Ashlee Vance is a Tech Journalist, the author of Elon Musk's 1st biography in 2015, the host of "Hello World" on Youtube and the author of "When the Heavens Went on Sale" as well as the accompanying documentary "Wild Wild Space" following 4 New Space companies. We nerd out on rocket companies, 1 rogue NASA administrator, and the time I got to meet …

Luke Fischer is the Co-Founder & CEO of SkyFi, a company that we'll describe in a few ways in this episode, but boils down to an Earth Observation marketplace. We talk about Luke's 20 year time in the military before getting into startups, why Luke is bullish on their approach and many more Sponsor: SatCamp SatCamp is a different kind of conference…

Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been working on Earth Index, an application built on top of Earth embeddings from foundation models. This conversation is the "so what" of Earth foundational model Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenC…

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Ib Green led the development of 3D visualisation tools like for example Uber’s deck.gl and is now working at Foursquare, after having started Unfolded, which Foursquare acquired. During this conversation we touch on how browser based visualisations are changing This episode is supported by all the people on Patreon Access Behind the Scenes and supp…

Bruno Sanchez is the Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, which just released their v1 of a “Foundational Model of Earth”. We talk about what that means, building open source & non profits and can’t help but draw parallels to the not-so-open anymore OpenAI. Previously Bruno was the Program Director of the Microsoft Planetary Computer Sponsor:…

Dr Fred Calef III has the unofficial title of "Keeper of Maps" at NASA JPL, he's the Lead Mapping Specialist for most of JPL's Mars Rover missions, most recently that being Perseverance & Curiosity. But to land -and navigate- a rover, one needs maps, and Fred makes them. Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap Try out Kermap's monthly mosaic viewer Nimbo for your…

Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books. GeoLayers geolayers.app Johnny Harris Markus’s cameo in a recent video Search Party Felt Procreate dreams Jason Boone’s episode Podcast recommendation: Synt…

Volodymyr Agafonkin is the creator of Leaflet, an open-source JS mapping library started in 2008 that is used pretty much everywhere on the Internet today. We end up nerding out on what makes building simple open source software & rendering maps online tricky but also so endlessly interesting. Volodymyr lives in Ukraine, a country shaken by a war f…

Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on his popular Youtube channel. Qiusheng has a desire to teach, share and lower the barrier to entry to geospatial, all things I'm always curious to talk more about Sponsor: OpenCage…

Ryan Abernathey is a Climate Scientist, open-source software developer and the CEO & co-founder of Earthmover, a company trying to simplify how scientific computing is done. Ryan also co-founded the Pangeo project in 2016, one of the major efforts to build better tools for scientific computing today. Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap Try out Kermap's monthl…

Gilberto Camara was the director of INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research from 2005 to 2012, working there 35y in total and leading the use of satellite imagery to fight deforestation in Brazil, leading to what Nature declared “One of the biggest environmental wins of the 2000s” Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs…

Thomas Ager worked for 30y at the National Geospatial Agency on Radar satellite images and recently released ‘The Essentials of SAR’ a book breaking down Synthetic Aperture Radar for, as he puts it, “non electrical engineers” Sponsor: Planet Find more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency images About Tom LinkedIn His book: The …

Brian McClendon was one of the earliest investors & later VP of Engineering at Keyhole, which got acquired by Google in 2004. Brian become VP of Engineering and led Google Geo, overlooking the development of Google Earth & Google Maps. He also worked at Uber & is now at Niantic, which you might know for thri most popular app: Pokemon Go Sponsor: Op…

Ariel Seidman is one of the co-founders of Hivemapper, a company building a map through selling dashcams & paying contributing drivers with the aim of competing with Google Maps. Ariel has a long history of mapping, working on Map & Search at Yahoo in the mid 2000s. Sponsor: Planet Find more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency…

It's the end of the year, so time for Christmas sweaters & looking back on the year through 12 conversations ranging from advice for people wanting to build things, discussing academia & companies, thinking about the roles of maps in the world and many others. Support the podcast & my work on Patreon Listen to the full episodes mentioned today: Har…

Jason Boone runs the Boone Loves Videos YouTube Channel with nearly 100k subscribers, teaching people visual effects & map animations. This led him to work with some of the biggest YouTubers out there, including Johnny Harris. We talked about running an online business teaching people map animations, using maps to tell stories and Jason's recent di…

Javier de la Torre started a Biologist Researcher, went on to start Vizzuality and later Carto where he is now. Javier works at the intersection mapping, software based companies & geospatial. He is also one of the founding members of the Tierra Pura Foundation focused on mitigation and adaptions tactics to climate change. Sponsor: Felt Check out t…

Hongwei Liu is the CEO & Co-Founder of MappedIn, a company focused on indoor mapping. I know a lot about what it takes to map the outdoor world, but little about what’s required to map indoors. That’s what this conversation is about. Episode Sponsor: SkyFi Get high resolution imagery easily, with prices up front on SkyFi.com About Hongwei LinkedIn …

Sean Gorman is currently on his 4th start-up, Zephr, working on improving smartphone location. Previously he worked on 3D mapping (acquired by Snap), mapping fibre optics infrastructure (and caught the NAS's attention as a grad student). I was recently in Colorado and got to spend a few days with Sean, at the end of which we recorded a conversation…

Harold Goddijn is one of the co-founders & the CEO of TomTom. TomTom has pivoted many times, from it's beginnings making PDA software in the early 90s, stumbling onto map applications, building its own hardware to millions of devices sold in a day, to its current form today. TomTom is a fascinating company in the mapping industry and I'm excited to…

James Killick worked at Apple from 2013 to 2022 on the Maps team and has worked in mapping for the past 40 years. I've been wondering why Apple has gotten so much into Maps; Google makes sense to me, they're just the same ad business as search, but on a map. So, why -and how- did Apple get into Map? Sponsor: Felt Try out collaborative online mappin…

