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The Great Retooling
Ian Schuler is the CEO of Development Seed — the team behind a lot of the open source tooling that quietly holds up the geospatial world. He’s been at...
Earth Observation – The Invisible Industry
What is Earth observation, really — and why, after fifty years of satellite imagery, is it still not “mainstream”? In this episode, I’m joined by Aravind Ravichandran, founder of...
10 Tools for Telling Stories With Maps
Ryan Shields has one of the most interesting careers in geospatial — from remote sensing for conservation in the Caribbean, to disaster response data engineering with FEMA, to his...
Agents, Guardrails, and the Death of the Dashboard
Nadine Alameh is back — former CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, and now CEO and co-founder of Lunate AI, a six-month-old company sitting right at the messy intersection...
How HOT Is Rethinking Drone Mapping
What happens when you put professional-grade aerial mapping in the hands of the people who actually live in the places being mapped? In this episode, I’m joined by Rebecca...
Common Space
This episode examines the Common Space initiative, a non-profit project dedicated to building and launching high-resolution optical satellites designed specifically for humanitarian purposes, such as aiding populations at risk...
AI in QGIS
I’ve been playing around with a lot of large language models lately, and it is absolutely fascinating to watch them work. But what happens when you bring that directly...
Geospatial Makers Start Building!
Geospatial Product Swiss Army Knife 1. The “Build It and They Won’t Come” Trap We have all seen it: a talented geospatial professional spends months—perhaps years—perfecting a technically sophisticated...
Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source
Why Machine-Writing Code is the Best (and Most Dangerous) Thing for Geospatial: The current discourse surrounding AI coding is nothing if not polarized. On one side, the technofuturists urge...
Who Pays for Open Source?
Open source software runs a huge chunk of the geospatial world — but somebody still has to pay for it. In this episode I sit down with Marco Bernasocchi,...