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The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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A podcast for geospatial people. Weekly episodes that focus on the tech, trends, tools, and stories from the geospatial world. Interviews with the people that are shaping the future of GIS, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry. This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more

Episodes

How To Augment Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information. Tory Smith Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

Jan 07, 202149 minEp. 90

Satellite-based Augmentation System - A base station in the sky

Satellite-based Augmentation System or SBAS can augment standalone Global Navigation Satellite Systems such as GPS in a number of areas including accuracy, integrity, and availability. It works by collecting raw positioning data from Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) in the region, computing error corrections and disseminating these corrections to users from a geostationary communications satellite via an uplink ground station. https://frontiersi.com.au/ Precise Positioning Outrea...

Dec 16, 202036 minEp. 89

Openlayers - Geospatial JavaScript

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map on any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data, and markers loaded from any source. "The web is the future of programming and the web is built on HTML, HTML has one first-class programming language JavaScript" https://openlayers.org/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn...

Dec 11, 202043 minEp. 88

My Story, my why

Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

Dec 03, 202019 minEp. 87

GRASS GIS probably doesn’t get the attention it deserves

GRASS GIS is one of the few vector topology engines out there, it can handle volumetric raster data ( Voxels), 3d vector data, works in a variety of ecosystems, GRASS functionality is accessible via a range of interfaces ... and completely free! GRASS GIS https://grass.osgeo.org/ Thanks, Markus! https://www.mundialis.de/ https://twitter.com/MarkusNeteler Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on Link...

Nov 25, 202042 minEp. 86

Machine learning and object detection for the rest of us

Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;) 500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/ Also mentioned in this episode https://mapproxy.org/ MapProxy is an open-source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client. Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https:/...

Nov 19, 202042 minEp. 85

Raster Frames - making imagery a first class citizen

RasterFrames brings together Earth-observation (EO) data access, cloud computing, and DataFrame-based data science. The recent explosion of EO data from public and private satellite operators presents both a huge opportunity and a huge challenge to the data analysis community. https://spark.apache.org/ https://rasterframes.io/ https://astraea.earth/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn ...

Nov 12, 202040 minEp. 84

GIS education and training, online and in-person

This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes , professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue...

Nov 05, 202046 minEp. 83

Cloud Detection- an open problem

Cloud detection is hard and it's an open problem. If too much water vapor gets in the way of earth imaging sensors and we can't see the surface of the earth they lose some of their value. We need to be able to detect clouds in images. Adler Santos https://www.linkedin.com/in/adlersantos from SkyWatch Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy t...

Oct 28, 202035 minEp. 82

A Business Built On Open Source GIS

An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sustainable model going forward. Tim Sutton https://twitter.com/timlinux Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn ht...

Oct 21, 202042 minEp. 81

location Privacy and Data Ethics

The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes we are the product, not the customer. Denise Mckenzie - https://twitter.com/SpatialRed Co-Director of the Benchmark Initiative https://benchmarkinitiative.com/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the sho...

Oct 14, 202030 minEp. 80

Communicating with maps - The art of cartography

A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspectives around communicating with maps. PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you...

Oct 01, 202043 minEp. 79

Being self employed in the earth observation sector

If you have ever thought about being a freelancer or self-employed consultant in the earth observation sector than this is the podcast episode is for you! Alastair Graham walks us through his experience with starting his own consultancy and shares advice from the lessons he has learned along the way. This is relevant for anyone thinking about starting a business in the geospatial world PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) L...

Sep 23, 202049 minEp. 78

Spatial SQL - GIS without the GIS

This episode is a sales pitch for spatial SQL and if you are wondering which programming language is the right one for you in terms of geospatial applications you should listen to this. Thanks to Paul Ramsey from http://cleverelephant.ca PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show not...

Sep 16, 202041 minEp. 77

Elastic Search

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine and this is how it can be used for Geospatial Thanks to Mark Varley from AddressCloud PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with ...

