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Podcast: Geospatial Concepts

Podcast episodes focused on overarching conceptions within geospatial

Designing for Location Privacy

Discover the delicate balance between harnessing the power of location data for valuable insights and safeguarding individual privacy. Explore key insights from a recent MapScaping podcast episode, where experts discuss the challenges, strategies, and regulations surrounding location data privacy

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Hyperspectral vs Multispectral

When comparing multispectral and hyperspectral data it is not simply a case of “more data more better”! 
With hyperspectral you have “The curse of Dimensionality” but you also get more flexibility to pick exactly what bands you want to use!
With mult…

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Planet Scale Tiled Maps Without A Server

Protomaps is a serverless system for planet-scale maps, it’s an umbrella project consisting of a few different components one of which is PMtiles.
PMtiles is “Cloud Optimise Geotiff” for web mapping, what this means is that you can build a base map a…

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Navigating the World of Geospatial Standards

Warning! this podcast episode is not as boring as it sounds!
 
While geospatial standards are boring on purpose … this episode is not .-
If you woke up this morning wanting to listen to a boring podcast episode about geospatial standards this is no…

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Distributing Geospatial Data

Distributing Geospatial Data – Every wondered why you might what to do this? Or maybe you understand the why but are unsure about the how? 
Perhaps you have heard people talk about partitioning data or sharding data, you might have heard some of thes…

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Aerial Imagery: The State Of The Art

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…

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The technology stack and the cultural stack

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 be…

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How Google Calculates Your Location

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 somethin…

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Cloud Optimized Point Clouds

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…

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Full Stack Cartography

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…

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