Aravind Ravichandran is the founder of TerraWatch Space, where he does consulting and strategy with the goal, in his words, to demystify Earth Observation. This is an introduction to the 5 layers Aravind identifies as making the Earth Observation industry. Aravind writes one of the most popular newsletter gathering the latest news and featuring dee…

Steve Brumby is the founder & CTO of Impact Observatory, a company working on providing rapid land cover maps anywhere on Earth. He puts it as wanting to provide "the maps the US takes for granted, all around the globe". Steve was also a co-founder & the CTO at Descartes Labs and worked at National Geographic. --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCage Use Open…

Robert Cheetham is the founder of Azavea, founded all the way back in 2000 and Dan Pilone one of the founders of Element84, started in 2010. Recently Element84 acquired Azavea to expand from large scale computing to also analysis. I wanted to talk to Robert & Dan about why they went for an acquisition and why now, if both companies had both been ar…

Philipp Krohn berichte über die Botschaft und die Entstehungsgeschichte seines Buchs "Ökoliberalismus - Warum Nachhaltigkeit die Freiheit braucht". Ob man mit Anreizen oder mit Verboten die Klimaziele besser erreichen kann? Erfahre es in dieser Folge!By Der Finanzoptimist | Nachhaltig anlegen

Dr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer at Esri, a former Deputy Director of the California Department of Public Health and a certified public health professional; so the perfect person to talk about how we map diseases, health and all the support around medical care. Este also wrote a book about the learning of mapping applied to covid, whic…

It's the end of an era! Tune in for one last time as Ryan "Agent M" Penagos and Jasmine Estrada run through all the new Marvel comics hitting your local comic shop on Wednesday! This week's highlights include FALLEN FRIEND 1, MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN 8, and X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - DOOMSDAY 1! Plus, this week's reading club features the return…

Tune in as Ryan "Agent M" Penagos and Jasmine Estrada unveil their top picks from the newest releases hitting the shelves of your favorite local comic book store this week! This week's highlights include a giant-sized CAPTAIN AMERICA 750, an Alicia Masters-led FANTASTIC FOUR 9, the return of fan-favorite Pogg Ur-POGG in X-MEN 24, and so much more! …

Can Duruk is the co-founder & CTO at Felt, a company working on bringing maps to the browser. In Can's own words they want to make maps fun and collaborative. Think of Felt as the Figma or Notion of Maps. Episode Sponsor: satellite-image-deep-learning newsletter To keep up with all things satellite images & deep learning, follow Robin Cole's newsle…

Tune in as Ryan "Agent M" Penagos and Jasmine Estrada unveil their top picks from the newest releases hitting the shelves of your favorite local comic book store this week! Strap in and prepare for an action-packed lineup, featuring STAR WARS: DARTH VADER - BLACK, WHITE & RED 3, DEADPOOL 8, X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL - HERALDS OF APOCALYPSE 1, and more…

Welcome back to Marvel's Pull List, your ultimate source for the latest comic book releases! Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey as we explore the new titles hitting the shelves on June 21st, 2023 including INCREDIBLE HULK 1, SCARLET WITCH ANNUAL 1, ULTIMATE INVASION 1, and more! Plus, we have a special treat for our listeners as we wel…

Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Regrow, though today's conversation is about her story from going to school not speaking the language, to mapping rubber tree plantations and ultimately using global satellite imagery methods to solve local problems. Support the podcast on Patreon --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCag…

Get ready for an action-packed episode of Marvel's Pull List as we dive into the latest comic book releases hitting the shelves on June 14th, 2023! Join us as we highlight the must-read titles of the week, including our picks of the week: MARVEL'S VOICES: PRIDE #1, DOCTOR STRANGE #4, and the highly anticipated final issue of Kelly Thompson's incred…

Welcome to another exciting episode of Marvel's Pull List! Get ready to dive into the gripping world of comics as Ryan "Agent M" Penagos and Jasmine Estrada unveil our top picks of the week: DAREDEVIL #12, LOKI #1, and IMMORTAL X-MEN #12. But that's not all! This week, we're delighted to welcome a special guest to this week's episode: writer Stepha…

Jed Sundwall is the Executive Director of Radiant Earth, and formerly worked on creating AWS's Open Data Registry, starting by putting Landsat images and then other Earth Observation datasets on the cloud. Radiant Earth is an NGO focused on making geospatial data more accessible, specifically for Machine Learning applications. Support the Podcast o…

Welcome to a thrilling new episode of Marvel's Pull List, where we dive into the captivating world of comics and explore the remarkable stories that make the Marvel Universe shine. Get ready for an unforgettable lineup of picks this week, featuring AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #26, EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #2, and PUNISHER #12. But that's not all! Marvel's Pull …

Get ready for an exhilarating new episode of Marvel's Pull List, where we unveil our top picks of the week and dive deep into the thrilling realms of the Marvel Universe. Join Ryan and Jasmine as they embark on an unforgettable journey with our featured titles: Fury #1, Hellcat #3, and Thor #34. But that's not all! Marvel's Pull List is thrilled to…

Marc Prioleau is the newly appointed Executive Director to the Overture Maps Foundation (at the date this episode comes out). Overture was originally announced in December 2022, founded by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, with the goal of providing a open map data. That sounds a lot like what OpenStreetMap set out to achieve... so why start some…

Ryan and Jasmine are back with an exhilarating new episode of Marvel's Pull List that will leave you on the edge of your seat! Join us as we unveil our picks of the week, featuring the most thrilling stories and beloved characters from the Marvel Universe. Tune in as we cover the debut issue of writer Jed MacKay's and artist C.F. Villa's take on Ea…