Sep 11, 202031 minEp. 76

Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry

Kurt Menke has been self-employed as a geospatial consultant for years, this is how he got started and how you might get do the same thing. https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/i...

Sep 02, 202051 minEp. 75

The long tail of geospatial and spatial thinking

What it means to be a geospatial swiss army knife, why spatial thinking is so important and the long-tail of geospatial. Stace Maples Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Aug 26, 202046 minEp. 74

COVID-19 Spatial Research

DEREK OUYANG is a Lecturer at Stanford University where he and his team are using spatial data to help explain the COVID-19 case growth. https://www.safegraph.com/covid-19-data-consortium http://bay.stanford.edu/ SafeGraph Episode Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy ...

Aug 19, 202039 minEp. 73

Open Source GPU Processing

GIS tools are becoming too slow for today's data volumes, in this episode you will learn about how GPU processing might be able to solve this problem. OmniSci https://www.omnisci.com Demos: https://www.omnisci.com/demos Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on Linke...

Aug 12, 202048 minEp. 72

H3 geospatial indexing system

Isaac Brodsky the product lead for the H3 grid system and the cofounder Unfolded walks us through what it is, what it's for, and when not to use it. Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Aug 05, 202032 minEp. 71

Google BigQuery GIS - Geospatial in the Cloud

What BigQuery GIS is and why Google does not talk about big data anymore Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Jul 29, 202041 minEp. 70

A one to one map of the world

Geospatial business ideas that win, a future where we have a one to one map of the physical and cultural world and some advice for geospatial practitioners from someone that knows the industry! Jonathan Neufeld Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Jul 22, 202030 minEp. 69

The Spatial Internet of Things

location and time give context to the internet of things and The Sensor Things Standard is what is going to drive IoT forward. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Jul 15, 202030 minEp. 68

Spatially Enabling Customer Relations

Spatially enabling customer relations, connected data, and using Google as a geospatial platform. Alistair the CEO of Mapsimise explains why he choose Google over Bing, why you might want to spatially enable CRM systems, and why the future of location intelligence is going to be focused around a business case. Alistair on twitter Alistair on LinkedIn Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn http...

Jul 08, 202034 minEp. 67

Everything happens some where & some time - Spatiotemporal data and GIS

What is special about spatiotemporal? What makes spatiotemporal in GIS hard? Which tools can we use? This week I welcome Anita Graser back to the show to talk about spatiotemporal data and what it means for geospatial practitioners. Anita has been on the show before, go back to episode 60 where we discuss geospatially python https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/geospatial-python Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcas...

Jul 01, 202038 minEp. 66

Polygons of Ownership

The way in which we sub-divide land into geographic regions that can be owned and used in specific ways has far-reaching consequences. Collecting, cleaning, and stitching property boundaries into a seamless fabric is key to a variety of use cases. Jerry Paffendorf, CEO & Co-Founder of Loveland Technologies, who runs LandGrid.com joins me on the podcast today to talk about the far-reaching implications of the land grid. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episode http...

Jun 24, 202039 minEp. 65

Jupyter notebooks for geospatial

Jupyter Notebooks are incredibly powerful tools for interactively developing and presenting GIS data projects. This episode with Julia Wagemann walks you thought the Jupyter project and what Jupyter notebooks are and the advantages of using them. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/...

Jun 17, 202031 minEp. 64

Radio Frequency Data Collection

Aerial collection of data from smart meters. In this episode, we discuss why this is better than mesh networks, and other ground collection options and also look at the limitations of drones in terms of data collection platforms. Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/...

Jun 10, 202024 minEp. 63

Hyper-accurate indoor location

Using ultrasound time of flight measurements to generate millimeter accuracy in indoor environments. Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Jun 03, 202034 minEp. 62

Digital Twins

Digital twins have been around for a long time, as part of a simulation or analytical view of the real world. They provide simulation and analysis capabilities that can be a fancy 3D hologram that you can touch and feel and move things around or a numeric model that runs on Excel. Can I email you the show notes? just follow the link https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/...

May 27, 202036 minEp. 61