Location Matters
A podcast by NGIS. Valuable insights into the geospatial industry with expert discussions and opinions.
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Breaking down barriers with open source and FOSS4G
Open source software is changing the world and growing a strong community from around the globe. In this episode of Location Matters, we speak with two Australian open source GIS enthusiasts, Nyall Dawson and John Bryant. Heavily involved in the open geospatial community, Nyall and John chat with our host Sarah Butler about everything open source…
Integrating data sources into a single platform
It is common in GIS to work with companies and on projects where large amounts of data have been captured across disparate systems. On today’s Location Matters episode, we welcome back Senior GIS Developer, Nicholas Chai, to speak alongside our Principal GIS Consultant, Jack Green, about integrating different data sources into a single platform. Tune…
Reality photomeshing with Aerometrex
Welcome back to another episode of Location Matters! On today’s episode we jump into the world of 3D photogrammetry with our friends over at Aerometrex. Our Marketing Manager and podcast host, Sarah Butler, sits (virtually) with NGIS’ Senior GIS Developer, Nick Chai and the Chief Operating Officer at Aerometrex, David Byrne to find out what…
GEO-GEE project winners: Monitoring the extent of ecosystem loss with maps
We have another cracker Location Matters episode this week covering two winning projects from the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) – Google Earth Engine (GEE) program. Our host, NGIS’ Sarah Butler & Yvonne Fong, Data Scientist at EO Data Science, are joined by project leads Nicholas Murray from James Cook University, and Dimos Traganos from…
Next gen geospatial platform with Google Cloud
We are excited to have Chad Jennings, Google Cloud Product Manager for BigQuery, back on the Location Matters podcast, speaking alongside our very own Executive Director, Nathan Eaton. In this episode, Chad and Nathan discuss Google Cloud geospatial updates, including developments with running Esri ArcGIS within Google Cloud. They also touch on some of the cool…
Data: the good, the bad and the ugly
When you’re working in GIS, you can’t always tell people that their data governance structure is less than ideal or even scary to look at. On this week’s episode of Location Matters, we sit down with NGIS’ GIS Analyst-Developer, Stafford Smith, Senior GIS Consultant, Joy Miles, and Principal GIS Consultant Nick Chai. We get their…
Global Fishing Watch
We’re back with a new season of Location Matters! To kick off the first episode of season three, we’re joined by David Kroodsma, Director of Research and Innovation at Global Fishing Watch, and Brian Sullivan, Program Manager at Google Earth Outreach. David and Brian look back at how Global Fishing Watch started and how the…
It’s not called Big Data anymore – it’s just data
This is the final episode of season two of Location Matters AND the last episode for 2020. What a rollercoaster of a year we’ve had and I’m so proud of how far this podcast has come. In this week’s episode, we have some powerhouses in the geospatial industry, Chad Jennings, the Product Manager for BigQuery,…
Oh, the places you’ll ge-o(fence) with Bluedot
On today’s Location Matters episode, we’re joined by Filip Eldic, the Co-Founder of the innovative geofencing platform, Bluedot, and Senior Account Manager at Liveli, Dion Fleming. We find out what geofencing is, how the likes of McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts are using this technology in current campaigns and we debate the co-existence of location data…
