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

In this episode, you will learn how robotics coupled with remote sensing is transforming facilities management across the utility sector and other industries. Scott Nowicki Quantum Spatial All the show notes and a written summary of this episode is available at MapScaping.com

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

Episode #45 - Mark Varley the CEO and founder of AddressCloud reminds us that geo-coding is not a solved problem and explains why and how inaccuracies during the geocoding process can have consequences in terms of risk assessment models used by insurance companies. Mark walks us thought how and why his company built its own geo-coder and why locating and describing addresses with rooftop level accuracy is the first step in building risk profiles. We also discuss the changing role of geo and GIS in the insurance industry. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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 #44 - R is perhaps the most powerful computer environment for data analysis that is currently available. R is both a computer language, that allows you to write instructions, and a program that responds to these instructions. R has core functionality to read and write files, manipulate and summarize data, run statistical tests and models, make fancy plots, and many more things like that. This core functionality is extended by hundreds of packages (plug-ins). Some of these packages provide more advanced generic functionality, others provide cutting-edge methods that are only used in highly specialized analysis such as geospatial computation. Tim Appelhans joins me on the show today to talk about his journey from learning R too developing new packages and extending the geospatial visualization capabilities of R Tim Appelhans on Github #rstats on twitter This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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 #43 -Drones are changing the frequency, resolution, and scale of geospatial data collection. SkyCatch is applying drone-based data collection to the mining industry which might just be the first step on the journey to an autonomous workplace. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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 #43 - This is an interview with one of the founders of Safe Software, Dale Lutz (an all-around nice guy and a thought leader in the geospatial world). Dale walks you thought the evolution of the problems that Safe is solving, and gives you insight into the fallacy of the one “file to rule them all” theory and talks about trends in the geospatial file formats and data exchange in general. We also discuss the future of Geospatial as an industry and from a practitioner’s perspective. Quotes from the interview “.pdf is where data goes to die” “after the nuclear holocaust, there will be only cockroaches and shapefiles” 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

This episode is the last episode for 2019 and I wanted to do something a little different so this episode is a look back at some of the trends that I have seen in the geospatial industry of the course of the last year. I also mention a few of the initiatives that I have seen in the geospatial community and talk about the future of The MapScaping Podcast Check out the #GISChat hashtag here One of the people behind the #GISChat Check out Women in Geospatial website here Spatial Awareness NewsLetter 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

In some respects, we are all drowning in data and one of the big challenges going forward will be filtering the data we have so we can make sense of the world by removing the noise. The Travel Time Platform approaches location-based search form the perspective of the time it takes to reach a destination. So in the example of searching for the nearest movie theater, the user will not be presented with a result that shows the options based on a certain travel time limitation as opposed to movie theaters in a straight line distance. In this interview, Charlie Davies walks us thought the challenges of building a search engine based on travel time and what this might look like in the future. A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Vricon is on a mission to build the most accurate 3D model of the surface of our planet. They have access to what might be the largest stockpile satellite imagery in the world and are using a technology stack that focuses on very large scale image processing and in particular multiview 3D reconstruction. I this podcast interview the Vise President of Vricon, Isaac Zaworski walks us through what the process of creating the most accurate 3D model of the world looks like today, what challenges they face when process imagery and what this might look like in the future. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

What3words divides the world into a 3 * 3-meter grid, each square is uniquely identified by three words which creates a global reference system that allows people to identify and navigate between these 3*3 meter squares using 3 words instead of longitude and latitude. Three words are easy to remember and provide an easy and effective way of communicating location to voice-enabled machines. Listen to this interview with one of the co-founders of what3words, Jack Waley-Cohen to learn more about the problems what3words is solving and the thought that goes into building a coordinate system for humans. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

In this interview with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster we talk about the opportunities within the geospatial industry that come with a deep understanding of a specific vertical. What newcomers to the industrial should think about focusing on and why. Mike debunks the 80% of all data has a spatial component myth and gives his perspectives on the future of the geospatial industry. All of this might sound a little dry and perhaps it would be if Mike was not so open, honest and passionate about the subjects we discuss. I really enjoyed this conversation and I am sure you will too. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Collecting and validating geospatial data for every commercial location in the USA and Canada is not an easy task. It requires aggregation of data from multiple sources and formats. This data then needs to be validated and decisions need to be made about which data sources represent the truth in the case of conflicting data. Safegraph does this weighing datasets based on certain criteria and using a voting system. Safegraph Data Blog -- Cool GIS data stories from SafeGraph SafeGraph Data Bar -- If you want to try SafeGraph data, you can use the code Mapscaping for $500 free data, no credit card needed. Safegraph Docs Page is our extensive user-centric documentation and releases notes, data dictionaries, etc. so you can ramp up quickly when working with SafeGraph data. SafeGraph is on Twitter Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph Auren's Twitter Ryan Fox Squire, Data Scientist at SafeGraph, Ryan's Quora, Ryan's Twitter This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

