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

Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;)    500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/   Also mentioned in this episode https://mapproxy.org/ MapProxy is an open-source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client.     Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

RasterFrames brings together Earth-observation (EO) data access, cloud computing, and DataFrame-based data science. The recent explosion of EO data from public and private satellite operators presents both a huge opportunity and a huge challenge to the data analysis community.   https://spark.apache.org/ https://rasterframes.io/ https://astraea.earth/     Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/   Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/   Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

Cloud detection is hard and it's an open problem. If too much water vapor gets in the way of earth imaging sensors and we can't see the surface of the earth they lose some of their value. We need to be able to detect clouds in images.  Adler Santos https://www.linkedin.com/in/adlersantos from SkyWatch   Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/   Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sustainable model going forward. Tim Sutton https://twitter.com/timlinux   Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/   Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes we are the product, not the customer.  Denise Mckenzie - https://twitter.com/SpatialRed Co-Director of the Benchmark Initiative https://benchmarkinitiative.com/   Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/   Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspectives around communicating with maps.   PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place    Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :)  Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

If you have ever thought about being a freelancer or self-employed consultant in the earth observation sector than this is the podcast episode is for you! Alastair Graham walks us through his experience with starting his own consultancy and shares advice from the lessons he has learned along the way.  This is relevant for anyone thinking about starting a business in the geospatial world   PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place  Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :)  Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

This episode is a sales pitch for spatial SQL and if you are wondering which programming language is the right one for you in terms of geospatial applications you should listen to this. Thanks to Paul Ramsey from http://cleverelephant.ca   PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place  Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :)  Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine and this is how it can be used for Geospatial Thanks to Mark Varley from AddressCloud PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place    Get More Involved   Remember to Subscribe :)    Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085   Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast   Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/