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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Aug 28, 2019 · 22 min
Geospatial support for humanitarian emergencies
Humanitarian emergencies often strike without warning, destroying lives and livelihoods within a matter of seconds. In the immediate aftermath, the challenge for those responding is to know where to start. MapAction provides geospatial support in the case of a humanitarian emergency. You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook or visit our website MapScaping.com
Aug 21, 2019 · 32 min
Crowd source clean the planet - a geospatial approach
Litter is everywhere. Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, choke wildlife, and threaten our planet. Litterati is tackling this problem one piece of litter at a time. Geotags provide insight into problem areas, while keywords identify the most commonly found brands and products. Throw some machine learning into the mix and we might just be able to model the flow of litter thought our environment. This data will be used to work with companies and organizations to find more sustainable solutions You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook or visit our website MapScaping.com
Aug 14, 2019 · 34 min
Highways in the sky, risk islands and drone flight paths
Traffic on the road is governed by a strict set of well integrated rules covering everything from speed limitations, direction of travel and even who has the right of way in given situations. There are many use cases for drones but if we can't agree on or regulate their flight paths we might never see them integrated into the urban landscape. AirSpaceLink is developing a platform that lets all the different stakeholders communicate and update fly zones for drones in real time. The lack of physical barriers in the sky means that fly zones, and risk islands and flight paths will be represented as 3D geofences and communicated via application programming interfaces ( APIs). You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook or visit our website MapScaping.com
Aug 8, 2019 · 23 min
Immersive maps give context to data - this is Street View for rivers
Fishviews is the Google Street View for rivers. The creators believe that the ability to virtually explore river environments is going to fundamentally change the way we understand waterways. The idea being that 360 immersive experiences will give people context to the data in a way that is simple not possible on a traditional map. You can follow Fishviews on Facebook and Twitter You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook
Jul 31, 2019 · 40 min
The Google Drive of geospatial - curation over creation
Rachel Olney is the founder of Geosite, a company that describes it's self as the Google Drive, or Switzerland, of geospatial. Rachel shares the insights that lead her to start a company that aims to bridge the gap between users that understand the importance of location intelligence but lack the technical expertise to use many of the current geospatial software solutions. Rachel also shares some of her views on the future of the geospatial industry, what skills we might need to acquire in order to stay relevant and why geospatial data might be more siloed in the future Geosite on twitter You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook
Jul 17, 2019 · 38 min
A geospatial story and some housekeeping
I thought I would take the time to share my background with you, how I became involved in the geospatial industry and share I few things that I have learned from conducting interviews with people in the industry. I also have a few housekeeping messages I would like to share with you. You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook
Jul 10, 2019 · 38 min
Mapping the way we relate to the urban environment
Our digital footprints, the posts, and comments we leave online might just be useful the key to understanding how people relate and interact with the urban environment. Geotagged, comments online can be processed using natural language artificial intelligence to sort our digital footprints into a range of recognizable human emotions that are associated with a certain location. This allows us to understand how people use urban space, the ways in which we might want to brand location and how a location might gain a competitive advantage over competing locations. MapScaping.com
Jul 3, 2019 · 27 min
Creating Global Activity Specific Maps
Andy Allan, the owner and founder of Thundred Forest, talks about how he got involved with the OpenStreetMap project and ended up creating activity specific maps at a global scale. We also discuss what it takes to make and update maps of the world and the opportunities in the digital mapping space as well as what the future might look like. MapScaping.com
Jun 25, 2019 · 29 min
Positioning as a service and the role of smartphones in the future of geolocation
Smartphones are going to democratize the precise geolocation in the future. In the past years, android has giving developers access to GNNS measurements which is the step before acquiring a position fix and a prerequisite for precise positioning. One of the major cell phone manufacturers has also added a dual frequency GNNS chipset to there flagship phone. Combine these two elements with positioning as a service and everyone will have access to precise geolocation. The only question is ... what will we do with it? MapScaping.com
Jun 19, 2019 · 43 min
A diary of your location - recording your travel journeys using GPS tracks
Esplorio automatically maps your journeys as you move around the world. The idea being that by mapping path we take when we travel we can build a much more nuanced record of our travels. The exact route we took through Rome, where we got on and off the bus. All these little details are part of a journey but not necessarily worth recording on their own. This is the kind of tracking that we will see more of in the geospatial world and it illustrates the power of location. MapScaping.com
