for POIs, parcels, infrastructure — MGRS grid work zones
QA/QC Auditors Verify spatial accuracy, attribute completeness, edge cases
Spectral / RS Analysts Training labels for narrow AI sets on specific remote sensing sensors
Python/PostGIS Devs Magpi engine — goal: import magpi as arcpy for the open-source community
Data Procurement County parcel aggregation (3,000+ API endpoints across US counties)

The CFO math:

  • A typical mapping contract: $80K budget
  • Proprietary software licensing: -$20K/yr (ArcPro, ENVI, ERDAS, FME)
  • That leaves $60K for analysts

We’re building the stack that eliminates the $20K line item. Magpi is the daemon + conda env that replaces the proprietary lock-in. Think: magpi gui > { FME Safe, ArcPro, ENVI, eCognition, ERDAS } — with a human-in-the-loop requirement for all analytical outputs.

What we’re looking for (key datasets):

  • :house: All-county US parcel data (tax/GIS appraiser portals — 3,000+ endpoints)
  • :globe_showing_europe_africa: Global administrative boundary improvements
  • :satellite_antenna: Open sensor calibration datasets for RS training

For people worried about AI job replacement: We think hardware becomes the focus. Software monopolies disaggregate. Work becomes more distributed. The roles change shape but the Earth is always changing — there’s more work than ever. Digitizing, QA/QC, spectral analysis, training labels — these are human skills.

Bring your own LLM keys. This is integrative work.

→ Interested? Reply here or email admin@nexavision.tech
→ See the platform: atlas.nexavision.tech
→ Global context: nexavision.tech

— Chris
Project Architect · NexaVision