Geomob

In this episode Ed talks with Miriam Gonzalez, head of partnerships at geospatial marketplace, UP42. UP42 aggregates imagery, geospatial data, and processing algorithms from many sources. We also discuss Miriam's role in co-founding and organizing the Geochicas community, a network of over 200 members working to support and grow the involvement of women in OpenStreetMap (and geo in general).

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Steven chats with old friend Mark Iliffe, who works for the United Nations, specifically at UN-GGIM (Global Geospatial Information Management). Mark recounts some interesting memories from his geo career: discusses counting flamingos with image recognition software, humanitarian crowd-sourcing, helping organize FOSS4G Dar es Salaam, and much more, before finally landing at the United Nation, where he "herds geospatial cats".

Mark closes by briefly discussing his own struggles with depression and encouraging everyone to reach out to others, especially now in times of lockdown. He asked that we add a link to the Samaritans a charity working to help people overcome depression.

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We are delighted to kick off 2021 with a chat with Mike Dolbow, CEO of GeoHipster, a site that publishes long-from interviews and articles with people doing interesting things in the geospatial industry. GeoHipster also runs an annual cartography contest, in which volunteer submissions are chosen for placement in the GeoHipster Calendar. Just like Geomob, GeoHipster is a celebration of the weird and wacky, of all that is beautiful in geo. Enjoy.

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Steven and Ed are joined by geo friends Kenneth Field, Denise McKenzie, Alex Wrottesley, Jeremy Morley, Ed Parsons, and Mark Iliffe for geobeers and a light-hearted look back on 2020 before turning the focus to predictions and hopes for 2021.

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With only a few days until Christmas, today on the podcast we're pleased to feature a fantastic example of creative geo thinking being used to help the less fortunate. Ed interviews Chris Hildrey, founder of ProxyAddress. Originally presented as little more than an idea at Geomob in June 2018 (where Chris won the SplashMaps best speaker prize), ProxyAddress recently launched a first pilot implementation with the London Borough of Lewisham.

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