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Geospatial Analytics · Building in Public
LAT 40°25′ N
LON 3°42′ W
Geospatial analytics,
indexed to the cell.

A geospatial practice in the making — built in public over six months. The first project, mapping where Spain actually lives, ships May 26, 2026.

H3 GeoParquet Apache Sedona Databricks
Week 5 of 26
Block 1 curriculum cleared
May 26 first project ships
5 Spain projects planned

Every business problem has a location. Most companies leave that signal on the floor. We pick it up, give it an address, and put it to work.

Project / P-01
Resolution / H3 r9
Stylized map of the Iberian peninsula with H3 hexagons
P-01 · Ships May 26

Where does Spain actually live?

The opening project bins Spain's population into H3 cells from the INE Padrón, then cross-checks the result against NASA's Black Marble night-lights — a test of where people really are, not just where the registry lists them.

It's the first chapter of a three-part series on Spain's demographic and housing story.

Population

INE Padrón

Index

H3 · r9

Validation

Black Marble

Read the build →

Projects — Spain's demographic trilogy
P-01 Ships May 26

Where does Spain actually live?

Population density per H3 cell, cross-validated against NASA Black Marble night-lights.

Read the build →
P-02 Queued

The 2020–2024 reshuffling

Internal migration flows across Spain, traced year over year.

Coming soon →
P-03 Queued

Where Spain grew but didn't build

Housing pressure where migration meets prices and the pace of construction.

Coming soon →

See all five projects → Projects

Writing — notes from the build

Essays on the methods behind each project — the indexing schemes, the data sources, the trade-offs worth arguing about. The first pieces ship alongside P-01.

H3 as integer hashing Soon
The H3 resolution trade-off Soon
About — what Prospectra is

Prospectra is a geospatial analytics practice, built in public. Spain has a gap: the traditional GIS shops don't run on the lakehouse, and the big Databricks consultancies don't do geospatial. Prospectra is being built to live in that intersection — Databricks-native spatial pipelines on Spain's open data.

Right now it's week 5 of a six-month sprint: twenty lessons, five portfolio projects, each shipping as a public article. Block 1 of the curriculum is cleared; the first project ships May 26. This site is the stage where the work goes public.

© 2026 Prospectra · Geospatial analytics, indexed to the cell.