The main topics discussed during this episode include:
Connect with Nejc Dougan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nejcdougan/
or at https://www.flai.ai/
Recommended listening
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
PDAL - the point data abstraction library
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/pdal-point-data-abstraction-library/
Lidar from drones
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/lidar-from-drones/
Bathymetric Lidar
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/bathymetric-lidar-and-blue-carbon/
Alex Leith is a Digital Earth Architect and in this episode, you will learn what Infrastructure as code is - hint it is the opposite of the "clicky-clicky" and so much more!
Connect with Alex here https://auspatious.com/
Recommended Listening
Cloud-Optimized Point CLounds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Planet Scale Tiled Maps without a Server
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/planet-scale-tiled-maps-without-a-server/
What is Modern GIS
GeeMap is an open-source Python library that provides tools for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine (GEE), which is a platform for earth science data and analysis ... and today you are going to hear from the creator of GeeMap!
Connect with Qiusheng Wu here: https://wetlands.io/
This episode is sponsored by Planet
learn more at https://www.planet.com/gis/
Recommended Listening
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
Introduction to Sentinel Hub
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/sentinel-hub/
Planet - Imaging everything every day ( almost )
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/planet-imaging-everything-every-day-almost/
Introduction to Microsoft's Planetary Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
GPS reimagined?
Why do we need to reimagine GPS? ... Is it broken?
Recommended Podcast Episodes
How Google Calculates Your Location
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-google-calculates-your-location/
From GNSS To VPS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-gnss-to-vps/
Navigating The Past Present and Future of GNSS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/navigating-the-past-present-and-future-of-gnss/
SatelliteBased Augmentation System - A Base Station In The Sky
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/satellite-based-augmentation-system-a-base-station-in-the-sky/
Nyall Dawson is a QGIS developer, cartographer, and owner and founder of North Road, a company specializing in open-source geospatial software.
His journey into geospatial began with personal interests in mapping and cartography, which later evolved into a business called North Road.
But that's not why I wanted to make this episode for you, I wanted to share this story with you because it could be your story too.
You could decide to have a story that starts with contributing to something you care about, which leads to you becoming a known expert within a community that cares about the same thing and evolves into paid opportunities. That could be your story too!
You can connect with Nyall here:
https://twitter.com/nyalldawson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyall-dawson-18b6016a/
Sponsored by Planet
Learn more at www.planet.com/gis
Recommended Podcast Episodes
Planet
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/planet-imaging-everything-every-day-almost/
Monetizing an open-source geospatial project
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/monetizing-an-open-source-geospatial-project/
Being self-employed in Earth Observation
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/being-self-employed-in-the-earth-observation-sector/
Geospatial Side Hustles
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geospatial-side-hustles/
Self Employment in the GIS Industry
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/self-employment-in-the-gis-geospatial-industry/
A Business built on Open Source GIS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/a-business-built-on-open-source-gis/
This episode is all about making beautiful maps ... I am not a cartographer but my guest Mamata Akella is a professional cartographer at Felt!
So today on the podcast we are talking about Essential Elements of Map Design:
Which of course starts with questions like - who is it for, what is it for and how do we get it to them?
And then moves on to Visual Hierarchy, Zoom-Based Styling, Color Palettes, and Interpretation
We discuss a few practical examples during the conversation and you can find links to those in the show notes
Recommended Listening
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/felt-upload-anything/
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/communicating-with-maps-the-art-of-cartography/
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/full-stack-cartography/
Planet manufactures and manages the world’s largest constellation of earth observation satellites!
Imaging “Just about everywhere on earth just about every day – Making change visible, accessible, and actionable”
… and the hope of this episode is to help you understand how they do that – along the way
- you will hear about their two constellations and how they work together
- Learn the difference between ghost ships and dark ships and find out that there are very few ground control points in the ocean and why that matters
- Find out what this means for GIS and permit enforcement.
For more information go to https://www.planet.com/gis/
Recommended Podcast Episodes
Hyperspectral vs. Multispectral
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/hyperspectral-vs-multispectral/
NICFI Program
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/reduce-and-reverse-tropical-forest-loss-with-nicfi/
Synthetic Data
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/synthetic-data-for-real-problems/
Labels Matter
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/labels-matter/
This episode is a story about wide-angle imaging for fire mapping and maritime search but it's also a story about changing the culture and getting people to trust a new way of doing things.
My guest today is Alison Harrod - mission success manager at a start-up called Overwatch imaging
Whenever I work with a company like Overwatch Imaging it is hard to know which story to tell, we could just as easily have made an episode about AI and object detection or about smart sensors because they do those things too.
The decision depends on the guest and their background so after meeting Alison we decided to make this episode for you and try to give you a broad overview of what wide-angle imaging is and how it's used in the context of fire mapping and maritime search.
...but It's one thing to have a technology and it is another thing entirely to get people to use it … as you will hear fire mapping is not “a move fast and break things kind of situation”
Connect with Alison here!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonharrod/
https://www.overwatchimaging.com/
Other relevant podcast episodes that you might enjoy
Thermal Imagery From Spacehttps://mapscaping.com/podcast/thermal-imagery-from-space/
Finding Water Leaks From Spacehttps://mapscaping.com/podcast/finding-water-leaks-from-space/
Cube Satellites Of The Stratospherehttps://mapscaping.com/podcast/cube-satellites-of-the-stratosphere/
It's not about becoming an influencer it's about creating opportunities for yourself
In this episode, we tackle the common misconception that personal branding is solely for influencers, revealing how it's actually about creating the right visibility and opportunities in your professional sphere.
Helena Merschdorf shares her unique insights, drawing from her rich background in GIS and marketing, and discusses:
- Solving the Obscurity Problem: Discover how personal branding can help you get noticed by the right people, not just everyone.
- Effective Communication in Technical Fields: Learn the art of conveying complex GIS concepts to non-experts.
- Defining and Building Your Personal Brand: Uncover the essence of personal branding and how to strategically develop it.
- Overcoming Challenges: Helena offers guidance on tackling imposter syndrome and finding your niche in the vast world of GIS.
- Choosing the Right Platforms: Get tips on selecting the best channels for your personal branding efforts based on your target audience.
- Success Stories and Strategies: While specific examples aren't named, learn about the different levels of personal branding success and what might work for you.
This episode is not just about building a personal brand; it's about leveraging that brand to carve a unique path in the geospatial industry.
Connect with Helena here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenamerschdorf/
Other relevant podcast episodes
Rebranding GIS and Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/rebranding-gis-geospatial/
Python Maps
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/python-maps/
Getting Your Dream Job In Earth Observation
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/getting-your-dream-job-in-earth-observation/
Entity resolution is the process of matching and merging records from different sources that refer to the same entity.
today's episode is about entity resolution for place data, why you might want to do that, and what any of this has to do with the dollar, Unix time and the idea that If data is really driving innovation, join keys are going to become more valuable.
Today's guest is Auren Hoffman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/auren/
https://www.youtube.com/@worldofdaas
If you want to try Placekey for yourself go to https://www.placekey.io/
If you want to learn more about SafeGraph listen to this podcast episode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/building-geospatial-truth-sets/
Embracing Open-Source Geospatial Technology is easy as an individual but what if you want your organization to use FOSS4G
How do you get strategic buy-in?
It turns out that the software does not sell itself and that even in the age of AI we still have to convince a human if we want organizational change to to happen.
I think the temptation is to say hey look at this long list of specifications and notice how FOSS4G is often better or equal to the close source equivalent.
Or hey look at the price tag … it costs nothing which is way cheaper than this other thing which costs more than nothing.
While this might be all the argumentation you need in some cases … in general, making change happen is hard, and it's going to require more than that.
That's why I have invited Todd Barr back on the podcast to walk us through what it takes to get an organization to Embrace Open-Source Geospatial Technology.
Here are a few of the key points
- Getting buy-in for open-source software and addressing concerns about security and IP protection
- Perspectives of External and internal stakeholders on open-source Software
- Importance of collaboration, empathy, and understanding in decision-making and stakeholder management
- Challenges of implementing open source technology in a corporate environment
- Benefits of using open source solutions, such as faster analysis, increased stability, and flexibility for innovation
- Accessibility and support in open source communities, including direct interaction with developers and availability of external consultants
- Customization and development work required for creating vertical solutions with open-source components
- Finding skilled developers and training them in geospatial technology
- Cost-saving advantages of open source technology in cloud computing
- Leading arguments for implementing open source software: cost savings and freedom to modify and customize
- Advocacy for supporting and integrating with the open source community.
The last time Todd was on the podcast we talked about Leadership and Mentorship in the Geospatial community
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/skills-leadership-mentorship-and-the-geospatial-community/
If you are interested in FOSS4G you might enjoy these previous episodes
A Business built on Open Source GIS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/a-business-built-on-open-source-gis/
Monetizing an open-source geospatial project
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/monetizing-an-open-source-geospatial-project/
Or just scroll through the archive to find episodes about QGIS, PostGIS, Geoserver, Geonode, Python, and a bunch of other open-source projects
I could use some support! please consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography
Location Intelligence, Mapping
** Warning** Consuming this content may lead to educated opinions and or a better understanding of the future of location technology!
** Proceed with caution!! **
If are curious about any of the following topics this episode is for you!
Evolution of Positioning Systems Terrestrial-based Positioning: The role of Wi-Fi positioning and the potential of 5G in positioning.
Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)
GNSS Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: The potential of LEO satellites in enhancing positioning and navigation.
Future of Positioning: Predictions and expectations for the future of navigation and positioning technologies.
Connect with Sandy on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-kennedy-569a6a4/
Recommended listening
SBAS - Satellite-based augmentation system
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/satellite-based-augmentation-system-a-base-station-in-the-sky/
GNSS - past present and future
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/navigating-the-past-present-and-future-of-gnss/
Where does Goolge's blue dot come from
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-google-calculates-your-location/
On the personal front, I have just moved back to New Zealand after 13 years in Denmark. It has been pretty busy the last couple of weeks, hence the lack of published podcast episodes.
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In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a downstream product of OpenStreetMap.
He explains his background in open map data and his interest in studying collaboration within the OpenStreetMap community.
Jennings then dives into the Daylight Distribution, an open data product produced by Meta, and how it combines building data sets from various sources into one unified theme.
Jennings emphasizes the importance of a stable ID system within the Overture Maps Foundation and the potential for easy conflation and integration of third-party data.
Jennings also explains the relationship between OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, highlighting how they complement each other.
