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80 Days: An Exploration Podcast

Luke Kelly, Joe Byrne, Mark Boyle

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80 Days is a podcast dedicated to exploring little-known countries, territories settlements and cities around the world. We're part history podcast, part geography podcast and part ramble. Each episode, we'll land in a new locale and spend some time discussing the history, geography, culture, sport, religion, industry, pastimes and music of our new location. More details on www.80dayspodcast.com, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @80dayspodcast | Support us on www.patreon.com/80dayspodcast
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A podcast for geospatial people. Weekly episodes that focus on the tech, trends, tools, and stories from the geospatial world. Interviews with the people that are shaping the future of GIS, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry. This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
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Isn't That Spatial is a podcast dedicated to casual geography and the spatial component of whatever. Topics cover urban planning, the geography of dive bars, urban oddities, and other good stuff.
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Ask the Geographer

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Our award-winning podcasts bring the latest in geographical research to your classroom from a host of experts. The experts involved present their own opinions, which should not be interpreted as the Society's point of view.
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Refactoring the Way you Talk About your geospatial skills: It is Costing you Money Some of the key topics in this episode 1.Our Geospatial Skills and Marketability: There's a realization that while our traditional geospatial skills are valuable, they might not always be marketed effectively to match the broader IT and data analysis job markets. We …
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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 733 10 March 2024 Catching up on news… Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode733.mp3 News: NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure Methane tracking satellite NGA expands commercial acquisitions with ‘Luno’ NGA opens NGOC NSGIC states geospat…
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News: NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure Methane tracking satellite NGA expands commercial acquisitions with ‘Luno’ NGA opens NGOC NSGIC states geospatial maturity assessment Events: Geospatial World Forum (GWF): 13-16 May, Rotterdam ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium: 11-14 June. Las Vegas NACIS: 16-19 Oct, Tacoma…
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News: NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure Methane tracking satellite NGA expands commercial acquisitions with ‘Luno’ NGA opens NGOC NSGIC states geospatial maturity assessment Events: Geospatial World Forum (GWF): 13-16 May, Rotterdam ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium: 11-14 June. Las Vegas NACIS: 16-19 Oct, Tacoma…
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Title: "Racing Across the Wilds: A Cartophilic Adventure with the Stars of BBC's Race Across the World" In this episode, the hosts, Roifield Brown from the wilds of Southern Ontario and Claire Astbury from Swindon, as they dive into an exhilarating discussion with Monique and Ladi the dynamic father-daughter duo from the latest season of the BBC's …
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Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (U California Press, 2024) questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting acti…
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In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse environmental sustainability efforts with social justice. In this edited volume, we extend calls for higher education leaders to revamp programming, pedagogy, and research that problematically reproduce do…
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The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 2023) asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that violence it…
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Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mike Duggan is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes readers on a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave paintings and stone carvings to the digital i…
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Professor Alice Reid is a historical demographer, working on fertility, mortality and health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She joins us to talk about reasons why these factors affected changes in population in the UK at this time.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools
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Audio: Åland In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about Åland, an autonomous and demilitarized archipelago of Finland, which lies between Finland and Sweden, although it is closer to the latter by around 20km. Åland (which can also be spelled Aaland) is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km2 or 610 sq …
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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 732 28 February 2024 Catching up on news and considering our perspectives Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode732.mp3 News: Moon landing Korea’s KASS operational US DOJ moves to dismiss Ligado case Esri to roll out AI Assistants in 2024 Topic: Are o…
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Modern geospatial - not the bleeding edge of geospatial but modern geospatial - what is it? Well my guest Will Cadell, the CEO of SparkGeo describes modern geospatial as the intersection of the cloud, smart space, open source data/standards, AI and smart devices - that's modern geospatial And as you will hear during the discussion it's important to…
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In Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy (Duke UP, 2023), Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centur…
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The Overland Trail into the American West is one of the most culturally recognizable symbols of the American past: white covered wagons traversing the plains, filled with heroic pioneers embodying the nation's manifest destiny. In American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), University of Nev…
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Isabella Alexander's book Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, focusing chiefly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach and maki…
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Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how languages, or bits of languages, are used to stylize a place. A welcome sign may index a tourist destination, artistic arrangements of word blocks like “love”, “peace”, or “joy” may index consumption and leis…
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Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Po…
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The main topics discussed during this episode include: Basics of LIDAR data and its applications. Differences between LIDAR and photogrammetry. Processing chain of LIDAR data. Challenges in classifying point clouds. Applications of LIDAR technology in vegetation mapping, terrain modelling, and infrastructure inspection. The future of LIDAR technolo…
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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 731 11 February 2024 Is the GIS Industry resistant to technological change? Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode731.mp3 News: OSM as digital public good Google Maps incorporating generative AI Topic: This week we discuss responses to the looming mat…
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During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area’s preferred cultural and racial identity. Jennifer Sdunzik explores this widespread phenomenon by examining how it played out in one midwestern community. Sdunzik merges s…
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Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What M…
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During the “global land grab” of the early twenty-first century, legions of investors rushed to Africa to acquire land to produce and speculate on agricultural commodities. In Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures (Cornell UP, 2024), Youjin Chung examines the messy, indeterminate trajectory of a h…
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Sally Earthrowl is a British geographer and educator who has a wealth of experience in exploring our seas and oceans. In this podcast she delves into her exploration of the seas that was ignited by seeing plastic pollution in Bali. This led her to investigate the great ocean garbage patches with eXXpedition then, later, monitoring the impacts of cl…
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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 730 28 January 2024 Catching up on some news. Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode730.mp3 News: NAPGD 2022-submit GNSS or leveling data Techtree launches AROUND NSA in data purchase news Real impacts of mobile map attribute errors Mars helicopter In…
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Alex Leith is a Digital Earth Architect and in this episode, you will learn what Infrastructure as code is - hint it is the opposite of the "clicky-clicky" and so much more! Connect with Alex here https://auspatious.com/ Recommended Listening Cloud-Optimized Point CLounds https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/ Cloud Native Geo…
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The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Damon Scott is a lively history of urban development and its influence on queer political identity in postwar San Francisco. By reconstructing the planning and queer history of waterfront drinking establishments, Dr. Scott shows …
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Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world's most threatened species. The fervor driving the illegal trade in succulents might also be driving some species to extinction. Delving into the strange world of succulent collecting, Jared D. Margulies' book The Cactus Hunters: Desire and…
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There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding of the world. Complexity science and systems thinking offer hope in meeting this need. But in their 2022 book Systems Mapping: How to Build and Use Causal Models of Systems (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), …
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The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (University of Chicago Press, 2016) offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Create…
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GeeMap is an open-source Python library that provides tools for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine (GEE), which is a platform for earth science data and analysis ... and today you are going to hear from the creator of GeeMap! Connect with Qiusheng Wu here: https://wetlands.io/ This episode is sponsored by Planet learn more at https://www.…
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