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Michael Johns

Michael Johns

Geospatial Specialist Leader, Databricks

Michael Johns's posts

spatial joins on SQL Serverless with 17x improvement

Product

December 18, 2025/6 min read

Databricks Spatial Joins Now 17x Faster Out-of-the-Box

Unlocking the future of the Automotive Industry (Part 2): Implementing Scalable Geospatial Analytics & AI

Manufacturing

November 11, 2025/8 min read

Unlocking the future of the Automotive Industry (Part 2): Implementing Scalable Geospatial Analytics & AI

Unlocking the future of the Automotive Industry

Manufacturing

November 11, 2025/7 min read

Unlocking the future of the Automotive Industry (Part 1): Understanding Scalable Geospatial Analytics & AI

Product

September 17, 2025/13 min read

Introducing Spatial SQL in Databricks: 80+ Functions for High-Performance Geospatial Analytics

Nousot and Xcel Energy: Harnessing AI and Geospatial Intelligence for Natural Disaster Mitigation

Energy

February 25, 2025/9 min read

Nousot and Xcel Energy: Harnessing AI and Geospatial Intelligence for Natural Disaster Mitigation

Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics

Product

January 12, 2023/11 min read

Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics

Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon

Data Science and ML

December 7, 2022/13 min read

Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon

Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics

Data Engineering

September 14, 2022/10 min read

Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics

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Solutions

May 2, 2022/12 min read

High Scale Geospatial Processing With Mosaic

Geospatial Analytics and AI in Public Sector Webcast

Solutions

January 28, 2020/4 min read

On-Demand Webinar: Geospatial Analytics and AI in the Public Sector

Maps leveraging geospatial data are used widely across industry, spanning multiple use cases, including disaster recovery, defense and intel, infrastructure and health services.

Solutions

December 4, 2019/16 min read

Processing Geospatial Data at Scale With Databricks