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chrieke/awesome-geospatial-companies
:globe_with_meridians: List & Map of 800+ companies for geospatial jobs (GIS, Earth Observation, UAV, Satellite, Digital Farming, ..)
A country-organized directory of 800+ geospatial industry companies (GIS, Earth Observation, UAV, digital farming, satellite ops) with an accompanying interactive map and Google Sheet. It's aimed at people job-hunting or scouting customers/competitors in the geospatial space, not at developers looking for a library.
The per-country tables (company, size estimate, city with a map link, one-line focus) are far more scannable than a flat bullet list, and recent additions get flagged so repeat visitors can skim just the new entries. There's a real contribution process (CONTRIBUTING.md) and a GitHub Actions workflow tied to conversion.py, which suggests the markdown tables are generated from a canonical source rather than hand-edited in place, so it's less likely to silently drift out of sync. It also meets people where they are — a GitHub README, a Google Sheet, and a My Maps view — instead of forcing everyone through git.
This is a list, not software: the repo's only code is a conversion script, so the star count reflects how many people bookmarked it, not usage of anything functional. Office sizes are explicitly labeled 'an estimate' with no sourcing shown per entry, so you can't tell a verified data point from a guess, and there's no visible mechanism for flagging companies that have closed or moved. It excludes research institutes entirely and coverage is obviously a function of who has contributed for a given country, so 51 companies in Australia versus 1 in Angola says more about contributor activity than actual market size. There's also no exportable data file (CSV/JSON) in the repo itself — anyone wanting to use this programmatically has to either scrape the markdown table or go through the external Google Sheet.