Geomob

In this episode we're joined by Aleks Buczkowski and Muthu Kumar, the team behind Geoawesomeness, a blog documenting innovation and trends across the geospatial industry. A few days ago Geoawesomeness celebrated 10 years since they started. We look back on the Geoawesomeness story, reflect on the journey and lessons learned, and finally discuss plans for the second decade of Geoawesomeness.

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Today's guest is Jack Cornish, who works for the Ramblers, the UK's largest walking charity, where he leads the "Don't lose your way" project. Jack speaks with Steven about this effort to support volunteers across England and Wales in reclaiming lost paths. Identifying the lost paths is the start of a long process to put them back on the map as public rights of way. Over 3,000 volunteers contributed time and effort, and over 49,000 miles (> 78,800 km) of potential rights of way were "discovered". Jack shares details of what exactly was done and what the next steps are.

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Steven and Ed take a break from interviews to reflect on their own projects, and Geomob in general. Steven notes that Mappery has crossed the milestone of 500 posts! Meanwhile, at OpenCage, Ed and his colleagues are contemplating the product and business challenges of geosearch (as opposed to geocoding which they currently offer). The discussion then moves to a renewed call for Geomob speakers of any and all backgrounds (you can volunteer here). Finally, the conversation wraps up with a brief summary of recent geo industry news including announcements from Google and Microsoft.

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This episode's guest is Tim Newman, Product Manager at the Ordnance Survey, where he focuses on the consumer oriented part of the business. Steven and Tim chat about OS Maps, the Ordnance Survey's app for consumers in the outdoors, which recently expanded to cover Australia (and, in an interesting first for OS - makes use of OpenStreetMap data). Finally, they close by discussing geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth's shape.

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