Podcasts about ArcGIS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 4:06

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that its digital mapping system enabled Aurum Exploration Services to accelerate the survey of soil samples across almost 23,000km2 in Ireland. The extensive survey was carried out as part of the Tellus Programme. Led by Geological Survey Ireland and funded by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Tellus Programme aims to improve the future management of the environment by building a deeper knowledge of Ireland's soil, rocks, and water. Esri's ArcGIS technology streamlined workflows for Aurum Exploration, enabling it to deliver the ambitious project in just over one year. The technology replaced the traditional paper-based survey process with innovative digital data capture. The paper-based process was time-consuming with a complex data collection method, taking the Tellus Programme team nine years to reach the halfway milestone on the project. Using the technology, Aurum Exploration's sampling teams were able to collect, record, and share real-time data on soil samples -ranging from location to land usage and soil characteristics - wherever they were working in the field. Apps could be used even when offline, which was vital for those working in remote locations. Team leaders were able to speedily assign tasks, manage daily workloads, and monitor the project's progress, while programme managers could oversee the data collection process and share project metrics. Health and safety were boosted for employees as each team's location was visible in near real-time. The platform also facilitated rigorous quality control checks, greatly enhancing the accuracy and integrity of soil sample data. Moreover, reports could be generated on-demand, saving time for teams internally. In turn, these efficiencies contributed to an estimated saving of 120 days per year, and a reduction in overall operational costs of around €40,000 annually for the project. Judith Mather, Project Manager, Tellus Programme, Aurum Exploration said: "Having a robust and efficient digital system greatly assisted us to cover more ground in a shorter time, and oversight of the national programme really improved. ArcGIS Dashboards gave our directors and client an accurate and visual real-time overview of what was going on, on a national scale, which is what they needed. In addition, the improvement in data quality was a real testament to the success of ArcGIS applications." Schalk van Lill, Customer Success Manager, Esri Ireland said: "Our ArcGIS platform has been transformative for the Tellus Programme, and we were delighted to work closely with Aurum Exploration as the team delivered on this vital nationwide project. Reliable data was captured electronically out in the field, reducing the risk of human error and other data collection inconsistencies, even while working remotely. This also boosted productivity, streamlined operations, and improved collaboration among teams for Aurum Exploration. This important project is benefitting our environment now and into the future." See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

Episode 23 - End of an Era

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 21:16

This is the final episode of Spatial Report, so we kick things off with some thank yous. Then Alison O'Brien steps in to talk with Mark Ho about all things GIS. First, we'll learn about what's new in ArcGIS Monitor with our special guest from Redlands California, Derek Law. Then, Janis Lapointe discusses how ArcGIS Solutions can leverage your data to improve operations, provide new insight and enhance your services. Rundown0:00 – Introduction2:41– ArcGIS Monitor10:29 – ArcGIS Solutions ArcGIS MonitorWith the release of ArcGIS Monitor 2024.1 at the end of January 2025, we wanted to bring Derek Law back to the podcast to highlight the new and improved features. ArcGIS Monitor provides information about system health, usage and performance to your ArcGIS Enterprise. It captures key metrics and can identify problems before they affect users. This tool is invaluable in maintaining the operational health of your enterprise. ArcGIS SolutionsArcGIS Solutions provides a collection of industry-specific configurations of ArcGIS that align with your organization's needs, transform your use of ArcGIS and help you maximize your investment in location-based data and technology. Our guest Janis Lapointe shares insights into how these solutions help organizations streamline their workflows. You'll hear Janis highlight the Tree Management and Roadway Management Solutions. For more informationVisit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca HostsAlison O'Brien, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri CanadaMark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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Tom MacWright on Shutting down Placemark