Relevant podcast episodes
OpenStreetMap Is A Community Of Communities
Cloud Native Geospatial
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
The Rapid Editor
With regards to accessing Overture Map data, you might find this YouTube video helpful
https://youtu.be/fZj6kTwXN1U?feature=shared
Just in case you are interested in the Google building footprints here is a link to that :)
https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
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QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
100 billion Points Every Day
100 billion is a very large number, let's say that I gave you a spreadsheet with 100 billion rows in it, each row consisted of five columns Latitude, Longitude, Device ID, A Timestamp, and a column telling the name of the data provider
What would you do with that?
How would you clean it? Make sense of it? Extract value from it? What would people use it for? And how would you do this in a way that could be systematized?
FourSquare does this every day with the help of something they call a movement engine.
To help understand more about how they do this I have invited Gabriel Durkin the director of data science on the podcast. This is the last in a series of episodes I have worked on together with FourSquare and I have to say it's been really enjoyable working with them.
If you are interested in hearing some of the previous episodes just check out the links below!
From Pixels To Patterns AI In Spatial Analysis
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-pixels-to-patterns-ai-in-spatial-analysis/
Big Data In The Browser
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/big-data-in-the-browser/
Spatial Knowledge Graphs
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-knowledge-graphs/
Designing For Location Privacy
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/designing-for-location-privacy/
All Of The Places In The World
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/all-of-the-places-in-the-world/
Geospatial Jobs
There are a few new jobs on our Job Board! The most interesting one is the role of Social Media Manager at Felt - United States (Remote)
( If you want to apply for this one, it might be a good idea to listen to this episode first ;)
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/felt-upload-anything/ )
See more at https://mapscaping.com/jobs/
As a bonus for reading all the way to the end :)
If you are looking for free terrain data for anywhere in the world you might find this useful
https://github.com/openterrain/openterrain/wiki/Terrain-Data
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Computer vision is everywhere! But teaching an algorithm to identify objects requires a lot of data and this is definitely the case when we think about GeoAI
But it is not enough to have a lot of data we also need data that is labeled
If we are looking for cars in images we need a lot of images of cars and we need to know which pixels are the car!
Of course, I am oversimplifying but I hope you get the idea,
Now imagine that you can automatically generate a large labeled data set of realistic images of cars based on the specifications of a specific sensor.
These data sets are often referred to as synthetic data or fake data and to help us understand more about this I have invited Chris Andrews from Rendered AI on the podcast.
Here are a few previous episodes you might find interesting
Computer Vision And GeoAI
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/computer-vision-and-geoai/
In this episode, the discussion is aimed at an increased understanding of the differences between computer vision and the AI that is used in the Earth Observation world.
Labels Matter
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/labels-matter/
What it takes to create labeled training data manually. If you are new to the idea of labeled data sets this is a good place to start.
Fake Satellite Imagery
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/fake-satellite-imagery/
This is a good episode if you want to know more about Generative AI and Generative Adversarial Networks.
Also, check out this website https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ to get an idea of where and how these Generative Adversarial Networks can be used. Look for a website called This City Does Not Exist http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/
On a silently similar note try uploading an image to https://bard.google.com/ … it's pretty interesting!
This is an interview with a senior data scientist from Hub Ocean, a platform that aims to unlock and unite ocean data.
Hub Ocean - as the name suggests is a hub for ocean data
Now we have talked about these kinds of data hubs before on the podcast - Sentinal Hub - a data hub for earth observation data, Microsoft Planetary Computer, Google Earth Engine, Open Topography is data but for topography data …. The concept is not new but also not easy to implement and if they work, these types of data hubs have a gravity to them that becomes more powerful over time.
One of the guiding concepts behind these data hubs seems to be the idea of FAIR data - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable data
…. But its not enough to ensure that the data is fair I think we should also consider how we can make the results of our research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable data
If you are not already familiar with Cloud Optimised Geospatial formats it is worth checking out these two episodes.
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Some more episodes you might enjoy
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QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography
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felt.com is a browser-based mapping tool and its also a reminder that just because we have always done web mapping one way it doesn’t mean it always has to be done that way.
For example, Felt lets you upload anything! That's a bold promise, you can upload anything you want and we will figure it out on the back end.
Felt is also the first and only flagship sustaining member of the QGIS project, they are supporting the development of an open-source tiling engine, called Tippecanoe.
They also support protomaps and the development of PMtiles as well as contributing code to Maplibre and Gdal
... But that is not why you should listen to this episode … you should listen to this episode because if we are going to grow the geo pie we need more upload anything buttons
Easily bring data into Felt with our QGIS plug-in and Felt API
How We Make Your Data Look Great at Every Scale with Tippecanoe
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Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap.
Humans are in the loop, people reviewing data authoritative datasets and adding them to OpenStreetMap with a few clicks!
So you might be wondering, what is Authoritative data? And perhaps it doesn’t even matter what authoritative means maybe the most important thing is it correct.
If you are interested in OpenStreetMap you might enjoy this episode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/openstreetmap-is-a-community-of-communities/ which is a great introduction to OpenStreetMap as a project but also explains some of the commercial interest in updating the map which adds a lot of context to Rapid and its development and future.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
If you have not heard of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team this is well worth checking out!
Segment Anything
(SAM) can segment objects by simply clicking or interactively selecting points to include or exclude from the object. This makes it a user-friendly tool for image segmentation.
Mapillary
Mapillary is a platform that provides street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. The platform is powered by collaboration and computer vision, which helps in generating and maintaining up-to-date, detailed maps.
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/scaling-map-data-generation-using-computer-vision/
GeoSpatial Jobs!
Drone Deploy’s Earthworks team is looking for an experienced Back End Engineer Full time / Remote
NV5 is looking for a Senior GIS Analyst
Want to help? I could really use some support!
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The promise of digital mapping is to provide a shared and real-time view of the state of the underlying system.
pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promise of real-time event modeling and shared views in PostgreSQL.
By connecting to PostgreSQL and listening on specified channels, pg_eventserv captures database notifications and forwards them to web clients, enabling real-time updates and synchronization of data displayed on maps or other web interfaces.
pg_eventserv does one thing and one thing only: take events generated by the PostgreSQL NOTIFY command and passes the payload along to waiting WebSockets clients.
pg_eventserv is free and easy to install and you can find it here: https://github.com/CrunchyData/pg_eventserv
What this means is that any client can watch for notifications and update as changes in the database happen.
Real-time data!
Here is a link to a Youtube video demonstration of pg_eventserv in action!
I will let Paul Ramsey the creator of pg_eventserv explain all this in more detail in this episode.
If you want to reach out to Paul the best place to do that is http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/
Or if you want to listen to previous episodes with Paul you might find these interesting
Raster in the database?
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/rasters-in-a-database/
Dynamic Vector Tiles Straight From The Database
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/dynamic-vector-tiles-straight-from-the-database/
Spatial SQL- GIS Without The GIS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis/
also ... If you are interested in spatial databases at scale ... you might find this episode interesting
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/distributing-geospatial-data/
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You guessed it this episode is all about recruitment!
Who is this episode for? Well if you have a career in geospatial … it's for you!
Getting the job you want, changing your career path, or deciding whether to work at a start-up or a more established company. Once you have made these decisions, how do you stand out from the crowd? What is it the recruiters are looking for? And if you do get offered a contract should you negotiate and what is negotiable?
Jett Metcalf has worked as a geospatial recruitment specialist for a few well-known companies like Google, Descartes Labs and is currently the Head of Talent at Regrow Ag. In this episode, he is going to help us understand some of the answers to these questions.
Reach out to Jett on LinkedIn or Twitter
If you enjoy this episode and are interested in more career-focused episodes go to https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/ and filter by “Geospatial Career"
See you next week!
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How do we get data from a satellite down to Earth? How do we task a satellite?
Today the answer is likely to be via radios and a system of downlink sites or ground stations. As the satellites pass overhead or within “line of sight” data can be sent via radio from the satellite to the receiver on the ground.
If you don’t want to wait until the satellite can see the ground station, you can send your data to a geostationary satellite that can always see a ground station and let it send the data back to Earth.
Radios are tried and tested, they have been used for this purpose since the inception of satellite communication and radio waves can pass through Earth's atmosphere without significant loss!
But … the frequency spectrum for radio waves is strictly regulated, which can limit available channels for communication, and the bandwidth of radio frequencies is limited, which can reduce the volume of data transmission.
What about lasers?
You can send more data faster with a laser, you don’t need to worry about interfering with someone else part of the radio spectrum, and ground stations can be much smaller even human-portable!
But … lasers struggle with clouds and the technology is still relatively new
So what is the best way to communicate with satellites? Radio or Laser? The answer is … it depends ;)
Jordan Wachs, Director of Business Development for SpaceRake.net does a great job adding context to this discussion but perhaps the bigger question here is what will we do when satellites become internet devices, part of the Internet of Things?
What if they were always on always connected in the same way your phone is always on, always connected? What will this enable?
This episode was sponsored by Sponsored by Sinergise, as part of Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem knowledge sharing
People who liked this episode also liked …
How to keep your satellite pointing at earth
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-to-keep-your-satellite-pointing-at-earth/
Hyperspectral v’s Multispectral
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/hyperspectral-vs-multispectral/
Sentinel Hub
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/sentinel-hub/
Swing by our website sometime https://mapscaping.com/
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There is a general understanding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract meaning from all the data we are collecting without using AI.
But what is AI, and how did we end up in a situation where it is identifying wolves from dogs based on the presence of snow in the background of images?
What does this mean for spatial analysis using tabular data?
What is explainability?
This is not a "how-to" do spatial analysis using an AI episode, it is an overview of AI in spatial analysis episode with Vin Sharma, VP of Engineering at FourSquare
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciphr/
PYGEOAPI is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards ... which might be really useful if you are thinking about upgrading from the first-generation OGC standards to the second-generation OGC standards
... or if need to implement a custom data source or custom functionality to your web services.
If you are using MapServer, Geoserver, Mapproxy, QGIS server, or Deegree you might find this episode interesting!
Relevant previous episodes
Cloud-native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Geoserver
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geoserver/
Geonode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geonode-open-source-geospatial-content-management-system/
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So why would anyone want to put alot of data into a browser? Well, for a lot of the same reasons that edge computing and distributed computing have become so popular.
You get the data a lot closer to the user and you don’t have to pay for the compute ;)
… this sounds great but as I found out during this conversation it's not as easy as it might seem!
There are a lot of trade-offs that need to be evaluated when moving data and analytics to the client.
Nick Rabinowitz Senior Staff Software Engineer at Foursquare has a ton of experience with this so he volunteered his time to help us understand more about it.
https://location.foursquare.com/
https://studio.foursquare.com/home
If you are not familiar with the Arrow data format it might be worth checking out
Apache Arrow defines a language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs. The Arrow memory format also supports zero-copy reads for lightning-fast data access without serialization overhead
Related podcast episodes that you might find interesting include
H3 grid system
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/h3-geospatial-indexing-system/
The H3 geospatial indexing system is a discrete global grid system consisting of a multi-precision hexagonal tiling of the sphere with hierarchical indexes. H3 is a really interesting approach to tiling data that was developed by UBER and has been open-sourced.
