Layer - Democratizing access to spatial intelligence

A few years ago I embarked on an old aspiration to organize knowledge and data in better understanding and thinking about cities. I founded Layer. After a decade in the public sector I realized that there is quite a bit of granular spatial data on cities available out there. While not necessarily decisive for most planning decisions and typically too low-resolution for developed western capitals, open spatial information is quite relevant to the world’s second- and third-tier cities.