Software Sessions

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 62:17

Tom MacWright is a prolific contributor in the geospatial open source community. He made geojson.io, Mapbox Studio, and was the lead developer on the OpenStreetMap editor. He's currently on the team at Val Town. In 2021 he bootstrapped a solo business and created the Placemark mapping application. He acquired customers and found steady growth but after spending two years on the project he decided it was financially unsustainable. He open sourced the code and shut down the business. In this interview Tom speaks candidly about why geospatial is difficult, chasing technical rabbit holes, the mental impact of bootstrapping, and his struggles to grow a customer base. If you're interested in geospatial or the good and bad of running a solo business I think you'll enjoy this conversation with Tom. Related Links Tom's blog Placemark Play Placemark GitHub Placemark archive geojson.io Valtown Datawrapper (Visualization tool) Geospatial Companies mentioned Mapbox ArcGIS QGIS Carto -- Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub. [00:00:00] Introduction Jeremy: Today I'm talking to Tom MacWright. He worked at Mapbox as a, a very early employee. He's had a lot of experience in the geospatial community, the open source community. One of his most recent projects was a mapping project called Placemark he started and ran on his own. So I wanted to talk to Tom about his experience going solo and, eventually having to, shut that down. Tom, thanks for agreeing to chat today. Tom: Yeah, thanks for having me. [00:00:32] Tools and Open Source at Mapbox Jeremy: So maybe to give everyone some context on, what your background was before you started Placemark. Um, let's talk a little bit about your experience at, at Mapbox. What did you work on there and, and what would you say are like the big things you learned from that experience? Tom: Yeah, so if you include the time that I was at Development Seed, which essentially turned into Mapbox, I kind of signed the paper to get fired from Development Seed and hired at Mapbox within the same 20 seconds. Uh, I was there for eight and a half years. so it was a lifetime in tech years. and the company really evolved from, uh, working for Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and the World Bank and doing these small, little like micro websites to the point at which I left it. It had. Raised a lot of money, had a lot of employees. I think it was 350 or so when I left. and yeah, just expanded into a lot of different, uh, try trying to own more and more of the mapping stack. but yeah, I was kind of really focused on the creative and tooling side of it. that's kind of where I see a lot of the, the fun and programming is making these tools where, uh, they can give people the same kind of fun like interaction loop that programming has where you, you know, you do a little bit of math and you see the result and you're able to just play with, uh, what you're working on, letting people have that in other domains. so it was really cool to figure out how to get A map design tool where somebody changes the background color and it just automatically changes that in your browser. and it covered like data editing. It covered, um, map styling and we did, uh, three different versions of that tool over the years. and then Mapbox is also a company that was, it came from, kind of people who are working on the Howard Dean campaign. And so it was pretty ideological and part of the ideology was being pretty hardcore about open source. we hired a lot of people who were working on open source projects before and basically just paid them to work on the open source projects, uh, for their whole time there. And during my time there, I just tried to make as much of my work, uh, open as possible, which was, you know, at the time it was, it was pretty great. I think in the long term it's been, o open source has changed a lot. but during the time that we were there, we both kind of, helped things like leaflet and mapnik and openstreetmap, uh, but also made like some larger contributions to the open source world. yeah, that, that's kind of like the, the internal company facing side. And also like what I try to create as like a more of a, uh, enduring work. I think the open source stuff will hopefully have more of a, a long term, uh, benefit. [00:03:40] How open source has changed (value capture by large companies) Jeremy: When I was working on a project that needed offline maps, um, we couldn't use Google Maps or any of the, the other publicly available, cloud APIs. So yeah, we actually used a, a tool, called Tile Mill that I, I hadn't known that you'd worked on, but recently found out you did. So that actually let us pull in OpenStreetMap data and then use this style, uh, language called carto to, to basically let us choose what the colors would be and how the different, uh, the roads and the buildings would look. What's kind of interesting to me is that it being open source really let us, um, build something we otherwise wouldn't have been able to do. But like, at the same time, we also didn't pay Mapbox any money. (laughs) So I'm, I'm kind of curious, like, if it's changed, like what the thinking was in terms of, you know, we pay for people to build all these things. We make it open source. but then people may just not ever pay us, you know, for all these things we did. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. I think that the main thing that's changed since the era of tilemill is, the dominance of cloud platforms. Like back then, I think, uh, Mapbox was still using, we were using like a little bit of AWS but people were still just on like VPSs and, uh, configuring things in cPanel and sometimes even running their own servers. And the, the danger of people using the product for free was such a small thing for us. especially when tile Mill was also funded by the Knight Foundation, so, you know, that at least paid half of my salary for, or, well, sorry, probably, yeah, maybe half of my salary for the first year that I was there and half of three other people's salaries. but that, yeah, so like when we built Tile Mill, a few companies have really like built on those same tools. Uh, there's a company called Carto coincidentally, they had the same name as Carto CSS, and they built on a lot of the same stack they built on mapnik. Um, and it was, was... I mean, I'm not gonna say that it was all like, you know, sunshine and roses, but it was never a thing that we talked about in terms of like this being a brutal competition between us and these other startups. Mapbox eventually closed source some stuff. they made it a source available license. and eventually Mapbox Studio was a closed source product. Um, and that was actually a decision that I advocated for. And that's mostly just because at one point, Esri, Microsoft, Amazon, all had whitelisted versions of Mapbox code, which, uh, hurts a little bit on a personal level and also makes it pretty hard to think about. working almost like it. You don't want to go to your scrappy open source company and do unpaid labor for Amazon. Uh, you know, Bezos can afford to pay for the labor himself. that's just kind of my personal, uh, that I'm obviously, I haven't worked there in a long time, so I'm not speaking for the company, but that's kind of how it felt like. and it yeah, kind of changed the arithmetic of open source in this way that. It made it less fun and, more risky, um, for people I think. [00:07:11] Don't worry about the small free users Jeremy: Yeah. So it sounds like the thinking was if someone on a small team or an individual, they took the open source software and they used it for their own projects, that was fine. Like you expected that and didn't worry about it. It's more that when these really large organizations like a, a Microsoft comes in and, just like you said, white labels the software, and doesn't really contribute significantly back. That's, that's when it, the, the thinking sort of shifted. Tom: Yeah, like a lot of the people who can't pay full price in USD to use your product are great users and they're doing cool stuff. Like when I was working on Placemark and when I was like selling. The theme for my blog, I would get emails from like some kid in India and it's like, you know, you're selling this for a hundred dollars, which is a ton of money. And like, you know, why, why should I care? Why shouldn't I like, just send them the zip file for free? it's like nothing to me and a lot to them. and mapping tools are really, really expensive. So the fact that Mapbox was able to create a free alternative when, you know, ArcGIS was $500 a month sometimes, um, depending on your license, obviously. That's, that's good. You're always gonna find a way for, like, your salespeople are gonna find a way to charge the big companies a lot of money. They're great at that. Um, and that's what matters really for your, for the revenue. [00:08:44] ESRI to Google Maps with little in-between Jeremy: That's a a good point too about like the, my impression of the, the mapping space, and maybe this has changed more recently, but you had the, probably the biggest player Esri, who's selling things at enterprise prices and then there were, or there are like a few open source options. but they feel like the, the barrier to entry feels a little high. And so, and then I guess you have stuff like Google Maps, right? That's, um, that's very accessible, but it's pretty limited, so. There's this big gap, it feels like right between the, the Esri and the, the Google Maps and open source. It's, it's sort of like, there's almost like there's no sweet spot. guess May, maybe it's just because people's uses are so different, but I'm, I'm not sure, um, what makes maps so unique in that way Tom: Yeah, I have come to understand what Esri and QGIS do as like an extension of what CAD is like. And if you've used CAD software recently, it's just as crazy and as expensive and as powerful. and it's really hard to capture like the people who are motivated enough to make a map but don't want to go down the whole rabbit hole. I think that was one of the hardest things about Placemark was trying to be in the middle of those things and half of the people were mystified by the complexity and half the people wanted more complexity. Uh, and I just couldn't figure out how to get it to the right in between spot. [00:10:25] Placemark and its origins in geojson.io Jeremy: Yeah. So let's, let's talk a little bit about Placemark then, in terms of from its start. What was your, your goal with Placemark and, and what was the product itself? Tom: So the seed of the idea for Placemark, uh, is this website called geojson.io, uh, which is still around. And, Chris Fong (correction -- Whong) at, at Mapbox is still, uh, developing it. And that had become pretty useful for a lot of people who I knew in the industry who were in this position of managing geospatial data but not wanting to boot up ArcGIS uh, geojson.io is based on, I just tweeted, I was like, why? Why is there not a thing where you can edit data on a map and have a GeoJSON representation and just go Back and forth between the two really easily. and it started with that, and then it kind of grew to be a little bit more powerful. And then it was just a tool that was useful for everyone. And my theory was just that I wanted that to be more useful. And I knew just like anything else that you build and you work on for a long time, you know exactly how it could be so much better. And, uh, all the things that you would do better if you did it again. And I was, uh, you know, hoping that there was something where like if you make that more powerful and you make it something that's like so essential that somebody's using every day, then maybe there's some some value in that. And so Placemark kind of started as being like, oh, this is the thing where if you're tasking a satellite and you need a bounding box on a specific city, this is the easiest way to do that. Um, and it grew a little bit into being like a tool for collaborating because people were collaborating on it. And I thought that that would be, you know, an interesting thing to support. but yeah, I think it, it like tried to be in that middle of like, not exactly Google my Maps and certainly a lot, uh, simpler than, uh, QGIS or ArcGIS Jeremy: something I noticed, so I've actually used geojson.io as well when I was first learning how to put stuff on a map and learning that GeoJSON was a format that a lot of things were using, it was actually really helpful to, to be able to draw, uh, polygons and see, okay, this is how the JSO looks and all that stuff. And it was. Like just very simple. I think there's something like very powerful about, websites or applications like that where it, it does this one thing and when you go there, you're like, oh, okay, I, I, I know what I'm doing and it's, it's, uh, you know, it's gonna help me do the, this very specific thing I'm trying to do. [00:13:16] Placemark use cases (Farming, Transportation, Interior mapping, Satellite viewsheds) Jeremy: I think with Placemark, so, one question I would have is, you gave an example of, uh, someone, I think you said for a satellite, they're, are they drawing the, the area? What, what was the area specifically for? Tom: the area of interest, the area where they want the, uh, to point the camera. Jeremy: so yeah, with, with Placemark, I mean, were there, what were some of the specific customers or use cases you had in mind? 'cause that's, that's something about. Um, placemark as a product I noticed was it's sort of like, here's this thing where you can draw polygons put markers and there's all these like things you can do, but I think unless you already have the specific use case, it's not super clear, who uses it for what. So maybe you could give some examples of what you had in mind. Tom: I didn't have much in mind, but I can tell you what people, what some people used it for. so some of the more interesting uses of it, a bunch of, uh, farming oriented use cases, uh, especially like indoor and small scale farming. Um, there were some people who, uh, essentially had a bunch of flower farms and had polygons on the map, and they wanted to, uh, mark the ones that had mites or needed to be watered, other things that could spread in a geometric way. And so it's pretty important to have that geospatial component to it. and then a few places were using it for basically transportation planning. Um, so drawing out routes of where buses would go, uh, in Luxembourg. And, then there was also a little bit of like, kind of interesting, planning of what to buy more or less. Uh, so something of like, do we want to buy this tract of land or do we wanna buy this tract of land or do we wanna buy access to this one high speed internet cable or this other high speed internet cable? and yeah, a lot of those things were kind of like emergent use cases. Um, there's a lot of people who were doing either architecture or internal or in interior mapping essentially. Jeremy: Interior, you mean, inside of a building Tom: yeah. yeah. Jeremy: Hmm. Okay. Tom: Which I don't think it was the best tool for. Uh, but you know, people used it for that. Jeremy: Interesting. Yeah. I guess, would people normally use some kind of a CAD tool for that, or Tom: Yeah. Uh, there's CAD tools and there are a few, uh, companies that do just, there's a company that just does interior maps especially of airports, and that's their whole business model. Um, but it's, it's kind of an interesting, uh, problem because most CAD architecture work is done with like a local coordinate system, and you have like very good resolution of everything, and then you eventually place it in geo geospatial space. Uh, but if you do it all in latitude and longitude, you know, you're, you're moving a door and it's moving the 10th or 12th decimal point, and eventually you have some precision problems. Jeremy: So it's almost like if you start with latitude and longitude, it's hard to go the other way. Right? you have to start more specific and then you can move it into the, the geospatial, uh, area. Tom: Yeah. Uh, that's kind of why we have local projections for towns is that you can do a lot of work just in that local projection. And the numbers are kind of small 'cause your town's small, relatively. Jeremy: yeah, those are kind of interesting. So it sounds like just anytime somebody wants to, like you gave the example of transportation planning or you want to visually see where things are, like your crops or things like that, and that, that kind of makes sense. I mean, I think if you just think about paper maps, if somebody wants to sketch something out and, and sort of track the layout of something, this could serve the same purpose but be editable. and like you said, I think it's also. Collaborative so you can have multiple people editing the same, um, map. that makes sense. I think something that I believe I saw on your website is you said though that it was, it's like an editing tool, but it's not necessarily a visualization tool. Uh, I'm kind of curious what you, what you meant by that. [00:17:39] An editing tool that allows you to export data not a visualization tool Tom: Yeah, I, when you say a map, I think there's, people can interpret that as everything from raw data to satellite imagery and raster data. and then a lot of it is like, can I use this to make a choropleth map of the voter turnout in our, in my country? and that placemark did a little bit, but I think that it was, it was never going to be the, the thing that it did super well. and so, yeah, and also like the, the two things kind of, don't mesh all that well. Like if you have a scale point map and you have that kind of visualization of it and then you're editing the points at the same time and you're dragging around these like gigantic points because this point means a lot of population, it just doesn't really make that much sense. There are probably ways to square that circle and have different views, but, uh, I felt like for visualizations, I mean partly I just think data wrapper is kind of great and uh, I had already worked for observable at that point, which is also, which I think also does like great visualization work. Jeremy: Would that be the case of somebody could make a map inside a placemark and then they would take the GeoJSON and then import that into another visualization tool? Is that what you were kind of imagining people would do? Tom: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Jeremy: And I could see from the customer's perspective, a lot of them, they may have that end, uh, visualization in mind. So they might look for a tool that kind of just does both. Right. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. Certain people definitely, wanted that. And yeah, it was an interesting direction to go down. I think that market was going to be a lot different than the people who wanted to manage and edit data. And also, I, one thing that I had in mind a lot, uh, was if Placemark didn't work out, how much would people be burned? and I think if I, if I built it in a way that like everyone was heavily relying on the API and embeds, people would be suffer a lot more, if I eventually had to shut it down. every API that you release is really a, a long-term commitment. And instead for me, like guilt wise, having a product where you can easily export everything that you ever did in any format that you want was like the least lock in, kind of. Jeremy: Yeah. And I imagine the, the scope of the project too, you're making it much smaller if you, if you stick to that editing experience and not try to do everything. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. I, the scope was already pretty big. as you can tell from the open source project, it's, it's bigger than I wish it was. the whole time I was really hoping that I could figure out some niche that was much more compact. there's, I forget the name, but there's somebody who has a, an application that's very similar to Placemark in. Technical terms, but is just a hundred percent focused on planning septic systems. And I'm just like, if I just did this just for septic systems, like would that be a much, would that be 10,000 lines of code instead of 40,000 lines of code? And it would be able to perfectly serve those customers. but you know, that I didn't do enough experimentation to figure that out. Um, I, that's, I think one thing that I wish I had done a lot more was, pivot and do experiments. Jeremy: that septic example, do you know if it's a, a business in and of itself where it can actually support one person or a staff of people? Or is it, is that market just too small? Tom: I think it's still a solo bootstrapped project. yeah. And it's, it's so hard to tell whether a company's doing well or not. I could ask the person over DM. [00:21:58] Built the base technology before going public Jeremy: So when you were first starting. placemark. You were, you were doing it as a solo, developer. A solo entrepreneur, reallyyou worked on it for quite a while, I think before you announced, right? Like maybe a year or so? Tom: Yeah, yeah. Almost, almost a year, I think, maybe, maybe 10 months in the dark. Jeremy: I think that there's, there was a lot of overlap between the different directions that I would eventually go in and. So just building a collaborative editor that can edit map data fairly quickly and checks all the boxes of being able to import and export things, um, that is, was a lot of work. and I mean also I, I was, uh, freelancing during part of it, so it wasn't a hundred percent of my time. Tom: But that, that core, I think even now if I were to build something similar, I would probably still use that work. because that, whether you're doing the septic planning application or you're doing a general purpose kind of map editor or some kind of social application, a lot of that stuff will be in common. Um, and so I wanted to really get, like, to figure out that problem space and get a few solutions that I could live with. Jeremy: The base. libraries or technologies you were gonna pick to get the map and have the collaborative aspect. Those are all things you wanted to get settled first. And then you figured, okay, once I have this base, then I can go find the, you know, the, the, the customers or, or find the specifics of what I'm gonna build. Tom: Yeah, exactly. Jeremy: I I think you had said that going forward when you're gonna work on another project, you would probably still start the same way. [00:23:51] Geospatial is a tough industry, no public companies Tom: if I was working on a project in the geospatial space, I would probably heavily reference the work that I already did here. but I don't know if I'll go back to, to maps again. It's a tough industry. Jeremy: Is it because of the, the customer base? Is it because like people don't really understand the market in terms of who actually needs the maps? I'm kind of curious what you feel makes it tough. Tom: I think, well there are no, there are no public mapping companies. Esri is I think one of the 10 largest private companies in the us. but it's not like any of these geospatial companies have ever been like a pure play. And I think that makes it hard. I think maps are just, they're kind of like fonts in a way in which they are this. Very deep well of complexity, which is absolutely fascinating. If you're in it, it's enough fun and engineering to spend an entire career just working on that stuff. And then once you're out of it, you talk to somebody and you're just like, oh, I work on this thing. And they're like, oh, that you Google maps. Um, or, you know, I work at a font type like a, you know, a type factory and it's like, oh, do you make, uh, you know, courier in, uh, word. It's really infrastructure, uh, that we mostly take for granted, which is, that's, that means it's good in some ways. but at the same time, I, it's hard to really find a niche in which the mapping component is that, that is that useful. A lot of the companies that are kind of mapping companies. Like, I think you could say that like Strava and Palantir are kind of geospatial companies, both of them. but Strava is a fitness company and Palantir is a military company. so if you're, uh, a mapping expert, you kind of have to figure out what, how it ties into the real world, how it ties into the business world and revenue. And then maps might be 50% of the solution or 75% of the solution, but it's probably not going to be, this is the company that makes mapping software. Jeremy: Yeah, it's more like, I have this product that I'm gonna sell and it happens to have a map as a part of it. versus I'm going to sell you, tools that, uh, you know, help you make your own map. That seems like a, a harder, harder sell. Tom: yeah. And especially pro tools like the. The idea of people being both invested in terms of paying and invested in terms of wanting to learn the tool. That's, uh, that's a lot to ask out of people. [00:26:49] Knowing the market is tough but going for it anyways Jeremy: I think the things we had just talked about, about mapping being a tough industry and about there being like the low end is taken care of by Google, the high end is taken care of by Esri with ArcGIS. Uh, I think you mentioned in a blog post that when you started Placemark you, you, you knew all this from the start. So I'm kind of curious, like, knowing that, what made you decide like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go for it and, you know, do it anyways. Tom: uh, I, well, I think that having seen, I, like I am a co-founder of val.town now, and every company that I've worked for, I've been pretty early enough to see how the sausage is made and the sausage is made with chaos. Like every company doesn't know what it's doing and is in an impossible fight against some Goliath figure. And the product that succeeds, if it ever does succeed, is something that you did not think of two or three years in advance. so I looked at this, I looked at the odds, and I was like, oh, these are the typical odds, you know, maybe someday I'll see something where it's, uh, it's an obvious open blue water market opportunity. But I think for the, for the most part, I was expecting to grind. Uh, you know, like even, even if, uh, the odds were worse, I probably would've still done it. I think I, I learned a lot. I should have done a lot more marketing and business and, but I have, I have no regrets about, you know, taking, taking a one try at solving a very hard to solve problem. Jeremy: Yeah, that's a good point in that the, the odds, like you said, are already stacked against you. but sometimes you just gotta try it and see how it goes, Tom: Yeah. And I had the, like I was at a time where I was very aware of how my life was set up. I was like, I could do a startup right now and kind of burn money for a little while and have enough time to work on it, and I would not be abandoning an infant child or, you know, like all of the things that, all the life responsibilities that I will have in the near future. Um. So, you know, uh, the, the time was then, I guess, [00:29:23] Being a solo developer Jeremy: And comparing it to your time at Mapbox and the other startups and, and I suppose now at val.town, when you were working on Placemark, you're the sole developer, you're in charge of everything. how did that feel? Did you enjoy that experience or was it more like, I, I really wish I had other people to, you know, to kind of go through this with, Tom: Uh, around the end I started to chat with people who, like might be co-founders and I even entertained some chats with, uh, venture capital people. I am fine with the, the day to day of working on stuff alone of making a lot of decisions. That's what I have done in a lot of companies anyway. when you're building the prototype or turning a prototype into something that can be in production, I think that having, uh, having other people there, It would've been better for my mentality in terms of not feeling like it was