In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a downstream product of OpenStreetMap.

He explains his background in open map data and his interest in studying collaboration within the...

felt.com is a browser-based mapping tool and but its also a reminder that just because we have always done web mapping one way it doesn’t mean it always has to be done that way.

For example, Felt lets you upload anything! That's a bold promise, you ...

Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap. 

Humans a...

The promise of digital mapping is to provide a shared and real-time view of the state of the underlying system.

pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promise of real-time event modeling and shared views in ...

PYGEOAPI is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards ... which might be really useful if you are thinking about upgrading from the first-generation OGC standards to the second-generation OGC standards 

... or if need to implem...

Sounds like a great idea right?

 

In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn't ... unless you want to ... and how you can ... if you have to.

 

You can find Paul's blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about

 

Previous episodes with Pau...

I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works.

 

To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast 

You can connect with Daniel here

https://d...

Discover the delicate balance between harnessing the power of location data for valuable insights and safeguarding individual privacy. Explore key insights from a recent MapScaping podcast episode, where experts discuss the challenges, strategies, and regulations surrounding location data privacy

This week we are going to learn how Foursquare is trying to identify and map locate all of the places in the world! 

Foursquare uses a mixture of crowd souring and data conflation to maintain a database of 205 million places ... and it's not easy!

Ea...

Protomaps is a serverless system for planet-scale maps, it's an umbrella project consisting of a few different components one of which is PMtiles.

PMtiles is “Cloud Optimise Geotiff” for web mapping, what this means is that you can build a base map a...