Geospatial FM

Navigine is an indoor navigation and real time locator system (RTLS) software company ( https://navigine.com/platform/tracking/ ). It was a privilege to spend time with the CEO, Alexey Panyov. He described how an RTLS is a powerful means of organising warehouses, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, transportation hubs and retail centres. For example, he brought warehousing and distribution centre...

Lucy Kennedy, co-founder and CEO of Spottitt ( https://spottitt.com/ ), starts by observing that, every year, £260B of avoidable damage and disruption happens to the UK's utility systems. Things like water, sewage, power and fibre networks. This is £2,000 for every kilometre of linear infrastructure in the country. This episode is a story of entrepreneurship helping utilities to reduce these losse...

I summarise some stats and emerging stories from running The Geospatial Index for a year. Threads: https://www.threads.net/@geospatialindexWatchlist: ⁠https://www.tradingview.com/watchlists/123255821/Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/london-mapup/Newsletter: https://www.geospatial.money/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5gpQUsaWxEBpYCnypEdHFC

Mobeen Hanid is a GIS Manager in the UK. He’s been in the profession since 2017 and fields my questions after interviewing me in the previous episode. He mentioned an amazing shipping map: https://www.shipmap.org/ . Really recommend playing the video there, some great demonstrations of the power of maps. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEXThe Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geo...

Mobeen Hanid interviewed me. We talked about a number of items:Excel limited the number of COVID patients recorded in the UK at one point by 16,000: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988 Globaia.org by Felix Pharand: https://globaia.org/anthropocene . Terra Vision, a German precursor to Google Earth: https://www.dw.com/en/the-billion-dollar-code-the-battle-over-google-earth/a-59433376 The...

Kate gives us a whirlwind tour of Speckle ( https://speckle.systems/ ). This is how the architecture, engineering and construction industries will finally leave proprietary file lock ins behind and get on with producing the modern world using an approach to collaboration that, finally, properly utilises the internet. Find community at https://speckle.community/ . THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatia...

Gabe Dominocielo is Chief Strategy Officer at Umbra Space, a synthetic aperture radar company: https://umbra.space/. He invited us to look at their open data programme: https://umbra.space/open-data. boxMica is a company using their data for analysis: https://boxmica.com/. It was a wide ranging discussion, Gabe was very generous with his time and insight. It was a privilege to interview him. THE G...

Caitlin Swalec gives us a whirlwind tour of various trackers maintained by Global Energy Monitor (GEM, https://globalenergymonitor.org/ ). GEM has a series of public, open-source datasets on different parts of our energy system and heavy industry sectors (focused on iron and steel currently). Caitlin manages their Heavy Industry Program. Each Tracker includes an interactive map, summary statistics...

Synmax is the second geospatial company from legendary energy trader Bill Perkins that I have profiled (the first was app.skyfi.com ). Finally I can say we have gotten into spatial finance. Eric Anderson CFA, their CTO, was a very stimulating guest. I especially appreciated his willingness to cover the philosophical side of the AI question towards the end. Eric also had fantastic advice for an app...

NOT THE OPINION OF MY EMPLOYER NOT YOUR FIDUCIARY NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE There are two major infrastructure investment themes the West today. Fibre to the premises and power network upgrades in response to renewables. The company in this episode offers a software solution that is growing in popularity for those delivering on this infrastructure. Steve Tongish, Chief Marketing Officer of IQGeo, take...

Luke Fischer, CEO of Skyfi, promises to add a new function to the platform where you can request an Umbra SAR image autographed by Joe Morrison. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEXThe Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at ~13.8% annually. For only $11,600 to start, this growth rate is $5,000,000 over a working life. Thi...

Steve Attewell, UX Design Lead at the UK's Ordnance Survey, one of the world's oldest national mapping agencies, talks us through this repo: https://github.com/steveattewell/osm-ai-map This includes a brief on screen demo of two tools he has created which demonstrate natural language interfaces for mapping the results of queries against OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey spatial databases. It was a...

We discussed Textomap.com with a co-founder, Dario. Similar to our chats with MapsGPT.com and Bettermaps.ai , this is another natural language interface to a geographic information system. Here is an example map I made: https://www.textomap.com/share? NTkyOz... We covered some of the ethical issues using generative AI and I mentioned Samsung workers accidentally leaking intellectual property to Ch...

CEO Melinda Haughey covers the origin story of viral mapping platform Proxi. She then tells us about their cheerful take on applying ChatGPT for maps: https://www.mapsgpt.com/ . She mentions some great Proxi maps in the interview, here are some of them:Witch Businesses in BC: https://map.proxi.co/#discover-details?topic_id=62d0e9f2767afbc789b48f8a&point_id=6306df02a2a3d1122200dc7a Fall + Hallo...

NOT THE OPINION OF MY EMPLOYER NOT YOUR FIDUCIARY NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE Will Cadell is the force of nature leading  SparkGeo.com . Join us as he takes us through the reasons why the latest crop of earth observation SPACs have gone south. Will’s message is an inspiration for a less technologically showy kind of business. It won’t be able to lay claim to an awe-inspiring, promptly taskable constella...

NOT THE OPINION OF MY EMPLOYER NOT YOUR FIDUCIARY NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE ARway.ai are trying to solve building navigation using augmented reality. Listen in as I interview the CEO Evan Gappelberg. It is important to point out that this is not a complete analysis of the business. What must happen next is to perform due diligence on the 20 or so companies they have announced software trials with sinc...

Chris Brown, co-founder of mangomap.com and mapstack.io, talks origin stories, The Unmapped, gym franchises and how to invest in UK start ups. Reach out to him at Twitter.com/ChrisInCambo. THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at 13+% annually. For only $11,600 to start, this growth...

The Geospatial Index kicks off by interviewing Pablo, founder of bettermaps.ai. This web mapping platform uses natural language and semantic search to make the mapping process easier. He even has the option to participate via convertible notes!    Join the 1000+ users on the site https://www.bettermaps.ai .   Or reach out to him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bettermapsai .  ...

THE GEOSPATIAL INDEX  Some facts and figures were mentioned about wage growth and ISAs, here is the working and sources: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1GNWU8Vj76Vkodm4ae53vPJRE6Oeppy3w/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msexcel The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at 13+% annually. For only $11,60...