What's HOT for the GeoHipster in 2014

Imagery

Skybox Imaging and Planet Labs have launched imaging satellites, expect bunch of cool new image products and imagery derived data in 2014. Also note that Frank Warmerdam is at Planet Labs. 

But wait, there's more! There's another readily available source of imagery data, it's in the photos people are posting to Instagram, Flickr and Facebook. Expect tools to exploit this source of imagery.

Hardware hacking

Arduino and Raspberrypi are moving out of their respective blinky lights infancy. Geohipsters will be connecting them to sensors and talking to via node.js. Expect to see other hardware platforms such as Tessel making inroads on the hardware hacking movement. 

Car hacking is still in it's infancy with blue tooth ODBII modules. But as more cars roll out as mobile platforms replete with a API, car modding will be more than just chip modding for performance.