my thing. Um, you know, like feeling detached enough from the product to really see its flaws and really be open to, taking more radical shifts in approach. whereas when it's just you, you know, it's like you and the customers and your email inbox and, uh, your conscience and your existential dread. Uh, and you know, it's not like a co-founder or, uh, somebody to work with is gonna solve all of that stuff for you, but, uh, it probably would've been maybe a little bit better. I don't know. but then again, like I've also seen those kinds of relationships blow up a lot. and I wanted to kind of figure out what I was doing before, adding more people, more complexity, more money into the situation. But maybe you, maybe doing that at the beginning is kind of the same, you know, like you, other people are down for the same kind of risk that you are. Jeremy: I'm sure it's always different trade offs. I mean, I, I think there probably is a power to being able to unilaterally say like, Hey, this is, this is what I wanna do, so I'm gonna do it. Tom: Yeah. [00:31:52] Spending too much time on multiplayer without a business case Jeremy: You mentioned how there were certain flaws or things you may not have seen because you were so in it. Looking back, what, what were some of those things? Tom: I think that, uh, probably the, I I don't think that most technical decisions are all that important, um, that it never seems like the thing that means life or death for companies. And, you know, Facebook is still on PHP, they've fought, fixed, the problem with, with money. but I think I got rabbit holed into a few things where if I had like a business co-founder, then they would've grilled me about like, why are we spending? The, the main thing that comes to mind, uh, is real time multiplayer, real time. It was a fascinating problem and I was so ready to think about that all the time and try to solve it. And I think that took up a lot of my time and energy. And in the long term, most people are not editing a map. At the same time, seeing the cursors move around is a really fun party trick, and it's great for marketing, but I think that if I were to take a real look at that, that was, that was a mistake. Especially when the trade off was things that actually mattered. Like the amount of time, the amount, the amount of data that the, that could be handled at. At the same time, I could have figured out ways to upload a one gigabyte or two gigabyte or three gigabyte shape file and for it to just work in that same time, whereas real time made it harder to solve that problem, which was a lot closer to what, Paying customers cared about and where people's expectations were? Jeremy: When you were working on this realtime collaborative functionality, was this before the product was public? Was this something you, built from the start? Tom: Yeah. I built the whole thing without it and then added it in. Not as like a rewrite, but like as a, as a big change to a lot of stuff. Jeremy: Yeah, I, I could totally see how that could happen because you are trying to envision people using this product, and you think of something like Google Docs, right? It's very powerful to be typing in a document and see the other cursors and, um, see other people typing. So, I could see how you, you would make that leap and say like, oh, the map should, should do that too. Yeah. [00:34:29] Financial pressures of bootstrapping, high COL, and healthcare Tom: Yeah. Yeah. Um, and, you know, Figma is very cool. Like the, it's, it's amazing. It's an amazing thing. But the Figma was in the dark for way longer than I was, and uh, Evan is a lot smarter than I was. Jeremy: He probably had a big bag of money too. Right. Tom: Yeah. Jeremy: I, I don't actually know the history of Figma, but I'm assuming it's, um, it's VC funded, right? Tom: Uh, yeah, they're, they're kind of famous for just having, I don't think they raised that much in the beginning, but they just didn't hire very much and it was just like the two co-founders, or two or three people and they just kept building for long time. I feel like it's like well over three years. Jeremy: Oh wow. Okay. I think like in your case, I, I saw a comment from you where you were saying, this was your sole source of income and you gotta pay for your health insurance, and so you have no outside investments. So, the pressures are, are very different I think. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. And that's really something to on, to appreciate about venture capital. It gives you the. Slack in your, in your budget to make some mistakes and not freak out about it. and sadly, the rent is not going down anytime soon in, in Brooklyn, and the health insurance is not going down anytime soon. I think it's, it's kind of brutal to like leave a job and then realize that like, you know, to, to be admitted to a hospital, you have to pay $500 a month. Jeremy: I'm, I'm sure that was like, shocking, right? The first time you had to pay for it yourself. Tom: Yeah. And it's not even good. Uh, we need to fix this like that. If there's anything that we could do to fix entrepreneurship in this country, it's just like, make it possible to do this without already being wealthy. Um, it was, it was a constant stress. [00:36:29] Growth and customers Jeremy: As you worked on it, and maybe especially as you, after you had shipped, was there a period where. You know, things were going really well in terms of customers and you felt like, okay, this is really gonna work. Tom: I was, so, like, I basically started out by dropping, I think $5,000 in the business bank account. And I was like, if I break even soon, then I'll be happy. And I broke even in the first month. And that was amazing. I mean, the costs were low and everything, but I was really happy to just be at that point and that like, it never went down. I think that probably somebody with more, uh, determination would've kept going after, after I had stopped. but yeah, like, and also The people who used Placemark, who I actually chatted with, and, uh, all that stuff, they were awesome. I wish that there were more of them. but like a lot of the customers were doing cool stuff. They were supportive. They gave me really informative feedback. Um, and that felt really good. but there was never a point at which like the, uh, the growth scale looked like, oh, we're going to hit a point at which this will be a sustainable business within a year. I think it, according to the growth when I left it, it would've been like maybe three years until I would've been, able to pay my rent and health insurance and, live a comfortable life in, in New York. Jeremy: So when you mentioned you broke even that was like the expenses into the business, but not for actually like rent and health insurance and food and all that. Okay. Okay. can you say like roughly how much was coming in or how many customers you had? Tom: Uh, yeah, the revenue initially I think was, uh, 1500 MRR, and eventually it was like 4,000 or so. Jeremy: And the growth was pretty steady. [00:38:37] Bootstrapping vs fundraising Tom: Um, so yeah, I mean, the numbers where you're just like, maybe I could have kept going. but it's, the other weird thing about VCs is just that I think I have this rich understanding of like, if you're, if you're running a business that will be stressful, but be able to pay your bills and you're in control of it, versus running a startup where you might make life changing money and then not have to run a business again. It's like the latter is kind of better. Uh, if stress affects you a lot, and if you're not really wedded to being super independent. so yeah, I don't know between the two ways of like living your life, I, I have some appreciation for, for both. doing what Placemark entailed if I was living cheaply in a, in a cheap city and it didn't stress me out all the time, would've been a pretty good deal. Um, but doing it in Brooklyn with all the stress was not it, it wasn't affecting my life in positive ways and I, I wanted to, you know, go see shows at night with my friends and not worry about the servers going down. Jeremy: Even putting the money aside, I think that's being the only person responsible for the app, right? Probably feels like you can't really take a vacation. Right. Tom: Yeah, I did take a vacation during it. Like I went to visit my partner who was in, uh, Germany at the time, and we were like on a boat, uh, between Germany, across the lake to Switzerland, and like the servers went down and I opened up my laptop and fixed the servers. It's just like, that is, it's a sacrifice that people make, but it is hard. Jeremy: There's, there's on call, but usually it's not just you 24 7. Tom: Yeah. If you don't pick up somebody else [00:40:28] Financial stress and framing money spent as an investment Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess at what point, because I'm trying to think. You started in 2021 and then maybe wrapped up, was it sometime in 2024? Tom: Uh, I took a job in, uh, I, I mean I joined val.town in the early 2023 and then wrapped up in November, 2023. Jeremy: At what point did you really start feeling the, the stress? Like I, I imagine maybe when you first started out, you said you were doing consulting and stuff, so, um, probably things were okay, but once you kind of shifted away from that, is that kind of when the, the, the worries about money started coming in? Tom: Yeah. Um, I think maybe it was like six or eight months, um, in. Just that I felt like I wasn't finding, uh, like a, a way to grow the product without adding lots of complexity to it. and being a solo founder, the idea of succeeding, but having built like this hulking mess of a product felt just as bad as not succeeding. like ideally it would be something that I could really be happy maintaining for the long term. Uh, but I was just seeing like, oh, maybe I could succeed by adding every feature in QGIS and that's just not, not a, not something that I wanted to commit to. but yeah, I don't, I don't know. I've been, uh, do you know, uh, Ramit Sethie he's like a, Jeremy: I don't. Tom: an internet money guy. He's less scummy than the rest of them, but still, I. an internet money guy. Um, but he does adjust a lot of stuff about like, money psychology. And that has made me realize that a lot of what I thought at the time and even think now is kind of a rational, you know, like, I think one of the main things that I would do differently is just set a budget for Placemark. Like if I had just set away, like, you know, enough money to live on for a year and put that in, like the, this is for Placemark bucket, then it would've felt better to me then having it all be ad hoc, month to month, feeling like you're burning money instead of investing money in a thing. but yeah, nobody told me, uh, how to, how to think about it then. Uh, yeah, you only get experience by experiencing it. Jeremy: You're just seeing your, your bank account shrinking and there's this, psychological toll, right? Where you're not, you're not used to that feeling and it, it probably feels like something's wrong, Tom: Yeah, yeah. I'm, I think it, I'm really impressed by people who can say, oh, I invested, uh, you know, 50 or a hundred thousand dollars into this business and was comfortable with that risk. And like, maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't. Maybe you just like threw a lot of money down into that. and the people, I think with the healthy, productive, uh, relationship with it. Do think of it as like, oh, I, I paid for kind of a bet on a risk. and that's, that's what I was doing anyway. You know, like I was paying my rent and my health insurance and spending all my time working on the product instead of paying, uh, freelance work. but if you don't frame it that way, it doesn't feel like an investment. It feels like you're making a risky gamble. Jeremy: Yeah. And I think that makes sense to, to actually, I think, like you were saying, have a separate account or a separate thing set aside where you are like, this is, this is this money for this purpose. And like you said, look at it as an investment, which with regular investments can go down. Tom: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Jeremy: Yeah [00:44:26] In hindsight might have raised money or tried smaller bets Jeremy: Were there, there other things, whether technical or or business wise, that, that if you were to to do it again, you would do differently? Tom: I go back and forth on whether I should have raised venture capital. there are, there's kind of a, an assumption in venture capital that once you're on it, you have to go the whole way. You have to become a billion dollar company, uh, or at least really tell people that you're going to be a billion dollar company and I am not. yeah, I, I don't know. I've seen, I've seen other companies in my space, or like our friends of my current company who are not really targeting that, or ones who were, and then they had somewhere in between the billion dollar and the very small outcome. Uh, and that's a little bit of a point in the favor of accepting a big pile of money from the venture capitalists. I'm also a little bit biased right now because val.town has one investor and he's like the, the best venture capitalist that I have ever met. Big fan. don't quote me on that. If he sacks me in like a year, we'll see. Um, but uh, yeah, there, I, I think that I understand more why people take that approach. or I've understood more why people take like the venture capital but not taking $300 million from SoftBank approach. yeah, and I don't know, I think that, trying a lot of things also seems really appealing. Uh, people who do the same kind of. of Maybe 10 months, but they build four or five different products or three different products instead of just one. I think that, that feels, feels like a good idea to me. Jeremy: And in doing that, would that be more of a, like as a solo entrepreneur or you, you're thinking you would take investment and then say, I'm gonna try all these things with, with your money. Tom: Oh, I've seen both. I, that I, yeah, one friend's company has pivoted like four times between very different ideas and yeah, it, it's one way to do it, but I think in the long term, I would want to do that as a solo developer and try to figure out, you know, something. but yeah, I, I think, uh, so much of it is mindset, that even then if I was working on like three different projects, I think I. My qualifications for something being worth, really adopting and spending all my time doing, you just have to accept, uh, a lot of hits and a lot of misses and a lot of like keeping things alive and finding out how to turn them into something. I am really inspired by my friends who like started around the same time that I did and they're not that much further in terms of revenue and they're like still, still doing it because that is what they want to do in life. and if you develop the whole ecosystem and mindset around it, I think that's somewhere that people can stay and, and be happy. just trying to find, trying to find a company that they own and control and they like. Jeremy: While, while making the the expenses work. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. that's the, that's the hard part, like freelancing on the side also. I probably could have kept that up. I liked my freelance clients. I would probably still work with them as well. but I kind of just wanted the, I wanted the focus, I wanted the motivation of, of being without a net. Jeremy: Yeah, I mean, energy wise, do you think that that would've worked? I mean, I imagine that Placemark took a lot of your time when you were working full time, so you're trying to balance, you know, clients and all your customers and everything you're doing with the software. It just feels like it might be a lot. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe with different freelance clients. I, I loved my freelance clients because I, after. leaving config. I, I wanted to work on climate change stuff and so I was working for climate change foundations and that is not the way to max out your paycheck. It's the way to feel good about your conscience. And so I still feel great about those projects, but in the future, yeah, I would probably just work for, uh, you know, a hedge fund or something. [00:49:02] Marketing to developers but not potential customers Jeremy: I think something you mentioned in one of your posts is that you maybe could have spent more time or had a different approach with marketing. Maybe you could kind of say what you did do and then what maybe worked and what didn't. Tom: Yeah. So I like my sweet spot is writing documentation and blog posts and technical stuff. And so I did a lot of that and a lot of that like worked in a way that didn't matter. I am at this point, weirdly good at writing stuff that gets on Hacker News. I've written a lot of stuff that's gotten to the top of Hacker News and unfortunately, writing about your technical approach and your geospatial project for handling errors, uh, in your JavaScript code is not really a way to get customers. and I think doing a lot of documentation was also great, but it was also, I think that the, the thing that was missing is the thing that I think Mapbox does fairly well now, in which the homepage really pushes you toward use cases immediately. and I should have been saying to each customer who had anything compelling as a use case, like, let's write an article about you and what you're doing, and here's how you use this in your industry. and that probably would've also been like a good, a good way to figure out which of those verticals was the one that was most worth spending all the time on. yeah. So it, it was, it was a lot of good marketing to nerds. and it could have been better in terms of marketing to actual customers and to people who are making the buying decisions. Jeremy: Yeah. Looking at the, the Placemark blog, I can definitely see how as a developer, a lot of the posts are appealing to me, right? It's about how you worked on a technical challenge or decisions you made, but maybe less so to somebody who they wanna. Draw a map to manage their crops. They're like, I don't care about any of this. Right. Tom: Yeah, like the Mapbox blog used to be, just all that stuff as well. We would write about designing protocol buffer layouts, and it was amazing for hiring and amazing for getting nerds in the door. But now it's just, Toyota is launching with, Mapbox Maps or something like that. And that's, that's what you, you should do if you're trying to sell a product. Jeremy: Yeah. And I think the, the sort of technical aspect, it makes sense too. If you're venture funded and you are looking to hire, right? You wanna build your team and you just want to increase like, the amount of stuff you're building and not worrying so much about, am I gonna have a paycheck next Tom: Yeah. Yeah. I, I just kind of do it because it's fun, which is not the right reason to do it, but, Yeah, I mean, I still write my blog mostly just because it's, it's a fun thing to do, but it's not the best way to, um, to run a business. Jeremy: Yeah. Well, the fun part is important too though. Tom: Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's maybe the whole thing. May, that's maybe the most important thing, but you can't do it if you don't do the, the money part. [00:52:35] Most customers came from existing audience Jeremy: Right. So the people who did find you, was it mostly word of mouth from people who did identify with the technical posts, or were there places that surprised you, that people found you? Tom: Uh, a lot of it was people who were familiar with the Mapbox ecosystem or with, with me. and then eventually, yeah, a few of the users came in through, um, through Hacker News, but it was mostly, mostly word of mouth also. The geospatial community is like fairly tight and it's, and it's not too hard to be the person who writes the article about some geospatial challenge that everyone finds. Jeremy: Hmm. Okay. Yeah, that's a good point about like being in that community, especially since you've done so much work in geospatial and in open source that you have this little, this built-in audience, I guess. Tom: yeah. Which I appreciate. It makes me nervous, but yeah. [00:53:43] Val.town marketing to developers Jeremy: Comparing that to something like val.town, how is val.town marketing? How is it finding users? 'cause from what I can tell, it's, it's getting a lot of, uh, a lot of people coming in, right? Tom: Yeah. Uh, well, right now our, our kind of target user, or the user that we think of is a hobbyist, is somebody who's, sometimes a pro developer or somebody, sometimes just somebody who's really interested in the field. And so writing these things that are just about, you know, programming, does super well. Uh, but it, we have exactly the same problem and that that is kind of being revamped as we speak. uh, we hired somebody who actually knows marketing and has a good sense for it. And so a lot of that stuff is shifting to show you what you can do with val.town because it, it suffers from the same problem as well. It's an empty text field in which you can type, type script, code, and it runs. And knowing what you can do with that or what you should do with that is, is hard if you don't have a grasp of TypeScript and web applications. so pretty soon we'll have pages which are like, here's how to connect linear and GitHub with OW Town, or, you know, two nouns connect them, for all of those companies and to do automations and all these like concrete applications. I think that's, you have to do it. You have to figure it out. Jeremy: Just briefly for someone who hasn't heard of val.town, like what, what does it do? Tom: Uh, val.town is a social website, so it has comments and likes and all of that stuff. but it's for writing these little snippets of TypeScript and JavaScript code that run. So a lot of them are websites, some of them are automations, so they receive emails or send emails or connect one service to another. And yeah, it's, it's like combining some aspects of, GitHub or like a code platform, uh, but with the assumption that every time that you save, everything's instantly deployed. Jeremy: So it's maybe a little bit like, um, like a glitch, I guess? Tom: Uh, yeah. Yeah, it takes a lot of experience, a lot of, uh, inspiration from Glitch. Jeremy: And I, I think, like you had mentioned, you enjoy writing the, the technical blog posts and the documentation. And so at least with val.town, your audience is developers versus, the geospatial community who probably largely doesn't care about, TypeScript and the, the different technical decisions there. Tom: Yeah, it, it makes it easier, that's for sure. The customer is, is me. [00:56:30] Shifting from solo to in-person teams Jeremy: Nice. Yeah. Looking at, you know, you, you worked as a, a solo developer for Placemark, and then now you've got a team of, is it like maybe five Tom: Uh, it is seven at the moment. Jeremy: Seven people. Okay. Are you all in person or is it, remote Tom: We all sit around two tables in Brooklyn. It's very nice. Jeremy: So how did that feel? Like shifting from, I'm in, I don't know if you worked from home while you were working on Placemark or if you were in coworking spaces, but you're, you're shifting from I'm like in my own head space doing everything myself to, to, I'm in a room with all these people and we're like working on this thing together. I'm kind of curious like how that felt for you. Tom: Yeah, it's been a big difference. And I think that I was just talking with, um, one, one of our, well an engineer at, at val.town about how everyone kind of had, had been working remote for obvious pandemic world reasons. And this kind of privilege of just being around the same table, if that's what you like is, a huge difference in terms of, I just remember having to. Trick myself into going on a walk around the block because I would get into such a dark mental head space of working on the same project for eight hours straight and skipping lunch. and now there's a little bit more structure. yeah, it's, it's been, it's been a overall, an improvement. Some days I wish that I could go on a run at noon 'cause that's the warmest time of the day. but, uh, overall, like it makes things so much easier. just reading the emotions in people's faces when they're telling you stuff and being able to, uh, not get into discussions that you don't need to get into because you can talk and just like understand each other very quickly. It's, it's very nice. I don't wanna force everyone to do it, you know, but it it for the people who want it, they, they, uh, really enjoy it. Jeremy: Yeah. I think if you have the right set of people, it's definitely more enjoyable. And um, if you don't, maybe not so Tom: Yeah, we haven't hired any, like, extremely loud chewers yet or anything like that, but yeah, maybe my story will change. Jeremy: No, no one microwaving fish. Tom: No, there's, uh, yeah, thankfully the microwave is outside of the office. Jeremy: Do you live close to the office? Tom: Yeah. Yeah. Like most of the team is within a 20 or 30 minute walk of the office and it's very fortunate. I think there's been something of a mass migration to New York. A lot of us didn't live in New York before four years ago, and now all of us do. it's, it's, uh, it's very comfortable to be here. Jeremy: I think that makes, uh, such a big difference. 'cause I think the majority of people, at least within the US you know, you're, you're getting in your car, you're sitting in traffic. and I know people who, during the pandemic, they actually moved further, right? Because they went, oh, like, uh, I don't need to come into the office. but yeah, if you are close enough where you can walk, yeah, I think that makes a big difference. Tom: Oh yeah. If I had to drive to work, I think my blood pressure would be so much higher. Uh, especially in New York. Oh, I feel so bad for the people who have to drive, whereas I'm just walking with, you know, a bagel in hand, enjoying listening to the birds. Jeremy: Yeah. Yeah. well now they have, what is it, the congestion pricing in Tom: Yeah. Yeah. We're all in Brooklyn, so it doesn't affect us that much, but it's supposedly, it's, it's working great. Um, yeah. I hope we can keep it. Jeremy: I've never driven in New York and I, I wouldn't want to Tom: Yeah. It's only for the brave or the crazy. [01:00:37] The value of public writing and work Jeremy: I think that's probably a good place to, to wrap up, but is there any other thoughts you had or things you wanted to mention? Tom: No, I've just, uh, thank you so much. This has been, this has been a lot of fun. You're, you're very good at this as well. I feel like it's, uh, Jeremy: Thank you Tom: It's not easy to, to steer a conversation in a way that makes awkward people sound, uh, normal. Jeremy: I wouldn't say that, but um, what's been actually pretty helpful to me is, you have such a body of work, I guess I would say, in terms of your blogging and, just the amount that you write and the long history of projects that, that there's, you know, there's a lot to talk about and I'm sure it helps, helps your thought process as well. Tom: Yeah. I, I've been lucky to have a lot of jobs where people, where companies were like, cool with publishing everything, you know? so a lot of what I've done is, uh, is public. it's, it's, uh, I'm very, very thankful for like, early on that being a big part of company culture. Jeremy: And you can definitely tell, I think for people who look at the Placemark blog posts or, or now your, your val.town blog posts, like there's, there's a clear difference when somebody like is very intentional and, um, you know, it's good at writing versus you're doing it because, um, it's your corporate responsibility or whatever, like people can tell. Yeah. Tom: Yeah. You can't fake being interested. so you gotta work on things that are interesting. Jeremy: Tom, thanks again for, for agreeing to chat. This was fun. Tom: Yeah thank you so much.

