Geospatially Africa Podcast |The Podcast for the Geospatial Community. GIS, RS, Drones, Technology

Discover OpenAerialMap (OAM), the “OpenStreetMap of imagery,” in this 2023 episode with HOT’s Christiana and DK. Learn how OAM empowers drone pilots and satellite providers to share openly licensed imagery for humanitarian mapping, from the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake response to Tanzania’s flood risk assessments. Explore its cloud-based tech and community-driven model. Visit openaerialmap.org to...

Modern state-of-the-art satellite technology and sensing capabilities, enabling constant and consistent monitoring of anywhere in our Planet, are changing the way we study and improve life on Earth.  But how affordable are these satellite systems? In this episode we explore Satellogic, a commercial leader in submeter EO satellite technology, and how they’re working to increase cost-savings for mor...

Spatial SQL, also known as SQL for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), is a powerful tool for working with and analyzing geospatial data. In this podcast, we will explore the capabilities of Spatial SQL and how it can unlock the power of geospatial data in various fields and industries. Matt Forrest spoke about 1️⃣ Commons hurdles with getting started with Spatial SQL 🎯 2️⃣ Learning Spatial SQL...

Geospatial innovation in Africa is growing and Locana is learning a lot from this through their work in Africa. We sit down with Todd Slind, Locana’s Vice President of Emerging Markets, who also leads the Open Data & Development (OD&D) unit, to discuss some of their numerous projects within the African space, and how they help foster collaborative development (cross-fertilization) between...

Kart provides distributed version control for geospatial and tabular data. Kart stores geospatial and tabular data in Git, providing version control at the row and cell level, it also provides repository working copies as GIS databases and files, and allows edit to be done directly in common GIS software without plugins. See the show notes   Get to know more about Kart https://kartproject.org...

As a young African geospatial professional, you can get access to a wide range of ESRI tools including ArcGIS Online, Story Map, Survey 123, and many more, as well as powerful datasets from various partner organizations including Africa’s very own data cube – Digital Earth Africa - absolutely free of charge forever (no strings attached) Well, if you didn’t already know that, this episode introduce...

Building your portfolio as a geospatial professional is important, even more so are the experiences that make up the portfolio. In this episode we sat down to talk about volunteering as a way to improve your skills and build your portfolio. We also explore the types a well as organizations that you can volunteer you geospatial skill to. Below is a summary of the  benefits of volunteering cove...

What tool is currently taking the geospatial world by storm, making it easier to get a comprehensive, sharable portfolio done in minutes. Well, its Spatial Node ! In this episode, your hosts Opeyemi and Iniobong, Speak with Spatial Node founder and CEO, Emmanuel Jolaiya on what it takes to create such an amazing tool. The discussion revolved around Emmanuel's Background The problem that birthed Sp...

OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including stor...

Using GIS in business is not a new concept, however, in this episode Opeyemi hosted Alazar Tekle, a GIS Analyst and Deputy Manger at AddisMap -  an interactive City Guide of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to talk about how his team used Open Source geospatial data to help but businesses on the map. The AddisMap team leveraged the power of OpenStreetMap to create other powerful geospatial tools like YeneGuz...

Drones are becoming more available and are utilized for different operations, playing a big part in Remote Sensing efforts, including small and large scale mapping projects and they are also deployed for monitoring and disaster mapping, among other uses. So, in this episode Opeyemi hosted Adeola Akinwale a GIS Project Manager at Asseco, and a Drone pilot who is working with her team in mapping Lag...

Ever wondered what GIS can do in the energy sector, from needs assessment to supply planning and distribution. With the world looking towards more sustainable supply and management of energy, in this episode, learn how GIS plays a part as Opeyemi had a chat with Akansha Saklani of the World Resources Institute (WRI).  Akansha also introduces us to the Energy Access Explorer (EAE), an amazing...

In this first episode of the 2022, we had a general discussion around Geospatial trends to look forward to in 2022. Some of the topics we discussed were: Miniaturization of Technologies or Sensors Geospatial AI LiDAR Landsat 9 Our feedback form is still live, so please use this form to give us some feedback Don't forget to subscribe! Find us on LinkedIn * Twitter * LinkedIn Connect with the hosts...

Wrapping up the year with this bonus episode, where Iniobong Benson discusses the podcast's highlights for the year from an episode about being a geospatial engineer, mentoring, to state of the map Africa conference, as well as #recognitionawards in the #geosphere .  One interesting thing is the opportunity for our listener to learn from each guest and from the topic discussed. And for us the...

On this episode, Opeyemi spoke with Laura Mugeha - a Geospatial engineer about what it takes to be a geosaptial engineer, her journey and advice for those looking to start out as geospatial engineers. Laura is a Geospatial Engineer working in the intersection of open technology, open data, and development. She currently works with a social enterprise in Kenya to support teams in using data for goo...

Crowd2Map Tanzania is an entirely volunteer crowdsourced mapping project that has been mapping putting rural Tanzania on the OpenStreetMap  since October 2015. They have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of volunteers worldwide and on the ground in Tanzania and have trained over 16,000 remote mappers from all over the world to ma...

Everybody needs a mentor, whether you are just starting out in a new profession or you are an expert. Mentors are important not only for superior learning, but also to serve as unbiased guides in professional contexts. In this week's episode, Opeyemi speaks with geospatial talent Sharon Omoja - the Regional Coordinator for Women in Geospatial+ for Sub-Saharan Africa, - on Mentoring Volunteering an...

Ever wondered the thought behind this podcast, or what the host backgrounds are and what they are involved in?  Well this month's episode seeks to answer the Why behind the Geospatially Africa Podcast. Join your hosts Iniobong Benson and Opeyemi Kazeem-Jimoh as we answer questions on how we got into geospatial, what we are currently working on, and our hopes for the future of geospatial indus...

The State of the Map Africa (SotM Africa) is a bi-annual regional conference, powered by the OSM Africa communities, that celebrates the culture of open mapping, open data, GIS and its impact across Africa. The first SotM Africa conference was hosted by the OSM community in Uganda in 2017 and in 2019 in Cote d’Ivoire.  This year’s conference which will be hosted online on November 19th - Nove...

Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) is an operational platform, which provides analysis ready data (satellite data) to address sustainable development challenges and support decision making in the 54 countries in Africa, moving beyond the  Africa Regional Data Cube  (ARDC). DE Africa platform can be accessed by anyone for free. Instead...

In this episode, we talked about climate change and how it contributes to geohazards around the world and how there is need for increase in the application of geospatial technology in the mapping, visualizing and identifying hazards and to contribute to early warning and risk management. The episode also focused on GRMI an initiative in Nigeria focused on reducing flood risk and contribution to fl...