At last month's Geomob Finland in Turku we had a presentation about a project involving working with the UN project to use QGIS to optimize school calendars in sub-Saharan Africa based on precipitation data.
This week on the podcast (Ep. 235) @freyfogle is joined by Sanna Jokela, CEO of GIS consultancy Gispo to discuss how they approached the project.
This week GDAL 3.9.0 was released! Congrats to all involved.
Reason enough for this week's Geomob podcast archives visit to be Episode 125 - our interview with Howard Butler @hobu about the project from back in 2022
Episode 233 of the Geomob podcast is live. Our guest this week is @robintw, maker of the delightful British Placename Mapper: https://placenames.rtwilson.com
It's Friday, so time for a visit to the Geomob podcast archives.
Our recommendation for your weekend listening pleasure is @freyfogle's discussion with Laurence Penney @lorp about the world's oldest known geospatial database: Ptolemy's Geography. A fascinating look back at how it all started.
In Ep. 232 of the podcast long-time geomobster and open data expert @puntofisso returns to preview Open Data Camp 9, which will be taking place in Manchester on 🗓️July 6-7th
Episode 231 of the podcast is up - @freyfogle is joined by recent Geomob Berlin speaker Carston Hernke of Honeycomb Maps to discuss the need for speed and "direct manipulation" in geospatial apps and how WebAssembly can make it possible.
Join @stevenfeldman and @freyfogle on Episode 230 of the podcast this week as they recap last week's Geomob London event, discuss @mappery's big break in the NY Times, debate the merits of video tutorials, mull how the best speaker contest can be implemented better, and contemplate how to celebrate the upcoming #OpenStreetMap 20th birthday 🎂
It's Friday, and that means a visit to the podcast archives.
Today we go all the way back to Episode 24 (from July 2020) when we spoke with Peter Katich @karussell co-founder of routing service Graphhopper, to discuss the pleasures and pains of building a business on open source.
This week on the podcast (Ep. 229) @stevenfeldman interviews Sean Wiid, CEO of UP42, about the challenges of building a marketplace for geospatial / earth observation data
In this week's visit to the Geomob podcast archives we go way back to Episode 14 with @jpmens discussing the OwnTracks project https://owntracks.org@owntracks
We recently crossed 4 years / 225 episodes on the Geomob podcast! 🥳🍾🎉 Thank you to all our guests and listeners.
All the old episodes can be found on the site, broken down by categories, lots of great geo discussions that you might have missed. So we thought we also start featuring an episode from the archives every Friday.
To kick things off, check out our interview with Hana Sutch of Go Jauntly, an app to get people out walking, from back in Episode 58.
Our guest this week on the podcast (Ep. 226) is James Milner @jameslmilner discussing Terra Draw, his new cross-platform, open source javascript library for map drawing - which he presented at Geomob London in January
@stevenfeldman catches up with old friend, geospatial veteran, and our man in Valencia @jorgesanz to discuss geospatial at Elastic specifically and the evolution of open source in the geospatial industry generally.
This week on the podcast (Ep. 224) @freyfogle is joined by Jake Cracknell of routing/geocoding start-up https://doorways.ai to discuss the need for and challenge of routing optimised for the delivery use case.
@stevenfeldman and @freyfogle announce the upcoming Geomob Edinburgh (Mar. 26th - thanks to @gala for organizing), and look back on recent events in Berlin, Barcelona, and London.
In this week's episode of the podcast (Ep. 220) we hear from recent Geomob Lisbon speaker Patrick Ribeiro about explorer.land - a map-based storytelling and transparency tool for nature-based projects related to climate change.
This week on the podcast (Ep. 218) @stevenfeldman hosts HOTOSM's Petya Kangalova, Neelima Mohanty, Pragya Pant to discuss the role of internships and mentorship in geospatial career development and encouraging women in our industry.
This week on the podcast (Ep. 217) @stevenfeldman and @freyfogle discuss the economics of Geomob, the cold hard realities of #geobeers 🍻 becoming more expensive, the resulting need for more sponsors, and ponder ways to implement all this.