The Mappyist Hour: Recent Episodes
The Mappyist Hour
Bitner joins Silas and Todd to talk about PostGIS, from its inception to leveraging its vast capabilities in multi-billion results real-time analytics
https://www.timescale.com/
https://www.citusdata.com/
Silas and Todd talk about their hiatus, life updates, the Pandemic, and how it influenced Geospatial Adoption
Silas and Todd talk to Geo Folks about how COVID-19 is affecting their work and their lives. Then Todd compliments ESRI and talks about getting a bunch of sushi.
Kiri, Michelle, and Diane take the wheel and discussion about what it's like to be a Spatial Librarian at a university
Silas and Todd talk to Sarah Bell, a Cartographer at ESRI and Co-Founder of Petrichor(dot)studio.
Silas and Todd talk with Kent Marten, of Tableau's Mapping group, about mapping at the largest BI (and now mapping) Platform.
Note: this was recorded two weeks before the Salesforce Acquisition
Silas and Todd talk to James Pardue about his article discussing his article on GIS Leadership, and also James' 32 years in the industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-exactly-gis-leader-james-pardue/
Silas and Todd talk to Rachel Stevenson of URISA's Vanguard and Jeff Munowitch of BayGeo about meet ups, getting yourself out in front of people
https://www.urisa.org/vanguardcabinet https://baygeo.org/
Silas and Todd chat with Russell Mercer about small city spatial problems, scooters and hybrid solutions
Silas and Todd talk to Sara Safavi, a Software Engineer at Planet Labs. We discuss life in and out of Geo and the new Planet Labs Community Feature:
https://support.planet.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/
The GeoRodeo in Austin Texas, May 16th:
https://tnris.org/georodeo/
And Open Standards for Remote Sensing Data:
https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec
Silas and Todd try to discover if there is life after spatial by talking to Kate Chapman, who has recently made the transition to "normal" tech.
Silas and Todd talk about PostGIS and being an open sourcer in a propriety world.
Paul's Blog: blog.cleverelephant.ca/ Paul's Twitter:@pwramsey
Also, the GeoDev Summit in Harrisburg PA, March 4th summits.harrisburgu.edu/geodev/
leveupyourshit
Todd talks to Shannon DeArmond and Haynes Bunn about how it is to be a woman in spatial.
Silas and Todd talk to Dr. Amy Rocks, and two of her students from Humboldt State University, Melissa Collin and Shaun Fleming.
Link to the GIS Program http://www2.humboldt.edu/gspcert/
Silas and Todd talk to Hank Sims from the Lost Coast Outpost about his AMAZING DIY GIS system, and all the news that's fit to print from Humboldt County
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/
Geography 2050
http://2018.geography2050.org/
American Geographical Society
http://www.americangeo.org
Mapstory (yes it was started before Story Maps)
http://mapstory.org
Silas and Todd talk to James Fee, about how and why he decided to retire his blog, the future of Spatial, and how ArcIMS was the peak of single tenant web mapping.
A very drunk Silas and Todd talk to Annijke Wade about self driving cars, bay area life and assorted Geo things. I think.
Silas and Todd yammer about Google cranking the cost of their mapping products, and Todd pontificates about his biases. Also, world cup, video games and beer.
Linda Stevens (Hecht) discusses her career at ESRI, the future of GIS, and the role of Open Source Spatial in that future/
Silas and Todd talk remote sensing with Descartes Lab's Carley Beneke
Carley's work
Publications / Tools https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271076514_Detecting_change_in_urban_areas_at_continental_scales_with_MODIS_data https://puma.worldbank.org/intro/ https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/Publications/Urban%20Development/EAP_Urban_Expansion_full_report_web.pdf
Media https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/23/sane-way-run-megalopolis-urban-governance?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/28/china-pearl-river-delta-overtake-tokyo-world-largest-megacity-urban-area
Silas and Todd spend about an hour complaining about housing prices and the geography of that.,
In this Episode Silas and Todd talk to Mapbox's Damon Burgett and Blake Thompson about such things as Locate, the new Vector Tiles Specification and the Mapbox's founder, Eric Gundersen love of Ramones T-shirts
For all of you betting, Silas drops the F bomb before Todd.
also
https://www.geospatialonline.com/
and kick your hard earned monies too Regina to make PostGIS better
https://www.patreon.com/reginaobe
Silas and Todd talk to Ag Diva, Ahna Miller, about GIS in Precision Ag, and how she found herself in this exciting field, meaning career, not an actual field. You gotta be careful when talking about Ag.
Silas and Todd talk to Alex Mahrou about his blog series "ArcGIS Identity Crisis" and talk about all things spatial
Part 1 - https://projected.xyz/2016/08/06/the-arcgis-identity-crisis/
Part 2 - https://projected.xyz/2018/03/03/the-arcgis-identity-crisis-part-two/
Part 3 - https://projected.xyz/2018/03/24/arcgis-identity-crisis-part-3-a-new-hope/
Silas and Todd, try not to stumble over each other as they discuss GIS and most things Spatial