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 30:45

每年的年初，最讓人興奮的就是開始研究今年要去哪裡旅行了！主廚照例整理了7家媒體的推薦清單，將200個推薦地點進行整理，然後挑出裡面比較有趣的推薦來和大家分享。格陵蘭為什麼那麼受矚目？大家終於受不了哥斯大黎加的擁擠，開始往尼加拉瓜移動？喀麥隆和安哥拉，為什麼今年會突然上榜？台灣唯一被推薦的地方，又是哪裡？歡迎大家從這集節目獲取靈感，也分享一下你今年打算要去哪吧～！附註：主廚都是用什麼工具做地圖和圖表？地理資訊的來源與工具很多時候不一定需要動用到專業軟體（e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS）如果只是需要國家的輪廓，Wiki Common上面就能找到很多如果需要底圖，可以在SnazzyMaps上面調整Google Maps的顏色輕量網路地圖工具： Felt.com、ArcGIS.com 圖表製作與編修圖表靠Google Sheet就可以畫，如果不滿意的話可以輸出成SVG調整簡單的編修、加上註記，其實Canva和簡報軟體就可以搞定如果需要編修向量檔，Inkscape是免費的Illustrator很好用 ✅ 本集重點： (00:00:16) 開頭閒聊，近況分享，2025年推薦清單如何收集資料與整理 (00:07:22) 北美洲：格陵蘭 (00:14:53) 中美洲：尼加拉瓜 (00:18:27) 南美洲：玻利維亞 (00:23:36) 非洲：喀麥隆、安哥拉 (00:29:43) 歐洲：那些2025年的賽事與特殊活動 (00:33:00) 大洋洲：萬那杜、馬紹爾群島 (00:37:53) 亞洲：日本大阪與富山，台灣嘉義阿里山 (00:47:16) 2024年旅行熱炒店實體活動回顧 Show note https://ltsoj.com/podcast-ep216 Facebook https://facebook.com/travel.wok Instagram https://instagram.com/travel.wok Thread https://www.threads.net/@travel.wok Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@travelwok 意見回饋 https://forms.gle/4v9Xc5PJz4geQp7K7 寫信給主廚 travel.wok@ltsoj.com 旅行熱炒店官網 https://ltsoj.com/ 《米國放大鏡》聽眾問卷 https://forms.gle/BtzQCx2xDHUoGjAUA

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AI Unraveled: Latest AI News & Trends, Master GPT, Gemini, Generative AI, LLMs, Prompting, GPT Store

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 14:29

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on January 20th 2025

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AI Weekly Rundown Jan 13 to Jan 18 2025:

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 27:01

Badass Women, Badass Stories: Strategies for Highlighting Local Women's History

The Teaching History Her Way Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 34:52

Send us a textGet ready for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation! In this special episode of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast, I'm joined by an incredible panel of educators—Karalee Wong Nakatsuka, Shannon Salter, Angela Lee, and Annie Evans—to discuss teaching women's history, particularly on the local level. Students seeing history in their own communities is incredibly powerful!We recorded this episode, in part, to build excitement for our upcoming presentation at the National Council of the Social Studies Conference in Boston on November 23, 2024. Together, we explore how educators can uncover and share the stories of everyday women whose actions shaped history, using digital tools and student-driven research to foster meaningful connections to the women closest to them geographically, genetically, or both.Whether you're attending NCSS or simply want to enhance your teaching of women's history, this episode is packed with strategies and inspiration to bring these stories to life.Want to chat?Angela Lee: @mrshistorylee (X) mrshistorylee.bsky.social Annie Evans: @mapmaker (X) mapm8ker.bsky.socialKaralee Wong Nakatsuka: @historyfrog (X) @historyfrog.bsky.socialShannon Salter: @shannonsalter70 (X) or @civicswithsalter.bsky.socialInterested in some of the tools we mention in this episode? Here is a list:Thing Link, Puppet Pals, ArcGIS, Wakelet, Story Maps, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, National ArchivesLibrary of Congress, Gilder Lehrman Institute for American HistoryLet's be friends and continue the conversation!Instagram: @teachinghistoryherwayX: http://www.twitter.com/historyherwayOn the Web/Blog: http://www.teachinghistoryherway.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/teachinghistoryherwayBlueSky: @historyherway.bsky.socialSupport the production of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast by purchasing some really great history tees. Click here to shop now or go to www.teachinghistoryherway.com and click on "Merch."

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Sport Ireland digitally maps over 12,000 recreational facilities in Ireland

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 4:01

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that its digital mapping system is being used by Sport Ireland to digitally map over 12,000 recreational locations and facilities across the island of Ireland. Sport Ireland has launched Get Ireland Active, a national digital hub which maps sports and recreation facilities, walking and cycling trails, public parks, and other amenities around the country to promote higher levels of physical activity. Sport Ireland is the national authority responsible for developing sport and outdoor recreation in Ireland. Based on Esri's ArcGIS system, Sport Ireland and Derilinx created Get Ireland Active, which anticipates over 15,000 visitors per month and aims to inspire people to get involved in sport and other recreational activities to improve their health and wellbeing. The interactive digital map addresses the need for a single, authoritative source of data about sports facilities in Ireland that can provide ways for citizens to become more active, and can also be used to support policy decisions and inform the development of new facilities. Validated data, for the whole of Ireland, is available to stakeholders via the fully interactive online data hub, created with ArcGIS Hub Premium. Users can collate, verify, analyse, and share data in real-time, including development, planning, and socio-demographic information. This provides actionable insights and allows policy makers in central and local government, sporting bodies, and other stakeholders to analyse gaps in the provision of services and easily identify development land or other potential areas that might be available to site new facilities. Sport Ireland conducted audits of all sports facilities in Ireland to create the central data hub, which is flexible and scalable and will continue to be updated as data is made available. Dr Úna May, CEO, Sport Ireland, said: "Esri Ireland's expertise has been crucial in bringing the Get Ireland Active database to life. Their technology allows us to offer a user-friendly platform that has comprehensive information about recreational activities across Ireland. "Technology is transforming how we approach our everyday lives, and it's vital that we use this to our benefit. Our collaboration with Esri Ireland has made this a reality, and we are excited to build upon this work through the continued development of the Get Ireland Active database." Padraig Quinn, Senior Account Manager, Esri Ireland, said: "We are proud to have supported the development of the Get Ireland Active national database, Ireland's interactive activity, sport, and recreation hub. The benefits of having an interactive hub which can direct members of the public to their closest sport or recreation facilities are invaluable, especially coming into the winter months. "Furthermore, the hub will continue to inform future development of sporting facilities across Ireland and embed a love of sport and the outdoors for both present and future generations. We are looking forward to continuing to work with Sport Ireland as the hub continues to grow." See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

IALEIA News - November 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 25:18 Transcription Available

Alexander Gulde updates us on the latest International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) News. From new training opportunities to the upcoming conference, Alex walks us through IALEIA's recent initiatives to support and elevate law enforcement analysts. We discuss the launch of the ArcGIS for Criminal Intelligence course, led by instructor Stacy Belledin, designed to build essential skills for analysts looking to integrate GIS into their intelligence work. We also dive into details for the 2025 IALEIA/LEIU Annual Training Conference in Vancouver, covering the call for presentations and registration info. For those considering a more active role in IALEIA, Alex explains the upcoming board elections, offering insights into the nomination and voting process and encouraging members to step up and contribute to the association's future. Join us for this packed update, and don't forget to check out the show notes for links to IALEIA resources. As always, thanks for tuning in, and stay engaged, analysts! [Note: Description created by ChatGPT.] ArcGIS course: https://www.ialeia.org/arcgis_for_criminal_intelligen.php Conference: https://www.ialeia.org/2025_leiu_ialeia_annual_traini.php Call for Presentations: https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/0fd874fc-f07e-4c09-9cd8-0c56e5bb98fb To find out more about Stacy, listen to her Analyst Talk podcast episode. https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/stacy-belledin-the-voice/ Transcript: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7t2ni422fy28we8z/IALEIAupdateNov2024_transcript.pdf https://ialeia.org/ www.leapodcasts.com

Exploring ArcGIS Web Editor: Innovations and insights

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 25:29

In this episode, hosts Mary Murphy and Ellen Carter are joined by Scott Sandusky, Principal Product Manager at Esri, to delve into the exciting new ArcGIS Web Editor. They discuss the evolution of web-based editing, the comprehensive capabilities of the new application, and its impact on GIS professionals and casual users alike. Scott shares insights into the development process, upcoming features, and the strategic vision behind ArcGIS Web Editor. Tune in to learn how this tool is set to transform data editing workflows and enhance user experience across various industries. Get in touch: Mary Murphy Ellen Carter Scott Sandusky

365 Ways to Make Maps

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 34:20

This episode of the Spatial Report will focus on two ArcGIS products designed to make your GIS workflows easier. First, your hosts Maggie Samson and Mark Ho go beyond your typical spreadsheets, charts and graphs by learning how to create maps with ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 with our resident super fan, Mike Gregotski. Then our ArcGIS Online GeoGeek, Brandon Wheatley, will help us make changes to our data with ArcGIS Web Editor. Rundown 0:00 – Introduction 1:22 – What's Making Us Mappy 5:24 – Inside the Arc: ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 17:17 – The GeoGeeks: ArcGIS Web Editor 28:13 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Mark is excited that GIS Day in Canada (November 19) and GIS Day (November 20) are fast approaching. These days highlight all the great work our user community is doing using GIS to solve real-world problems. The Esri Canada event will feature Dianne Whelan as our keynote speaker – she traversed the entire length of the Trans Canada Trail! Incredible! GIS Day in Canada will also feature three esteemed members of this podcast! Alison O'Brien, Sue Enyedy, and our co-host Maggie Samson will present technical topics to close out the big day. Maggie returns to her roots (sort of) as she shouts out the Esri Support AI Chatbot. That's right! More AI. This time it's here to help our users find answers to many of their technical questions. The technical support team created this chatbot to allow you to ask conversation questions to help initially guide them in the right direction, providing answers and links to Esri content including documentation and blogs. It's now available on the Esri website or via the Esri Support App. And yes, it's available to both our French and English users (40 languages in fact). It may not solve everything difficult problem, but this is a fantastic tool to get your discovery journey started. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability We use Microsoft 365 all the time as a part of our daily workflows: from building spreadsheets in Excel, managing content with SharePoint, and collaborating with our co-workers on Teams. But did you know you can bring these business apps to life by adding interactive maps? Incorporating ArcGIS intelligence inside Microsoft has never been simpler. To tell us more about how to connect Microsoft software with Esri's mapping capabilities, we are joined by our colleague Mike Gregotski. He's plugged into the world of ArcGIS for Microsoft 365. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology Recently Esri introduced the ArcGIS Web Editor, a web-based tool enabling GIS data editing and maintenance in a simple-to-use interface. Performing common spatial and attribute edits through a browser opens new doors as you can create and modify your authoritative data from anywhere. And it's available for both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise users. Brandon Wheatley, our ArcGIS Online GeoGeek, gives us an overview of this editing app, including some new features coming to the editor in upcoming releases. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Maggie leads this edition of the geography game show with the most. And this time she reflects on her recent vacation to Ireland! She bombards Mark with questions about filming locations for movies and TV shows on the Emerald Isle. Of course, Mark has no clue about anything Irish or entertainment, but he does attempt to guess as best he can. For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Product Specialist, ArcGIS Online at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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Nyemer Pivetta - Desafios da Geologia no Desenvolvimento de Uma Mina

