geospatial-data-pipeline

geospatial-data-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (3,259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to processing and displaying location-based data, such as GPS tracks, drone images, GeoJSON, and map tiles. It includes coordinate conversion, spatial searches, geofencing, and spatial databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build mapping applications, process drone or GPS data, create map tiles, optimize GeoJSON, convert coordinate systems, and run nearby-location or boundary queries.
Why use it?
It helps handle geographic data efficiently and choose between tools such as PostGIS and MongoDB for map-related work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the geospatial-data-pipeline plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to build mapping applications, process drone or GPS data, create map tiles, optimize GeoJSON, convert coordinate systems, and run nearby-location or boundary queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/geospatial-data-pipeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill geospatial-data-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install geospatial-data-pipeline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,259 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 259
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00089 $0.03259
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01630
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00652
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00326

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5f9bd9c6cba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

geospatial-data-pipeline scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/geospatial_processor.ts, scripts/tile_generator.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/geospatial-data-pipeline/SKILL.md · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Geospatial Data Pipeline

Expert in processing, optimizing, and visualizing geospatial data at scale.

When to Use

Use for:

  • Drone imagery processing and annotation
  • GPS track analysis and visualization
  • Location-based search (find nearby X)
  • Map tile generation for web/mobile
  • Coordinate system transformations
  • Geofencing and spatial queries
  • GeoJSON optimization for web

NOT for:

  • Simple address validation (use address APIs)
  • Basic distance calculations (use Haversine formula)
  • Static map embeds (use Mapbox Static API)
  • Geocoding (use Nominatim or Google Geocoding API)

Technology Selection

Database: PostGIS vs MongoDB Geospatial

Feature PostGIS MongoDB
Spatial indexes GiST, SP-GiST 2dsphere
Query language SQL + spatial functions Aggregation pipeline
Geometry types 20+ (full OGC support) Basic (Point, Line, Polygon)
Coordinate systems 6000+ via EPSG WGS84 only
Performance (10M points) <100ms <200ms
Best for Complex spatial analysis Document-centric apps

Timeline:

  • 2005: PostGIS 1.0 released
  • 2012: MongoDB adds geospatial indexes
  • 2020: PostGIS 3.0 with improved performance
  • 2024: PostGIS remains gold standard for GIS workloads

Common Anti-Patterns

Anti-Pattern 1: Storing Coordinates as Strings

Novice thinking: "I'll just store lat/lon as text, it's simple"

Problem: Can't use spatial indexes, queries are slow, no validation.

Wrong approach:

// ❌ String storage, no spatial features
interface Location {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  latitude: string;   // "37.7749"
  longitude: string;  // "-122.4194"
}

// Linear scan for "nearby" queries
async function findNearby(lat: string, lon: string): Promise<Location[]> {
  const all = await db.locations.findAll();

  return all.filter(loc => {
    const distance = calculateDistance(
      parseFloat(lat),
      parseFloat(lon),
      parseFloat(loc.latitude),
      parseFloat(loc.longitude)
    );
    return distance < 5000; // 5km
  });
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 408 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 5f9bd9c6cba9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

geospatial-data-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (218 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,259 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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