The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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• Smart Point Clouds: What If Every Point Knew What It Was

  October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  Point clouds still feel a little bit like magic to me. You walk through a room, a city, or even just your living room with a scanner or your phone, and you can recreate it afterwards. But on their own, point clouds aren't actually that…

• Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams

  September 23, 2026 · 38 min

  Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams: How the Utah Geological Survey Did It What happens when a small, technical team at a state agency decides to go cloud native? They don't have terabytes of satellite imagery. They have lots of small…

• GERS, Metadata, and Maps Built for Machines

  September 17, 2026 · 48 min

  We already have a map. Actually, we have lots of maps. So why did Overture build another one? My guest in this episode is Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, and she makes a pretty compelling case. Overture isn't trying to…

• Sentinel Bird

  September 7, 2026 · 28 min

  Earlier this year I ran a small experiment called the Geospatial Launchpad — six weeks of working closely with a couple of people to help them push their geospatial projects forward. West was one of them. His project is Sentinel Bird…

• Fields Of The World

  August 18, 2026 · 44 min

  Where does one field end and the next one begin? It sounds trivial right up until you try to answer it. In this episode, I'm joined by Hannah Kerner — Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, AI Lead for NASA Harvest and NASA…

• Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems

  August 4, 2026 · 49 min

  In this episode I'm joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI, a company building virtual worlds — or "world models" for robots and physical AI systems. Apurva's path here is an unusual one. He spent most of his career in…

• GPS, But 100 Times Stronger

  July 29, 2026 · 43 min

  My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his team are moving satellites into low Earth orbit and what that unlocks. Stronger…

• Turning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World

  July 28, 2026 · 56 min

  Vexcel isn't a household name — but you've almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across roughly 45 countries, capturing imagery at 7.5cm resolution from five different angles (straight…