The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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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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Smart Point Clouds: What If Every Point Knew What It Was
Point clouds still feel a little bit like magic to me. You walk through a room, a city, or even just your living room with a scanner or your phone, and you can recreate it afterwards. But on their own, point clouds aren't actually that smar
Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams
Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams: How the Utah Geological Survey Did It What happens when a small, technical team at a state agency decides to go cloud native? They don't have terabytes of satellite imagery. They have lots of small d
GERS, Metadata, and Maps Built for Machines
We already have a map. Actually, we have lots of maps. So why did Overture build another one? My guest in this episode is Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, and she makes a pretty compelling case. Overture isn't trying to replac
The Evolution of Positioning Systems
Republished Episode - I wanted to resurface this episode because positioning is everything, and it's a great overview of how it works. Right now you are being bathed in radio signals from about 35 satellites, each one 20,000 km away, and ev
Sentinel Bird
Earlier this year I ran a small experiment called the Geospatial Launchpad — six weeks of working closely with a couple of people to help them push their geospatial projects forward. West was one of them. His project is Sentinel Bird (senti
Fields Of The World
Where does one field end and the next one begin? It sounds trivial right up until you try to answer it. In this episode, I'm joined by Hannah Kerner (https://hannah-rae.github.io/) — Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, AI Lead
Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems
In this episode I'm joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI (https://www.duality.ai/), a company building virtual worlds — or "world models" for robots and physical AI systems. Apurva's path here is an unusual one. He spent
GPS, But 100 Times Stronger
My guest today is Tyler Reid (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-reid-06398936/), co-founder and CTO of Xona (https://www.xonaspace.com/), a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his tea
Turning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World
Vexcel (https://vexceldata.com/) isn't a household name — but you've almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across roughly 45 countries, capturing imagery at 7.5cm resolution from five dif
Cloud Native for the Rest of Us
What happens when you take cloud native geospatial out of the satellite-and-petabyte world and drop it into a small city with no budget and the world's slowest internet connection? In this episode, Daniel talks with Nissim Lebovits (https:/
Mapping With 360 Cameras
Jeffrey Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic (https://www.mosaic51.com/), a company building 360-degree camera systems designed specifically for mapping. He's been obsessed with 360 imagery for over 20 years — he built one of the firs
Who Pays for Open Source?
Open source software runs a huge chunk of the geospatial world — but somebody still has to pay for it. In this episode I sit down with Marco Bernasocchi creator of QField and CEO of OpenGIS.ch, to dig into the awkward question most open sou
The Great Retooling
Ian Schuler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianschuler/) is the CEO of Development Seed (https://developmentseed.org/) — the team behind a lot of the open source tooling that quietly holds up the geospatial world. He's been at the helm for ove
Earth Observation - The Invisible Industry
What is Earth observation, really — and why, after fifty years of satellite imagery, is it still not "mainstream"? In this episode, I'm joined by Aravind Ravichandran, founder of TerraWatch, an independent research and advisory firm focused
10 Tools for Telling Stories With Maps
Ryan Shields has one of the most interesting careers in geospatial — from remote sensing for conservation in the Caribbean, to disaster response data engineering with FEMA, to his current role turning spatial data into animation assets for
Agents, Guardrails, and the Death of the Dashboard
Nadine Alameh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinealameh/) is back — former CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, and now CEO and co-founder of Lunate AI (https://www.lunateai.com/), a six-month-old company sitting right at the messy inters
How HOT Is Rethinking Drone Mapping
What happens when you put professional-grade aerial mapping in the hands of the people who actually live in the places being mapped? In this episode, I'm joined by Rebecca Firth, Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HO
Common Space
This episode examines the Common Space initiative, a non-profit project dedicated to building and launching high-resolution optical satellites designed specifically for humanitarian purposes, such as aiding populations at risk from climate
AI in QGIS
I've been playing around with a lot of large language models lately, and it is absolutely fascinating to watch them work. But what happens when you bring that directly into QGIS? Right now, AI in the geospatial industry is a lot like a fast
Geospatial Makers Start Building!
Geospatial Product Swiss Army Knife 1. The "Build It and They Won't Come" Trap We have all seen it: a talented geospatial professional spends months—perhaps years—perfecting a technically sophisticated web map or a niche data service, only
Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source
Why Machine-Writing Code is the Best (and Most Dangerous) Thing for Geospatial: The current discourse surrounding AI coding is nothing if not polarized. On one side, the technofuturists urge us to throw away our keyboards; on the other, ske
A5 Pentagons Are the New Bestagons
How can you accurately aggregate and compare point-based data from different parts of the world? When analyzing crime rates, population, or environmental factors, how do you divide the entire globe into equal, comparable units for analysis?
The Sustainable Path for Open Source Businesses
The Open-Source Conundrum Many successful open-source projects begin with passion, but the path from a community-driven tool to a sustainable business is often a trap. The most common route—relying on high-value consulting contracts—can par
Free Software and Expensive Threats
Open-source software is often described as "free," a cornerstone of the modern digital world available for anyone to download, use, and modify. But this perception of "free" masks a growing and invisible cost—not one paid in dollars, but in
Mapping Your Own World: Open Drones and Localized AI
What if communities could map their own worlds using low-cost drones and open AI models instead of waiting for expensive satellite imagery? In this episode with Leen (https://www.hotosm.org/en/members/leen-dhondt/) from HOT (Humanitarian Op
From Data Dump to Data Product
This conversation with Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedsundwall/) Earth, starts with a simple but crucial distinction: the difference between data and data products. And that distinction matters m
Reflections from FOSS4G 2025
Reflections from the FOSS4G 2025 conference Processing, Analysis, and Infrastructure (FOSS4G is Critical Infrastructure) The high volume of talks on extracting meaning from geospatial data—including Python workflows, data pipelines, and aut
Building a Community of Geospatial Storytellers
Karl returns to the Mapscaping podcast (https://mapscaping.com/podcast/building-footprints-at-scale/) to discuss his latest venture, Tyche Insights - a platform aimed at building a global community of geospatial storytellers working with op
I have been making AI slop and you should too
AI Slop: An Experiment in Discovery Solo Episode Reflection: I'm back behind the mic after about a year-long break. Producing this podcast takes more time than you might imagine, and I was pretty burnt out. The last year brought some major
Scribble: An AI Agent for Web Mapping
Jonathan Wagner, CEO of Scribble Maps (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathandavidwagner/), is back on the podcast, and this time we're talking about Scribble—an AI agent he's built into his platform. Not a chatbot, an agent. There's a differ