Podcast da Mineração

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 41:44

Olá sejam bem vindo ao nosso quadro de entrevistas do Podcast da Mineração. Nesse programa fizemos uma entrevista com Nyemer Pivetta, Com 15 anos de experiência em Recursos Minerais, Geologia de Mina e Exploração, este profissional é responsável pela estimativa mensal de reservas na Mina Baratinha e pela definição de áreas de desmonte. Atua com modelagem geológica e geoestatística, utilizando ferramentas como Micromine®. Já coordenou equipes em projetos de exploração de ferro, fósforo e calcário, em diversas fases, do greenfield ao brownfield, sempre com excelentes resultados. Também possui proficiência em softwares como Micromine, Leapfrog Geo, ArcGIS e QGIS. Conversamos sobre principais desafios geológicos no desenvolvimento de uma nova mina, criação de modelos geológicos precisos e como eles afetam o planejamento de mina e muito mais. Criação de Arte: Raul Cadena / Phablo Kauã Patrocinadores Oficiais do Podcast da Mineração: ATHO BIM - https://athobim.com/ - @atho.bim ÍGNEA Geologia & Meio Ambiente - https://www.igneabr.com.br/ - @igneabr O Podcast da Mineração é parceira da Beyond Mining. Adquira o GAIA com o cupm PODCAST10 e obtenha 10% de desconto exclusivo desse software de modelagem e controle da propagação de vibrações induzidas no solo pelo desmonte de rochas com explosivos. Segue o link: https://beyondmining.tech/ Jony Peterson é parceiro da plataforma ISOmines como conteúdista com o curso de Planejamento de Lavra a Céu Aberto utilzando o Micromine. Segue o link de inscrição com desconto exclusivo de lançamento: https://isomines.carrinho.app/one-checkout/ocmtb/18152189 Confiram essa e outras entrevistas no canal e Lembrem-se: "Mineração pode não ser o futuro mas não existe futuro sem a mineração" #mineração #tecnologia #technology #podcastdamineração #podcast #inovação #engenheirodeminas #engenhariademinas #futuro #inovação #innovations #innovations #adimb #setormineral #desafios #tecnologia #technology #geologia #geology #modelamento #blockmodel

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Esri maps over 200 spooktacular events around Ireland this Halloween

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 1:18

In eight days time one of the biggest festivals is taking place in Ireland and around the world. Halloween also known as All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, started off in Ireland centuries ago and was brought around the world by Irish Emigrants. Now a days you will find it celebrated all over the world, including Hollywood who has used it in numerous TV series and movies. In Ireland it's still a big festival and every year thousands of Irish children head out to go trick or treating, but what else can they do? Well, Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has created a digital map of over 200 frightfully fun festivals and events happening across the island of Ireland this Halloween. Esri's ArcGIS digital mapping system was used to create an interactive map which features something for everyone this spooky season. The map details daytime and family-friendly events, as well as events for those who fancy more of a scare. From creepy campfire tales in Belfast and after-dark jail tours in Cork, to a nightmare on Church Street in Mayo and a ghostly bus tour in Dublin, this map will help ghosts and ghouls of all ages and interests plan their celebrations for Halloween 2024. See more stories here.

Driven by Data

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 30:43

Are you looking for great data? We got you covered with this data-heavy edition of the podcast. First, we'll introduce you to the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Then our honorary GeoGeek will provide tips to finding imagery data. Rundown 0:00 – Introduction 2:00 – What's Making Us Mappy 5:24 – Inside the Arc: ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World 15:56 – The GeoGeeks: Finding Imagery Data 25:40 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Maggie highlights a cool website she discovered. Your Name in Landsat is a fun way to discover amazing imagery from around the world. All you need to do is type in your name, and it spells out your name as Landsat satellite imagery. But please give Maggie more G imagery! Mark delves into the developer world as he shares some information on the new ArcGIS Maps SDK for Flutter. Flutter is the hip open-source technology from Google that is taking the mobile app world by storm. The newest way to build cross-platform mapping native apps is currently in beta but will be in full release by the end of 2024. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability At the heart of a good GIS is great data. But finding authoritative data can be challenging. Thankfully, Esri curates a library of the best geographic content from around the globe. From boundaries to basemaps and everything in between, the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides data layers, maps and apps that are ready to use. To give us a tour of all the data you can discover in the ArcGIS Living Atlas, we welcome our tour guide Malena McCrossan. She is the Data and Content Curator for the Living Atlas at Esri Canada. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology We keep the data train rolling with a special honorary GeoGeek, but he's no stranger to the pod. Jeff Petillion, our imagery guru at Esri Canada, returns to the podcast to drop some knowledge on how to find and procure imagery data. He offers up some great tips, from connecting to STAC imagery in ArcGIS Pro to third-party vendors that can provide quality high-resolution data. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Mark is back in control of the game show controls, and this time he has ArcGIS Pro layouts on his mind. In the inaugural game coined Is This a Thing, Mark quizzes Maggie about whether different functions are available when making a layout in ArcGIS Pro. Is a Magnetic North Arrow Left a thing? Play along to find out! For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Product Specialist, ArcGIS Online at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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Outscape digitally maps over 85,000 hectares of publicly accessible greenspace in Northern Ireland

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 5:02

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that its digital mapping system is underpinning the GreenspaceNI Map, a first-of-its-kind interactive map of greenspaces and trails in Northern Ireland. This new map was made possible by grant aid investment from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), SportNI, and the Department for Infrastructure on behalf of the cross-departmental Strategic Outdoor Recreation Group. Created by Outscape, a not-for-profit organisation making it easier for people to enjoy the outdoors, the map currently records 85,818 hectares of publicly accessible greenspace and just over 1,700 miles (approx. 2,700 kilometres) of off-road trails in the region. The GreenspaceNI Map, built using Esri's ArcGIS technology and supported by geographic information consultancy Geolytical, aims to empower communities and promote healthier lifestyles by encouraging the public to utilise nearby greenspaces and trails. The map will help citizens to become more active by making them aware of their local parks and trails for both recreation or walking and cycling to school or work. It also highlights beaches, woodlands, and nature reserves that are open to the public. In addition, the comprehensive map will be used to inform planning policies and focus attention on the need for more greenspaces, as it provides clear evidence of inequitable access to these greenspaces in Northern Ireland. An analysis conducted with ArcGIS Pro found that 56.6% of people living in urban areas are within 400 metres of a greenspace, while 8.7% of people in rural areas, including small towns and villages, have this same level of access. The Northern Ireland Executive's draft Programme for Government Wellbeing Framework and DAERA's recently published Environment Strategy both commit to achieving an annual increase in the number of people who live within 400 metres of a greenspace or off-road trail, and the ongoing development of the GreenspaceNI Map will enable progress to be monitored over time. The map not only provides insights into where the greenspaces are, but also where they are not, and where there is a lack of provision. The tool will aid local planning and community engagement, helping authorities and community groups to advocate for better access to greenspaces. The key metrics from this geospatial analysis were also published to ArcGIS Online using Operations Dashboards and interactive ArcGIS StoryMaps. As Emma Taylor, GIS Technician at Outscape, explains: "ArcGIS provided us with a platform with which we could carry out complex geospatial analysis and rapidly share the results in a variety of engaging ways, without the need for coding or development work. To share the insight in an accessible way, ArcGIS Dashboards and StoryMaps bridge the gap between those with advanced GIS skills and those with no prior knowledge, making information easily accessible to everyone." Elizabeth Annett, Communication and Training Principal, Outscape, said: "Improving access to greenspaces is becoming an important policy priority. There was no way of quantifying publicly accessible greenspace before, but now we can monitor whether greenspace development is heading in the right direction. ArcGIS has given us the evidence required to demonstrate precisely where investment in more greenspaces is most needed." Morgan Stewart, Account Manager, Esri Ireland, said: "Esri's collaboration with Outscape has demonstrated the true power and transformative potential of GIS technology in environmental monitoring and development. Additionally, the initiative promotes public health and assists in urban planning through the precise mapping of accessible greenspace. As Outscape continues to utilise our technology to refine and expand their data, the GreenspaceNI map will be pivotal in sustainable development and community well-being across Northern Ireland. We look forward to continuing to build our rel...

Mapping the Climate

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 30:32

We're going to pumpkin spice up your GIS in this episode of the podcast. First, we'll look at how our user community is using GIS to better understand and confront climate change. Then our ArcGIS Pro GeoGeek will share what's new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. Rundown 0:00 – Introduction 1:21 – What's Making Us Mappy 5:40 – Inside the Arc: GIS & Climate Change 14:41 – The GeoGeeks: ArcGIS Spatial Analyst 24:00 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Mark kicks off the podcast by sharing his mappiness about the latest additions to ArcGIS Solutions. He provides a quick rundown of the six new solutions, then dives a little deeper into one that might be useful for many GIS organizations to implement – GIS Request Management. Maggie shares her excitement about ArcGIS Online is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate. The Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP) in the United States granted ArcGIS Online with this higher-level security standard on July 22,2024. Learn more about what this means and what's coming next. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability At the forefront of many of our global conversations is climate change. GIS is a critical tool to help us understand and tackle the impacts of a changing climate. From tracking extreme weather to modeling environmental scenarios, GIS enables stakeholders to make informed decisions and drive effective climate action. To walk us through an Esri Canada resource to help us address a changing climate using GIS, we are thrilled to welcome Madison Mackey to the podcast. She is a Technical Solutions Specialist with the President's Office and is the creator and curator of our Climate Change Data & Resources site. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology Alison O'Brien, our ArcGIS Pro GeoGeek returns to the podcast to talk about one of her favourite topics, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. This extension provides advanced spatial modelling and analysis tools for both raster and feature data. Alison highlights many of the new features and enhancements to ArcGIS Spatial Analyst included in ArcGIS Pro 3.3. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Maggie takes control of the game board as she quizzes Mark about all things Paralympics. Learn more about the history and the geography behind one of the biggest sporting competitions on the planet in the afterglow of the latest event in Paris. Does Mark have his A-Game about these games? Gold medals are on the line! For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Product Specialist, ArcGIS Online at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

Esri Ireland strengthens utility sector expertise with UDC partnership

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 2:58

Esri Ireland, the market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology in Ireland, has teamed up with the digital utility services provider UDC to offer specialist consulting services for Esri Ireland's utility sector. Through this partnership, gas, electricity, water and wastewater companies will be able to access enhanced support when implementing ArcGIS Utility Network, Esri's next generation spatial information system for utility management. "Several of Esri Ireland's customers in the utility sector are planning to migrate to ArcGIS Utility Network or have already begun on this journey," says Paul Synnott, Managing Director of Esri Ireland. "By collaborating with UDC, we are giving our customers easy access to utility sector specialists who can advise them about data migration and help them optimise the benefits they gain from their investment in Esri technology." Where appropriate, consultants from UDC will join Esri Ireland projects and work alongside Esri Ireland's Professional Services Team to deliver agreed outcomes for utility customers. In particular, UDC will provide guidance on best practice data cleansing and data migration methods and advise customers on how to represent utility assets digitally. Utilities will also be able to take advantage of UDC's proprietary auto-migration HEIDE tool, which helps accelerate data migration processes. Esri Ireland and UDC have already worked together on a successful collaboration with Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks. As part of a project team led by Esri Ireland, UDC carried out a Data Readiness Assessment to evaluate the utility's data quality, highlighted data recommendations and prepared it for a full data migration. This allowed NIE Networks to quantify the time and resources it will need to migrate data to the new system. UDC has been providing ArcGIS-based solutions and services for utilities in the USA and Canada for nearly twenty years. It is a Platinum Partner in the Esri Partner Network programme and holds Esri specialty certifications in gas and electric utilities services. For organisations that are migrating to ArcGIS Utility Network, it delivers services ranging from strategic roadmap guidance to data assessment and migration readiness planning, and full migration support. "After successfully serving North American utilities for the last 20 years, we now have had the good fortune to cross the Atlantic, forge a strong and growing partnership with Esri Ireland, and work with utilities in Ireland," shares Hamid Akhavan, CEO of UDC. "We are delighted to be working with the fantastic Esri Ireland team, helping more gas, electric and water utilities achieve maximum benefit through digital transformation, leveraging ArcGIS Utility Network." See more stories here.

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Galway County Council digitally maps the heritage of over 25,000 memorials

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 4:38

Esri Ireland, the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), has announced that Galway County Council has digitally mapped over 25,000 memorials, monuments, and gravestones using Esri's ArcGIS system. As part of a community-focused project across the county of Galway, Esri's technology is being used to create a fully digitised process for capturing information about graveyard memorials and making it publicly accessible online. Throughout Galway, there are 235 council-owned graveyards with ancient monuments and gravestones that provide invaluable insight into family ancestry and social history. Previously, community groups in Galway have endeavoured to capture this culturally significant information, using pen and paper to manually note memorial inscriptions. Galway County Council's interactive map, accessed through the Graveyard Memorial Search App, enables volunteers and heritage professionals to view and capture data and images in real-time on their mobile devices. It provides aerial photography of each graveyard, allowing users to zoom into pictorial maps of graveyards on their devices, and accurately identify each gravestone and record data pertaining to it. It also allows citizens to search for burial records and ancestors' graves, and many graveyards can be explored in 3D, giving people an immersive, realistic experience of visiting family memorials. The online map provides a streamlined, cloud-based process for collecting, validating, managing and sharing memorial data. It has made the process ten times faster and delivers more accurate and consistent data, which will help to preserve Galway's graveyard heritage for future generations. This is leading to increased community engagement, and more than 50 local groups are now using the solution. It is also being used by historians, archaeologists, genealogists and health researchers, as well as schools. Already, data on over 35 graveyards is available via the app, providing citizens with easy, online access to ancestry information. With over 30 further graveyard surveys planned or in progress, Galway County Council, with support from the Heritage Council, is rapidly expanding the amount of information available via the app. The technology can also be replicated by other county councils and used by all kinds of community groups going forward. Barry Doyle, GIS Manager, Galway County Council, said: "Simplicity is key to all of this. Everything is done in one efficient, seamless process where the data is stored and accessed centrally in the cloud. With this ArcGIS process we are enabling community groups to achieve their heritage objectives." Marie Mannion, Heritage Officer, Galway County Council, said: "Digitising Galway's graveyard heritage has been a powerful way to enable people to learn about the local and national heritage that can be found in graveyards. People can now search for and find photographs of their family's memorials online and form a stronger connection with their past. It's an incredible resource for everyone." Jack Ffrench, Account Manager, Esri Ireland, said: "Being able to access local heritage, digitally, for Galway citizens has been a really important project to work on and exemplifies the true power of GIS technology. It is rewarding for us to be able to work with local communities, and bringing this important history to life will ensure that Galway's past can become part of its present. We are looking forward to continuing to work with Galway County Council and seeing how this use case could be repeated within other councils, as well as a wide variety of community groups, in the future." See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upc...

