Location Matters
A podcast by NGIS. Valuable insights into the geospatial industry with expert discussions and opinions.
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Going back to work safely with MapsIndoors
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…
BONUS EPISODE: Announcing Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia On Demand
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…
Pandemic mapping with CARTO
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…
Remote sensing education includes everyone
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…
Digital experience enhancement with indoor mapping
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…
The Future of Multi-Cloud and Multi-Content Earth Observations
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…
Building diversity in STEM-based careers
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…
Mapping ethics in times of crisis
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…
Storytelling with maps
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…
