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A Recast of ‘Minds Behind Maps’

Maps Are Everywhere. These are conversations with those building them.

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Recastable Episodes (82)

1. Ep 0 - Initializing Experiment... April 14, 2021
2. Ep 1 - Ian Schuler - Building an impact driven geospatial company April 17, 2021
3. Ep 2 - Will Cadell - Geospatial Consulting May 9, 2021
4. Ep 3 - Denise McKenzie - Location data ethics June 14, 2021
5. Ep 4 - Aravind Ravichandran - Earth Observation markets & value propositions July 8, 2021
6. Ep 5 - Daniel O'Donohue - Being a voice online Aug. 29, 2021
7. Ep 6 - Nadine Alameh - Standards, Dance & Geo Data Accessibility Sept. 14, 2021
8. Ep 7 - Bruno Sánchez - Microsoft's Planetary Computer, Education & Impact Science Oct. 2, 2021
9. Ep 8 - Joe Morrison - Selling Satellite Imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar & Making Predictions in Public Oct. 28, 2021
10. Ep 9 - Chinmay Adhvaryu - Founding and closing Earth Observations companies, Solving a problem people care about, and Bringing Context Nov. 16, 2021
11. Ep 10 - Charles Blanchet - Finding focus, Building a scalable product & Dedicating time to thinking Dec. 1, 2021
12. Ep 11 - Dan Hammer - Global Forest Watch, Design & Story Telling Dec. 15, 2021
13. Ep 12 - Tyler Erickson - Google Earth Engine, Curiosity & Working With and For a Community Jan. 1, 2022
14. Ep 13 - Keith Masback - Angel Investing, Geospatial Intelligence & Leadership Jan. 15, 2022
15. Ep 14 - Beth Tellman - Cloud2Street, Open Science within a For-Profit Company & The Role of Insurance in Actionable Flood Analytics Feb. 1, 2022
16. Ep 15 - April Speight - Spatial Computing at Microsoft, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Fashion & Branding Feb. 15, 2022
17. Ep 16 - Dan Pilone - Element84, Large Scale Computing, Enabling Open Data & People Focused Growth March 1, 2022
18. Ep 17 - Jacopo Margutti - Red Cross, Humanitarian Data Science & Moving from Physical to Digital Aid March 15, 2022
19. Ep 18 - Jakub Dziwisz - Orbify, No Code Earth Observation & Saas-like Business Models April 1, 2022
20. 1 Year of Podcasting April 14, 2022
21. Ep 19 - Jeff Crusey - Basics of Venture Capital Investing in Earth Observation, Weighing Risk & The Difference between Data & Analytics Companies April 15, 2022
22. Ep 20 - Jonathan Lacoste - From Founder to Investor in the Space Industry, Making Space Un-Sexy & Building in Public May 1, 2022
23. Barbara Ryan - How Landsat Became Free & Open - MBM #21 May 15, 2022
24. Arjen Vrielink - Getting to Zero Deforestation with Satellite Images - MBM #22 June 1, 2022
25. Emily Darling & Kim Fisher - The Challenges of Mapping Coral Reefs When Satellites Can't See Them - #MBM 23 June 15, 2022
26. Catherine Nakalembe - Food in Stores Isn't Enough: Food Security in Africa - MBM #24 July 1, 2022
27. Indra Den Bakker - Overstory & Tackling Climate by Monitoring Vegetation with Satellite Data - MBM #25 July 15, 2022
28. Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the World Food Program to Effectively Feed a Country - MBM #26 Aug. 1, 2022
29. Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27 Aug. 15, 2022
30. Kevin Pomfret: Ethics Isn't Enough & The Case For Geospatial Law - MBM #28 Sept. 1, 2022
31. Muthu Kumar & Aleksander Buczkowski: Building an Independent Media over the long term: Geoawesomeness - MBM #29 Sept. 15, 2022
32. Steve Coast: Discussing the Future of Maps & Tech with the Founder of OpenStreetMap (& why he thinks maps will disappear) - MBM #30 Oct. 1, 2022
33. Joshua Stevens - Visualising NASA's Satellite Imagery - MBM #31 Oct. 15, 2022
34. Daniel O'Donohue (#2): Building Mapscaping: the Biggest Geospatial Podcast, Finding What to Do in Life & Mentorship - MBM #32 Nov. 1, 2022
35. Mo Islam: The Space Industry is Changing, So Is How It's Reported On - MBM #33 Nov. 15, 2022
36. Hamed Alemohammad: Open Machine Learning for Satellite Imagery - MBM#34 Dec. 1, 2022
37. Andrew Blum: Understanding How We Predict the Weather - MBM#35 Dec. 15, 2022
38. 2022 Recap: Best Moments From Conversations this Year - MBM#36 Jan. 1, 2023
39. Iain Woodhouse: Understanding Radar Satellite Images - MBM#37 Jan. 15, 2023
