Smart Point Clouds: What If Every Point Knew What It Was
Point clouds still feel a little bit like magic to me. You walk through a room, a city, or even just your living room with a scanner or your phone, and you can recreate it afterwards. But on their own...
1 Okt 1h
Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams
Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams: How the Utah Geological Survey Did It What happens when a small, technical team at a state agency decides to go cloud native? They don't have terabytes of sate...
23 Sep 37min
GERS, Metadata, and Maps Built for Machines
We already have a map. Actually, we have lots of maps. So why did Overture build another one? My guest in this episode is Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, and she makes a pretty compelli...
17 Sep 48min
The Evolution of Positioning Systems
Republished Episode - I wanted to resurface this episode because positioning is everything, and it's a great overview of how it works. Right now you are being bathed in radio signals from about 35 s...
9 Sep 54min
Sentinel Bird
Earlier this year I ran a small experiment called the Geospatial Launchpad — six weeks of working closely with a couple of people to help them push their geospatial projects forward. West was one of t...
7 Sep 28min
Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems
In this episode I'm joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI, a company building virtual worlds — or "world models" for robots and physical AI systems. Apurva's path here is an unusual ...
4 Aug 49min
GPS, But 100 Times Stronger
My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his team are moving satellites into low Earth o...
29 Jul 43min
