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

Personally, I don't feel like aerial imagery gets the attention it deserves! So I invited Michael Bewley - Senior Director of AI Systems at Nearmap back on the podcast to help bring us up to speed on the state of the art of capturing, processing, and building a business around aerial imagery. If you don’t care about aerial imagery, think of this as a story about turning unstructured data into structured data into insights and building a business around that.   You can connect with Micheal on Twitter and LinkedIn https://twitter.com/michaelbewley https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbewley/   Listen out for the following highlights It's not a camera it's an imaging system! Detecting change is not hard, detecting meaningful change is hard Are human abilities still a good benchmark for AI systems?  How to determine if an AI system is a prototype or production ready   Previous Interview with Michael Bewley https://mapscaping.com/podcast/collecting-and-processing-aerial-imagery-at-scale/   Stratospheric Balloons As Remote Sensing Platforms https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cube-satellites-of-the-stratosphere/  

This episode covers a wide range of topics from the role of geospatial in systems thinking - representing natural systems in location systems and how we can apply the technology behind virtual worlds to the real world. During this conversation, it became clear to me that technology should be used in service of culture and not the other way around. I think in terms of geospatial we have an interesting opportunity to have an outsized impact if we can just figure out how to market it!    I often think about problems as being either technological or cultural and it seems to me that technology generally moves faster than culture. Although I am sure we can all think of some great examples of huge cultural shifts that have happened in response to short-term emergencies in the past few years.    Culture seems to react to technology as opposed to driving technology. I think if we were all better at marketing we could change this.    Connect with Ingo Simonis https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingosimonis/   Previous Episodes featuring the Open Geospatial Consortium   The Open Geospatial Consortium https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-open-geospatial-consortium/   Open Geospatial standards - shared standards to solve shared problems https://mapscaping.com/podcast/open-geospatial-standards-shared-standards-to-solve-shared-problems/

My guest on the show today is Mike. Today Mike is the founder of a software startup called ChroneChards, but he started as a cartographer for an adventure race and Patagonia. So he has come a long way. A couple of other really interesting points about Mike. He is a self-taught software developer and he is a self-taught businessman. The reason why I mentioned this means that if he can teach himself these things, then you can do it too. And as you'll discover later on in the episode, all you have to do is to get really, really comfortable with uncertainty.   You can connect with Mike here https://chrono.cards/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/get_ChronoCards   It's probably worth riffing on this idea of uncertainty just for a minute.    I think this is one thing that we all have in common. There'll be something about our lives, professional or private that we are uncertain about.  I've had the pleasure over the last three, four, or five years of talking with a few different people that have overcome a lot of uncertainty.  People that are self-taught software developers like Mike, people that have started their own GIS geospatial consultancies, and build their own businesses around their skills, none of those people have overcome uncertainty. None of those people are now immune to uncertainty! They have simply learned to live with it.  So as someone who has experienced and continues to experience a lot of uncertainty, these stories have really helped me they've really had a positive impact. It's been great to know that other people go through this too.  So here are some links to those episodes and hopefully, they will inspire you as well.  From GIS Analyst to Software Engineer https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-gis-analyst-to-software-engineer/ Starting your own geospatial consultancy  https://mapscaping.com/podcast/starting-your-own-geospatial-consultancy/ Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry  https://mapscaping.com/podcast/self-employment-in-the-gis-geospatial-industry/ Being self-employed in the earth observation sector https://mapscaping.com/podcast/being-self-employed-in-the-earth-observation-sector/ Mid-career change https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mid-career-change/ I quit my job https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-quit-my-job/  

If 80% of all data has a spatial component why do we need to approach mature and emerging markets differently?  With everyone racing to democratize location technology why is GIS still a valuable skill?  What are consultancies looking for when they hire geospatial consultants?   Answers to these questions and much more in this episode where we focus on geospatial consulting, as a business and career path.    Todd Slind - VP of Technology at Locana.co Connect with Todd on Twitter or LinkedIn    Recommended Podcast Episodes  The Business of Web Maps Building a web-based mapping tool into a business A Business Built on Open-Source GIS Being A Graduate Geospatial Consultant Hiring and Being Hired for Geospatial Jobs Getting Where You Want To Go In Your Geospatial Career      

