The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution
In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses theOverture Maps Foundation (https://overturemaps.org/), a downstream product of OpenStreetMap. He explains his background in open map data and his interest
100 billion Points Every Day
100 billion Points Every Day 100 billion is a very large number, let's say that I gave you a spreadsheet with 100 billion rows in it, each row consisted of five columns Latitude, Longitude, Device ID, A Timestamp, and a column telling the n
Synthetic Data For Real Problems
Computer vision is everywhere! But teaching an algorithm to identify objects requires a lot of data and this is definitely the case when we think about GeoAI But it is not enough to have a lot of data we also need data that is labeled If we
Hub Ocean
This is an interview with a senior data scientist fromHub Ocean (https://www.hubocean.earth/), a platform that aims to unlock and unite ocean data. Hub Ocean - as the name suggests is a hub for ocean data Now we have talked about these kind
Felt - Upload Anything
https://felt.com/ is a browser-based mapping tool and its also a reminder that just because we have always done web mapping one way it doesn’t mean it always has to be done that way. For example, Felt lets you upload anything! That's a bold
The Rapid Editor
Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap.
PostgreSQL - Listen and Notify Clients In Real Time
The promise of digital mapping is to provide a shared and real-time view of the state of the underlying system. https://github.com/CrunchyData/pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promise of real-time even
Applying For A Job, Getting Picked and Negotiating The Contract
You guessed it this episode is all about recruitment! Who is this episode for? Well if you have a career in geospatial … it's for you! Getting the job you want, changing your career path, or deciding whether to work at a start-up or a more
Using Lasers To Talk To Satellites
How do we get data from a satellite down to Earth? How do we task a satellite? Today the answer is likely to be via radios and a system of downlink sites or ground stations. As the satellites pass overhead or within “line of sight” data can
From Pixels to Patterns: AI in Spatial Analysis
There is a general understanding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract meaning from all the data we are collecting without using AI. But what is AI, and how did we end up in a situation where it is identifying wolves from do
pygeoapi - A Python Geospatial Server
PYGEOAPI is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards ... which might be really useful if you are thinking about upgrading from the first-generation OGC standards to the second-generation OGC standards ... or if need
Big Data In The Browser
So why would anyone want to put alot of data into a browser? Well, for a lot of the same reasons that edge computing and distributed computing have become so popular. You get the data a lot closer to the user and you don’t have to pay for t
Rasters In A Database?
Sounds like a great idea right? In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn't ... unless you want to ... and how you can ... if you have to. You can find Paul's blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about Some more episodes you
Spatial Knowledge Graphs
A knowledge graph is a network of relationships between real work entities and in this episode, you will learn how and why knowledge graphs might be a better choice than spatial joins! Further listening! The H3 Indexing System https://mapsc
ChatGPT and Large Language Models
I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works. To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast You can connect with Daniel here ht
Computer Vision and GeoAI
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images. You might think that this is exactly what we are doing in earth observation but there are a
Designing for Location Privacy
Data is what data does - more about that later on ;) This episode focuses on designing for privacy, how do we create value from location data without sacrificing personal privacy? Well, you might start by adhering to the Enhanced Standards
Hyperspectral vs Multispectral
When comparing multispectral and hyperspectral data it is not simply a case of “more data more better”! With hyperspectral you have “The curse of Dimensionality” but you also get more flexibility to pick exactly what bands you want to use!
All Of The Places In The World
This week we are going to learn how Foursquare (https://foursquare.com/) is trying to identify and map all of the places in the world! Foursquare uses a mixture of crowd source and data conflation to maintain a database of 205 million place
Planet Scale Tiled Maps Without A Server
Protomaps is a serverless system for planet-scale maps, it's an umbrella project consisting of a few different components one of which is PMtiles. PMtiles is “Cloud Optimise Geotiff” for web mapping, what this means is that you can build a
Storytelling With Point Clouds
Storytelling with point clouds This is not your typical point clouds episode! Today we are talking about how to use point clouds to tell a story. During this episode, you will hear Benjamin Muller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-m%C3%
Geospatial Archaeology
You are about to meet Peter Spencer, a Freelance Archaeologist, Surveyor, and Geomatics Specialist You are also about to learn how geospatial tech and techniques are being applied in the field of archaeology at an object scale with laser sc
Navigating the World of Geospatial Standards
Warning! this podcast episode is not as boring as it sounds! While geospatial standards are boring on purpose ... this episode is not .- If you woke up this morning wanting to listen to a boring podcast episode about geospatial standards th
Making Money With Geospatial Content
It sounds like a clickbait title, right? And to be fair I am trying to capture your attention but this is not clickbait in the sense that the title makes a promise that the episode lives up to! This is not a “get-rich-quick-scheme” its a st
Distributing Geospatial Data
Distributing Geospatial Data - Every wondered why you might what to do this? Or maybe you understand the why but are unsure about the how? Perhaps you have heard people talk about partitioning data or sharding data, you might have heard som
Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme
So you might be wondering why the United Nations World Food Programme needs a geospatial support unit. Let me give you a brief overview, Basically, they curate and maintain global datasets that they use to model the risk of sudden-onset dis
Aerial Imagery: The State Of The Art
Personally, I don't feel like aerial imagery gets the attention it deserves! So I invited Michael Bewley - Senior Director of AI Systems at Nearmap back on the podcast to help bring us up to speed on the state of the art of capturing, proce
The technology stack and the cultural stack
This episode covers a wide range of topics from the role of geospatial in systems thinking - representing natural systems in location systems and how we can apply the technology behind virtual worlds to the real world. During this conversat
ChronoCards - Building a Business on ArcGIS Pro
My guest on the show today is Mike. Today Mike is the founder of a software startup called ChroneChards, but he started as a cartographer for an adventure race and Patagonia. So he has come a long way. A couple of other really interesting p
