Geomob

In this episode Ed speaks with Ferdinando Villa, Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), and lead investigator on the ARIES (AI for Environment & Sustainability) project. The impulse for our conversation was the recent announcement by the UN of a collaboration with BC3 to use ARIES to support countries as they apply the new international standard for natural capital accounting, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounting...

One of our regular, shorter episodes in which we catch up on our projects and discuss the geonews. Ed and the OpenCage team are hard at work on wrapping things up before a bit of summer break. Meanwhile, Steve is helping a bit with the organization of FOSS4G, which causes him to reflect on the shift in attitude of large companies in favor of open source...

Ed is rejoined by Alexis Battle, CEO and founder of AVUXI, who we last heard from in episode 8 of the podcast which was recorded in February 2020, right before the pandemic started. Alexis shares the details of what life was like inside a travel tech start-up during Covid: how AVUXI lost 90+% of their revenue, shrank the team, fought to survive, pivoted their product offering to also serve the real estate industry, and how they look towards the future...

Steven speaks with Arnalie Vicario, Online Community Engagement Lead at HOT. After several years of volunteering in the OpenStreetMap Philippines community, Arnalie is the first person to hold the role as Online Community Engagement Lead at HOT. She and Steven discuss the specific problems HOT is trying to address with the role, and reflect on the many challenges of making an inclusive, global community within OpenStreetMap and the wider open mapping community...

This episode's conversation focuses on the challenge of marketing in the geospatial industry. Steve draws upon the expertise of long-time friend Alistair Maclenen, CEO and founder of geo marketing consultancy Quarry One Eleven. Alistair and Steven reflect on common geospatial B2B marketing mistakes, but also successes. Alistair cites What3Words as an example of geospatial marketing success...

Ed speaks with Nadine Alameh, CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and speaker at our February Geomob event. Nadine gives us the overview of what the OGC is, who the members are, and what exactly the organization does. She shares how geospatial standards are crafted, and some of the new technologies and areas where work is currently being done...

This is one of our regular, shorter episodes in which Ed and Steven catch up on their projects and discuss the geonews. Over at Mappery the team has spotted a new map based artist who has left us all saying "wow!". Ed meanwhile is grappling with the complexities of pricing a new product, and will soon be ready for beta testers of OpenCage's new geosearch service if anyone wants to volunteer...

Steven catches up with old friend Will Cadell, CEO of geospatial consultancy Sparkgeo. Will shares stories from the trenches, giving a perspective on life in a geo consultancy. They also revisit Will's presentation "Creating a geo strategy" presented at last year's FOSS4GUK, with the standout line "It's easy to build something because it's fun. But thinking strategically can turn a fun project into a million-dollar business. We should do more of that...

The global pandemic and ensuing travel restrictions has increased societal awareness of, and desire to discuss, the technical possibilities and implications of collection and use of location data. This week our guests are Denise McKenzie and Ben Hawes, two of the organizers of the recently announced Locus Charter, a proposed set of common international principles to support ethical and responsible practice when using location data...

Fans of clever cartography are in for a treat - this week Steven interviews Eric Rodenbeck and Alan McConchie of Stamen, a well known data visualization and map design company. Over the years Stamen has created so many beautiful, thought-provoking, and widely used maps. Most recently they produced the design for Facebook's new OpenStreetMap-based, global base map...