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In this episode Ed chats with artist Chaz Hutton, who spoke at Geomob all the way back in March of 2016 and presented his "Map of Every City". Chaz shares the experience of having a map go viral...

Steven speaks with artist Ed Fairburn about his distinctive artistic style, which he calls "topopointillism; a direct combination of topography and pointillism". This is a fascinating look at the process behind a unique map-based artistic style. Before listening to this episode we highly recommend you check out Ed's fantastic work over at edfairburn.com   Show notes on the Geomob website, where you can also learn more about Geomob events and sign up for our monthly newsletter.

You would be very hard pressed to find anyone in geospatial who hasn't spent time gazing at JRR Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth, the setting for his much-loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The unique cartographic style is a delightful detail that helps bring the stories to life. In this episode Ed has the pleasure of speaking with Dan Bell, an artist who spends his days drawing maps in the Middle Earth style...

Steven interviews Paul Ramsey, whom Steven describes as "a superstar of the OSGeo community". Paul is one of the inventors of the PostGIS extension to Postgres, the most well known and widely used spatial database in the world. Paul tells the story of PostGIS's start all the way back in 2001, and how it has since grown to become a foundational piece of geospatial software. The perspective then turns to the future with Paul musing on upcoming trends in geospatial computing...

Steven speaks with Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna, two of the organizers of FOSS4G 2021, about this year's conference which is coming up from September 27 to October 2nd. Registration is now open! The conference will be held online, and feature over 300 separate talks, five keynotes, live coding events, 50+ different workshops, ice breaker events, and much more. Show notes on the Geomob website, where you can also learn more about Geomob events and sign up for our monthly newsletter.

Ed speaks with Ken Hart, CEO and founder of Snowdrop Solutions, a UK-based company that is implementing location based services for major consumer brands aross the world in the real estate, travel, and finance industries. A fascinating discussion with someone at the sharp end of implementing location as it is used daily by many millions of consumers. Some of the use cases of location are obvious, others like those Snowdrop is rolling out for banks and other fintechs are much more subtle...

One of our regular episodes in which we catch up our projects, and discuss the geonews. Ed is a week away from some much-needed holiday, but first racing to close out a project for a new large enterprise client at OpenCage. Meanwhile Steven is back from a week in the country and enjoying having Arnaud helping him on Mappery. We dive into the recent geonews, starting with Lego word maps...

Steven has the chance to speak with freelance artists David Gee, known for his "Doodle Maps". Doodle maps are hand-drawn, cartoonish, inked illustrations sometimes described as "a caricature of a map". Dave explains the creative process behind the maps, which is about capturing the feel of a city or region in his unique style rather than creating a perfectly geographically accurate representation of a location. Besides standard prints, he also often creates murals...

Steven speaks with Lisa Allen, co-author (together with Deborah Yates) of The little book of data: First steps to your data transformation. The book is full of practical tips and best practices for anyone working with data...

Today Ed chats with long-time OpenStreetMap contributor Gregory Marler about the upcoming State of the Map (SotM), the annual OpenStreetMap conference, which will take place online from July 9-11. Gregory is a member of the organizing committee, as he has been for many years. We discuss the format of this year's event, why someone should attend, and what attendees can look forward to...