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Podcast: Geospatial Tech and Tools

Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution

In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a downstream product of OpenStreetMap.
He explains his background in open map data and his interest in studying collaboration within the…

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100 billion Points Every Day

100 billion Points Every Day
100 billion is a very large number, let’s say that I gave you a spreadsheet with 100 billion rows in it, each row consisted of five columns Latitude, Longitude, Device ID, A Timestamp, and a column telling the name of the…

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Synthetic Data For Real Problems

Computer vision is everywhere! But teaching an algorithm to identify objects requires a lot of data and this is definitely the case when we think about GeoAI  
But it is not enough to have a lot of data we also need data that is labeled
If we are loo…

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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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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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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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