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Felt – Upload Anything

 felt.com is a browser-based mapping tool and but its also a reminder that just because we have always done web mapping one way it doesn’t mean it always has to be done that way.
For example, Felt lets you upload anything! That’s a bold promise, you …

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The Rapid Editor

Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap. 
Humans a…

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PostgreSQL – Listen and Notify Clients In Real Time

The promise of digital mapping is to provide a shared and real-time view of the state of the underlying system.

pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promise of real-time event modeling and shared views in …

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Applying For A Job, Getting Picked and Negotiating The Contract

You guessed it this episode is all about recruitment!
Who is this episode for? Well if you have a career in geospatial … it’s for you!
 
Getting the job you want, changing your career path, or deciding whether to work at a start-up or a more establi…

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Using Lasers To Talk To Satellites

How do we get data from a satellite down to Earth? How do we task a satellite? 
Today the answer is likely to be via radios and a system of downlink sites or ground stations. As the satellites pass overhead or within “line of sight” data can be sent …

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From Pixels to Patterns: AI in Spatial Analysis

There is a general understanding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract meaning from all the data we are collecting without using AI.
 
But what is AI, and how did we end up in a situation where it is identifying wolves from dogs base…

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pygeoapi – A Python Geospatial Server

PYGEOAPI is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards … which might be really useful if you are thinking about upgrading from the first-generation OGC standards to the second-generation OGC standards 
… or if need to implem…

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Big Data In The Browser

So why would anyone want to put alot of data into a browser? Well, for a lot of the same reasons that edge computing and distributed computing have become so popular.
You get the data a lot closer to the user and you don’t have to pay for the compute…

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Rasters In A Database?

Sounds like a great idea right?
 
In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn’t … unless you want to … and how you can … if you have to.
 
You can find Paul’s blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about
 
Previous episodes with Pau…

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ChatGPT and Large Language Models

I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works.
 
To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast 
You can connect with Daniel here
https://d…

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