Immersive maps give context to data - this is Street View for rivers
Fishviews is the Google Street View for rivers. The creators believe that the ability to virtually explore river environments is going to fundamentally change the way we understand waterways. The idea...
8 Aug 201923min
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 ...
31 Juli 201940min
A geospatial story and some housekeeping
I thought I would take the time to share my background with you, how I became involved in the geospatial industry and share I few things that I have learned from conducting interviews with people in t...
17 Juli 201938min
Mapping the way we relate to the urban environment
Our digital footprints, the posts, and comments we leave online might just be useful the key to understanding how people relate and interact with the urban environment. Geotagged, comments online can ...
10 Juli 201938min
Creating Global Activity Specific Maps
Andy Allan, the owner and founder of Thundred Forest, talks about how he got involved with the OpenStreetMap project and ended up creating activity specific maps at a global scale. We also discuss wha...
3 Juli 201927min
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 f...
25 Juni 201929min
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 rou...
19 Juni 201943min
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 acces...
12 Juni 201932min