The curbside might not seem like the most obvious focus point in terms of mapping the urban environment but when you start to think of the curb as a highly regulated space and when you consider the number of arrivals and departures that that place on the curb in crowded urban cities you might just change your mind. The curbside is actually an interface between different vehicle traffic and pedestrians that has to enable a wide variety of use cases. Coord is helping organisations map the curbside, the assets on the curb and the locations of regulated spaces. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

The move from printed media to digital media has had a huge impact on the way cartography is used and consumed. News rooms around the world are not only using maps to illustrate their written content but also as a form of branding. MapCreator is an online mapping software that gives journalists access to cartographic tools. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Geomob provides a forum to learn and exchange ideas about any interesting services and projects that deal with location. Everyone working in or curious about the location space or with location services is welcome. In this episode Ed Freyfogle introduces Geomob and draws parallels between the projects and ideas being presented in the Geomob community and the trends in the wider geospatial community. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

This is the story of the confluence of open data, just enough availability of hardware, software, computing power and being laser focused about the industry you are trying to serve. Building Footprint USA is a small company that is curating and manufacturing building footprint data at scale. This is their story, how they got started, what problems they are solving and how they coexist free data. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

The future of remote sensing and earth observation might be open, collaborative and involve much more end user education that you expect. Dr Aliastair Graham shares his observations based on 20 years of experience in the industry. Aliastair walks you through what a future where all data is open might look like, some of the projects that are focused on making data more "findable" and "usable" and the opportunities he sees in the industry. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Geospatial data is not always easy to find. The open data revolution and the abundance of data available on the global market have created a very fragmented environment and it is often difficult to know where to look to find what you need. UP42 is creating a marketplace for geospatial data ( all kinds of geospatial data ) and work flows to process this data. The idea here is that data and processes can be joined together link lego bricks to create workflows, these workflows can be then used by others and applied different geographic locations. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Removing the barriers to entry by making it easy to create immersive geodata visualisations that tell a story and explain a process. Maple Precision has incorporated insights from the gaming industry to create a platform that organises spatial data for a variety of different open data sources and lets users create 3D animations in web browser. This episode is sponsored by HiveMapper A platform that takes video and creates 3D mapping layers based on that data. The video can be from a variety of different sensors, does not need to be vertically looking down on the geography and each 3D output is georeferenced! 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

Every building has its own geomagnetic fingerprint and by mapping that fingerprint against a floorplan of the building IndoorAtlas is able to provide accurate location and navigation inside. The genius of this system is that it takes advantage of an existing geomagnetic infrastructure. In this interview you will learn How the geomagnetic fields of buildings can play a key role in indoor location How differences between iOS and android dramatically affect indoor navigation What are challenges of indoor navigation compared to outdoor navigation and how they are being solved. What the future of indoor navigation looks like and how indoor navigation might be monetised going forward 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

Location gives context to data but it can also be used to give context to experiences. Radar is a platform for geofencing and location tracking. In this interview with Co founder Nick Patrick we discuss the opportunities around using location to deliver contextualised experiences to users, what these experiences look like today and what we can expect to see in the future. 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Location intelligence is crucial to managing risk. WatchKeeper International is using real time data feeds from a variety of different sources to monitor and mitigate risk and location is the thing that gives context to the data. In this interview, I talk with the founder of a company who has built a platform that ingests geospatial risk data feeds in real-time, applies rules-based decision-making to automate alerts on adverse events in close proximity to assets or employees and allows users to rewind and replay past events. 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Craig Taylor creates inspirational geospatial visualizations and this is his journey from a formal education in GIS using industry standard tools to creating leading edge geospatial visualizations that tell meaningful stories using software that is designed for rendering 3D animations. 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Humanitarian emergencies often strike without warning, destroying lives and livelihoods within a matter of seconds. In the immediate aftermath, the challenge for those responding is to know where to start. MapAction provides geospatial support in the case of a humanitarian emergency. 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Litter is everywhere. Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, choke wildlife, and threaten our planet. Litterati is tackling this problem one piece of litter at a time. Geotags provide insight into problem areas, while keywords identify the most commonly found brands and products. Throw some machine learning into the mix and we might just be able to model the flow of litter thought our environment. This data will be used to work with companies and organizations to find more sustainable solutions 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Traffic on the road is governed by a strict set of well integrated rules covering everything from speed limitations, direction of travel and even who has the right of way in given situations. There are many use cases for drones but if we can't agree on or regulate their flight paths we might never see them integrated into the urban landscape. AirSpaceLink is developing a platform that lets all the different stakeholders communicate and update fly zones for drones in real time. The lack of physical barriers in the sky means that fly zones, and risk islands and flight paths will be represented as 3D geofences and communicated via application programming interfaces ( APIs). 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 or visit our website MapScaping.com

