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Geomob episodes

August 23, 2021 Ed Fairburn: Topopointillism
Steven speaks with artist Ed Fairburn about his distinctive artistic style, which he calls "topopointillism; a direct combination of topography and pointillism". This is a fascinating look at the process behind a unique map-based artistic style.
Before listening to this episode we highly recommend you check out Ed's fantastic work over at edfairburn.com

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28 min
August 16, 2021 Dan Bell: Middle Earth's Maps
You would be very hard pressed to find anyone in geospatial who hasn't spent time gazing at JRR Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth, the setting for his much-loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The unique cartographic style is a delightful detail that helps bring the stories to life.
In this episode Ed has the pleasure of speaking with Dan Bell, an artist who spends his days drawing maps in the Middle Earth style. We discuss Dan's work, how he landed in this unique niche, the artistic process he follows, and then also the aspects of running a map making business.

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22 min
August 16, 2021 Dan Bell: Middle Earth's Maps
You would be very hard pressed to find anyone in geospatial who hasn't spent time gazing at JRR Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth, the setting for his much-loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The unique cartographic style is a delightful detail that helps bring the stories to life.
In this episode Ed has the pleasure of speaking with Dan Bell, an artist who spends his days drawing maps in the Middle Earth style. We discuss Dan's work, how he landed in this unique niche, the artistic process he follows, and then also the aspects of running a map making business.

Show notes on the Geomob website, where you can also learn more about Geomob events and sign up for our monthly newsletter.
22 min
August 09, 2021 Paul Ramsey: PostGIS turns 20
Steven interviews Paul Ramsey, whom Steven describes as "a superstar of the OSGeo community". Paul is one of the inventors of the PostGIS extension to Postgres, the most well known and widely used spatial database in the world. Paul tells the story of PostGIS's start all the way back in 2001, and how it has since grown to become a foundational piece of geospatial software. The perspective then turns to the future with Paul musing on upcoming trends in geospatial computing. Finally Paul and Steven discuss the current state of the open source world and funding for open source projects, before closing with a discussion of Paul's work for election campaigns.
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35 min
August 09, 2021 Paul Ramsey: PostGIS turns 20
Steven interviews Paul Ramsey, whom Steven describes as "a superstar of the OSGeo community". Paul is one of the inventors of the PostGIS extension to Postgres, the most well known and widely used spatial database in the world. Paul tells the story of PostGIS's start all the way back in 2001, and how it has since grown to become a foundational piece of geospatial software. The perspective then turns to the future with Paul musing on upcoming trends in geospatial computing. Finally Paul and Steven discuss the current state of the open source world and funding for open source projects, before closing with a discussion of Paul's work for election campaigns.
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35 min
August 02, 2021 FOSS4G 2021 preview: Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna
Steven speaks with Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna, two of the organizers of FOSS4G 2021, about this year's conference which is coming up from September 27 to October 2nd. Registration is now open! The conference will be held online, and feature over 300 separate talks, five keynotes, live coding events, 50+ different workshops, ice breaker events, and much more.
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34 min
August 02, 2021 FOSS4G 2021 preview: Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna
Steven speaks with Verónica Andreo and María Arias de Reyna, two of the organizers of FOSS4G 2021, about this year's conference which is coming up from September 27 to October 2nd. Registration is now open! The conference will be held online, and feature over 300 separate talks, five keynotes, live coding events, 50+ different workshops, ice breaker events, and much more.
Show notes on the Geomob website, where you can also learn more about Geomob events and sign up for our monthly newsletter.
34 min
July 26, 2021 Ken Hart: Snowdrop Solutions
Ed speaks with Ken Hart, CEO and founder of Snowdrop Solutions, a UK-based company that is implementing location based services for major consumer brands aross the world in the real estate, travel, and finance industries. A fascinating discussion with someone at the sharp end of implementing location as it is used daily by many millions of consumers. Some of the use cases of location are obvious, others like those Snowdrop is rolling out for banks and other fintechs are much more subtle. This was a great conversation discussing the role that location can plan in consumer services going forward, but also some of the challenges that come with that
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29 min
July 26, 2021 Ken Hart: Snowdrop Solutions
Ed speaks with Ken Hart, CEO and founder of Snowdrop Solutions, a UK-based company that is implementing location based services for major consumer brands aross the world in the real estate, travel, and finance industries. A fascinating discussion with someone at the sharp end of implementing location as it is used daily by many millions of consumers. Some of the use cases of location are obvious, others like those Snowdrop is rolling out for banks and other fintechs are much more subtle. This was a great conversation discussing the role that location can plan in consumer services going forward, but also some of the challenges that come with that
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29 min
July 19, 2021 Ed/Steven: updates and geo news
One of our regular episodes in which we catch up our projects, and discuss the geonews. Ed is a week away from some much-needed holiday, but first racing to close out a project for a new large enterprise client at OpenCage. Meanwhile Steven is back from a week in the country and enjoying having Arnaud helping him on Mappery.
We dive into the recent geonews, starting with Lego word maps. The common theme in this month's geonews is that the neogeo scene is growing up: OSM makes it on the Guardian homepage, Mapbox employees form a union, India cracks down on Twitter India showing "incorrect" maps. Finally we discuss the recent article from Joe Morrisson.

Have a great summer, everyone.
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40 min

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