Hex Tiles
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/hex-tiles/
If you have not heard of the H3 grid system before listen to that episode first before listening to this one it will add a lot of useful context!
Spatial Knowledge Graphs
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-knowledge-graphs/
Foursquare is moving away from spatial joins and focusing on building a knowledge graph. If you are not familiar with graphs this might be a good place to start, also its interesting to hear the reasons for the move from spatial joins to another data structure.
Distribution Geospatial Data
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/distributing-geospatial-data/
This is interesting if you want to understand more about distributed databases and some of the strategies for doing this. It sounds complicated but this episode is a really good introduction!
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
This episode give a solid overview of what cloud-native means and some of the current geospatial cloud native formats out there today
I am constantly thinking about how I can make this podcast better for you so if you have any ideas or suggestions please let me know!
Also, I am thinking of recording a behind-the-scenes episode, is that something you might be interested in? if so what questions do you have?
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography
Location Intelligence, Mapping
Sounds like a great idea right?
In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn't ... unless you want to ... and how you can ... if you have to.
You can find Paul's blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography
Location Intelligence, Mapping
Previous episodes with Paul
Spatial SQL
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis/
GDAL
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/gdal-geospatial-data-abstraction-library/
Dynamic Vector Tiles
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/dynamic-vector-tiles-straight-from-the-database/
Blog posts by Paul about Rasters in the Database
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-raster-query-basics
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/waiting-for-postgis-3.2-secure-cloud-raster-access
Check Out Our Geospatial Job Board!
A knowledge graph is a network of relationships between real work entities and in this episode, you will learn how and why knowledge graphs might be a better choice than spatial joins!
Further listening!
The H3 Indexing System
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/h3-geospatial-indexing-system/
Hex Tiles
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/hex-tiles/
Points of Interest data
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/all-of-the-places-in-the-world/
Dark Data
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/unstructured-data-is-dark-data/
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works.
To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast
You can connect with Daniel here
and listen to his previous episode here:
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/an-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence/
This is perhaps the quote for the episode that I have spent the most time thinking about
"We always thought AI would be logical and lack creativity - but it is almost the exact opposite"
This reframes the idea of being wrong to being creative which I think you could argue really depends on the context!
If you have not already played around with ChatGPT it's well worth spending the time to experiment with it ... while its still free ;)
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
Further listening
If you have not already listened to this episode about computer vision and GeoAI you might find it interesting. Listen out for the discussion around plausible / realistic data and real measurements - I think this gives more context to the use cases for generative AI
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/computer-vision-and-geoai/
You might also enjoy this episode about fake satellite imagery
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/fake-satellite-imagery/
BTW I have started a job board for geospatial people
feel free to check it out!
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images.
You might think that this is exactly what we are doing in earth observation but there are a few important differences between computer vision and what some people refer to as GeoAI.
This week Jordi inglada is going to help you understand what those differences are and why it's not always possible to use Computer vision techniques in the field of Remote Sensing.
Listen out for these key points during the conversation!
- Why plausible or realistic data is not always a substitute for actual measurements, except when it is ;)
- In computer vision we can learn from the data, in earth observation we know the physics
- To do interesting work in data science you need to - Computer science, applied math, and domain expertise. You don’t need to be an expert in all three but you need to be interested in all three
- Vectors in the machine learning world don’t necessarily have anything to do with points lines and polygons ;)
Sponsored by Sinergise, as part of Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem knowledge sharing. dataspace.copernicus.eu/ http://dataspace.copernicus.eu/
Related Podcast Episodes
Super Resolution
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/super-resolution-smarter-upsampling/
Fake Satellite Imagery
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/fake-satellite-imagery/
Sentinal Hub
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/sentinel-hub/
Google Earth Engine
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
Microsofts Planetary Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
BTW MapScaping has started a Job Board!
it's in the early stages but it's live
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography
Location Intelligence, Mapping
Data is what data does - more about that later on ;)
This episode focuses on designing for privacy, how do we create value from location data without sacrificing personal privacy?
Well, you might start by adhering to the Enhanced Standards For Precise Location Information which means that information about sensitive places like churches, hospitals, military bases, and LGBTQ+ spaces isn't misused or sold. Plus, they protect our exact location from being shared with law enforcement or bounty hunters!
Yes, that's right bounty hunters!
You might also think about adding noise to the data, maybe you want to blur the time stamp and look at everything in aggregate?
It turns out the location data is not just classified as personal data but is actually classified as sensitive personal data in privacy law so if you are going to work with it you really need to understand the risks involved.
One of the really interesting ideas mentioned by Elizabeth Hein VP of Compliance & Data Protection was the idea of regulating Use, Harm, and Risk instead of sensitive data
Data Is What Data Does: Regulating Use, Harm, and Risk Instead of Sensitive Data
If you want to learn more about POI data and why points of interest data are so hard
check out the episode called All of the Places in the World: https://mapscaping.com/podcast/all-of-the-places-in-the-world/
On a side note, I am working on a side project, it's a job board for geospatial people, and you can find it here https://mapscaping.com/jobs/ it's still in the development phase but feel free to check it out!
When comparing multispectral and hyperspectral data it is not simply a case of “more data more better”!
With hyperspectral you have “The curse of Dimensionality” but you also get more flexibility to pick exactly what bands you want to use!
With multispectral you have less noise but you also have less data!
This episode is designed to be a beginner's guide to the differences between hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data.
You can reach out to Gordon Logie here: https://sparkgeo.com/blog/team/gordon/
Podcast episode with the CEO of Sentinel-Hub
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/sentinel-hub/
Here are some courses that focused on hyperspectral and offer further training
This week we are going to learn how Foursquare is trying to identify and map all of the places in the world!
Foursquare uses a mixture of crowd source and data conflation to maintain a database of 205 million places ... and it's not easy!
Each phone might see the world slightly differently in terms of location accuracies and crowdsourcing data means that people "check-in" at different locations.
Kyle Fowler - Senior Director, Engineering at Foursquare
Is going to give a behind-the-scenes look at how the "Orginal location-based social network" is trying to map all of the places in the world.
This episode is the first in a series of episodes I am going to publish in partnership with Foursquare and the idea is to use it as a reference for later episodes about Privacy and location data, Knowledge Graphs, AI, Location Based Marketing and Big geospatial Data in the Browser.
Protomaps is a serverless system for planet-scale maps, it's an umbrella project consisting of a few different components one of which is PMtiles.
PMtiles is “Cloud Optimise Geotiff” for web mapping, what this means is that you can build a base map and host it without the need for a server!
PMtiles is a single file that you can access via HTTP range requests in the same way that you can access data within a Cloud Optimised Geotiff with the important difference that PMtiles can also contain vector data!
What this means is that you can create your own base map, and host it on something like Amazon S3 object storage at a fraction of the cost of other base map solutions!
During this episode, you will hear Brandon, the founder, and creator of Protomaps, talk about scarcity, and well I have never really thought about base maps as being a scarce resource I can definitely see how a product like PMtiles could remove some of the barriers to entry for a lot of creativity in terms of base maps.
More information on Protomaps is here: https://protomaps.com/
Tippecanoe
https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe.git
https://bertt.wordpress.com/2023/01/06/creating-vector-pmtiles-with-tippecanoe/
Relevant podcast episodes
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Microsoft’s Planetary computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
Stamen Design - Full Stack Cartography
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/full-stack-cartography/
If you have any questions or comments, let me know, I would love to hear from you!
Storytelling with point clouds
This is not your typical point clouds episode! Today we are talking about how to use point clouds to tell a story. During this episode, you will hear Benjamin Muller talk about using a point cloud to make a film about the city of St Gallen in Switzerland and you might be tempted to think … what a waste of time! Why not use the data to make better measurements that lead to better decisions?
How many IT projects have failed, not because they were based on bad decisions but because they failed to get people to adopt the changes?
The best decisions are meaningless unless they are adopted.
So, how do we get people to change or adopt the change we are trying to make?
I think the first thing to understand is that packaging matters!
This episode is a case study into wrapping our ideas in a story and visualizing them using geospatial data.
Here is a link to the visualizations that were created using the point cloud data
https://www.gruenesgallustal.ch/resume
You can take a look HxDR platform here
If you are interested in more technical episodes about point clouds you might enjoy these!
The Point Data Abstraction Library
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/pdal-point-data-abstraction-library/
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
Bathymetric Lidar
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/bathymetric-lidar-and-blue-carbon/
Lidar from Drones
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/lidar-from-drones/
Lidar from Space
You are about to meet Peter Spencer, a Freelance Archaeologist, Surveyor, and Geomatics Specialist
You are also about to learn how geospatial tech and techniques are being applied in the field of archaeology at an object scale with laser scanning that enables fragments of skeletons from all over the world to be 3D printed and pieced together locally.
At a site scale LiDAR, ground penetrating radar, and photogrammetry have completely changed the game in terms of modeling archaeological sites in a non-destructive manner.
And at the landscape scale, Earth observation data and AI are being used to prospect for new sites!
You can connect with Pete here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-spencer-mcifa-162292136/
If you find this episode interesting you might like these episodes ;)
Using Synthetic Aperture Radar ( from space ) to find where drinking water is leaking out of pipes https://mapscaping.com/podcast/finding-water-leaks-from-space/
This episode is all about using LiDAR from drones
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/lidar-from-drones/
The earth archive project is one archaeologist's goal to scan the entire world using LiDAR to create an archive for the future.
Warning! this podcast episode is not as boring as it sounds!
While geospatial standards are boring on purpose ... this episode is not .-
If you woke up this morning wanting to listen to a boring podcast episode about geospatial standards this is not for you!
Scott Simmons ( OGC’s Chief Standards Officer )
https://www.ogc.org/about/team/scott-simmons/
helps us understand what a Geopose is and how it might be used, why we need GeoRSS, and something called SensorThings!
You will also learn about the PubSub standard for the syndication of spatial data and why streaming data is not always the answer.
We also discover what the most boring geospatial standard is and when the shapefile "might" die.
All in all, this is a light-hearted look at a very serious topic and I hope you enjoy it!
What to know more about the Open Geospatial Consortium? this is a good place to start! https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-open-geospatial-consortium/
It sounds like a clickbait title, right? And to be fair I am trying to capture your attention but this is not clickbait in the sense that the title makes a promise that the episode lives up to!
This is not a “get-rich-quick-scheme” its a story about someone like us who is earning money by using his geospatial skills to teach others.