Fishviews is the Google Street View for rivers. The creators believe that the ability to virtually explore river environments is going to fundamentally change the way we understand waterways. The idea being that 360 immersive experiences will give people context to the data in a way that is simple not possible on a traditional map. You can follow Fishviews on Facebook and Twitter 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

Rachel Olney is the founder of Geosite, a company that describes it's self as the Google Drive, or Switzerland, of geospatial. Rachel shares the insights that lead her to start a company that aims to bridge the gap between users that understand the importance of location intelligence but lack the technical expertise to use many of the current geospatial software solutions. Rachel also shares some of her views on the future of the geospatial industry, what skills we might need to acquire in order to stay relevant and why geospatial data might be more siloed in the future Geosite on twitter 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

I thought I would take the time to share my background with you, how I became involved in the geospatial industry and share I few things that I have learned from conducting interviews with people in the industry. I also have a few housekeeping messages I would like to share with you. 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

Our digital footprints, the posts, and comments we leave online might just be useful the key to understanding how people relate and interact with the urban environment. Geotagged, comments online can be processed using natural language artificial intelligence to sort our digital footprints into a range of recognizable human emotions that are associated with a certain location. This allows us to understand how people use urban space, the ways in which we might want to brand location and how a location might gain a competitive advantage over competing locations. MapScaping.com

Andy Allan, the owner and founder of Thundred Forest, talks about how he got involved with the OpenStreetMap project and ended up creating activity specific maps at a global scale. We also discuss what it takes to make and update maps of the world and the opportunities in the digital mapping space as well as what the future might look like. MapScaping.com

Smartphones are going to democratize the precise geolocation in the future. In the past years, android has giving developers access to GNNS measurements which is the step before acquiring a position fix and a prerequisite for precise positioning. One of the major cell phone manufacturers has also added a dual frequency GNNS chipset to there flagship phone. Combine these two elements with positioning as a service and everyone will have access to precise geolocation. The only question is ... what will we do with it? MapScaping.com

Esplorio automatically maps your journeys as you move around the world. The idea being that by mapping path we take when we travel we can build a much more nuanced record of our travels. The exact route we took through Rome, where we got on and off the bus. All these little details are part of a journey but not necessarily worth recording on their own. This is the kind of tracking that we will see more of in the geospatial world and it illustrates the power of location. MapScaping.com

Using computer vision to create and maintain map data at a street-level is something that Google has been doing for years. But what if you crowdsourced that data collection ... what if you could access the database that was created ... and what if anyone could participate. This is an interview will Mapillary, a company that is rethinking the way we create and distribute data. MapScaping.com

Many of the big global mapping platforms focus on the urban environment and this makes sense, urban environments are where most people are and they are growing. But what about the outdoors? This is the story of a mapping platform designed for outdoor enthusiasts. MapScaping.com

Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information for over 180,000 flights a day. It's based on a largely terrestrial network of over 20,000 ADS-B receivers. Flightradar started as a side project in 2006 and now has over 2 million users per day. This is a great example of geospatial in the wild. MapScaping.com

Geocoding provides a way of translating between machine and human languages when we communicate location. Machines collect and process location data in terms of latitude and longitude but humans have a much richer vocabulary in terms of describing a location. So we need something that allows us to be able to translate between these two languages, this is where geocoding comes in.

Workplace risk and danger are personal, spatial and time-based. In this episode, you will learn how one company is solving for this using personalized notifications based on location. A geospatial safety bubble that follows you around and alerts you when you are at risk.

If GPS can be spoofed, how can we prove that you are where you say you are? XYO is solving this problem by building a network that of devices that independently verify the locations of other devices participating in the network. By building this network on top of blockchain technology the network its self will be able execute smart contracts and provide a traceable confirmed timeline of an object's journey.

We geo-tag images and text all the time so way not do the same with sound? Echoes is a platform that lets you attached audio to physical locations. These areas then act as geofences and trigger content when your listeners physically walk inside. In this way the listener controls the experience by physically moving through an area. In this interview with Josh from Echoes we also discuss 3D audio as a way of augmenting reality.

Goodbye, flat maps hello augmented reality and hands-free geospatial! vGIS is a visualization platform that takes existing GIS, CAD and other types of data and merges them into the world of augmented reality. This is the way we will deliver and consume geospatial data in the future. Hands-free, intuitive data visualization.