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Minds Behind Maps

Maxime Lenormand

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

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01:21:29

Thomas Ager: The Essentials of SAR (Synthetic...

Minds Behind Maps ·

2024/02/01

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: PlanetFind more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency imagesAbout TomLinkedInHis book: The Essentials of SAR (Affiliate Link)Also available in MandarinShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any

01:40:33

Brian McClendon: The Story of Google Maps, Pokemon Go...

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2024/01/15

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 GoSponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API GeomobAbout BrianLinkedInNianticShownotesNever Lost Again by Bill Kilday (Affiliate

01:39:23

Ariel Seidman - Taking on Google Maps, Crowdsourced...

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2024/01/01

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: PlanetFind more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency imagesAbout ArielTwitterLinkedInHivemapperShownotesElon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Affiliate Link)Econ 102 with Noah Smith:

01:25:17

Best of 2023: 12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite...

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2023/12/15

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 PatreonListen to the full episodes mentioned today:Harold GoddijnSean GormanCan DurukJames KillickMila LulevaIain WoodhouseJed SundwallJavier de la TorreEste GeraghtyRenny BabiartzHongwei LiuSteve

01:37:47

Jason Boone: Animating Maps for a Living, Working...

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2023/12/01

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 dive into tech startups.Sponsor: PlanetFind more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency imagesAboutTwitterLinkedInJason’s Youtube

01:22:31

Javier de la Torre: From Biologist to Entrepreneur,...

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2023/11/15

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: FeltCheck out their QGIS Plugin to easily share your QGIS projectsAbout JavierLinkedInTwitterCartoShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small

01:47:13

Hongwei Liu: What It Takes to Actually Map the...

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2023/11/01

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: SkyFiGet high resolution imagery easily, with prices up front on SkyFi.comAbout HongweiLinkedInTwitterShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.MappedInMaker, their free new iOS

01:45:49

Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone,...

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2023/10/15

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 about building great teams, finding what to work on and building businesses around mapsSponsor: FeltTry out collaborative online mapping with FeltCheck

01:27:46

Harold Goddijn: The Full Story of TomTom, Selling...

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2023/10/01

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 share a conversation with the person leading it all, Harold Goddijn.Episode Sponsor: SkyFiGet high resolution imagery easily, with prices up front on

02:00:05

James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how...

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2023/09/15

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: FeltTry out collaborative online mapping with FeltCheck out their Youtube Channel for walkthroughs of their latest featuresAbout JamesLinkedInTwitterShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon

01:32:01

Aravind Ravichandran: From Images to Actions: An...

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2023/09/01

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 deep dives analysing the industry. We also hosts a podcast -albeit on pause at the moment- so was the perfect person to discuss Earth Observation at a high

01:44:09

Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact...

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2023/08/15

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: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About Steve BrumbyTwitterLinkedInShownotesAlexnet

02:20:17

Robert Cheetham & Dan Pilone: Building Businesses...

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2023/08/01

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 around for so long. Both companies also have not taken outside investment, which made this acquisition all the more interestingSupport the podcast on

01:24:07

Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases &...

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2023/07/15

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, which we discuss.Support the podcast on Patreon---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free

01:21:28

Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative -...

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2023/07/01

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 newsletterTo keep up with all things satellite images & deep learning, follow Robin Cole's newsletter hereAbout CanTwitterLinkedInShownotes(Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books)- Felt-

01:22:21

Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi: Satellite Imagery to Solve Local...

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2023/06/15

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: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About Zhuang-Fang:LinkedInTwitterShownotesNote: Links to

01:31:27

Jed Sundwall: Making Open Data Actually Accessible...

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2023/06/01

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 on Patreon to prevent ChatGPT from ruining traffic to these conversations, taking over the world and crushing all of humanity; or just because you like my

01:38:18

Marc Prioleau: The Overture Maps Foundation: Do We...

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2023/05/16

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 something new? Marc has some answers to that question, and it isn't his first time thinking about the future of mappingSupport the podcast on

01:17:38

Grega Milčinski: The Story of Sentinel Hub, EO...

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2023/05/01

Grega Milčinski is the founder of Sinergise, the company behind Sentinel Hub & EO Browser which recently got acquired by Planet. While the deal of the acquisition isn't closed just yet at the time of publishing, we discuss the story behind Sinergise, how it's more of an engineering than remote sensing company and why they decided to get acquired.Support the podcast on Patreon--- Episode Sponsor: Steven FeldmanGeomob podcastJérémy Garniaux - MapstodonMappery.orgMy favouriteSteven's favourite---About

01:13:55

Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite...

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2023/04/15

Mila Luleva is the Head of Remote Sensing at Rabobank, the 2nd biggest bank in the Netherlands. Specifically she works on the Acorn Initiative which aims at supporting small holder farmers transition to more sustainable agriculture practices by selling carbon credits for the biomass these farmers produce. Carbon credits are a messy, complicated and often times controversial topic, all of which I wanted to ask Mila about. ---Episode Sponsor: GeoawesomenessRead their 2023 Global Top 100 Geospatial

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