Open Earth: The Complete Guide to Machine-Readable World Models
How a digital twin of Earth is built, licensed, and served to the humans and AI agents that read it.
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Foundations
What a digital twin of Earth is, and what separates a structured world model from a picture of the ground.
Access and protocols
How the data reaches a developer or an autonomous agent, and why the door is deliberately unlocked.
Licensing and provenance
The obligations that travel with open geographic data, and how to stay shippable.