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

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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 ...

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5 months ago

38:31

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 ...

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5 months ago

49:20

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 sophisticate...

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6 months ago

46:52

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 ...

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6 months ago

36:36

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 in...

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7 months ago

37:21

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—relyi...

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7 months ago

36:18

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 invisi...

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8 months ago

34:29

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 from HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetM...

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8 months ago

32:43

From Data Dump to Data Product

This conversation with Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant Earth, starts with a simple but crucial distinction: the difference between data and data products. And that distinction matters more...

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8 months ago

45:39

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—includin...

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8 months ago

13:56

Building a Community of Geospatial Storytellers

Karl returns to the Mapscaping podcast to discuss his latest venture, Tyche Insights - a platform aimed at building a global community of geospatial storytellers working with open data. In this conver...

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9 months ago

42:06

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 burn...

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9 months ago

18:56

Scribble: An AI Agent for Web Mapping

Jonathan Wagner, CEO of Scribble Maps, 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 difference, and...

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9 months ago

48:39

Exploring the Evolution and Impact of Mapillary with Ed from Meta. Topics include Ed's journey with Mapillary, the process of uploading and utilizing street-level imagery, and the integration with Op...

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10 months ago

48:05

Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks

Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks In this episode MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan explains how Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) is transforming traditional road network ...

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1 year ago

58:52

In this week’s episode, I’m thrilled to welcome back Ariel Seidman, founder of HiveMapper. Ariel was my very first podcast guest back in 2019, and HiveMapper has come a long way since then! We explore...

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1 year ago

51:29

Tracking Elephants

Tracking elephants in Southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) region, the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world. Lead scientist Robin Naidoo from the World Wildlife Fund-US explains th...

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1 year ago

45:36

Female Voices in Geospatial

Today's episode touches on some pretty big topics like Imposter Syndrome, Mentorship, Career Progression, Adaptability and Diversity Today you are going to hear two stories from two very different voi...

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1 year ago

42:54

In this episode, Marco Bernasconi, co-founder and CEO of OPENGIS.ch, introduces us to QField, an open-source mobile application designed for field data collection in conjunction with QGIS. Marco share...

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1 year ago

49:07

Analyst To Engineer

This is the story of Priscilla Cole, and what she did when she discovered that her ambitions were bigger than the tools she was using! Connect with Priscilla here! https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscill...

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2 years ago

41:05

Satclip - Encoding Location

In this episode, I'm joined by Konstantine Klemmer, a researcher at Microsoft, to dive deep into the fascinating world of GeoAI. Konstantine introduces us to Satclip, a cutting-edge model that encodes...

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2 years ago

43:40

Natural Language Geocoding

In this episode, I welcome Jason Gilman, a Principal Software Engineer at Element 84, to explore the exciting world of natural language geocoding. Key Topics Discussed: Introduction to Natural Langua...

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2 years ago

45:14

Semantic Search For Geospatial

This podcast episode is all about semantic search and using embeddings to analyse text and social media data. Dominik Weckmüller, a researcher at the Technical University of Dresden, talks about his P...

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2 years ago

50:39

Why You Should Care About L Band

In this episode, we welcome back Lauren Guy, CEO and founder of ASTERRA, a groundbreaking company using L band and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for commercial purposes. Lauren shares his journey as ...

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2 years ago

51:14

GeoParquet For Beginners

Cloud-native geospatial, range requests, chucks, COGs and COPCs ... [ insert confusing acronym here ] Sometimes It feels like we need to learn a whole new vocabulary and if you have been doing #geo f...

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2 years ago

42:00

Finding Stuff Indoors

Mappedin started as a school project and evolved into a leading indoor mapping company, working with malls, airports, hospitals, and Fortune 500 companies. You guessed, today's podcast is all about ...

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2 years ago

49:37

What is humanitarian GIS?

Hugo Powell, from immap.org shares his expert insights on how GIS technologies are leveraged to analyze data, visualize scenarios, and facilitate rapid decision-making during emergencies. Here are the...