The 4-1-1 on NG9-1-1

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 35:00

The next generation of 9-1-1 is coming! We'll discuss how GIS will play a big role in advancing emergency response. Then our field operations GeoGeek will tell us how to keep on mapping, even when you're disconnected. Rundown 0:00 – Introduction 2:10 – What's Making Us Mappy 6:36 – Inside the Arc: Next Generation 9-1-1 17:05 – The GeoGeeks: ArcGIS Field Maps Offline 28:43 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Maggie brings back some intel from an announcement made at the Esri User Conference in July. iNaturalist is a global network of naturalists who share biodiversity observations to help identify and record species. It has over 800,000 contributors and millions of observations covering 479,000 species. This data is now available for everyone to use through the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Mark stays within the technical realm, as he highlights the four newest widgets to ArcGIS Experience Builder, added in the June 2024 update. He welcomes Measurement, Feature Report, Building Explorer, and My Location (Beta) to the widget family. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability Imagine if you're in an emergency. You pick up the phone and dial 9-1-1. But you must describe where you are and unable to leverage modern location technology on our devices. Well, that is about to change. The next generation of 9-1-1 is fast approaching, and GIS will play a pivotal role in its evolution. To help us envision the future of emergency response and address management, we are joined by our colleague Subany Arudchelvam. She is a Technical Solutions Specialist for the Ontario Region and has worked with Esri Canada's tools to advance NG9-1-1 in this country. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology Our field operations GeoGeek, Sue Enyedy, loves the outdoors. You'll often find her vacationing in the backcountry; canoeing, hiking and camping. This inspired us to talk about how to use ArcGIS Field Maps offline in places where you can't connect to the web. Sue hooks us up with everything we need to know about setting up, receiving, and syncing your data offline using our native data collection app. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Do you B-lieve in Maggie winning another game show? You'll have to find out as Mark brings back the GIS Dictionary game. Maggie needs to decode the GIS term that begins with the letter B from its dictionary definition. Just the word – no spelling bee required! For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Product Specialist, ArcGIS Online at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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The Great Indoors

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 37:46

As the summer heats up, it's time to take your GIS indoors. We will chat with our indoors insider about all things indoor mapping. Plus, we'll get the highlights of the best advancements in the latest release of ArcGIS Online from our GeoGeek. Rundown 0:00 – Introduction 1:22 – What's Making Us Mappy 5:54 – Inside the Arc: Indoor Mapping 20:11 – The GeoGeeks: What's New in ArcGIS Online 30:50 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS It's July, so Maggie and Mark have the same mappy thing in mind – Esri User Conference! Maggie is heading to San Diego for the first time, so she shares what she is looking forward to (and say hi to her at Canada Night). Mark, being the jaded veteran of the UC, offers some advice on what to see and do during the week. And don't worry if you can't fly down to California. You can watch the plenary and tech sessions live (register here). And that content will be published post-UC you can see it on demand. No matter how to connect with the UC – Have fun and enjoy! PS: Here's the link to Maggie's UC StoryMap: A Canadian Guide to Esri UC 2024 Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability When you think about GIS data, you normally think of parcels, streets, trees, or boundaries. But more and more organizations are taking their GIS inside. From space utilization to wayfinding, indoor GIS is impacting facilities management and mapping. To tell us more about the present and future of indoor GIS, we are joined by Alistair McDougall. He is a Product Specialist for Indoor GIS at Esri Canada, and our resident expert in all things ArcGIS Indoors. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology ArcGIS Online keeps getting better and better. And on top of it all is Brandon Wheatley, our online GeoGeek. He will give us the top headlines from the June 2024 update of ArcGIS Online, including new user types, ArcGIS Web Editor, the Recycle Bin, and improved credit reporting. And be sure to tune into his webinar on July 25th to learn more about embracing the new user types. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Survey Says? Surveying! That is the game show topic Maggie is bringing to the M versus M table, as she quizzes Mark about the history of land surveying in Canada. Which Inside Out emotions will prevail? Joy? Sadness? Anger? Tune into this country's #1 GIS game show to find out! For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Product Specialist, ArcGIS Online at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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Building a Community

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 34:56

The Community Map of Canada is on a roll. We'll talk about how you can leverage our basemaps to access the most accurate and authoritative data. And our GeoGeek drops by to give us the details on the latest release of ArcGIS Enterprise. Rundown 1:20 – What's Making Us Mappy 4:55 – Inside the Arc: Community Map of Canada 20:49 – The GeoGeeks: What's New in ArcGIS Enterprise 28:33 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Maggie is still mappy and happy about Esri Canada Tech Trek, an internal event where our technical staff from across the country gets together for a week of learning and fun. And it's why Maggie and Mark recorded the podcast together in the same room! Mark goes down the different rabbit hole to talk about his favourite type of map – transit maps! This is sparked by an article in the ArcGIS Blog about how ArcGIS Pro is used to make a schematic of the London Underground map. From cartographic design to wayfinding, transit maps are a special brand of map that deserves more love. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability The Community Map of Canada is a significant initiative by Esri Canada that fosters community engagement and enhances the quality of mapping experiences, making it a source of great pride for all of us. Today, we are joined by Amanda Hunter, a Technical Solutions Specialist with our Community Maps team. She is here to celebrate an important milestone for the Community Map of Canada—500 publications of the basemap! She will give us an overview of the basemap and how the program can benefit our users and our communities. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology Hot off the presses, the latest release of ArcGIS Enterprise was recently released. And our GeoGeek has got your back! Justin Brassard returns to the podcast to give us an overview of the newest functionality in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, including Map Viewer updates, ArcGIS Video Server, and custom web tools. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Bigger than the beef between Drake and Kendrick, Maggie and Mark are battling again for GIS supremacy. Mark brings back our favourite game Tool or Fool! Will Maggie be able to spot the real geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Pro's Ready To Use toolbox? Or will she be faked out? For more information Visit our website See our full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada YouTube channel Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting ou in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? E-mail us at spatialreport@esri.ca Hosts Maggie Samson, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada Mark Ho, Technical Solutions Specialist at Esri Canada

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Esri Ireland digital mapping technology underpins new online election hub set to enhance information accuracy and voter participation in Waterford

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 4:38

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that its digital mapping system is being used by Waterford City and County Council to help bring real-time and accurate electoral information to local citizens. It is expected to drive voter participation in the upcoming local and European elections taking place in June. This is the first dedicated resource of its kind to be rolled out by a local authority in Ireland, and provides information in both the English and Irish languages. The Election Hub platform, built using Esri Ireland's ArcGIS technology, is providing 127,000 citizens across Waterford with easy access to transparent information about electoral candidates, existing elected representatives, electoral areas, and voting and registration FAQs. Real-time data from the Register of Electors is streamed daily into the hub, creating a one-stop-shop and putting authoritative and accurate information at the fingertips of local voters. The hub enables citizens to explore and download interactive maps of the six electoral areas within the Waterford region where they can enter their Eircode to find their elected representatives, from local councillors to TDs. Voters can also locate their allocated polling station, and even get directions from their home address. The Election Hub is also leading to more focused campaigning and representation for electoral candidates. Both new candidates and elected representatives can view the electoral area maps within the hub to improve their understanding of the areas they represent or seek to represent. The platform also levels the playing field for new and existing candidates in the lead up to elections, giving everyone equal access to information about the electorate. When elections take place, Waterford City and County Council plans to update online dashboards on the Election Hub as the results of each count are declared. In addition, the use of the technology internally is improving the accuracy of the electoral register. Waterford City and County Council can now easily spot anomalies where clusters of houses may have been assigned to the wrong electoral area or where a voter has entered an incorrect Eircode. The inclusion of a link to the Irish Government's Check the Register website is also encouraging more citizens to verify their information, leading to more accurate data about households. Jon Hawkins, GIS Project Lead, Waterford City and County Council, said: "Waterford City and County Council needed to make information about elections more accessible to members of the public, help them find their polling stations, and remove other barriers to participation. Configuring the hub was very straightforward and it was an intuitive and responsive solution to build. The platform aims to educate citizens, inspire public confidence, and support Waterford's prospective and elected representatives. The easy-to-use hub provides transparent, accessible information for citizens in both Irish and English to promote greater voter participation in elections." Dermot O'Kane, Head of Sales, Esri Ireland, said: "This is such an important platform which has not only improved the quality and accuracy of electoral information, but will ultimately encourage more people in local communities to have their voices heard by demystifying the voting process. It also helps local candidates to better connect with households in their electoral areas. Waterford City and County Council is doing invaluable work in this area and we are delighted to support this innovative use of our ArcGIS technology. Our system is flexible and can scale as the council's capabilities continue to grow." See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm...

Planning the Future of Housing

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2024 35:03

What's Making Us Mappy [2:41]  Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS. Maggie marvels at the captivating creations of the Esri User Conference Map Gallery. From shimmering sea sparkle to rink magic of NHL teams, she showcases her top picks from 2023. Don't miss your chance to shine, submit your maps by June 6! Analytic Methods and Results 3rd place map: The Impact of Travel and Rest on NHL Teams Communicating Science Spatially 1st place map: A Geospatial Account of Sea Sparkle in the Arabian Sea Mark takes into the world of StoryScapes. He highlights this monthly magazine curated by Esri Inc's ArcGIS StoryMaps team. With each issue, a new theme unfolds, offering a unique glimpse into captivating narratives through the lens of ArcGIS StoryMaps stories. Mark explores the recent, which delved into the enchanting realm of dark skies, just in time for the solar eclipse. Check out StoryScape to experience the captivating power of geography-based storytelling. Blog: Introducing StoryScapes – a new way to enjoy ArcGIS StoryMaps  Inside the Arc [7:12]  Feature interview that provides our audience exclusive insights into an Esri product or capability. Housing availability and affordability are top concerns for Canadians everywhere. Access to data and understanding the impact of building can be a significant barrier to any housing efforts. In this episode, we're diving straight into the heart of the matter with Erin Morrow, Director of Products for Ratio.City, a Division of Esri Canada. Join us as we explore how Ratio.City, a recent addition to the Esri Canada family, is revolutionizing urban planning and development. Learn how this user-friendly platform is empowering non-GIS users to make a difference in designing cities for the future. Stay tuned for insights that could reshape the way you approach urban challenges. Guest: Erin Morrow, Director of Products for Ratio.City, a division of Esri Canada (LinkedIn) Website: Ratio.City at Esri Canada Blog: Ratio.City Joins Forces with Esri Canada! GeoGeeks [20:24] Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology. ArcGIS Pro 3.3 launched this month and our ArcGIS Pro GeoGeek, Alison O'Brien, is here to give us the scoop on what's coming from her work in the beta testing. Join us as we discuss flood simulation, presentations and more. Guest: Alison O'Brien, ArcGIS Support Consultant at Esri Canada (LinkedIn) M versus M [28:18]  Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS.  Maggie takes the reins for this month's MvM as she quizzes Mark about everyone's favourite GIS topic: projections! Will Mark be the S.A.D.D. loser yet again? Tune in to find out.

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All Problems Have Solutions

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 35:05

Lindsay Thomas from Esri Inc. joins us to discuss the power of ArcGIS Solutions for public safety. Then our mobile apps GeoGeek, Sue Enyedy, is back for a chat about GeoAI in ArcGIS Survey123. Rundown 2:45 – What's Making Us Mappy 6:59 – Inside the Arc: ArcGIS Solutions and Public Safety 20:42 – The GeoGeeks: GeoAI and ArcGIS Survey123 30:46 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Mark starts things off by sharing his love of ArcGIS Pro's new Neighborhood Explorer tool. This new tool, added in ArcGIS Pro 3.2, helps you prepare for statistical analysis by configuring, visualizing, and refining spatial relationships. By understanding the spatial proximity between features and their neighbours, users can model geographic effects accurately across various domains and problems. Maggie highlights a subtle but significant update to ArcGIS StoryMaps. Map actions have now been replaced with Media Actions, allowing you to create interactions not just the map but can be used to swap out the media entirely for a different piece of media. Want users to be able to add points to your map with a Survey123 form? Now you can add that form right to your story with media actions. Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability Navigating the vast array of tools within the ArcGIS ecosystem can be daunting for many organizations. When responding to situations like natural disasters, damage assessments, or informing the public, every second counts. With ArcGIS Solutions, you can cut down on the time it takes to get to the heart of the issue by deploying industry-specific configurations that help you harness the potential of your GIS. We are pleased to welcome Lindsay Thomas to the podcast. She is the ArcGIS Solutions Lead for Public Safety at Esri Inc. She joined us to talk about her work and how it impacts on our communities. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology Today our mobile solutions GeoGeek, Sue Enyedy, Product Specialist for Mobile Solutions at Esri Canada, returns to the pod. Our focus? GeoAI in mobile apps. Sue dives into the impact of GeoAI post-Developer Summit, discussing its integration into our beloved ArcGIS Survey123. She walks us through the latest AI-driven features and even shares a fun wine-themed example, showcasing the Survey123 web designer assistants' prowess in survey construction. We also touch on the recent enhancements in Survey123's February 2024 release, including the intriguing Translator tool for multilingual surveys. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS In this riveting round of M vs M, Mark puts Maggie to the test with a thrilling challenge centered around everyone's favourite line, the Equator. The game is simple: determine whether the named location lies to the north or south of this iconic line of latitude. Who will emerge victorious in this ultimate test of geographical prowess? For more information Visit our website: https://esri.ca/spatialreport See the full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/user/esricanadatv Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? Email us at spatialreport@esri.ca

