Geospatial FM

This is the second episode with Stephanie May . She talks about how the first world basemap was created for Facebook. We also spent some time covering how dark mode is produced for a map. Some discussion occurred about human factors and human/computer interface observations about the navigation display system offered by Tesla. This lead us to HD mapping and the pattern of coalitions forming betwee...

There is a new crowdsourced mapping campaign underway in India, Indonesia and Nigeria - Proto. Founder and CEO Akshay Aditya takes the view that maps are content. Similar to social media accounts and blogs. This system is about making it just as easy and engaging to contribute. This is the coverage map, showing the majority of content is in India so far . Principally it appears to be driven by the...

Eric Love gives us a tour of his fantastic Australian census and real estate mapping tool. This helps me find the 3 best suburbs to buy a house in Adelaide, South Australia. A competitor system is https://heatmaps.com.au/ . Following are the custom Mappage outputs from Eric for my housing utility index of maximizing public transport use and educational attainment whilst minimising price. Map: http...

This is episode 1 of 4 with Stephanie May ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mizmay/ ). She is a veteran of the web mapping industry. She was Senior, Technical Cartographer at Apple. Next she was Lead Cartographer at Facebook creating their first global basemap. Her most recent position was Director of Geospatial at Stamen. As such we are faced with an excellent follow on guest from Linda Stevens ( htt...

Ed Freyfogle, cofounder of OpenCage, tells us all about geocoding with open data. More: https://opencagedata.com/ . He is also the convener of Geomob and hosts a podcast of the same name. The next event is Sept 18th, 2024 in London ( https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-18th-2024-geomoblon-details ).THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial b...

Linda Stevens joins us for a third time to talk about her experience as a woman leader in geospatial. We also cover how to be an effective team leader for women in this field, although these observations are applicable everywhere. This completes our first encounter with her, after discussing marketing ( https://youtu.be/55urfsPH_ws ) and vision ( https://youtu.be/Pg2wo5kQ3pQ ) in prior episodes. S...

This is an overview of geospatial in Kazakhstan with Ainur Rychshanova . We begin with some geography about the country, traditional tea and dress. Ainur then tells us about the country's space agency where she worked as an earth observation analyst. Her enthusiasm for space is clear, she has even witnessed a SpaceX launch at Cape Canaveral and shared videos to prove it! We were then very privileg...

Chris Robson , CEO of Wyvern , tells us about the world’s highest spatial resolution commercially available hyperspectral imaging data from low earth orbit. This is 5.3m resolution, 23 band earth observation solution can detect chemicals from space. We talked about examples like distinguishing fake from real grass and looking for weeds. The latter matters in the case of environmental rehabilitatio...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bella-mironova-64b01a222/ maintains the Russian speaking GIS and Peace Telegram channel: https://t.me/GIS_PEACE. Join us for a discussion on why she created it and other observations about studying and teaching geospatial. She also talks about transit access analyses in Moscow. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded g...

Today I am introducing the Indoor Subindex Monthly News Digest. Recently I had the pleasure of doing an episode on The Geospatial Index with Alex, the CEO of Navigine. Navigine and I have decided to collaborate on a news digest about the industry. Each month, we'll publish a video covering the most interesting customer needs, innovations and news from the Indoor subindex. See this playlist to keep...

Linda Stevens is founder of the consultancy Spatial Spirits (https://spatialspirits.com/). She is also a veteran of Esri, where she was Chief Marketing Officer and its first female board member. This is the second episode of a multipart series examining the leadership that she brings to geospatial. This episode is about her observation that the vision for geospatial has become stagnant. In her own...

Linda Stevens is founder of the consultancy Spatial Spirits (https://spatialspirits.com/). She is also a veteran of Esri, where she was Chief Marketing Officer and its first female board member. This is the beginning of a multipart series examining the leadership that she brings to geospatial. We begin by working through her marketing playbook. The reason is that in an earlier podcast appearance o...

