

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
MapScaping
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, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry.
This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
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Oct 14, 2020 • 30min
location Privacy and Data Ethics
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/
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Oct 1, 2020 • 43min
Communicating with maps - The art of cartography
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
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Sep 23, 2020 • 49min
Being self employed in the earth observation sector
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
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Sep 16, 2020 • 41min
Spatial SQL - GIS without the GIS
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
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Sep 11, 2020 • 31min
Elastic Search
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
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Sep 2, 2020 • 51min
Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry
Kurt Menke has been self-employed as a geospatial consultant for years, this is how he got started and how you might get do the same thing. https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/
Sponsored by Mapsimise
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Aug 26, 2020 • 46min
The long tail of geospatial and spatial thinking
What it means to be a geospatial swiss army knife, why spatial thinking is so important and the long-tail of geospatial.
Stace Maples
Sponsored by Mapsimise
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Aug 19, 2020 • 39min
COVID-19 Spatial Research
DEREK OUYANG is a Lecturer at Stanford University where he and his team are using spatial data to help explain the COVID-19 case growth.
https://www.safegraph.com/covid-19-data-consortium
http://bay.stanford.edu/
SafeGraph Episode
Sponsored by Mapsimise
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Aug 12, 2020 • 48min
Open Source GPU Processing
GIS tools are becoming too slow for today's data volumes, in this episode you will learn about how GPU processing might be able to solve this problem.
OmniSci https://www.omnisci.com
Demos: https://www.omnisci.com/demos
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Aug 5, 2020 • 32min
H3 geospatial indexing system
Isaac Brodsky the product lead for the H3 grid system and the cofounder Unfolded walks us through what it is, what it's for, and when not to use it.
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