A podcast for geospatial people. Weekly episodes that focus on the tech, trends, tools, and stories from the geospatial world. Interviews with the people that are shaping the future of GIS, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry. This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
Episodes
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Anita Graser is a legendary open-source geospatial Python expert. With her extensive knowledge of the subject, she is here to convince us of why Python is a great language for geospatial and how we can all get started learning it.
Can I email you the show notes?
just follow the link
https://mapscaping.com/podcast
Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
QField and Input are open-source mobile data collection apps that live within the QGIS ecosystem. In this episode we cover everything you need to know to get started.
All the resources mentioned in this episode are available at https://mapscaping.com/
I also personally send out these resources each week via email : https://mapscaping.com/podcast
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
learn why GIS geospatial technology is being underutilized, Why GIS professionals need to rebrand themselves and why communication skills might be the next big thing in the geospatial industry.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Today we're going to be talking about those early amphibians coming out of the primordial ooze up onto the shore and that would be the CAD files and then being transformed into maybe the mammals that are the GIS files the CAD people will be mad at me for that analogy, but hey, look, the crocodiles are still around so you know, they don't go anywhere.
Can I send you all the resources mentioned in this episode?
How to Convert CAD to GIS while Preserving Rich Data Structures
How to Convert GIS to CAD while Maintaining Data Quality
Webinar - May 13: How to Automate CAD & GIS Integration
Resources for COVID-19 (This is where we're giving away free FME licenses until at least September 30, 2020)
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
In this episode, you will learn how robotics coupled with remote sensing is transforming facilities management across the utility sector and other industries.
All the show notes and a written summary of this episode is available at MapScaping.com
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Episode #55 - In this episode, you will learn what it is like to work with a geospatial recruitment expert, what skills and qualifications are important at entry-level, midlevel and leadership positions with the geospatial industry and where the big opportunities are in terms jobs in the geospatial value chain.
Geosearch - geospatial recruitment experts
We made some socks for you!
You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you!
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Episode #54 - This week on the podcast Kent Marten from Tableau explains the cross over between business intelligence tools and traditional GIS software. We also explore the challenges around self serve mapping and answer the question "Is location still the next big thing"
This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper
GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.
We made some socks for you!
You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you!
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Episode #53 - Serving dynamic vector tiles might not be as difficult as you think. Paul Ramsey from Crunchy Data starts off by walking us through the early days of PostGIS, explaining what a vector tile is and the advantages over image tiles before explaining how you can easily and safely serve your own data as vector tiles straight from a PostgreSQL database.
further reading
This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper
GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.
We made some socks for you!
You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you!
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
Episode #52 Today on the podcast I am joined by Dr. Aliastair Graham. Dr. Graham has been on the podcast before sharing his insights into the industry of remote sensing and earth observation and what the future might look like. This time we dive a little deeper and talk about the differences between remote sensing and earth observation, Aliastair walks us through 4 major data collection platforms and the data that these platforms provide and where and how we might find it.
Portals of data providers mentioned in the podcast
Earth Explorer https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Sentinel SciHub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Dedicated search companies
Apollo Mapping https://apollomapping.com/
GeoCento https://geocento.com/
This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper
GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.
We made some socks for you!
You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you!
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Episode #51 -This episode is all about why it is so difficult to build a really big geospatial business and what it would take to disrupt ESRI. My guest on the show is Ariel Seidman CEO and Co-Founder of Hivemapper
This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper
GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.
We made some socks for you!
You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you!