Esri's technology helping the DURL Project to prevent 13M litres of polluted water from entering Dublin rivers

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 4:23

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced that its digital mapping system is embedded in the Dublin Urban Rivers LIFE (DURL) Project's methodology, which is preventing circa 13 million litres of polluted wastewater from entering Dublin rivers annually. DURL is a joint venture between South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils, with funding received from the EU LIFE Programme. It aims to improve water quality by finding and removing misconnected household appliances that are expelling polluted water into rivers in two catchment areas - River Griffeen Catchment in the South Dublin County Council area, and Carrickmines Stream and Shanganagh River in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area. Misconnections tend to occur when homes are renovated or extended, and new appliances are installed. Some washing machines, dishwashers, sinks, and toilets can be mistakenly connected to the rainwater or stormwater drainage pipe instead of the sewage pipe, resulting in polluted water being discharged into local rivers and streams. Using Esri's ArcGIS system, DURL has assessed over 8,300 homes to date and found over 1,000 misconnected appliances. Householder repairs are helping to improve water quality and aquatic biodiversity in their local rivers with over 85% of the misconnections fixed to date. DURL's field-based teams use ArcGIS Field Maps to view maps of the surface water drainage network on their mobile devices. Using this app, they lift manholes in residential areas, record signs of pollution in stormwater drains, and upload their findings directly to a central dashboard. Data is captured and shared in real-time and all locations of pollution are instantly visible to office-based staff. These teams can then identify the domestic properties that are associated with each polluted drain, using further geospatial analysis and satellite imagery. Appointments, which take 15 minutes, are scheduled with homeowners at 'high probability' properties and if a misconnection is discovered, next steps are recommended to remedy the issue. Using this technology, DURL's rate of identifying misconnections has doubled, leading to a cost reduction of 50% through the project's work. The solution is saving time for county council employees, who can focus their efforts on locations that are likely to be causing pollution. The project team has also developed a "Lite" version of the ArcGIS solution that can be used by other urban councils across Ireland and Europe as the basis for their own water quality improvement processes. Briana Shiels, Project GIS Officer, Dublin Urban Rivers LIFE, said: "The driver for the project is always the quality of the rivers. ArcGIS enables us to find as many houses as possible with misconnected appliances, as efficiently as possible, to help Dublin's rivers reach a good standard of water quality. Project information is transparent to everyone working on the project, whether in the field or in the office." Lorraine Beirne, Project Co-ordinator, Dublin Urban Rivers LIFE, said: "On average, 8% of domestic properties in Dublin have a misconnection and the DURL Project has identified a misconnection rate of greater than 30% in some housing estates as we now have a better system to pinpoint these properties and take action far more efficiently. With ArcGIS, we have built a replicable, standard solution with products that most local authorities in Ireland know and use already." Dermot O'Kane, Head of Sales, Esri Ireland, said: "This project is making a huge difference to the water quality and aquatic biodiversity in our Dublin rivers, making it an incredibly important project to work on. This technology is an efficient, digital process for inspecting suspected pollution which is easy to use and resulting in both cost and time savings for these county councils. We designedthis solution with the future in mind, and we're excited to see the technology being used elsewhere t...

The ArcGIS Pro-tege Becomes the Master

Finding Sustainability Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 36:58

Erica Morra, the Director of Product Management, joins us to discuss ArcMap's coming retirement and the future of GIS. Then our new GeoGeek, Brandon Wheatley, shares the latest ArcGIS Online updates. Rundown 6:22 – What's Making Us Mappy 4:52 – Inside the Arc: ArcMap Enters Mature Support 17:57 – The GeoGeeks: What's New in ArcGIS Online 29:33 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Mark shamelessly plugs some GeoSnaps he's been working on. It's a five-part series walking through the workflow of editing related records in the Map Viewer for ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. This is a game changer that makes it easy to perform data collection using a simple web app. Maggie shouts out her love for Effects in Map Viewer. You can apply amazing cartographic effects to your map layers in a web map to make them pop! Two of Maggie's favourite effects are Drop Shadow (which makes objects look like they're floating) and Hue Rotate (which uses a colour wheel to transform colours). Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability On March 1st, ArcMap entered the Mature Support phase of its product life cycle. This marks the last milestone before the upcoming retirement of ArcGIS Desktop. For ArcMap users, now is a great time to plan the transition to ArcGIS Pro. To help us understand what this all means for those who are still using ArcMap, we are joined by our good friend Erica Morra. She is the Director for Product Management at Esri Canada. Erica shares her insights and advice for those who are still using ArcMap and a pathway towards migrating to ArcGIS Pro. The GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology We are thrilled to welcome our newest GeoGeek! But he's not a new voice to this pod. Brandon Wheatley was one of our first guests, and now he is our resident ArcGIS Online GeoGeek. In this podcast, Brandon gives you a rundown of what's new in the most recent release of ArcGIS Online in February 2024. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS It's all about size on this battle of MvM. Maggie dives deep into the pages of Wikipedia to gather information for her epic game - What's Bigger! Simple rules: she lists two countries, and Mark needs to guess which one is bigger in area. Will he finally break his painfully long losing streak? Tune in and play along. For more information Visit our website: esri.ca/spatialreport See the full interviews and GeoSnaps on the Esri Canada Youtube channel: youtube.com/user/esricanadatv Stay up-to-speed on products and developments affecting you in our blog, Getting Technical Have a podcast idea? Email us at spatialreport@esri.ca

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FFM #3: Mapping coastal fisheries with Paige Roberts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 49:14

This is the third episode in our Future Fisheries Management series, which we are running in collaboration with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. In this episode, Michael speaks with Paige Roberts, a fisheries ecologist and geographic information systems, or GIS, expert who is currently an independent consultant after working for nine years for the One Earth Future Foundation, an organization that specializes in finding sustainable solutions in fragile and conflict-affected settings. During her time with One Earth, Paige was closely involved with Project Badweyn in the country of Somalia. Through this project Paige and her colleagues created a free online tool to map out Somali coastal resources and fishing activities to help a range af actors better understand interactions between human activities and the environment. Michael and Paige discuss this project as well as efforts of of the One Earth Future Foundation to promote the sustainability of coastal fisheries through a co-management approach. The conversation concludes with a discussion of Paige's next steps since leaving the One Earth Foundation. References: A summary of Project Badweyn: https://oneearthfuture.org/en/secure-fisheries/project-badweyn-mapping-somali-coastal-resources-0 Paige describing Project Badweyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU2fCo6Y1JU GIS resources that Paige shared after the interview: Esri makes some of the most popular GIS software. It's a subscription service, but you can get a personal license for around $100 for a year, which gives you access to ArcGIS Pro Software, ArcGIS Online, and the self-paced online training which has a slew of training modules from beginner to advanced. The ArcGIS Pro software is fairly intuitive once you learn the basics of GIS. For a free option, QGIS is an open-source GIS software with all the same capabilities as ArcGIS but in a slightly less intuitive interface. It's widely used so there are ample resources online including its own Training Manual. There are many other free resources online and a quick Google search can get you anything you need, from blogs to videos on beginning to advanced techniques and troubleshooting.

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ATWJE - Kurt Smith - Man Ahead of His Time

Richard Syrett's Strange Planet

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 71:34

Episode: 00200 Released on February 26, 2024 Description: Welcome to our 200th episode! In this corner, we got a guy who knows how to get a TKO (technical knockout) with his TKO (tackle known offenders) program: Kurt Smith! And in this corner, you know him, you love him, your host, Jason Elder! [ding ding] Thank you everyone for all your support and we hope you enjoy this exciting episode. In this episode, Kurt Smith discusses his transition from the military to a sworn officer to a crime analyst to the ArcGIS guy. Kurt is a man ahead of his time, optimizing technology in the early 90s to investigate and close cases. His badge story involves putting himself in the mind of a suspected rapist and murderer to retrace the potential steps. Kurt's intuition uncovered additional leads to the case that ultimately lead to the apprehension of the offender. While this doesn't bring back lost loved ones, Kurt hope that these case closures would bring some peace to the surviving families. Kurt has since moved into consulting work after an impressive career in law enforcement and analysis. He, along with other well-known analysts in the field, paved the way for aspiring analysts. CHALLENGE: There are Easter eggs in one of the tables of the Excel chapter that Jason wrote for the IACA textbook. First-person to email us at leapodcasts@gmail.com about what the Easter eggs are will receive a $50 gift card from us. Happy hunting! Name Drops: Mark Stallo (00:03:23), Pat Drummy (00:04:49), Sean Bair (00:05:10), Deena Bowman (00:13:08), Andy Mills (00:17:56), Nancy Lavigne/Julie Wartell/Liz Groff/Jim Bueermann (00:20:29), Phil Mielke (00:23:18), Amy Varela (00:32:42), Chris Catren (00:33:09), Molli Duker (00:41:06), Noah Fritz (00:47:17), Jeff Vandersip (00:47:38), Darcy Brown (00:48:18), John Beck (01:04:28) Public Service Announcements: Mark Stallo (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/mark-stallo-%e2%80%93-the-visionary/) Jeff Vandersip (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/jeffrey-vandersip-the-crackerjack-analyst/) Related Links: https://www.sandiego.gov/police https://www.sdsheriff.gov/ https://portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/RIC/Publications/cops-w0047-pub.pdf https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/law-enforcement/overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albert_Gardner Association(s) Mentioned: Vendor(s) Mentioned: ArcGIS Contact: Transcript: Podcast Writer: Mindy Duong Podcast Researcher: Theme Song: Written and Recorded by The Rough & Tumble. Find more of their music at www.theroughandtumble.com. Logo: Designed by Kyle McMullen. Please visit www.moderntype.com for any printable business forms and planners. Podcast Email: leapodcasts@gmail.com Podcast Webpage: www.leapodcasts.com Podcast Twitter: @leapodcasts 00:00:17 – Introducing Kurt 00:12:35 – 1995 San Diego Issues 00:21:29 – Redlands 00:30:26 – CAD Implementation 00:35:34 – Break: Mark Stallo & Jeff Vandersip 00:37:50 – San Diego Sheriff's Department 00:45:05 – Tackling Known Offenders (TKO) 00:49:41 – ABS: Homicide Close to the House 01:03:14 – Consulting 01:05:37– LEA Still Struggling 01:09:53 – Words to the World

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1006 GEO-SPATIAL INTEL

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 62:03

EPISODE #1006 GEO-SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE Richard welcomes two geo-spatial intelligence analysis specialists who utilize tools such as satellite imagery, GPS data, and demographic information to help businesses identify problems they don't even know they have, using technology most people don't even know exists. Geo-spatial Intel can also be applied geopolitically to help governments prepare to deal with adversaries, such as Communist China. GUEST: Bret Schoening is co-founder at Modern Geo. He earned a degree in Intelligence Studies from American Military University with a concentration in geospatial intelligence and a professional certificate in Regional and Community Planning. He specializes in applying geography, geopolitics, demography, and economics to his client's problems. Using modern mapping and data analytics, he and his team at Modern Geo, provide insights, advice, and actionable intelligence for small business. GUEST: Nick Francis is co-founder at Modern Geo. Nick is an avid outdoorsman. He graduated from Radford University with a degree in geospatial science with a minor in geology. After graduation, he went on to work in the utility industry. He became an integral part of a cutting edge team working in vegetation management, using LiDAR data collection and ArcGIS renderings to develop sophisticated data management models. As the co-founder of modern geo, he brings both proficiency and innovation to everything he works on. WEBSITE: https://modern-geo.net BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER!!! Three monthly subscriptions to choose from. Commercial Free Listening, Bonus Episodes and a Subscription to my monthly newsletter, InnerSanctum. Visit https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm Use the discount code "Planet" to receive one month off the first subscription. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/

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Amping Up Your GIS

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2024 34:53

Jenny Fong from the Utility Technical Solutions team introduces us to the benefits of ArcGIS Utility Network. Then Justin Brassard, our newest GeoGeek, offers tips and advice on when to upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise. Breakdown 0:51 – What's Making Us Mappy 4:52 – Inside the Arc: ArcGIS Utility Network 18:46 – The GeoGeeks: Upgrading ArcGIS Enterprise 27:30 – M versus M What's Making Us Mappy - Our hosts share one cool thing that is catching their eye in the world of ArcGIS Maggie leads off with the latest addition to ArcGIS Instant Apps that will be a guaranteed hit! She highlights the new Manager (Beta) template. The app allows you to review and modify content from editable layers in one simple interface. This is especially useful when collecting data using crowdsourcing. This instant app is the next generation of the legacy Crowdsource Manager app. Mark is batting clean-up by introducing you to an exciting new Esri website: Maps.com. This new platform showcases engaging and informative maps and apps that feature beautiful cartography. Browse through examples of stunning maps created by our user community to learn more about the world around you. And you can even submit your map to Maps.com! Inside the Arc - Feature interview that takes our audience inside an Esri product or capability We have this saying in GIS that everything is somewhere. This certainly applies to the utilities industry. Location intelligence is essential for communications, water, electric, and gas utilities to manage complex networks that aim to maximize efficiency and minimize disruptions. To help us understand how utilities of all sizes and types can fully leverage ArcGIS, we are joined by our friend and pal Jenny Fong. She is the Team Lead for Utility Technical Solutions at Esri Canada and is an invaluable resource for utility clients to understand the ArcGIS Utility Network. GeoGeeks - Rotation of Esri Canada panelists share what's new in ArcGIS technology We welcome Justin Brassard to our GeoGeek family, as he will be taking the reins as our ArcGIS Enterprise subject matter expert. Today, Justin addresses a common question in the ArcGIS Enterprise community – when do you upgrade? This can be a complex dilemma for many organizations, but Justin has some tips and thoughts on when to say when and make the plunge to a newer release. M versus M - Our hosts quiz each other about all things ArcGIS and GIS Michelle Brake, the new host of the Geographical Thinking podcast, returns to her old stomping grounds to referee a game called Can You Date It? No love or romance in this quiz, as Michelle tests the hosts knowledge in Esri software releases. When was ArcGIS Online first released? ArcGIS Pro? ArcMap? Michelle has the dates, and the hosts have the guesses in this true Maggie versus Mark battle royale.

