Pat Smyth
Pat Smyth is a full-stack geospatial data engineer with over 12 years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale spatial data pipelines, knowledge-graph integrations, and cloud-based geospatial infrastructure.
Sessions
11-03
11:00
25min
Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server
Pat Smyth
"Which neighborhoods are bottlenecked by a single evacuation route?" Spatial questions are full of ambiguity and hidden joins. We built an MCP server — on H3, DuckDB, and GDAL — that lets an LLM reason spatially and handle these subtleties gracefully.
Technical
Carr
11-03
16:30
5min
Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI
Pat Smyth
An LLM that answers spatial questions confidently — but wrongly — is dangerous. We share an open-pattern evaluation harness using verified ground truth and an LLM-as-judge to measure whether Geo-AI actually reasons correctly.
Technical
Carr