Location Matters

Businesses across Australia and New Zealand are now opening their offices back up to staff and employees. Our team here in Western Australia are especially grateful to be moving back into the office in our teams however, for many parts of Australia, this is the start of introducing staff back to the office.

MapsIndoors Lite, a product created by the MapsPeople team, gives businesses the opportunity to map out a safe plan of action through their indoor navigation platform that takes into account where people are moving and sitting, alerting people to safe distancing measures and removing areas of foot traffic congestion.

Listen to our latest Location Matters episode featuring Oliver Looker, General Manager of our technology partner, Liveli and Christian Muggler from the indoor mapping team, MapsPeople.

MapsIndoors Lite

The Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) Australia has announced a launch date of the 22nd of September 2020 for the Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia On-Demand.

The IMW team has been working hard to launch an online learning platform and we can finally hear all about it from Andrew Dowding, Managing Director at Winyama and part of the steering committee for IMW, Sarah Butler, Marketing Manager at the NGIS Group and IMW committee member and Merindah Bainsfather-Scott, GIS Analyst at Winyama and leading the curriculum for IMW Australia On-Demand.

We've had CARTO's Marketing Manager, Florence Broderick on the Location Matters podcast before and what a pleasure it was to chat to Florence again. The CARTO team has adapted to the pandemic rapidly with the launch of CARTO Grants, giving access to the CARTO platform to help people fight and contain COVID-19. In this episode of Location Matters, Florence covers some of the incredible and inspiring use cases that have come out of the CARTO Grants and we can't wait to share them with you.

CARTO Grants

CARTO 5 newsletter

Webinar: Understand your product demand: Combining Google Analytics data with CARTO

From primary to high school and at a tertiary education level, Dr Karen Joyce is empowering students to make decisions about the environment around them using remote sensing tools and techniques. We're excited to have guest speaker, Dr Karen Joyce on this episode of Location Matters to cover how her career evolved into becoming a senior lecturer in remote sensing at James Cook University and her work in forming the She Maps initiative, encouraging young girls to get excited about STEM subjects.

Homeward Bound

Indigenous Mapping Workshop

SheMap's Map My School project

Traditionally, maps have been used as an outdoor navigation tool to help guide you from point A to B. MapsPeople has changed the game by enabling people to have outdoor through to indoor navigation. But what about security concerns? How do we implement this in our organisation? How are other industries using this technology? We've got you covered in today's episode with guest speakers, Liveli's General Manager, Oliver Looker and MapsPeople's Regional Sales Manager, Christian Müggler.

Liveli MapsPeople page

Satellites orbiting the Earth are returning an unprecedented amount of data that both enables and encourages better decision making about the world we live in. When considering the petabytes of data collected, working as a data scientist is no mean feat. On today's episode of Location Matters, we're covering the challenges of working with Earth observations technology, and the way the end-users interact with multiple cloud providers and content sources. We're excited to be joined by two wonderful guests, Manager of Earth Observations at NGIS and EO Data Science, Sam Atkinson and Director of the Remote Sensing Research Centre, President of Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, Professor at the UofQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and much more, Stuart Phinn.

EO Australia

An equal world is an enabled world and technology is a means for enabling change in the world. On today's Location Matters podcast we're diving into why diversity in the workplace is important, how organisations can encourage a diverse representation and what steps need to be put in place to inspire young women to take up STEM-based careers. Today on the show, we have three GIS analysts and very impressive women joining us - Usha Johnston from NGIS, Merindah Bairnfather-Scott from Winyama and Nat Raisenbeck-Brown from CSIRO.

Homeward Bound

Indigenous Mapping Workshop - https://www.imwaustralia.com/

Board of Directors video

International Women's Day

With the recent Australian bushfires and Corona Virus covered in a lot of global media outlets, maps are becoming a frequently used tool to communicate the impact of such events however, there are maps being shared that are either factually incorrect or have features that may alarm people in non-alarming situations. On today's episode of Location Matters, we are joined by NGIS Consultant, Chris Hoar and Managing Director, Paul Farrell, to discuss what makes a map accurate and effective in these situations.

Corona Simulator

Mapping is one opportunity to tell a story, however, with the data collected by social groups, community services, environmental groups and government agencies, there are many more opportunities to interpret data and visualise this for non-technical audiences and users. In this episode we're joined by Mel Flanagan, Founder of Nook Studios, a community of story-tellers and Dion Fleming, Liveli’s Senior Account Manager with a background in GIS, to discuss how stories can be imparted across different mediums.

Open Government partnership

Common Ground

Plastic Free July

Coastal Risk

Global Forest Watch