Will Lyon , Developer Relations Engineer at Wherobots , talks about nothing less than producing a digital mind and memory for humanity. It was a very exciting conversation, finally we are into the visionary potential of our industry. Will was an endlessly patient and kind guest. For example, he did some jargon busting at the start to help those of us unfamiliar with planet scale anlytics to unders...

Today we are making nature great again with Rob Waterworth , Co-Founder & Chief Science and Innovation Officer at FLINTpro . The company enables managing and reporting emissions and nature risks across a portfolio. Clients may understand the Scope 1 and 3 emissions liability, deforestation risk, and biodiversity impact of their portfolio and future investment opportunities. The company also as...

Apratim Biswas, PhD, talks about the real estate geoanalytics rap scene in Tampa, Florida. Website: https://www.realtydynamics.ai/App: https://www.realtydynamics.appLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apratim-biswas-phd/THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at ~10% annually. This v...

Andy Coote, director of ConsultingWhere, gives a masterclass on the nature of the UK geospatial industry. His comments on the industry more broadly were a sign of an astute observer with vast experience. We are extraordinarily lucky he spent the time. You can find them here: https://consultingwhere.com/. Phone: +44 (0) 1923 291000. Email: info@consultingwhere.com. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospati...

Can Duruk is co-founder and CTO of Felt. Join us as we talk through its new spatial analysis capabilities and the general investment case. He joins a growing roster of web map platform entrepreneurs that have come on the show. Earlier guests in the same niche were: Pablo, founder of bettermaps.ai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTw6OS9BLo)Chris, founder of mapstack.io (https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Alex tells us about his new AI agent, Aino. It is a natural language interface for geospatial analysis with an initial focus on urban planning but he describes reaching other markets as well. Find out more at https://aino.world .THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at ~10% annually....

The UK government has finally caught onto the significance of avoiding death by maintaining the systems of our space ship. Namely, a couple of months ago it became law to cause a 10% gain in biodiversity for any development of 10+ buildings. A month ago this became law for smaller developments also. End of November next year, large developments of national significance will be held to the same sta...

Aya Data (http://ayadata.ai/) is amongst other things an AI geospatial services firm based in Ghana, west Africa. Anthony Iphy, Account Executive, talks about their contributions to digital transformation of farming in the region. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at ~10% annuall...

Xan Fredericks, GISP is National Map Liaison for Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. She works in the USGS National Geospatial Program (NGP). You can find out about the NGP User Engagement Office here ( https://www.usgs.gov/ngp-user-engagement-office ). Furthermore, Xan has her own profile at the USGS here ( https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/xan-fredericks ). Enjoy the impre...

In 2023 Fitch Ratings observed "Natural catastrophe business has become largely loss-making in recent years as prices have failed to keep pace with increasingly frequent, severe and volatile weather-related losses due to climate change."Let's look at what this means for an insurer named Markel. Their 2020 annual report contains the frank remark:"First, we’ve significantly reduced writing insurance...

Alex Korolev is CEO of GIScarta (https://giscarta.com/). It is a web mapping platform that can be used to make beautiful maps. We talk about its functionality whilst hearing many extra details about the industry in Russia. He’s also Russia’s most popular GIS education YouTuber:https://youtube.com/@gis?si=vKUuT9Q0kIb77ewQIt was great to hear how he’s used his success there as a funnel for business...

Sarah Bell talks us through her terrific hillshade tutorial: https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/drawing-color-hillshade-a-tutorial-with-time-lapse-videos/https://www.sarahbellmaps.com/drawing-hillshade-by-hand-with-pencils-a-tutorial-with-time-lapse-videos/I take the opportunity to reflect on my sad highly technical mapping career where there has been no art, at all. Then we talk about using beautiful...

Jami Dennis, principal of Geodetic Analysis LLC, talks us through the GISP, networking to assist finding a job in the US and how to start a business. Some links relating to topics discussed:Geodetic Analysis: https://geodetic.xyz/ National States Geographic Information Council: https://nsgic.org/ The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA): https://urisa.org/ The GIS Certificati...