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

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

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/thermal-imagery-from-space/

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/finding-water-leaks-from-space/

https://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/

https://www.tales.co.nz/

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://twitter.com/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 

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** 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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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/

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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! 

https://www.hotosm.org/

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.

https://segment-anything.com/

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

https://mapscaping.com/jobs/

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!

https://youtu.be/UakRtYmoWow 

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/

https://foursquare.com/

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.

 https://pygeoapi.io

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

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? 

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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!

https://mapscaping.com/jobs/

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

Google Maps, Geomatics, Cartography

Location Intelligence, Mapping

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

https://datadan.io/

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

Jobs - Mapscaping.com

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  

https://eo-college.org/courses/beyond-the-visible/

https://eo-college.org/courses/beyond-the-visible-imaging-spectroscopy-for-agricultural-applications/

https://www.enmap.org/events_education/hyperedu/

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

https://hxdr.com/

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

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/gedi-space-lasers/

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. 

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-earth-archive/

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://geospatialschool.com/

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

https://hungermap.wfp.org/

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 

The Business of Web Maps

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!

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

https://mapcomplete.osm.be

NICFI - Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative

https://www.nicfi.no/

Planet NICFI

https://www.planet.com/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! 

https://weeklyosm.eu/ 

weeklyOSM updates the community, on a weekly basis, about what is going on in the OSM Universe.

Thanks, OpenCage! 

https://opencagedata.com/

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/

https://healthsites.io/

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/

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!

Apply here!

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

https://robmarkcole.com/

Check out the Earth Observation Hub!

https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/

More Geospatial Podcasts episodes 

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/

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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.

1. Boring Work won’t necessarily lead to interesting work
2. Getting good at something typical leads to doing more of that thing
3. Have more empathy for the professionals that you work with
4. Think more about where you are trying to go
5. Network
6. Find a mentor
7. Sometimes it's just not a good fit
8. You don’t get to decide what is broken

Things I need help with

1. Share the podcast with a friend, a community anyone that you think might find it interesting or helpful
2. I am looking for projects based on or around OpenStreetMap - this is part of a promotional campaign that I am doing together with OpenCage - More information here

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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

Check out the Earth Observation Hub!

https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/

More Geospatial Podcasts episodes 

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

H3 Geospatial Indexing System

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.

Jonathan Wagner

“Its easy to get people to make a map today, but how do you get them to come back and make a map tomorrow?”

Special Offer for Listeners The MapScaping Audience

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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)

Flood Monitoring From Space

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

MIT Media Lab

Sponsored By Lightbox

https://www.lightboxre.com/

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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

The Landsat Program

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 The Ocean Floor

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

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/open-geospatial-standards-shared-standards-to-solve-shared-problems/

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. 

https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/

Sponsored By Lightbox

https://www.lightboxre.com/

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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! 

https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/

Sponsored By Lightbox

https://www.lightboxre.com/

More podcast episodes on GIS and GIS careers can be found on our website https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/

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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/ 

https://www.sentinel-hub.com/explore/eobrowser/

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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

https://www.lightboxre.com/

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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/

Trimble Clarity 

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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.

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

https://twitter.com/opencholmes

https://cholmes.medium.com/

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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!

https://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

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geospatial-python/

A great emails newsletter that is worth a look

https://actualcontrol.substack.com/

Hydroshed Data

https://www.hydrosheds.org/

Happy to connect on Twitter or LinkedIn!

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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

You might also enjoy this previous episode with Denise

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://www.bellingcat.com/

https://actualcontrol.substack.com/

https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/04/21/a-growing-problem-of-deepfake-geography-how-ai-falsifies-satellite-images/

It’s a faaaake… — Or not?. When is a satellite image fake? Are… | by Pierre Markuse | Sentinel Hub Blog | Medium

Why Newsrooms need People with Expertise in Remote Sensing | by Pierre Markuse | Sentinel Hub Blog | Medium

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. 

If you enjoyed this episode check out "Geospatial Side hustles" 

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geospatial-side-hustles/

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This episode covers a lot of ground but look out for these key topics 

1. The difference between Soundsheds and Soundscapes
2. Sound is how we see underwater ( acoustic daylight )
3. The ocean of things
4. Whales might be the cube satellites of the ocean
5. We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the seafloor of our planet
6. Space is hard but the ocean is harder! 
7. Can we soundproof the ocean with bubble curtains?

