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Smart Point Clouds: What If Every Point Knew What It Was

Point clouds still feel a little bit like magic to me. You walk through a room, a city, or even just your living room with a scanner or your...

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Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams

Cloud-Native Geospatial for Small Teams: How the Utah Geological Survey Did It What happens when a small, technical team at a state agency decides to go cloud native? They...

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GERS, Metadata, and Maps Built for Machines

We already have a map. Actually, we have lots of maps. So why did Overture build another one? My guest in this episode is Amy Rose, CTO of the...

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The Evolution of Positioning Systems

Republished Episode – I wanted to resurface this episode because positioning is everything, and it’s a great overview of how it works.   Right now you are being bathed...

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Sentinel Bird

Earlier this year I ran a small experiment called the Geospatial Launchpad — six weeks of working closely with a couple of people to help them push their geospatial...

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Fields Of The World

Where does one field end and the next one begin? It sounds trivial right up until you try to answer it. In this episode, I’m joined by Hannah Kerner...

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Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems

In this episode I’m joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI, a company building virtual worlds — or “world models” for robots and physical AI systems....

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GPS, But 100 Times Stronger

My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his team are...

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Turning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World

Vexcel isn’t a household name — but you’ve almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across roughly 45 countries, capturing imagery at 7.5cm resolution...

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Cloud Native for the Rest of Us

What happens when you take cloud native geospatial out of the satellite-and-petabyte world and drop it into a small city with no budget and the world’s slowest internet connection?...

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