40. Benjamin Grant: Generating Awe and Using Satellite Images to Inspire Millions - MBM#38 Feb. 1, 2023
41. Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39 March 15, 2023
42. Renny Babiarz: Exposing China's Nuclear Testing - MBM#40 April 1, 2023
43. Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite Images? (Spoiler: It's Carbon Credits) - MBM#41 April 15, 2023
44. Grega Milčinski: The Story of Sentinel Hub, EO Browser & Sinergise: Making Free & Open Satellite Imagery Actually Accessible - MBM#42 May 1, 2023
45. Marc Prioleau: The Overture Maps Foundation: Do We Need a New Open Mapping Project? - MBM#43 May 16, 2023
46. Jed Sundwall: Making Open Data Actually Accessible (in a world with ChatGPT) - MBM#44 June 1, 2023
47. Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi: Satellite Imagery to Solve Local Problems - MBM#45 June 15, 2023
48. Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46 July 1, 2023
49. Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health - MBM#47 July 15, 2023
50. Robert Cheetham & Dan Pilone: Building Businesses that Last, Bootstrapping & Acquisitions - MBM#48 Aug. 1, 2023
51. Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic - MBM#49 Aug. 15, 2023
52. Aravind Ravichandran: From Images to Actions: An Introduction to Earth Observation - MBM#50 Sept. 1, 2023
53. James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - MBM#51 Sept. 15, 2023
54. Harold Goddijn: The Full Story of TomTom, Selling Millions of Devices, the impact of the iPhone & mapping today - MBM#52 Oct. 1, 2023
55. Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - MBM#53 Oct. 15, 2023
56. Hongwei Liu: What It Takes to Actually Map the Indoors, Hard Work & Finding the Right Things to Work on - MBM#54 Nov. 1, 2023
57. Javier de la Torre: From Biologist to Entrepreneur, How Maps Help Preserve Biodiversity & Hosting Conferences - MBM#55 Nov. 15, 2023
58. Jason Boone: Animating Maps for a Living, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - #MBM56 Dec. 1, 2023
59. Best of 2023: 12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech - MBM#57 Dec. 15, 2023
60. Ariel Seidman - Taking on Google Maps, Crowdsourced mapping & Crypto - MBM#58 Jan. 1, 2024
61. Brian McClendon: The Story of Google Maps, Pokemon Go & Keyhole - MBM#59 Jan. 15, 2024
62. Thomas Ager: The Essentials of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) - MBM#60 Feb. 1, 2024
63. Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61 Feb. 15, 2024
64. Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62 March 1, 2024
65. Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63 March 15, 2024
66. Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine April 1, 2024
67. Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65 April 15, 2024
68. How to Map Mars (to Land Rovers) - Fred Calef III - MBM#66 May 1, 2024
69. What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay Foundation: Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño - MBM#67 May 24, 2024
70. Ib Green: Browser based visualisation rendering - MBM#68 June 1, 2024
71. Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69 July 11, 2024
72. Luke Fischer: Who would want to start a Satellite Image Marketplace? SkyFi - #MBM70 July 20, 2024
73. Ashlee Vance: The Man telling us the Stories of the New Space Industry - #MBM71 Aug. 7, 2024
74. Jean-Martin Bauer: How the World Food Program tackles Hunger - #MBM72 Aug. 22, 2024
75. [Bonus] Books, Tech & Life: A Long conversation with Jed Sundwall Aug. 31, 2024
76. Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73 Sept. 2, 2024
77. Meet the man trying to build a 20cm 3D map of the world: Andrew Peterson - #MBM74 Sept. 15, 2024
78. The Ex-Uber Data Scientist Who wants to simplify Data Science with Serverless Computing: Sina Kashuk Oct. 15, 2024
79. What Hyperspectral constellations have to offer: Pixxel’s example - Awais Ahmed #MBM76 Nov. 1, 2024
80. How Ex-Vox Video Producer Phil Edwards thinks about Maps to tell stories - MBM77 Nov. 23, 2024
81. How Bloomberg's Data Scientists use Satellite Images for Reporting: Krishna Karra - MBM78 Dec. 16, 2024
82. My Favourite Books of 2024 - MBM79 Jan. 7, 2025