Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
podcast
Filter by Categories
ArcGIS Pro
GDAL
GeoJson
Map
Python
QGIS
Uncategorized

Podcast: Geospatial Startups

Highways in the sky, risk islands and drone flight paths

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 o…

Read More

The Google Drive of geospatial – curation over creation

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 impor…

Read More

Positioning as a service and the role of smartphones in the future of geolocation

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 …

Read More

A diary of your location – recording your travel journeys using GPS tracks

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 b…

Read More

Scaling map data generation using computer vision

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…

Read More

A mapping platform for your outdoor adventures

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 ent…

Read More

Geo-tagged audio – another way of augmenting reality

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 …

Read More

Powering location intelligence with geo social data – Spatial.ai

An interview with Spatial.ai about the collection and use of geo social data and its role within location intelligence. 
Geosocial data is simply location-based social media data. It is media content (mostly text) produced by people on social platforms t…

Read More

freelance mappers create maps for machines

Mapper leverage freelance mappers to acquire data anywhere in the world and enable machines to navigate with centimeter-level accuracy. Founder & CEO Nikhil Naikal talks about his vision for the future of machine maps and what it will take to get there.

Read More

The future of collecting and updating geospatial data at a global scale

Mapping, visualization, and analytic tools for humans and machines!. Ingest video, lidar or radar data and automatically creates it into useable geospatial information.
 

Read More