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

The Business of Web Maps

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?”

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ScibbleMaps.com/mapscaping

 

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

 

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Finding Water Leaks From Space

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

 

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

 

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How To Keep Your Satellite Pointing At Earth

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/

 

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

 

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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

 

Bathymetric Lidar and Blue Carbon

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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Re-Published - QGIS Offline And In The Field

Republishing this episode because of the audio issues with the original episode!

 

 

Mergin Maps lets you create QGIS projects that can be used to collect and edit data in the field. You see updates in near real-time, even from the field. Works offline. Edits are merged automatically. View and edit geodata in the field. Integrate with existing GIS infrastructure using open formats.

 

https://merginmaps.com/

 

http://merginmaps.com/community/join.  slack channel

https://twitter.com/lutraconsulting  or reach out on Twitter

 

Episode Show Notes here:

https://mapscaping.com/podcast/qgis-offline-and-in-the-field/

 

 

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The Open Geospatial Consortium

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/

 

 

 

Monetizing An Open-Source Geospatial Project

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/

 

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

 

Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon 

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Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website

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or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ 

 

 

 

Whitebox Tools Is The Backend To Many Frontends

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/

 

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/ 

 

 

 

QGIS Offline And In The Field

Mergin Maps lets you create QGIS projects that can be used to collect and edit data in the field. You see updates in near real-time, even from the field. Works offline. Edits are merged automatically. View and edit geodata in the field. Integrate with existing GIS infrastructure using open formats.

 

https://merginmaps.com/

 

http://merginmaps.com/community/join.  slack channel

https://twitter.com/lutraconsulting  or reach out on Twitter

 

 

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/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sentinel Hub

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/

 

Sponsored By Lightbox

https://www.lightboxre.com/

 

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/ 

 

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/