Sponsored but regrid.com

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You might also enjoy the episode called " Mapping The Ocean Floor" https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mapping-the-ocean-floor/

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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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Sponsored By ReGrid.com

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Dani Arribas-Bel

https://twitter.com/darribas

Martin Fleischmann

https://twitter.com/martinfleis

https://urbangrammarai.xyz/

Other episodes that you might enjoy:

An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/an-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence/

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

Sponsored By ReGrid.com

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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! 

https://qwhery.com/

Sponsored by REGRID

https://regrid.com/

GPT - 3 and Microsoft

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/from-conversation-to-code-microsoft-introduces-its-first-product-features-powered-by-gpt-3/

Where does the blue dot come from? 

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/where-does-the-blue-dot-come-from/

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

https://twitter.com/MaxLenormand

Or check out his podcast Minds Behind Maps

https://mindsbehindmaps.com/

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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

LiDAR From Drones

The Earth Archive

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://worldview.space/

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://wetlands.io/

https://bigbluebutton.org/ 

https://kahoot.com/

https://wonder.me/

https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/

https://moodle.org/

https://h5p.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/

For a podcast episode about Google Earth Engine just have a look back through the podcast archive

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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

Find out more about OSGeoLive here https://live.osgeo.org/

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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

Check out https://geoawesomeness.com/

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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!

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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

https://www.gisci.org/

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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!

OpenTopograhy.org

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Luis Bermudez CEO at GeoSolutions USA 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bermudez/

https://www.geosolutionsgroup.com/

Geoserver Podcast episode

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/geoserver

PostGreSQL / PostGIS Podcast Episodes

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/postgresql-an-open-source-geospatial-database-for-gis-practitioners

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis

MapStore Podcast Episode

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/mapstore

Demo GeoNode Here

https://stable.demo.geonode.org/

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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"

Joe Morrison on Twitter https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison

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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. 

Joe Morrison on Twitter https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison

Joe's email newsletter https://joemorrison.substack.com/

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? 

Connect with Carolyn on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckoestner/

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OpenDroneMap is an open-source photogrammetry toolkit to process aerial imagery into maps and 3D models. 

https://docs.opendronemap.org/

PDAL

GDAL

QGIS

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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/

Try MapStore here 

https://mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/mapstore/#/

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

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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?

Joris Schouteden

https://www.hexagongeospatial.com/products/luciad-portfolio

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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

Hobu Inc

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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

Geoserver.org

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. 

Elizabeth Duffy 

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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"

of click this link to read the article on our website

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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. 

This episode is sponsored by SafeGraph.com

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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

This episode is sponsored by SafeGraph.com

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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. 

This episode is sponsored by SafeGraph.com

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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 

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2015/02/geotiff-compression-for-dummies.html

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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.

Tom McHugh

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

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rse2.195

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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 episode is sponsored by SafeGraph.com

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This week we look at two innovative projects based on GNSS positioning technologies. 

A podcast episode about SBAS

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 

UP42 Free Trial is available here! 

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A podcast episode about UP42 - check out episode 32 - A Marketplace for Geospatial Data and Workflows

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/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

wetlands.io

A podcast episode about Big Query GIS 

https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/google-bigquery-gis-geospatial-in-the-cloud

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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

http://bit.ly/Picterra-satellite-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

Check out Sisters of SAR on Twitter @SistersofSAR

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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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Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources

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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 

Todd Barr on Twitter

Todd Barr on LinkedIn

The Mappyist hour podcast 

Women In Geospatial

Sponsored by Picterra

Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources

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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

XYO.network

Foam.space

Satellite Map

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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/

This episode was sponsored by Picterra

https://picterra.ch/

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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.

Sarah Taigel LinkedIn  Twitter 

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. 

Tory Smith 

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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.

https://frontiersi.com.au/

Precise Positioning Outreach for Australia and New Zealand 

https://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/news/latest-news/pinpointing-the-uses-of-precise-positioning

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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" 

https://openlayers.org/

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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 ;) 

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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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