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

Episode #55 - In this episode, you will learn what it is like to work with a geospatial recruitment expert, what skills and qualifications are important at entry-level, midlevel and leadership positions with the geospatial industry and where the big opportunities are in terms jobs in the geospatial value chain. Geosearch - geospatial recruitment experts Jessica Touchard    We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #54 - This week on the podcast Kent Marten from Tableau explains the cross over between business intelligence tools and traditional GIS software. We also explore the challenges around self serve mapping and answer the question "Is location still the next big thing"   This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper  GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.    We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #53 - Serving dynamic vector tiles might not be as difficult as you think. Paul Ramsey from Crunchy Data starts off by walking us through the early days of PostGIS, explaining what a vector tile is and the advantages over image tiles before explaining how you can easily and safely serve your own data as vector tiles straight from a PostgreSQL database. further reading  Querying Spatial Features with pg_featureserv Spatial Tile Serving with PostgreSQL Functions Tile Serving with Dynamic Geometry   This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper  GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.    We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #52 Today on the podcast I am joined by Dr. Aliastair Graham. Dr. Graham has been on the podcast before sharing his insights into the industry of remote sensing and earth observation and what the future might look like. This time we dive a little deeper and talk about the differences between remote sensing and earth observation, Aliastair walks us through 4 major data collection platforms and the data that these platforms provide and where and how we might find it.    Portals of data providers mentioned in the podcast Earth Explorer https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ Sentinel SciHub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home Dedicated search companies Apollo Mapping https://apollomapping.com/ GeoCento https://geocento.com/   This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper  GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.    We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #51 -This episode is all about why it is so difficult to build a really big geospatial business and what it would take to disrupt ESRI. My guest on the show is Ariel Seidman CEO and Co-Founder of Hivemapper   This episode is sponsored by GraphHopper  GraphHopper provides web services to add for route planning, navigation and route optimization to your application in the food delivery industry or for traveling salesmen.    We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #50 - QGIS is rapidly becoming the default opensource geospatial desktop tool for the GIS community. Today, Kurt Menke who has written serval books on QGIS shares his insights and experience with the QGIS and talks about so of the more exciting features that are built into QGIS that you might not know about. For more information on Kurt, you can find him at https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ or on twitter We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook  

Episode #49 - In this interview with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster we walk through a GIS case study    This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder  OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder is what you are looking for.   We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook  

Episode #48 - Serverless Geospatial - Serverless architectures provide an instantly scaleable application environment so that IT infrastructure may dynamically scale up and down to meet the demand of both machine and human users. In this interview with Thomas Holderness walks us through the pro's and con's of serverless architecture with regard to geospatial use cases        Here's a link to the video about QGIS in the cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZT_Az2rNTg   Great blog post about serverless geospatial https://blog.addresscloud.com/serverless-geospatial/   Thomas Holderness on twitter https://twitter.com/iholderness)   This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder  OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.   We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

Episode #47 - Daniel Bailey the Co-Founder and CTO of Astraea talks about the changing world of eath observation and some of the challenges facing the industry at the moment. We also discuss remote sensing space with regards to the Gartner Hype Cycle and discuss the role of non-traditional players in the earth observation space and what that might mean for the industry   Link to a free data discovery platform mentioned in the interview  More information on the Gartner Hype Cycle This podcast is sponsored by OpenCage Geocoder  OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.   We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here    You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook

MammothgeospatialOpenCage Geocoder  OpenCageData does not make maps or provide routing information, they focus on turning address or place name to coordinates and coordinates into addresses or place names and they are amazing at it! If you need help with geocoding OpenCage Geocoder what you are looking for.   We made some socks for you!  You can check them out here  You are more than welcome to reach out to me on social media, I would love to hear from you! Map_View on Instagram MapScaping on Twitter MapScaping on Facebook