Konrad Hafen is a hydrologist with the USGS and runs two websites and a youtube channel, he is a geospatial content creator who makes money from ads and from selling online courses.
Websites
https://opensourceoptions.com/
Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@opensourceoptions
Each episode I publish has some sort of editorial intent, the intent of this episode is to show you a real-life example of someone like us who is using their geospatial knowledge if a different way.
Not because I think this is for everyone! But because I think the more examples we are exposed to of people doing something different the more options we might see in our own lives.
We don’t have to take advantage of these opportunities but there is some comfort in knowing that they are there. That we are not stuck.
If you listen to this episode and what to learn more about making money with geospatial content, Konrad and I will host a free webinar ( if we get enough interest! ) where we teach you the basics. Sign up here https://geospatialschool.com/webinar/
Distributing Geospatial Data - Every wondered why you might what to do this? Or maybe you understand the why but are unsure about the how?
Perhaps you have heard people talk about partitioning data or sharding data, you might have heard some of these terms used in the context of enterprise-scale geospatial systems and parallel processing and thought … Wow … that sounds daunting!
This podcast episode is meant to be a soft introduction to the world of distributed geospatial databases and some of the concepts surrounding them.
Along the way, you will be introduced to something called Apache Sedona which is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data, and hear the surprising stat that 97% of enterprise data remains unused! … perhaps because of the lack of context?
You can connect with Mo Sarwat on
Twitter https://twitter.com/MoSarwat
Or at https://mosarwat.org/
During the conversation, we mention PostgreSQL and PostGIS a few times which are topics that we have covered in previous podcast episodes
Servicing Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/dynamic-vector-tiles-straight-from-the-database/
An introduction to PostgreSQL
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/postgresql-an-open-source-geospatial-database-for-gis-practitioners/
Spatial SQL
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis/
Toward the end of the conversation, we touch on the idea of cloud-native geospatial formats, and if you are interested in understanding this concept you might find these two previous episodes helpful
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to reach out! I would love to hear from you
So you might be wondering why the United Nations World Food Programme needs a geospatial support unit. Let me give you a brief overview,
Basically, they curate and maintain global datasets that they use to model the risk of sudden-onset disasters than might lead to a food security risk. They use this model to send out early warnings to at-risk communities and help with the response when disasters happen.
Of course, there is more to it ...
But I will let Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan ( The head of the Geospatial Support Unit at the UN World Food Programme) explain it in more detail.
The Hunger Map
BeforeAfterMap OSM Before-After Maps is an online tool that allows anyone to easily compare how a particular area looked in terms of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data at two different years, side by side, and get a visual insight into mapping contributions over time.
https://beforeafter.baato.io/
Personally, I don't feel like aerial imagery gets the attention it deserves! So I invited Michael Bewley - Senior Director of AI Systems at Nearmap back on the podcast to help bring us up to speed on the state of the art of capturing, processing, and building a business around aerial imagery.
If you don’t care about aerial imagery, think of this as a story about turning unstructured data into structured data into insights and building a business around that.
You can connect with Micheal on Twitter and LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/michaelbewley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbewley/
Listen out for the following highlights
- It's not a camera it's an imaging system!
- Detecting change is not hard, detecting meaningful change is hard
- Are human abilities still a good benchmark for AI systems?
- How to determine if an AI system is a prototype or production ready
Previous Interview with Michael Bewley
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/collecting-and-processing-aerial-imagery-at-scale/
Stratospheric Balloons As Remote Sensing Platforms
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cube-satellites-of-the-stratosphere/
This episode covers a wide range of topics from the role of geospatial in systems thinking - representing natural systems in location systems and how we can apply the technology behind virtual worlds to the real world.
During this conversation, it became clear to me that technology should be used in service of culture and not the other way around. I think in terms of geospatial we have an interesting opportunity to have an outsized impact if we can just figure out how to market it!
I often think about problems as being either technological or cultural and it seems to me that technology generally moves faster than culture. Although I am sure we can all think of some great examples of huge cultural shifts that have happened in response to short-term emergencies in the past few years.
Culture seems to react to technology as opposed to driving technology. I think if we were all better at marketing we could change this.
Connect with Ingo Simonis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingosimonis/
Previous Episodes featuring the Open Geospatial Consortium
The Open Geospatial Consortium
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-open-geospatial-consortium/
Open Geospatial standards - shared standards to solve shared problems
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/open-geospatial-standards-shared-standards-to-solve-shared-problems/
My guest on the show today is Mike. Today Mike is the founder of a software startup called ChroneChards, but he started as a cartographer for an adventure race and Patagonia.
So he has come a long way.
A couple of other really interesting points about Mike.
He is a self-taught software developer and he is a self-taught businessman.
The reason why I mentioned this means that if he can teach himself these things, then you can do it too.
And as you'll discover later on in the episode, all you have to do is to get really, really comfortable with uncertainty.
You can connect with Mike here https://chrono.cards/
or on Twitter https://twitter.com/get_ChronoCards
It's probably worth riffing on this idea of uncertainty just for a minute.
I think this is one thing that we all have in common. There'll be something about our lives, professional or private that we are uncertain about.
I've had the pleasure over the last three, four, or five years of talking with a few different people that have overcome a lot of uncertainty.
People that are self-taught software developers like Mike, people that have started their own GIS geospatial consultancies, and build their own businesses around their skills, none of those people have overcome uncertainty.
None of those people are now immune to uncertainty!
They have simply learned to live with it.
So as someone who has experienced and continues to experience a lot of uncertainty, these stories have really helped me they've really had a positive impact. It's been great to know that other people go through this too.
So here are some links to those episodes and hopefully, they will inspire you as well.
From GIS Analyst to Software Engineer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-gis-analyst-to-software-engineer/
Starting your own geospatial consultancy
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/starting-your-own-geospatial-consultancy/
Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/self-employment-in-the-gis-geospatial-industry/
Being self-employed in the earth observation sector
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/being-self-employed-in-the-earth-observation-sector/
Mid-career change
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mid-career-change/
I quit my job
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-quit-my-job/
If 80% of all data has a spatial component why do we need to approach mature and emerging markets differently?
With everyone racing to democratize location technology why is GIS still a valuable skill?
What are consultancies looking for when they hire geospatial consultants?
Answers to these questions and much more in this episode where we focus on geospatial consulting, as a business and career path.
Todd Slind - VP of Technology at Locana.co
Connect with Todd on Twitter or LinkedIn
Recommended Podcast Episodes
Building a web-based mapping tool into a business
A Business Built on Open-Source GIS
Being A Graduate Geospatial Consultant
Hiring and Being Hired for Geospatial Jobs
Getting Where You Want To Go In Your Geospatial Career
FROM THE ARCHIVE!
Calculating the location of your mobile device ( the blue dot ) is not as straightforward as you might imagine. It involves databases of wifi hotspots, 3D city models, IMU's, GNSS, your proximity to cell towers, and maybe something called visual positioning.
Ed Parsons - Googles Geospatial Technologist explains
previous podcast episode that you might enjoy!
SATELLITE-BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEM - A BASE STATION IN THE SKY POSITIONING AS A SERVICE AND THE ROLE OF SMARTPHONES IN THE FUTURE OF GEOLOCATION USING THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD OF BUILDINGS TO NAVIGATE INDOORS HYPER-ACCURATE INDOOR LOCATION NAVIGATING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GNSS
Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
Tropical forests are large sources of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, due to deforestation. They could instead be a big part of the climate solution.
Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI), users can now access high-resolution, analysis-ready mosaics of the world’s tropics in order to help reduce and reverse the loss of tropical forests, combat climate change, conserve biodiversity, and facilitate sustainable development for noncommercial uses.
MapComplete
NICFI - Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative
Planet NICFI
Cloud Optimized Point Clouds ( COPC) allow you to stream point cloud data!
Cloud Optimized Geotiffs made raster data streamable and now its time for Point Clouds to be just as accessible!
weeklyOSM updates the community, on a weekly basis, about what is going on in the OSM Universe.
Thanks, OpenCage!
Related Podcast Episodes
PDAL - Point Data Abstraction Library
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/pdal-point-data-abstraction-library/
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Microsoft's Planetry Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?
Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website
reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
We cover a lot of ground in this episode but some of the key takes are:
A key difference between visualizing non-spatial data and spatial data is that non-spatial data gives you the freedom to choose the locations of different objects.
Design is not a process, a way of thinking, and the outcome of not necessarily something visual
We are getting closer to the promise of custom maps for everyone, and we are already seeing personalized maps
Content with Alan Mcconchie here: https://stamen.com/people/alan-mcconchie/
And learn more about Stamen Design here: https://stamen.com/
Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap
Recommended Episode about Cartography
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/communicating-with-maps-the-art-of-cartography/
Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?
Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website
reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
For some time, there was hype around AI and data science and that they would solve all of our problems.
If you think AI solves every problem, then you’re overestimating its utility and where we’re at.
However, on the other side, if you’re a business of any size, operating at least some type of technology, and you think AI can solve none of your problems — you’re also mistaken.
We’re somewhere in the middle.
Daniel Whitenack, Data Scientist and host of the Practical AI podcast gives us a really great introduction to Artificial Intelligence and you don't need be a data scientist to understand it!
Connect with Daniel Whitenack here https://datadan.io/ or check out the Practical AI podcast
For more episodes just visit https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/
and sort all the episodes by "geospatial career"
Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?
Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website
reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
Grow your career — or reimagine it entirely, what do you do if find yourself wanting to make a change halfway through your career? This episode with Thierry Gregorius from https://truehorizoncoaching.com/ is more of a discussion than an interview and if you are thinking about making a change in your career it might help you answer the question "what do I do next"
Recommended Podcast episodes focusing on careers in Geospatial
Getting Where you want to go in your geospatial career
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/getting-where-you-want-to-go-in-your-geospatial-career/
Geospatial Side Hustles
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geospatial-side-hustles/
I quit my job
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-quit-my-job/
Mentorship, leadership and career advice
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mentorship-leadership-and-career-advice/
Business ideas for geospatial people
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/business-ideas-for-geospatial-people/
What is your idea
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/what-is-your-idea/
Python Maps
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/python-maps/
For more episodes just visit https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/
and sort all the episodes by "geospatial career"
Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?
Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website
reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
This is a story about a peer-to-peer mapping technology that is enabling people to "fight maps with maps"
https://www.digital-democracy.org/
You can find Mapeo here
https://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/
Promoting OSM projects
OpenCage and Mapscaping are working together to help projects based on OpenStreetMap reach a wider audience.
Projects will be selected to be featured on upcoming Mapscaping podcast episodes, with all costs covered by OpenCage!
https://forms.reform.app/NAvQ41/opencage-mapscaping/af9MFV
Recommended Podcast episodes about Off-line mapping
MerginMaps - QGIS offline and in the feild
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/qgis-offline-and-in-the-field/
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/two-mobile-data-collection-apps-you-need-to-know-about/
More podcast episodes on GIS and GIS careers can be found on our website https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/
Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?
Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website
reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping
or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
Applications of thermal imaging from space include monitoring wildfires, urban heat islands, economic activity, and the built environment.
But it's not easy ;)
Connect with Robin Cole at
Check out the Earth Observation Hub!
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Fake Satellite Imagery
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The LandSat Program
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-landsat-program/
How To Keep Your Satellite Pointing At Earth
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-landsat-program/
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After 12 years of working as a GIS specialist / Consultant, I quit and I am ready to move on.
Looking back at the last 12 years if I could go back in time and give myself some advice I would tell myself these 8 things.
Things I need help with
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It turns out that monitoring atmospheric pollution from space is really hard! But if you can do it will help you understand air quality, solar energy, ozone Layer and UV radiation, emissions and surfaces fluxes, and climate forcing
Contact Mark on Twitter
https://twitter.com/m_parrington
Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/
https://twitter.com/CopernicusECMWF
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Recommended Podcast Earth Observation Podcasts
Fake Satellite Imagery
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/fake-satellite-imagery/
The LandSat Program
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-landsat-program/
How To Keep Your Satellite Pointing At Earth
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-landsat-program/
The problem of unification: Spatial data comes in many different sizes, shapes, and formats making it a difficult and time-consuming process to join data for visualization, exploration, and analysis.
Enter the Hex Tile system!
Contact Foursquare: connect.foursquare.com/mapscaping
Check out Unfolded https://foursquare.com/products/unfolded/ https://www.unfolded.ai/
Introducing Hex Tiles: https://foursquare.com/article/introducing-hex-tiles-our-next-gen-tiling-system/
Example Maps
https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/e86787a1-4871-4fbb-8eb8-33445e81ca73
https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/e3a6d2df-1784-4686-972b-9d3793c2515d
https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/beb3cf0d-211d-4e5c-b08d-663da9a0631d
Recommended Podcast Episodes
Dynamic Vector Tiles Straight From The Database
This is a story about a hobby project called Scribble Maps that grew into business… but it's also a story about the opportunities and challenges of creating geospatial tools for non-geospatial professionals.
“Its easy to get people to make a map today, but how do you get them to come back and make a map tomorrow?”
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This is a story about finding water on Mars and adapting the technology to look for leaking pipes underground here on earth ... but in this story, we don't just solve the problem, we build a business around it!
Lauren Guy From https://asterra.io/
Sponsored By https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/
Recommended Podcast episodes
Introduction To Synthetic Aperture Radar ( SAR)
Counting Animals Using Satellite Imagery
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It turns out that satellites are not as passive as you might think, and in the case of earth observation satellites it's not easy to keep them pointing at earth!
But if you have a map of the stars, a sun tracker, and are able to keep an eye on the earth's horizon ... it's possible
Jack Reid
https://twitter.com/Jack_B_Reid
Sponsored By Lightbox
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Recommended Podcast episodes
Navigating The Past, Present, and Future of GNSS
Satellite-Based Augmentation System-A Base Station In The Sky
This is a story about bathymetric Lidar... and how geo-tagged sharks led to the discovery of a huge nature-based carbon sink in the Bahamas.
More on this case study here: https://r-evolution.com/r-initiatives/oceans
The Ocean of Things
https://www.darpa.mil/program/ocean-of-things
Recommended Podcast episodes
Mapping Oceans With Sound And Mapping The Sound In The Oceans
PDAL -Point Data Abstraction Library
Whitebox Tools Is The Backend To Many Frontends
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities ... but why should you care?
Maybe because this community is defining the future of geospatial infrastructure across all verticals!
Maybe because they are determining a set of "the best practices" when it comes to solving big problems like climate change.
Or ... if you have a business ... maybe because joining the OGC membership might just be the greatest marketing hack in the geospatial industry ;)
Here is a list of current members https://www.ogc.org/ogc/members
Recommended Episodes
Open Geospatial Standards – shared standards to solve shared problems
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Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
WhiteBox Contains over 500 geospatial analysis tools. Many of these tools have novel functionality that you won’t find in other software and it's FREE to use! But is it possible to monetize an open-source geospatial project? and if so how would you do this?
This episode is a follow-on from last week's episode so consider listening to that first. Last week's episode was a technical overview of what WhiteBox Tools is, this week's episode is about turning WhiteBox Tools into a business to ensure that the project is sustainable.
Sponsored By Lightbox
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WhiteBox Contains over 500 geospatial analysis tools. Many of these tools have novel functionality that you won’t find in other software and it's FREE to use!
Sponsored By Lightbox
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Sentinel Hub makes satellite data easily accessible for you to be browsed or analyzed within your own environment.
Imagine something between The Microsoft Planetry Computer and Google Earth Engine and you are probably thinking about Sentinel Hub!
https://www.sentinel-hub.com/explore/eobrowser/
Sponsored By Lightbox
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Recommended Podcast Episodes
Cloud-Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Introduction To Google Earth Engine
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
The Planetary Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
This episode is all about Unstructured Data but alone the way you will be introduced to the concept of 1st 2nd and 3rd order metadata, edge computing, and knowledge graphs.
And yes "Dark Data" is a thing!
"the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships and direct monetizing)"
Connect with Kirk from https://www.unstruk.com/
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Modern GIS is the process, systems, and technology used to derive insights from geospatial data. Modern GIS uses open, interoperable, and standards-based technology. It can be run locally or in the cloud and can scale to work with many different types, velocities, and scales of data.
Connect with Matt Forest on LinkedIn
of here https://forrest.nyc/
Sponsored By Lightbox
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FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. It is the annual recurring global event hosted by OSGeo, the non-profit organization that supports and promotes the collaborative development of free and open-source geographic technologies and open geospatial data.
find out more at https://2022.foss4g.org/
Early bird registration, for onsite and online: * https://2022.foss4g.org/registration_onsite.php * https://2022.foss4g.org/registration_online.php Travel grant program: * https://2022.foss4g.org/travel_grant_programme.php
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Digital twins are enabled by cloud infrastructure but are they being driven by data density or the need for more information? What is real-time data and why it's not a real-time problem? We even manage to weave a robotic dog called spot and a reference to the professional metaverse
Thanks to Gregor Willhauck https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwillhauck/
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Episodes you might enjoy
Cloud-Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
The Spatial internet of things - Sensor Up
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-spatial-internet-of-things/
Big Query
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/google-bigquery-gis-geospatial-in-the-cloud/
Google Earth Engine
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
The Planetary Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
Augmented Reality
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-to-augment-reality/
Wouldn't it be great to be able to turn your Python scripts into business? this episode is about a platform that can help you do that.
Jakub Dziwisz -Founder & CEO @ Orbify, http://orbify.com
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This is Eric Jensen's story about how he moved from academia to the private sector.
This story involves informational interviews, social media, networking, a personal website, professional podcasts, and a fancy CV template ... but it all started with the understanding that it was time to move on.
Eric Jensen on Twitter
https://twitter.com/RangeSpatialist
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Well if the title does not grab your attention then this episode is not for you!
This episode is all about using AI to generate satellite imagery using generative adversarial networks ( GANs ).
That might sound scary if you have not used to working with AI but Ron Hagensieker does a brilliant job of walking us through the concept and the process.
Ron is the founder and CEO of OSIR.IO and you can reach out to him here: ron@osir.io The Colab can be found here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pHdPcJTT8khavFUbiha6JbnhDG2T048L#scrollTo=LBbFBh0TIZ2H This is the website that Ron made http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/ Some more examples of artificially generated images can be found here https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/A podcast about Super Resolution
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/super-resolution-smarter-upsampling/
A podcast about Open Source Intelligence
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-role-of-geospatial-in-open-source-intelligence/
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What is cloud-native geospatial? what are the components of a cloud-native environment? where are we now and what does this mean for the future of our industry.
Chris Holmes
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Podcast episode related to Cloud Native Geospatial
Googel's Big Query
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/google-bigquery-gis-geospatial-in-the-cloud/
Google Earth Engine
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
Microsoft's Planetary Computer
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/
Reach out to me at MapScaping.com!
This is the story of how a computational chemist moved away from academia and into the geospatial industry and then started to build a brand around creating beautiful maps using python.
DR. ADAM SYMINGTON
https://twitter.com/pythonmaps
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-symington/
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A podcast episode about Python that you might enjoy
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A great emails newsletter that is worth a look
https://actualcontrol.substack.com/
Hydroshed Data
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Denise is a strategic advisor, partnership builder and presenter with over 20 years of experience with the global geospatial community ... short Denise is remarkable!
Connect with Denise here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisemckenzie/
https://twitter.com/SpatialRed
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https://mapscaping.com/podcast/location-privacy-and-data-ethics/
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The link between geospatial, journalism, and open-source intelligence
Michael Cruickshank
https://twitter.com/MJ_Cruickshank
https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/
If you are interested in Google Earth Engine check out the episode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine/
Some interesting reading
https://actualcontrol.substack.com/
How is design going to reduce the time to science? what is the difference between design and user experience when we think about geospatial interfaces?
Jeff Siarto from Element84 is here to help!
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You don't have to be a big organization to create a business or side hustle around your geospatial skills. If you are looking for examples and ideas ... this episode is for you.
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This episode covers a lot of ground but look out for these key topics
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What if we could classify landscapes based on Form and Function? Could we use those classifications to train a model to recognize Form and Function ( Culture ) in satellite imagery?
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An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence
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Collecting And Processing Aerial IMagery At Scale
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/collecting-and-processing-aerial-imagery-at-scale/
Did you know that you can use GNSS to monitor a volcano? or the rise and fall of an acquirer? this episode made me realize that GNSS is more than simply a means of locating something on earth, it's a way of understanding how the earth's crust is moving!
Other topics that you might find interesting in this episode:
- Using Earth Observation to map the underlying geology
- Lidar as a teaching tool
- Using GNSS multipath error to monitor snow depth and vegetation growth
- The importance of science communication
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Other episodes that you might enjoy:
Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar ( SAR )
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/introduction-to-synthetic-aperture-radar-sar/
Navigating The Past, Present And Future Of GNSS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/navigating-the-past-present-and-future-of-gnss/
Satellite-based Augmentation System – A base station in the sky
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/satellite-based-augmentation-system-a-base-station-in-the-sky/
Open Topography – Infrastructure for Topographic Data
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/open-topography-infrastructure-for-topographic-data/
What if you could ask a voice assistant to perform a geospatial query? and what if there was a way to access your geo data via a screenless device?
... well now you can!
Sponsored by REGRID
GPT - 3 and Microsoft
Where does the blue dot come from?
