The Great Retooling

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

Jun 24, 202644:18Science & Medicine

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's been at the helm for over a decade, and in this conversation, we dig into wha...

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