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 t...
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The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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,...
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20 of 269 episodesThe 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...
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 th...
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 Hanna...
Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems
In this episode I'm joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI, a company building virtual worlds — or "world models" for robot...
GPS, But 100 Times Stronger
My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into w...
Turning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World
Vexcel isn't a household name — but you've almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across...
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...
Mapping With 360 Cameras
Jeffrey Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a company building 360-degree camera systems designed specifically for mapping. He's bee...
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...
The Great Retooling
Ian Schuler is the CEO of Development Seed — the team behind a lot of the open source tooling that quietly holds up the geospatial world. He...
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 join...
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 resp...
Agents, Guardrails, and the Death of the Dashboard
Nadine Alameh is back — former CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, and now CEO and co-founder of Lunate AI, a six-month-old company sitti...
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...
Common Space
This episode examines the Common Space initiative, a non-profit project dedicated to building and launching high-resolution optical satellit...
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 w...
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 spend...
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 no...
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...