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Geo-tagged audio – another way of augmenting reality
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geo-tagged-audio-another-way-of-augmenting-reality/
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Maxime Lenormand is an aerospace mechanical engineer turned geospatial data scientist, he is also relatively new to the earth observation world.
This is an episode about how Max ended up in Geo and why he decided to move from hardware to software. But it's also about having a sense of wonder about the work we are doing and not being afraid to ask questions and have an opinion.
You can connect with Max on Twitter
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Or check out his podcast Minds Behind Maps
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This episode might not be for you, it might not be what you signed up for. It's a solo episode all about ideas, being an advocate for our ideas, and how we get them to spread.
I hope your 2022 is off to the best possible start!
I have to break my promise to you in the short term in order to keep it in the long term.
Podcast recommendations
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin - an episode called Ignore sunk costs
Hidden Brain
How I Built This With Guy Raz - Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Minds Behind Maps
GEDI stands for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation so, No, I have not misspelled JEDI
This episode is all about using space Lidar to make precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure with the goal of measuring the carbon content of the world's forests.
Find out more about GEDI here: https://gedi.umd.edu/
Other LiDAR related podcast episodes that you might find interesting
OPEN TOPOGRAPHY - INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TOPOGRAPHIC DATA
PDAL - POINT DATA ABSTRACTION LIBRARY
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Urbansky is using stratospheric balloons as an earth observation platform! you might be wondering how you steer a balloon? keep it at a stable height? or get it back to earth?
... if you are wondering how all of this is possible then you are in luck! this episode is for you
Follow UrbanSky on Twitter
https://twitter.com/urbanskyimaging
Some interesting balloon related links
14 minutes from earth ( YouTube Trailer )
https://x.company/projects/loon/
https://www.zero2infinity.space/
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This episode is not just about how to be better at teaching and helping students learn geospatial skills and concepts, it's also about building and selling online courses. It's about education as a service and how we make the service as assessable as possible.
But more broadly, it's about being better communicators and helping people get to where they are trying to go.
Connect with Hans on Twitter and follow along on YouTube
https://twitter.com/hansakwast
https://www.youtube.com/c/HansvanderKwast
Qiusheng Wu ( inspirational educator )
https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/
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Microsoft is building a Planetary Computer.
The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and applications that put those answers in the hands of conservation stakeholders.
https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/
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This is not a deep dive technical explanation of all things Landsat, it's a brief overview of the Landsat mission, what it takes to launch a Landsat satellite, how the data get back to earth, and what it is used for.
There is also a brief discussion of Landsat next ... the future of Landsat ;)
You can access Landsat data here
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data
Or via STAC here https://landsat.stac.cloud/?t=catalogs
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OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive, or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial. It's not just a bunch of open source geospatial tools it's an environment for geospatial tools.
Thanks to Astrid Emde and OSGeo
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This is not a podcast episode about collecting data from a plane! it's a podcast episode about the possibilities of large-scale aerial mapping using only RGB data and the challenges you face along the way.
Dr. Michael Bewley from www.nearmap.com
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Labels matter and if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning then they matter a lot! but what is labeled data? how is it different from tagging, annotating, or segmentation?
This podcast episode is an introduction to creating training data for AI algorithms and if you are new to AI or just want to understand it a bit better go back into the podcast archive and check out the episode called "An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence"
Thanks to Mallory Dodd from iMerit.net
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Perhaps you have thought about starting your own Geospatial business or maybe you are just curious about the kind of people that do venture into the world of entrepreneurship within the geospatial industry. Carly Morris, head of Geovation gives us an insight into the kind of geospatial founders she is looking for and the kinds of problems these founders are solving.
If you are interested in starting your own business then this podcast episode is for you!.
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Monitoring flooding from space is hard, even for a radar that can look through clouds and operate at night! Shay Strong from ICEYE walks us through some of the challenges around creating a reliable and predictable flood monitoring process and explains why the technology is not the hard part.
Reach out to Shay on Twitter at @shaybstrong !
If you want to know more about SAR technology check the episode called "INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR" in the podcast feed!
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Calculating the location of your mobile device ( the blue dot ) is not as straightforward as you might imagine. It involves databases of wifi hotspots, 3D city models, IMU's, GNSS, your proximity to cell towers, and maybe something called visual positioning.
Ed Parsons - Googles Geospatial Technologist explains
previous podcast episode that you might enjoy!
SATELLITE-BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEM - A BASE STATION IN THE SKY POSITIONING AS A SERVICE AND THE ROLE OF SMARTPHONES IN THE FUTURE OF GEOLOCATION USING THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD OF BUILDINGS TO NAVIGATE INDOORS HYPER-ACCURATE INDOOR LOCATION NAVIGATING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GNSS
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What does it mean to be a certified geospatial professional? what are the requirements? what does the process look like and who is this for. Tony Spicci the Executive Director of the GIS Certification Institute joins us today to answer these questions.
GIS Certification Institute
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Have you ever thought about starting your own side hustle? working on something with the hopes of it turning into a full-time gig? This is all about selling maps online, geospatial content as a service, and geospatial freelancing gigs.
This episode is a bit different from what you are used to ... let me know what you think.
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OpenTopography provides community access to high-resolution, topography data, related tools, and resources ... FOR FREE!
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Luis Bermudez CEO at GeoSolutions USA
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Geoserver Podcast episode
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PostGreSQL / PostGIS Podcast Episodes
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MapStore Podcast Episode
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Demo GeoNode Here
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Drone LiDAR might generate 2 -300 points per square meter but how do you filter it? why choose to collect LiDAR from drones instead of from the ground? what are breaklines and how to ground truth drone LiDAR
If you don't know the answer to any or one of these questions then this episode is for you ;)
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This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the hiring process for geospatial jobs. What might the hiring process look like, who are the gatekeepers and what are they looking for?
Nathan Heazlewood - Business Consulting Lead at Eagle Technology
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Joe Morrison has built a personal brand in the geospatial industry. This is how he did and how you can do the same thing!
This is the second half of a conversation with Joe, for more context listen to the previous podcast episode called "The Problem With Satellite Data Is ...That It Is Not A Commodity"
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There has been so much talk about satellite data and what we can do with it lately that it feels like we should all be swimming in satellite data, the problem is that satellite data is not a commodity.
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SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) https://stacspec.org/
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Carolyn Koestner hated the introduction to the GIS course but now she is working towards earning GISP, certification as a GIS professional - how did that happen?
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OpenDroneMap is an open-source photogrammetry toolkit to process aerial imagery into maps and 3D models.
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Adam Black is an early-stage GIS professional currently working full time as a GIS technician working for a transit authority. This is his journey, how he got his first job, what networking has meant in terms of his career and why he is excited about a career in GIS.
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MapStore is an Open Source highly modular Web GIS framework. It is used to create, manage and share maps, dashboards, and stories created by mixing geospatial contents served from sources like OpenStreetMap, Bing, or from servers adhering to OGC standards like WFS, CSW, WMS and WMTS.
https://www.geosolutionsgroup.com/
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GeoNode
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Geoserver Podcast episode
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Maybe you have thought about starting your own business? about being your own boss. Helen Cooper is the founder of https://www.mapitout.co.uk/ and today on the podcast she shares how and why she started her own geospatial consultancy business with the hope of providing insight into how you might start yours.
Helen Cooper on Twitter @HelenOfStow
CARTOGRAPHIC FREELANCER SURVEY RESULTS
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More and more geospatial applications are moving from the desktop to the web browser and in order for this to make sense, we need to be able to stream data from a server to the client. But what is streamable data? what formats or protocols are streamable? and what advantage does this give us once we have the data in the web client?
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PDAL is like GDAL just for point clouds ... and maybe we should be thinking about point clouds as the third data type?
Howard Butler on Twitter @howardbutler
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Kathryn Berger, Data Science team leader at agrimetrics.co.uk shares her journey into data science and what for the skills and qualities she looks for when hiring data scientists for her team.
Geospatial Women+ speakers database
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GeoServer is an open-source server for sharing geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards
Simone Giannecchini Founder and Director https://www.geosolutionsgroup.com/
More information on Cloud Optimized GeoTiff at https://www.cogeo.org/
Thanks to OSGeo.org for supporting this podcast episode
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A case study using earth observation and AI to identify and classify buildings as part of a larger risk mapping exercise in Ho Chi Minh City. Elizabeth Duffy also shares insights into the future relationship between earth observation and in situ measurements, how AI is changing our understanding of what possible, and where earth observation can provide real benefits to industry.
Webinar - A Replacement for Ground-Based Monitoring Of Critical Infrastructure
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For a beginners introduction to AI listen to this podcast episode "AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"
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Sophie Willett shares her journey from University to becoming a Graduate Geospatial Consultant. If you are looking for some insight into what a graduate position might look like and what is important during the application process this is the podcast episode for you.
This episode is part of a mini-series that focuses on Students and early-stage geospatial professionals. We often talk about the future of geospatial but this series is about talking with the future of geospatial.
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If you have heard the terms AI, Machine Learning, or Deep Learning you might understand some of the applications of these technologies but not necessarily know how they work. If that is the case then this is the podcast episode for you.
Daniel Whitenack, Data Scientist and host of the Practical AI podcast gives us a really great introduction to Artificial Intelligence and you don't need be a data scientist to understand it!
Connect with Daniel Whitenack here https://datadan.io/ or check out the Practical AI podcast
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Muthukumar Kumar is the managing editor at Geoawesomeness.com and a Localisation Engineer. This episode is all about being visible online, what having a positive online profile might mean for your career and your professional network.
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GDAL is a critical piece of geospatial infrastructure. GDAL is open-source software and is sometimes pronounced “goo-doll” (a bit like goo-gle), while others pronounce it “gee-doll,” and others pronounce it “gee-dall.”
In this episode, Paul Ramsey walks us through what GDAL is, where it can be found in the wild and the business model that ensures that it continues to be developed and maintained.
Dynamic Vector Tiles Straight From PostgreSQL
https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/dynamic-vector-tiles-straight-from-the-database
Spatial SQL - PostGIS
https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis
GeoTiff Compression for Dummies
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Satellite imagery has been successfully used to detect and count a number of wildlife species in open landscapes and seascapes where target animals have a strong contrast with their environment. Tom McHugh, CEO, and Founder of The Icon Group has been working on a way for using earth observation to carry a livestock inventory in an agricultural setting.
The Icon Group https://www.icon.ie/
Using very‐high‐resolution satellite imagery and deep learning to detect and count African elephants in heterogeneous landscapes
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"If you are of the mindset that data is power, and if I give away my data then I give away my power. That mindset is about 20 years out of date!"
