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 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!
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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!
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Episode #50 - QGIS is rapidly becoming the default opensource geospatial desktop tool for the GIS community. Today, Kurt Menke who has written serval books on QGIS shares his insights and experience with the QGIS and talks about so of the more exciting features that are built into QGIS that you might not know about.
For more information on Kurt, you can find him at https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ or on twitter
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Episode #49 - In this interview with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster we walk through a GIS case study
This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder
OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder is what you are looking for.
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 Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder
OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.
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 Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Episode #47 - Daniel Bailey the Co-Founder and CTO of Astraea talks about the changing world of eath observation and some of the challenges facing the industry at the moment. We also discuss remote sensing space with regards to the Gartner Hype Cycle and discuss the role of non-traditional players in the earth observation space and what that might mean for the industry
Link to a free data discovery platform mentioned in the interview
More information on the Gartner Hype Cycle
This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder
OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.
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 Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Episode #46 - John Bryant the founder of Mammothgeospatial introduces us to the power of an opensource SQL database called PostgreSQL. We talk about some advantages that this database has over flat files and why you might want to invest time and energy into learning more about relational databases and the Structured Query Language "SQL"
This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder
OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.
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 Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Episode #45 - Mark Varley the CEO and founder of AddressCloud reminds us that geo-coding is not a solved problem and explains why and how inaccuracies during the geocoding process can have consequences in terms of risk assessment models used by insurance companies. Mark walks us thought how and why his company built its own geo-coder and why locating and describing addresses with rooftop level accuracy is the first step in building risk profiles. We also discuss the changing role of geo and GIS in the insurance industry.
This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper
A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced!
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