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

Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;)    500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/   Also mentioned in this episode https://mapproxy.org/ MapProxy is an open-source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop...

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 podca...

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.linked...

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...

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 s...

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/   R...

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 l...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.co...

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/...

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...

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 wi...

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/

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/

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/

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 th...

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  ...

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 implica...

Jupyter Notebooks are incredibly powerful tools for interactively developing and presenting GIS data projects. This episode with Julia Wagemann walks you thought the Jupyter project and what Jupyter notebooks are and the advantages of using them.   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...

Aerial collection of data from smart meters. In this episode, we discuss why this is better than mesh networks, and other ground collection options and also look at the limitations of drones in terms of data collection platforms.    Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast   Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn http...

Using ultrasound time of flight measurements to generate millimeter accuracy in indoor environments.   Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast   Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Digital twins have been around for a long time, as part of a simulation or analytical view of the real world.  They provide simulation and analysis capabilities that can be a fancy 3D hologram that you can touch and feel and move things around or a numeric model that runs on Excel.      Can I email you the show notes?  just follow the link https://mapscaping.com/podcast   Happy to connect with you...