Access to data and how it might have a dramatic impact on local economies, how we make room for unexpected contributors like Dr. John Snow, and mindset to support unrestricted access.
Frank Winters
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This week we look at two innovative projects based on GNSS positioning technologies.
Or look for this episode in the back catalog of MapScaping Podcast episodes SATELLITE-BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEM - A BASE STATION IN THE SKY
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Super Resolution - what it is, how it works, and the pro's and con's - Along the way, you will learn a little bit about computer vision in the earth observation domain
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A podcast episode about UP42 - check out episode 32 - A Marketplace for Geospatial Data and Workflows
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The Open Geospatial Consortium ( OGC ) is connecting people, communities, and technology to solve global challenges and address everyday needs.
check out episode 43 - The Evolution of geospatial file formats and data exchange - with Dale Lutz ( Co-Founder of SafeSoftware )
You might also enjoy this episode about data formats :)
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Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers for free to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.
Qiusheng Wu
Twitter @giswqs
A podcast episode about Big Query GIS
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All those things we never talk about in terms of our careers in geospatial, is this the right career path for me? where to next? how do I get to where I want to be?
Thierry Gregorius - a coach who specializes in the digital and geospatial sectors shares some insights into what to think about if you have any of these questions.
Thierry Gregorius - https://twitter.com/Thierry_G
https://truehorizoncoaching.com/
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Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources
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Applications of SAR include topography, oceanography, glaciology, geology (for example, terrain discrimination and subsurface imaging), and forestry, including forest height, biomass, deforestation ... the list is long.
But before you can do all that you need to know what SAR is and how it works.
Guest - Eric Jensen from ICEYE.com
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Why and how to move from being a GIS Analyst to a Software Engineer. How the two career paths differ and what you need to consider when applying for software engineering positions
Dan Mahr on Twitter
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This week I am joined by Todd Barr, here are a few of the topics that come up during the conversation.
- SQL and confidence are must-have skills
- Mentors, champions, and superheroes
- Diversity in the geospatial community
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Previously, with only one constellation and GPS, you could see perhaps two or three satellites and quickly lose the positioning within the city. This is now rare to see in devices that do not support multi constellations. Plus, all the constellations are built to be compatible with each other — all the receivers that can see multiple constellations can compute the position using the different satellites
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Knowing the depth and shape of the seafloor (bathymetry) is fundamental for understanding ocean circulation, tides, tsunami forecasting, fishing resources, sediment transport, environmental change, underwater geo-hazards, infrastructure construction and maintenance, and much more.
Despite many years of effort, less than 20 percent of the world ocean's seafloor has been mapped.
Thanks to Commander Samuel Greenaway - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA)
https://seabed2030.org/
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Sarah Taigel, a professional geographer shares some insight into what a career path might look like, some of the pivots she has made along the way from developing GIS products and services to working as a geographer and interfacing with stakeholders.
The SlowWays project https://slowways.uk/
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Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information.
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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.
Precise Positioning Outreach for Australia and New Zealand
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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"
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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/
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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.
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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.
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This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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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
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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
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Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine and this is how it can be used for Geospatial
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PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place
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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/
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What it means to be a geospatial swiss army knife, why spatial thinking is so important and the long-tail of geospatial.
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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.
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What BigQuery GIS is and why Google does not talk about big data anymore
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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
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location and time give context to the internet of things and The Sensor Things Standard is what is going to drive IoT forward.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Using ultrasound time of flight measurements to generate millimeter accuracy in indoor environments.
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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.
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Anita Graser is a legendary open-source geospatial Python expert. With her extensive knowledge of the subject, she is here to convince us of why Python is a great language for geospatial and how we can all get started learning it.
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QField and Input are open-source mobile data collection apps that live within the QGIS ecosystem. In this episode we cover everything you need to know to get started.
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learn why GIS geospatial technology is being underutilized, Why GIS professionals need to rebrand themselves and why communication skills might be the next big thing in the geospatial industry.
Today we're going to be talking about those early amphibians coming out of the primordial ooze up onto the shore and that would be the CAD files and then being transformed into maybe the mammals that are the GIS files the CAD people will be mad at me for that analogy, but hey, look, the crocodiles are still around so you know, they don't go anywhere.
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How to Convert CAD to GIS while Preserving Rich Data Structures
How to Convert GIS to CAD while Maintaining Data Quality
Webinar - May 13: How to Automate CAD & GIS Integration
Resources for COVID-19 (This is where we're giving away free FME licenses until at least September 30, 2020)
In this episode, you will learn how robotics coupled with remote sensing is transforming facilities management across the utility sector and other industries.
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Episode #55 - In this episode, you will learn what it is like to work with a geospatial recruitment expert, what skills and qualifications are important at entry-level, midlevel and leadership positions with the geospatial industry and where the big opportunities are in terms jobs in the geospatial value chain.
Geosearch - geospatial recruitment experts
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Episode #54 - This week on the podcast Kent Marten from Tableau explains the cross over between business intelligence tools and traditional GIS software. We also explore the challenges around self serve mapping and answer the question "Is location still the next big thing"
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Episode #53 - Serving dynamic vector tiles might not be as difficult as you think. Paul Ramsey from Crunchy Data starts off by walking us through the early days of PostGIS, explaining what a vector tile is and the advantages over image tiles before explaining how you can easily and safely serve your own data as vector tiles straight from a PostgreSQL database.
further reading
Querying Spatial Features with pg_featureserv Spatial Tile Serving with PostgreSQL Functions Tile Serving with Dynamic Geometry
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Episode #52 Today on the podcast I am joined by Dr. Aliastair Graham. Dr. Graham has been on the podcast before sharing his insights into the industry of remote sensing and earth observation and what the future might look like. This time we dive a little deeper and talk about the differences between remote sensing and earth observation, Aliastair walks us through 4 major data collection platforms and the data that these platforms provide and where and how we might find it.
Portals of data providers mentioned in the podcast
Earth Explorer https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Sentinel SciHub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Dedicated search companies
Apollo Mapping https://apollomapping.com/
GeoCento https://geocento.com/
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Episode #51 -This episode is all about why it is so difficult to build a really big geospatial business and what it would take to disrupt ESRI. My guest on the show is Ariel Seidman CEO and Co-Founder of Hivemapper
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Episode #50 - QGIS is rapidly becoming the default opensource geospatial desktop tool for the GIS community. Today, Kurt Menke who has written serval books on QGIS shares his insights and experience with the QGIS and talks about so of the more exciting features that are built into QGIS that you might not know about.
For more information on Kurt, you can find him at https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ or on twitter
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Episode #49 - In this interview with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster we walk through a GIS case study
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OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder is what you are looking for.
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Episode #47 - Daniel Bailey the Co-Founder and CTO of Astraea talks about the changing world of eath observation and some of the challenges facing the industry at the moment. We also discuss remote sensing space with regards to the Gartner Hype Cycle and discuss the role of non-traditional players in the earth observation space and what that might mean for the industry
Link to a free data discovery platform mentioned in the interview
More information on the Gartner Hype Cycle
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MammothgeospatialOpenCage Geocoder
OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.
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Episode #45 - Mark Varley the CEO and founder of AddressCloud reminds us that geo-coding is not a solved problem and explains why and how inaccuracies during the geocoding process can have consequences in terms of risk assessment models used by insurance companies. Mark walks us thought how and why his company built its own geo-coder and why locating and describing addresses with rooftop level accuracy is the first step in building risk profiles. We also discuss the changing role of geo and GIS in the insurance industry.
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Episode #44 - R is perhaps the most powerful computer environment for data analysis that is currently available. R is both a computer language, that allows you to write instructions, and a program that responds to these instructions. R has core functionality to read and write files, manipulate and summarize data, run statistical tests and models, make fancy plots, and many more things like that. This core functionality is extended by hundreds of packages (plug-ins). Some of these packages provide more advanced generic functionality, others provide cutting-edge methods that are only used in highly specialized analysis such as geospatial computation.
Tim Appelhans joins me on the show today to talk about his journey from learning R too developing new packages and extending the geospatial visualization capabilities of R
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Episode #43 -Drones are changing the frequency, resolution, and scale of geospatial data collection. SkyCatch is applying drone-based data collection to the mining industry which might just be the first step on the journey to an autonomous workplace.
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Episode #43 - This is an interview with one of the founders of Safe Software, Dale Lutz (an all-around nice guy and a thought leader in the geospatial world). Dale walks you thought the evolution of the problems that Safe is solving, and gives you insight into the fallacy of the one “file to rule them all” theory and talks about trends in the geospatial file formats and data exchange in general.
We also discuss the future of Geospatial as an industry and from a practitioner’s perspective.
Quotes from the interview
“.pdf is where data goes to die”
“after the nuclear holocaust, there will be only cockroaches and shapefiles”
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This episode is the last episode for 2019 and I wanted to do something a little different so this episode is a look back at some of the trends that I have seen in the geospatial industry of the course of the last year. I also mention a few of the initiatives that I have seen in the geospatial community and talk about the future of The MapScaping Podcast
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One of the people behind the #GISChat
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In some respects, we are all drowning in data and one of the big challenges going forward will be filtering the data we have so we can make sense of the world by removing the noise. The Travel Time Platform approaches location-based search form the perspective of the time it takes to reach a destination. So in the example of searching for the nearest movie theater, the user will not be presented with a result that shows the options based on a certain travel time limitation as opposed to movie theaters in a straight line distance. In this interview, Charlie Davies walks us thought the challenges of building a search engine based on travel time and what this might look like in the future.
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Vricon is on a mission to build the most accurate 3D model of the surface of our planet. They have access to what might be the largest stockpile satellite imagery in the world and are using a technology stack that focuses on very large scale image processing and in particular multiview 3D reconstruction. I this podcast interview the Vise President of Vricon, Isaac Zaworski walks us through what the process of creating the most accurate 3D model of the world looks like today, what challenges they face when process imagery and what this might look like in the future.
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What3words divides the world into a 3 * 3-meter grid, each square is uniquely identified by three words which creates a global reference system that allows people to identify and navigate between these 3*3 meter squares using 3 words instead of longitude and latitude. Three words are easy to remember and provide an easy and effective way of communicating location to voice-enabled machines. Listen to this interview with one of the co-founders of what3words, Jack Waley-Cohen to learn more about the problems what3words is solving and the thought that goes into building a coordinate system for humans.
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In this interview with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster we talk about the opportunities within the geospatial industry that come with a deep understanding of a specific vertical. What newcomers to the industrial should think about focusing on and why. Mike debunks the 80% of all data has a spatial component myth and gives his perspectives on the future of the geospatial industry.
All of this might sound a little dry and perhaps it would be if Mike was not so open, honest and passionate about the subjects we discuss. I really enjoyed this conversation and I am sure you will too.