FROM THE ARCHIVE!   Calculating the location of your mobile device ( the blue dot ) is not as straightforward as you might imagine. It involves databases of wifi hotspots, 3D city models, IMU's, GNSS, your proximity to cell towers, and maybe something called visual positioning. Ed Parsons - Googles Geospatial Technologist explains    previous podcast episode that you might enjoy! SATELLITE-BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEM - A BASE STATION IN THE SKY POSITIONING AS A SERVICE AND THE ROLE OF SMARTPHONES IN THE FUTURE OF GEOLOCATION USING THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD OF BUILDINGS TO NAVIGATE INDOORS HYPER-ACCURATE INDOOR LOCATION NAVIGATING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GNSS   Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping  

Tropical forests are large sources of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, due to deforestation. They could instead be a big part of the climate solution.  Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI), users can now access high-resolution, analysis-ready mosaics of the world’s tropics in order to help reduce and reverse the loss of tropical forests, combat climate change, conserve biodiversity, and facilitate sustainable development for noncommercial uses.   MapComplete https://mapcomplete.osm.be   NICFI - Through Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative https://www.nicfi.no/   Planet NICFI https://www.planet.com/nicfi/    

Cloud Optimized Point Clouds ( COPC) allow you to stream point cloud data!  Cloud Optimized Geotiffs made raster data streamable and now its time for Point Clouds to be just as accessible!    https://weeklyosm.eu/  weeklyOSM updates the community, on a weekly basis, about what is going on in the OSM Universe.   Thanks, OpenCage!  https://opencagedata.com/   Related Podcast Episodes   PDAL - Point Data Abstraction Library https://mapscaping.com/podcast/pdal-point-data-abstraction-library/   Cloud Native Geospatial https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/   Microsoft's Planetry Computer https://mapscaping.com/podcast/the-planetary-computer/     Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?   Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/   

We cover a lot of ground in this episode but some of the key takes are:   A key difference between visualizing non-spatial data and spatial data is that non-spatial data gives you the freedom to choose the locations of different objects.  Design is not a process, a way of thinking, and the outcome of not necessarily something visual We are getting closer to the promise of custom maps for everyone, and we are already seeing personalized maps    Content with Alan Mcconchie here: https://stamen.com/people/alan-mcconchie/ And learn more about Stamen Design here: https://stamen.com/   https://healthsites.io/ Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap   Recommended Episode about Cartography https://mapscaping.com/podcast/communicating-with-maps-the-art-of-cartography/     Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?   Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/     

For some time, there was hype around AI and data science and that they would solve all of our problems. If you think AI solves every problem, then you’re overestimating its utility and where we’re at. However, on the other side, if you’re a business of any size, operating at least some type of technology, and you think AI can solve none of your problems — you’re also mistaken. We’re somewhere in the middle.   Daniel Whitenack, Data Scientist and host of the Practical AI podcast gives us a really great introduction to Artificial Intelligence and you don't need be a data scientist to understand it!   Connect with Daniel Whitenack here https://datadan.io/  or check out the Practical AI podcast   For more episodes just visit https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/ and sort all the episodes by "geospatial career"   Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?   Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/   

Grow your career — or reimagine it entirely, what do you do if find yourself wanting to make a change halfway through your career? This episode with Thierry Gregorius from https://truehorizoncoaching.com/ is more of a discussion than an interview and if you are thinking about making a change in your career it might help you answer the question "what do I do next"    Recommended Podcast episodes focusing on careers in Geospatial    Getting Where you want to go in your geospatial career https://mapscaping.com/podcast/getting-where-you-want-to-go-in-your-geospatial-career/   Geospatial Side Hustles https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geospatial-side-hustles/   I quit my job https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-quit-my-job/   Mentorship, leadership and career advice https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mentorship-leadership-and-career-advice/   Business ideas for geospatial people https://mapscaping.com/podcast/business-ideas-for-geospatial-people/   What is your idea https://mapscaping.com/podcast/what-is-your-idea/   Python Maps  https://mapscaping.com/podcast/python-maps/   For more episodes just visit https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/ and sort all the episodes by "geospatial career"   Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/MapScaping?   Or go to MapScaping.com to find out about sponsoring our website reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/