Jun 12, 2019 · 32 min
Scaling map data generation using computer vision
Using computer vision to create and maintain map data at a street-level is something that Google has been doing for years. But what if you crowdsourced that data collection ... what if you could access the database that was created ... and what if anyone could participate. This is an interview will Mapillary, a company that is rethinking the way we create and distribute data. MapScaping.com
Jun 5, 2019 · 33 min
A mapping platform for your outdoor adventures
Many of the big global mapping platforms focus on the urban environment and this makes sense, urban environments are where most people are and they are growing. But what about the outdoors? This is the story of a mapping platform designed for outdoor enthusiasts. MapScaping.com
May 29, 2019 · 25 min
Tracking global air traffic in real time
Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information for over 180,000 flights a day. It's based on a largely terrestrial network of over 20,000 ADS-B receivers. Flightradar started as a side project in 2006 and now has over 2 million users per day. This is a great example of geospatial in the wild. MapScaping.com
May 22, 2019 · 41 min
Translating between machine and human when talking about location
Geocoding provides a way of translating between machine and human languages when we communicate location. Machines collect and process location data in terms of latitude and longitude but humans have a much richer vocabulary in terms of describing a location. So we need something that allows us to be able to translate between these two languages, this is where geocoding comes in.
May 15, 2019 · 32 min
Mapping Personalised Workplace Risk
Workplace risk and danger are personal, spatial and time-based. In this episode, you will learn how one company is solving for this using personalized notifications based on location. A geospatial safety bubble that follows you around and alerts you when you are at risk.
May 8, 2019 · 26 min
Proof of location, bringing the blockchain to the real world
If GPS can be spoofed, how can we prove that you are where you say you are? XYO is solving this problem by building a network that of devices that independently verify the locations of other devices participating in the network. By building this network on top of blockchain technology the network its self will be able execute smart contracts and provide a traceable confirmed timeline of an object's journey.
May 3, 2019 · 29 min
Geo-tagged audio - another way of augmenting reality
We geo-tag images and text all the time so way not do the same with sound? Echoes is a platform that lets you attached audio to physical locations. These areas then act as geofences and trigger content when your listeners physically walk inside. In this way the listener controls the experience by physically moving through an area. In this interview with Josh from Echoes we also discuss 3D audio as a way of augmenting reality.
Apr 25, 2019 · 29 min
Augmented reality will change the way you think about geospatial
Goodbye, flat maps hello augmented reality and hands-free geospatial! vGIS is a visualization platform that takes existing GIS, CAD and other types of data and merges them into the world of augmented reality. This is the way we will deliver and consume geospatial data in the future. Hands-free, intuitive data visualization.
Apr 16, 2019 · 38 min
Data discovery - the way it should be
An interview with Anna Harer from Koordinates.com. Koordinates is a GIS data discovery platform but you might have heard it called a GIS portal. We discuss the GIS data supply chain and talk candidly about the skills needed in the modern world of GIS and Geospatial.
Apr 8, 2019 · 33 min
Powering location intelligence with geo social data - Spatial.ai
An interview with Spatial.ai about the collection and use of geo social data and its role within location intelligence. Geosocial data is simply location-based social media data. It is media content (mostly text) produced by people on social platforms that is tied to specific locations. The location component is often coordinates in latitude and longitude, but it could be a tagged place or street address as well. This type of data is publicly available on nearly every major social platform including Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, event platforms, review sites, etc.

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

Geospatial support for humanitarian emergencies

Crowd source clean the planet - a geospatial approach

Highways in the sky, risk islands and drone flight paths

Immersive maps give context to data - this is Street View for rivers

The Google Drive of geospatial - curation over creation

A geospatial story and some housekeeping

Mapping the way we relate to the urban environment

Creating Global Activity Specific Maps

Positioning as a service and the role of smartphones in the future of geolocation

A diary of your location - recording your travel journeys using GPS tracks

Scaling map data generation using computer vision

A mapping platform for your outdoor adventures

Tracking global air traffic in real time

Translating between machine and human when talking about location

Mapping Personalised Workplace Risk

Proof of location, bringing the blockchain to the real world

Geo-tagged audio - another way of augmenting reality

Augmented reality will change the way you think about geospatial

Data discovery - the way it should be

Powering location intelligence with geo social data - Spatial.ai