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2 years ago

47:24

AI Autocomplete for QGIS

AI Autocomplete for QGIS Brendan Ashworth the CTO and co-founder of https://buntinglabs.com/ focuses on integrating AI with QGIS, and today on the podcast we are talking about Autocomplete for vectori...

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2 years ago

42:52

GNSS receivers - why precise positioning will not be coming to your phone any time soon

GNSS receivers - why precise positioning will not be coming to your phone any time soon Igor is the CEO and cofounder of Emlid.com a company that started out making high-precision GNSS receivers in ...

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2 years ago

51:01

The way you talk about your geospatial skills is costing you money

Refactoring the Way you Talk About your geospatial skills: It is Costing you Money Some of the key topics in this episode 1.Our Geospatial Skills and Marketability: There's a realization that while o...

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2 years ago

52:17

Modern Geospatial

Modern geospatial - not the bleeding edge of geospatial but modern geospatial - what is it? Well my guest Will Cadell, the CEO of SparkGeo describes modern geospatial as the intersection of the cloud,...

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2 years ago

48:25

Introduction To LIDAR & Point Clouds

The main topics discussed during this episode include: Basics of LIDAR data and its applications. Differences between LIDAR and photogrammetry. Processing chain of LIDAR data. Challenges in classifyin...

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2 years ago

48:52

Introduction to Cloud Native Geospatial

Alex Leith is a Digital Earth Architect and in this episode, you will learn what Infrastructure as code is - hint it is the opposite of the "clicky-clicky" and so much more! Connect with Alex here ht...

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2 years ago

55:13

GeeMap is an open-source Python library that provides tools for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine (GEE), which is a platform for earth science data and analysis ... and today you are going ...

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2 years ago

54:55

GPS reimagined? Why do we need to reimagine GPS? ... Is it broken? Recommended Podcast Episodes How Google Calculates Your Location https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-google-calculates-your-locati...

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2 years ago

45:36

The Business of QGIS Development

Nyall Dawson is a QGIS developer, cartographer, and owner and founder of North Road, a company specializing in open-source geospatial software. His journey into geospatial began with personal interest...

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2 years ago

52:26

Making Beautiful Maps In Felt

This episode is all about making beautiful maps ... I am not a cartographer but my guest Mamata Akella is a professional cartographer at Felt! So today on the podcast we are talking about Essential E...

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2 years ago

52:36

Planet - Imaging Everything, Every Day ... Almost

Planet manufactures and manages the world’s largest constellation of earth observation satellites! Imaging “Just about everywhere on earth just about every day – Making change visible, accessible, and...

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2 years ago

45:19

Fire Mapping, Maritime Search And Wide Angle Imaging

This episode is a story about wide-angle imaging for fire mapping and maritime search but it's also a story about changing the culture and getting people to trust a new way of doing things. My guest...

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2 years ago

46:27

Personal Branding in Geospatial

It's not about becoming an influencer it's about creating opportunities for yourself In this episode, we tackle the common misconception that personal branding is solely for influencers, revealing h...

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2 years ago

50:12

Entity Resolution with Placekey

Entity resolution is the process of matching and merging records from different sources that refer to the same entity. today's episode is about entity resolution for place data, why you might want t...

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2 years ago

40:25

Strategic Buy-In For FOSS4G

Embracing Open-Source Geospatial Technology is easy as an individual but what if you want your organization to use FOSS4G How do you get strategic buy-in? It turns out that the software does not sell ...

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2 years ago

45:47

From GNSS to VPS

** Warning** Consuming this content may lead to educated opinions and or a better understanding of the future of location technology! ** Proceed with caution!! ** If are curious about any of the f...

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2 years ago

54:59

Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution

In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a downstream product of OpenStreetMap. He explains his background in open map data and...

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3 years ago

52:23

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,...

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3 years ago

49:07

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 da...

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3 years ago

01:02:36

This is an interview with a senior data scientist from Hub Ocean, 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 abou...

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3 years ago

38:53

Felt - Upload Anything

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 yo...

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3 years ago

39:30

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 au...

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3 years ago

51:59

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. pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promis...

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3 years ago

26:28