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Collecting and validating geospatial data for every commercial location in the USA and Canada is not an easy task. It requires aggregation of data from multiple sources and formats. This data then needs to be validated and decisions need to be made about which data sources represent the truth in the case of conflicting data. Safegraph does this weighing datasets based on certain criteria and using a voting system.
- Safegraph Data Blog -- Cool GIS data stories from SafeGraph
- SafeGraph Data Bar -- If you want to try SafeGraph data, you can use the code Mapscaping for $500 free data, no credit card needed.
- Safegraph Docs Page is our extensive user-centric documentation and releases notes, data dictionaries, etc. so you can ramp up quickly when working with SafeGraph data.
- SafeGraph is on Twitter
- Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph Auren's Twitter
- Ryan Fox Squire, Data Scientist at SafeGraph, Ryan's Quora, Ryan's Twitter
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The curbside might not seem like the most obvious focus point in terms of mapping the urban environment but when you start to think of the curb as a highly regulated space and when you consider the number of arrivals and departures that that place on the curb in crowded urban cities you might just change your mind. The curbside is actually an interface between different vehicle traffic and pedestrians that has to enable a wide variety of use cases. Coord is helping organisations map the curbside, the assets on the curb and the locations of regulated spaces.
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The move from printed media to digital media has had a huge impact on the way cartography is used and consumed. News rooms around the world are not only using maps to illustrate their written content but also as a form of branding. MapCreator is an online mapping software that gives journalists access to cartographic tools.
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Geomob provides a forum to learn and exchange ideas about any interesting services and projects that deal with location. Everyone working in or curious about the location space or with location services is welcome. In this episode Ed Freyfogle introduces Geomob and draws parallels between the projects and ideas being presented in the Geomob community and the trends in the wider geospatial community.
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This is the story of the confluence of open data, just enough availability of hardware, software, computing power and being laser focused about the industry you are trying to serve. Building Footprint USA is a small company that is curating and manufacturing building footprint data at scale. This is their story, how they got started, what problems they are solving and how they coexist free data.
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The future of remote sensing and earth observation might be open, collaborative and involve much more end user education that you expect. Dr Aliastair Graham shares his observations based on 20 years of experience in the industry. Aliastair walks you through what a future where all data is open might look like, some of the projects that are focused on making data more "findable" and "usable" and the opportunities he sees in the industry.
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Geospatial data is not always easy to find. The open data revolution and the abundance of data available on the global market have created a very fragmented environment and it is often difficult to know where to look to find what you need. UP42 is creating a marketplace for geospatial data ( all kinds of geospatial data ) and work flows to process this data. The idea here is that data and processes can be joined together link lego bricks to create workflows, these workflows can be then used by others and applied different geographic locations.
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Removing the barriers to entry by making it easy to create immersive geodata visualisations that tell a story and explain a process. Maple Precision has incorporated insights from the gaming industry to create a platform that organises spatial data for a variety of different open data sources and lets users create 3D animations in web browser.
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Every building has its own geomagnetic fingerprint and by mapping that fingerprint against a floorplan of the building IndoorAtlas is able to provide accurate location and navigation inside. The genius of this system is that it takes advantage of an existing geomagnetic infrastructure.
In this interview you will learn
- How the geomagnetic fields of buildings can play a key role in indoor location
- How differences between iOS and android dramatically affect indoor navigation
- What are challenges of indoor navigation compared to outdoor navigation and how they are being solved.
- What the future of indoor navigation looks like and how indoor navigation might be monetised going forward
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Location gives context to data but it can also be used to give context to experiences. Radar is a platform for geofencing and location tracking. In this interview with Co founder Nick Patrick we discuss the opportunities around using location to deliver contextualised experiences to users, what these experiences look like today and what we can expect to see in the future.
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Location intelligence is crucial to managing risk. WatchKeeper International is using real time data feeds from a variety of different sources to monitor and mitigate risk and location is the thing that gives context to the data. In this interview, I talk with the founder of a company who has built a platform that ingests geospatial risk data feeds in real-time, applies rules-based decision-making to automate alerts on adverse events in close proximity to assets or employees and allows users to rewind and replay past events.
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Craig Taylor creates inspirational geospatial visualizations and this is his journey from a formal education in GIS using industry standard tools to creating leading edge geospatial visualizations that tell meaningful stories using software that is designed for rendering 3D animations.
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Humanitarian emergencies often strike without warning, destroying lives and livelihoods within a matter of seconds. In the immediate aftermath, the challenge for those responding is to know where to start. MapAction provides geospatial support in the case of a humanitarian emergency.
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Litter is everywhere. Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, choke wildlife, and threaten our planet. Litterati is tackling this problem one piece of litter at a time. Geotags provide insight into problem areas, while keywords identify the most commonly found brands and products. Throw some machine learning into the mix and we might just be able to model the flow of litter thought our environment. This data will be used to work with companies and organizations to find more sustainable solutions
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Traffic on the road is governed by a strict set of well integrated rules covering everything from speed limitations, direction of travel and even who has the right of way in given situations. There are many use cases for drones but if we can't agree on or regulate their flight paths we might never see them integrated into the urban landscape. AirSpaceLink is developing a platform that lets all the different stakeholders communicate and update fly zones for drones in real time. The lack of physical barriers in the sky means that fly zones, and risk islands and flight paths will be represented as 3D geofences and communicated via application programming interfaces ( APIs).
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Fishviews is the Google Street View for rivers. The creators believe that the ability to virtually explore river environments is going to fundamentally change the way we understand waterways. The idea being that 360 immersive experiences will give people context to the data in a way that is simple not possible on a traditional map.
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Rachel Olney is the founder of Geosite, a company that describes it's self as the Google Drive, or Switzerland, of geospatial. Rachel shares the insights that lead her to start a company that aims to bridge the gap between users that understand the importance of location intelligence but lack the technical expertise to use many of the current geospatial software solutions.
Rachel also shares some of her views on the future of the geospatial industry, what skills we might need to acquire in order to stay relevant and why geospatial data might be more siloed in the future
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I thought I would take the time to share my background with you, how I became involved in the geospatial industry and share I few things that I have learned from conducting interviews with people in the industry. I also have a few housekeeping messages I would like to share with you.
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Our digital footprints, the posts, and comments we leave online might just be useful the key to understanding how people relate and interact with the urban environment. Geotagged, comments online can be processed using natural language artificial intelligence to sort our digital footprints into a range of recognizable human emotions that are associated with a certain location. This allows us to understand how people use urban space, the ways in which we might want to brand location and how a location might gain a competitive advantage over competing locations. MapScaping.com
Andy Allan, the owner and founder of Thundred Forest, talks about how he got involved with the OpenStreetMap project and ended up creating activity specific maps at a global scale. We also discuss what it takes to make and update maps of the world and the opportunities in the digital mapping space as well as what the future might look like. MapScaping.com
Smartphones are going to democratize the precise geolocation in the future. In the past years, android has giving developers access to GNNS measurements which is the step before acquiring a position fix and a prerequisite for precise positioning. One of the major cell phone manufacturers has also added a dual frequency GNNS chipset to there flagship phone. Combine these two elements with positioning as a service and everyone will have access to precise geolocation. The only question is ... what will we do with it? MapScaping.com
Esplorio automatically maps your journeys as you move around the world. The idea being that by mapping path we take when we travel we can build a much more nuanced record of our travels. The exact route we took through Rome, where we got on and off the bus. All these little details are part of a journey but not necessarily worth recording on their own. This is the kind of tracking that we will see more of in the geospatial world and it illustrates the power of location. MapScaping.com
Using computer vision to create and maintain map data at a street-level is something that Google has been doing for years. But what if you crowdsourced that data collection ... what if you could access the database that was created ... and what if anyone could participate. This is an interview will Mapillary, a company that is rethinking the way we create and distribute data. MapScaping.com
Many of the big global mapping platforms focus on the urban environment and this makes sense, urban environments are where most people are and they are growing. But what about the outdoors? This is the story of a mapping platform designed for outdoor enthusiasts. MapScaping.com
Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information for over 180,000 flights a day. It's based on a largely terrestrial network of over 20,000 ADS-B receivers. Flightradar started as a side project in 2006 and now has over 2 million users per day. This is a great example of geospatial in the wild. MapScaping.com
Geocoding provides a way of translating between machine and human languages when we communicate location. Machines collect and process location data in terms of latitude and longitude but humans have a much richer vocabulary in terms of describing a location. So we need something that allows us to be able to translate between these two languages, this is where geocoding comes in.
Workplace risk and danger are personal, spatial and time-based. In this episode, you will learn how one company is solving for this using personalized notifications based on location. A geospatial safety bubble that follows you around and alerts you when you are at risk.
If GPS can be spoofed, how can we prove that you are where you say you are? XYO is solving this problem by building a network that of devices that independently verify the locations of other devices participating in the network. By building this network on top of blockchain technology the network its self will be able execute smart contracts and provide a traceable confirmed timeline of an object's journey.
We geo-tag images and text all the time so way not do the same with sound? Echoes is a platform that lets you attached audio to physical locations. These areas then act as geofences and trigger content when your listeners physically walk inside. In this way the listener controls the experience by physically moving through an area. In this interview with Josh from Echoes we also discuss 3D audio as a way of augmenting reality.
Goodbye, flat maps hello augmented reality and hands-free geospatial! vGIS is a visualization platform that takes existing GIS, CAD and other types of data and merges them into the world of augmented reality. This is the way we will deliver and consume geospatial data in the future. Hands-free, intuitive data visualization.
An interview with Anna Harer from Koordinates.com. Koordinates is a GIS data discovery platform but you might have heard it called a GIS portal. We discuss the GIS data supply chain and talk candidly about the skills needed in the modern world of GIS and Geospatial.
An interview with Spatial.ai about the collection and use of geo social data and its role within location intelligence.
Geosocial data is simply location-based social media data. It is media content (mostly text) produced by people on social platforms that is tied to specific locations.
The location component is often coordinates in latitude and longitude, but it could be a tagged place or street address as well. This type of data is publicly available on nearly every major social platform including Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, event platforms, review sites, etc.
Mapper leverage freelance mappers to acquire data anywhere in the world and enable machines to navigate with centimeter-level accuracy. Founder & CEO Nikhil Naikal talks about his vision for the future of machine maps and what it will take to get there.
Bellerby & Co are artisan globemakers based in Stoke Newington, London, England where they create (arguably) the best globes in the world. In this episode, you will learn what the process of creating these globes looks like and the challenges these modern-day globe makers face.
An interveiw with Jibestream, and indoor mapping and naviation company
Hivemapper provides mapping, visualization, and analytic tools for humans and machines alike. The system ingests video, lidar or radar data and automatically creates it into useable geospatial information.
