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

MapScaping

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.

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Nov 12, 2020 · 39 min
Raster Frames - making imagery a first class citizen
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. https://spark.apache.org/ https://rasterframes.io/ https://astraea.earth/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue
Nov 5, 2020 · 45 min
GIS education and training, online and in-person
This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue
Oct 28, 2020 · 34 min
Cloud Detection- an open problem
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 Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Oct 21, 2020 · 42 min
A Business Built On Open Source GIS
An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sustainable model going forward. Tim Sutton https://twitter.com/timlinux Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Oct 14, 2020 · 30 min
location Privacy and Data Ethics
The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes we are the product, not the customer. Denise Mckenzie - https://twitter.com/SpatialRed Co-Director of the Benchmark Initiative https://benchmarkinitiative.com/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Oct 1, 2020 · 42 min
Communicating with maps - The art of cartography
A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspectives around communicating with maps. PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Sep 23, 2020 · 48 min
Being self employed in the earth observation sector
If you have ever thought about being a freelancer or self-employed consultant in the earth observation sector than this is the podcast episode is for you! Alastair Graham walks us through his experience with starting his own consultancy and shares advice from the lessons he has learned along the way. This is relevant for anyone thinking about starting a business in the geospatial world PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Sep 16, 2020 · 41 min
Spatial SQL - GIS without the GIS
This episode is a sales pitch for spatial SQL and if you are wondering which programming language is the right one for you in terms of geospatial applications you should listen to this. Thanks to Paul Ramsey from http://cleverelephant.ca PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Sep 11, 2020 · 31 min
Elastic Search
Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine and this is how it can be used for Geospatial Thanks to Mark Varley from AddressCloud PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Sep 2, 2020 · 50 min
Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry
Kurt Menke has been self-employed as a geospatial consultant for years, this is how he got started and how you might get do the same thing. https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Aug 26, 2020 · 46 min
The long tail of geospatial and spatial thinking
What it means to be a geospatial swiss army knife, why spatial thinking is so important and the long-tail of geospatial. Stace Maples Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Aug 19, 2020 · 39 min
COVID-19 Spatial Research
DEREK OUYANG is a Lecturer at Stanford University where he and his team are using spatial data to help explain the COVID-19 case growth. https://www.safegraph.com/covid-19-data-consortium http://bay.stanford.edu/ SafeGraph Episode Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Aug 12, 2020 · 47 min
Open Source GPU Processing
GIS tools are becoming too slow for today's data volumes, in this episode you will learn about how GPU processing might be able to solve this problem. OmniSci https://www.omnisci.com Demos: https://www.omnisci.com/demos Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Aug 5, 2020 · 31 min
H3 geospatial indexing system
Isaac Brodsky the product lead for the H3 grid system and the cofounder Unfolded walks us through what it is, what it's for, and when not to use it. Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Jul 29, 2020 · 40 min
Google BigQuery GIS - Geospatial in the Cloud
What BigQuery GIS is and why Google does not talk about big data anymore Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Jul 22, 2020 · 30 min
A one to one map of the world
Geospatial business ideas that win, a future where we have a one to one map of the physical and cultural world and some advice for geospatial practitioners from someone that knows the industry! Jonathan Neufeld Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Jul 15, 2020 · 30 min
The Spatial Internet of Things
location and time give context to the internet of things and The Sensor Things Standard is what is going to drive IoT forward. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Jul 8, 2020 · 34 min
Spatially Enabling Customer Relations
Spatially enabling customer relations, connected data, and using Google as a geospatial platform. Alistair the CEO of Mapsimise explains why he choose Google over Bing, why you might want to spatially enable CRM systems, and why the future of location intelligence is going to be focused around a business case. Alistair on twitter Alistair on LinkedIn Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
Jul 1, 2020 · 38 min
Everything happens some where & some time - Spatiotemporal data and GIS
What is special about spatiotemporal? What makes spatiotemporal in GIS hard? Which tools can we use? This week I welcome Anita Graser back to the show to talk about spatiotemporal data and what it means for geospatial practitioners. Anita has been on the show before, go back to episode 60 where we discuss geospatially python https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/geospatial-python Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
Jun 24, 2020 · 39 min
Polygons of Ownership
The way in which we sub-divide land into geographic regions that can be owned and used in specific ways has far-reaching consequences. Collecting, cleaning, and stitching property boundaries into a seamless fabric is key to a variety of use cases. Jerry Paffendorf, CEO & Co-Founder of Loveland Technologies, who runs LandGrid.com joins me on the podcast today to talk about the far-reaching implications of the land grid. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episode https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

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

Raster Frames - making imagery a first class citizen

GIS education and training, online and in-person

Cloud Detection- an open problem

A Business Built On Open Source GIS

location Privacy and Data Ethics

Communicating with maps - The art of cartography

Being self employed in the earth observation sector

Spatial SQL - GIS without the GIS

Elastic Search

Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry

The long tail of geospatial and spatial thinking

COVID-19 Spatial Research

Open Source GPU Processing

H3 geospatial indexing system

Google BigQuery GIS - Geospatial in the Cloud

A one to one map of the world

The Spatial Internet of Things

Spatially Enabling Customer Relations

Everything happens some where & some time - Spatiotemporal data and GIS

Polygons of Ownership