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From the Woods Today - Becoming a Better Naturalist

From the Woods Kentucky

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2024 46:21

In this episode of From the Woods Today, we learn how to make 2024 the year you become a better naturalist and help take your nature game to the next level. We also have the next edition of our GIS and mapping series. 1.3.24. Watch Video From the Woods Today

ATWJE - Kevin Armstrong - Cartography is Cool

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 66:30

Episode: 00189 Released on December 11, 2023 Description: Some work friends just become lifetime friends as Kevin Armstrong and Jason talk about their 20+ years of friendship back when they (and Joe Ryan) worked at the Baltimore HIDTA along with their early 20s antics and shenanigans, including a parking lot race and oil change frenzy. Kevin is a mapping guru, using the power of where to help investigate and close multiple cases throughout his tenure at HIDTA. Kevin and Jason share their thoughts on previous mapping programs, and how GIS for law enforcement has developed over the years to where it is today. Kevin since moved to Esri where he continues to hone his craft, and is currently a senior solutions engineer for Esri's Disaster Response Program. CHALLENGE: There are Easter eggs in one of the tables of the Excel chapter that Jason wrote for the IACA textbook. First-person to email us at leapodcasts@gmail.com about what the Easter eggs are will receive a $50 gift card from us. Happy hunting! Name Drops: Phil Canter (00:02:16), Joe Ryan (00:03:46, 00:17:59, 00:51:19), Kyle Beardsley/Wayne Sweeney (00:05:10), Frank Morgan (00:14:15), Eric Piza (00:26:56), Tom Carr (00:34:59), Chris Delaney (00:37:41) Public Service Announcements: Matt Smith (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/matt-smith-the-gregarious-analyst/) Jamie Roush (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-jamie-roush-the-aha-moment-analyst/) Related Links: https://story.maps.arcgis.com/home/user.html?user=karmstrongDRP https://gastonianc.gov/police-main https://www.hidta.org/ 17 year old HIDTA Gang Map: https://www.policinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Crime-Mapping-News-Vol-7-Issue-3-2006.pdf Association(s) Mentioned: Vendor(s) Mentioned: Esri Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-armstrong-26240671/ Transcript: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nbckwf/KevinArmstrong_Transcript.pdf Podcast Writer: Mindy Duong Podcast Researcher: Theme Song: Written and Recorded by The Rough & Tumble. Find more of their music at www.theroughandtumble.com. Logo: Designed by Kyle McMullen. Please visit www.moderntype.com for any printable business forms and planners. Podcast Email: leapodcasts@gmail.com Podcast Webpage: www.leapodcasts.com Podcast Twitter: @leapodcasts 00:00:17 – Introducing Kevin 00:04:34 – ArcGIS 3 00:06:30 – HIDTA Tasks 00:19:37 – Gastonia PD 00:29:03 – Break: Matt Smith & Jamie Roush 00:29:52 – Police Department Trends 00:38:54 – ESRI 00:47:45 – Advice: Clothes Matter? 00:57:16 – Personal Interests: Drone Pilot, Worst Oil Change, & HIDTA Foot Race 01:04:49 – Words to the World

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What's New-A-Palooza

Private Client Risk & Resilience

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 43:05

There have been a bunch of new releases recently in the world of ArcGIS. We have invited all four of our GeoGeeks to count down their three favourite enhancements in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise and our field apps.

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Overture Maps Foundation is on a mission to provide reliable open map data - Episode 240

What the Dev?

Play Episode Play 51 sec Highlight Listen Later Nov 28, 2023 15:12

The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort led by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to provide developers with reliable and interoperable open map data. It was first announced in December 2022 and has already released its first maps dataset with information on over 59 million places around the world. In this episode, we spoke with Marc Prioleau, executive director at Overture Maps Foundation and Deane Kensok, content CTO for ArcGIS at Esri, which is a member of the foundation as well. We talked about the history of the project, their vision for map data, and how developers can utilize these datasets.

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Preparing for Wildfire Risk with Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Mike Thayer

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 48:44 Transcription Available

In this information-packed episode, host Kurt Thoennessen and certified wildfire mitigation specialist, Mike Thayer provides invaluable insights on wildfire risks and prevention strategies. As wildfires continue to rise in severity across the Western U.S., homeowners must get prepared.Key topics discussed:The role of wind events in driving large, fast-moving wildfires that rapidly spreadHow extended drought and historical fire suppression have built up fuel loads, contributing to more severe firesWhy ember intrusion, not walls of flames, cause most home ignitions - defensible space is criticalNew standards like the zero to five foot “non-combustible zone” being mandated in CA by 2025 to protect homesThe wildland urban interface expansion in western states lacking CA's wildfire building codesThe impacts of insurance availability and modeling on admitted/non-admitted marketsThe value of wildfire risk education for homeowners that explains the “why” behind mitigationsSpecific home hardening measures (ember-resistant vents, gutter guards, etc.) that make homes insurableAs Mike emphasizes, wildfire readiness education and prevention work must expand outside California to other wildfire-prone states. All homeowners with natural vegetation exposure should proactively mitigate now, before threats grow. Advanced preparation is key to saving homes and making them insurable.Resources:The ibhs website/standards that Mike mentions explains the "why" behind wildfire mitigation recommendations through videos and other content. - https://ibhs.org/wildfireready/The ArcGIS product showing expansion of homes in the wildland urban interface, with percentage increases by state from 2007-2020. Allows visual hovering over states. - https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6b2050a0ded0498c863ce30d73460c9eThis is an article Mike Thayer read about potential "doomsday" scenarios if a major non-admitted carrier wildfire loss occurred, and the impacts that could have. - https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-youThe updated CalFire wildfire hazard severity zone maps that recently came out, designating more high risk WUI areas. - https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents. All Things Wildfire Podcast - https://allthingswildfire.com/Wildfire Prepared Website - https://wildfireprepared.org/Mike Thayer's linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-thayer-wms/

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Isabella Briseño Elalfi: Community Building, Systems, and the art of ArcGIS Storytelling | Sea Change

American Shoreline Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 54:46

This episode features a fantastic discussion between Jenna and Isabella (Bella) Briseño Elalfi, recent graduate from Penn State University double majoring in Environmental Resource Management and Political Science. Bella's ArcGIS expertise was central to the development of the Voices of a Healthy Ocean story map platform, which is designed to take people on an audio visual advocacy journey and expand upon the Voices of a Healthy Ocean miniseries that was featured on this network during the summer of 2022. During this episode, the two chat about storytelling through story maps and dive into the power of community building, systems, and storytelling have on human and environmental health.

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Part Three – Digital twin collaboration

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2023 23:21

Five steps to building a living digital twin In the final episode of this three-part series exploring the digital twins landscape, Ta, Mary, and Wayne unpack the five steps to help you create your own living twin. Our hosts share the essential tech needed to get you started on your journey and showcase the best of the best from Esri's ArcGIS user community. For all resources mentioned in this episode, go to GISdirectionspodcast.com.au

Unpacking ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 – extended cut

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 26:19

An exploration of geospatial excellence Wayne, Simon, and Esri Product Manager, Maggie Busek dig into the latest enhancements of Enterprise 11.1. Tune in to discover the best path for upgrading and how Esri's latest release can reset the foundations of your GIS workflows. From new portal features that make data management a breeze, to upgraded security protocols to keep your data safe; this release is about helping you make informed decisions quickly. For all resources mentioned in this episode, go to GISDirectionspodcast.com.au.

Scott Tompkins: The Bigfoot Mapping Project | ST 048

Sasquatch Tracks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 77:47

In this installment of Sasquatch Tracks, we are joined by Scott Tompkins, the creator of The Bigfoot Mapping Project, for an in-depth discussion about his mapping, data collection, and analysis of Sasquatch sightings. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in GIS from the State University of New York at Cortland. With more than 14 years of GIS field experience, Scott has a well-versed perspective on the value of high-quality geographic data, which he has applied to his ambitious Sasquatch research embodied in the Bigfoot Mapping Project. According to Tompkins, The Bigfoot Mapping Project was created "to address the lack of centralized information and encourage future reporting. This application broadens the scope of reported information by providing functionality such as spatially tagging reports as well as attaching image files to the submitted report. Additionally, users can view the depth of both historical data and recent reports in conjunction, on a map." Stories and other links discussed in this episode: The Bigfoot Mapping Project Scott's paper in The Relict Hominoid Inquiry Follow Sasquatch Tracks on Twitter. Got a news tip or story to share? Send us an Email. Have you seen an animal you can't identify? Submit a report here.

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Level Up with Arcade

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 35:35

The August 2023 episode of the Spatial Report podcast has got a little something for everyone in our ArcGIS community. Paul Barker from Esri Inc. joins us to go Inside the Arc, or should we say, Inside the Arcade – Esri's flexible expression language used throughout the ArcGIS system. Alison O'Brien goes into full GeoGeek mode, sharing her favourite new features in the latest release of ArcGIS Pro. And we wrap with an epic new game that will revolutionize GIS trivia forever!

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Thought Leaders from Esri and TopoDOT at Geo Week 2023

Future Construct

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 28:51

In this week's episode of our special Geo Week 2023 series, we have the pleasure of hosting Konrad Wenzel, Director of R&D in Stuttgart at Esri, and Ted Knaak, Founder and President at TopoDOT. Join Mark, Konrad, and Ted as they engage in insightful discussions on a range of topics, including Konrad's involvement in ArcGIS, how Esri is involved in the evolution of digital spaces in construction, Ted's background, and his takeaways from panel conversations.About Konrad WenzelKonrad Wenzel is the Director of the Esri R&D Center in Stuttgart, Germany, focusing on reality capture and Photogrammetry technology, such as the SURE engine. The technology turns imagery and lidar into 3D and 2D products and is well known for its market-leading precision. It is used worldwide for drone and aerial imagery for sites, cities, and entire countries. Konrad studied Geodesy and Geoinformatics and received a Ph.D. in Photogrammetry from the University of Stuttgart in 2016. In 2013 he co-founded nFrames, which joined Esri through an acquisition in 2020.About Ted KnaakTed Knaak is currently president and owner of TopoDOT LLC, a Florida software company founded in 2011. TopoDOT software is employed worldwide as a comprehensive solution to geospatial point cloud data processing. Ted has over 25 years of experience in the industry, having founded Riegl USA in 1993 to market and apply Riegl lidar technology across North America. Earlier in his career, Ted was a control systems analyst for GE Space Systems. Ted holds Master of Science Degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering from Brown and Drexeluniversities.Throughout the interviews, Konrad and Ted discussed numerous topics with our host Mark Oden, including:Konrad's role in working on ArcGIS realityKonrad's key takeaways were from the Empowering Digital Twins panel that he presented onTed's background and what brought him to founding TopoDOTTed's key takeaways from his panel and the other speakers who presentedEsri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Since 1969, they have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what they call The Science of Where. They take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology. They are committed to using science and technology to build a sustainable world. At TopoDOT, they pride themselves on their connections with those they work with in both their own company and in the LiDAR industry. They are a tight-knit company that works hard on building relationships and supporting their community. They are passionate about LiDAR technology and want to share that passion and excitement through their software solutions.SHOW NOTES 4:28 Mark: "If we look at Esri's acquisition of nFrames, what was your role in working on ArcGIS reality?"9:24 Mark: "I would love to understand what your key takeaways were from the Empowering Digital Twins panel that we were presenting on."12:57 Mark Oden introduces Ted Knaak, Founder and President at TopoDOT.13:11 Mark: "I would love to hear about your background Ted, and what brought you into founding TopoDOT?"23:48 Mark: "I would love to understand what some your key takeaways were from our panel and the other speakers who presented."Contact the Future Construct Podcast Produced by BIM Designs, Inc! BIM Designs, Inc.: minority-owned, US-based, union-signatory preconstruction technology firm, offering turnkey BIM modeling, laser scanning, coordination management, and other VDC solutions to the AEC industry. Schedule a free consultation: sales@bimdesigns.net. Subscribe to our weekly blog and our Future Construct Podcast Suggest a podcast guest

Rendered.AI - Chris Andrews

Project Geospatial

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023 44:48

Join us as we learn more about synthetic data with a discussion with Rendered.AI's COO and Head of Product, Chris Andrews. Throughout the discussion you will learn some of benefits of synthetic data as it applies to overhead imagery and machine learning as we demystify the topic. Rendered.AI operates a platform of the same name as a Service for data scientists, engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data pipelines for #ML and #AI workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias compared with using real-world data. About Rendered.ai:Rendered.ai is a platform-as-a-service for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real-world data. Rendered.ai moves the process of creating and exploiting synthetic data closer to the business need by providing a configuration environment, samples, and cloud resources to quickly get started defining new data generation channels, creating datasets in high performance compute environments, and providing tools to characterize and catalog existing and synthetic datasets. Over 90% of the customer interest in Rendered.ai comes from the Earth Observation domain, with focus on aerial and satellite visible, multispectral, and radar imagery and we have integrated with ArcGIS services to allow customer to use scalable GIS data to build synthetic environments. Synthetic data produced in Rendered.ai can be used for computer vision training and validation across many industries. Rendered.ai focuses on a single line of business around subscription offerings of our PaaS, coupled with as-needed professional services. Our subscription offerings are available in multiple tiers, primarily differentiated by compute access, and can be supplemented or extended through enterprise agreements. Learn more about Project Geospatial at www.projectgeospatial.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/projectgeo/support

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Alistair Hamill and Iram Sammar on ArcGIS and decolonising the curriculum | OS Award winners 2022

Ask the Geographer

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 46:01

01:25 Alistair Hamill 22:55 Iram Sammar 40:45 What books can you recommend to teachers?

An insider's guide to ArcGIS Pro 3.0

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 15:59

Navigating the transition like a pro Ta and Wayne enlist Esri's ArcGIS Pro Product Manager, Kory Kramer, to help step-through the big-ticket items featured in the latest major release of ArcGIS Pro 3.0. Hear about what's got everybody talking.

GIS in the Classroom with Charlie Fitzpatrick (Part 2)

Tips and Salsa

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 32:57

In the second part of our interview with Charlie Fitzpatrick we chat about GIS and ArcGIS in the classroom and the value of students developing GIS skills.

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ChronoCards - Building a Business on ArcGIS Pro

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2023 43:26

My guest on the show today is Mike. Today Mike is the founder of a software startup called ChroneChards, but he started as a cartographer for an adventure race and Patagonia. So he has come a long way. A couple of other really interesting points about Mike. He is a self-taught software developer and he is a self-taught businessman. The reason why I mentioned this means that if he can teach himself these things, then you can do it too. And as you'll discover later on in the episode, all you have to do is to get really, really comfortable with uncertainty. You can connect with Mike here https://chrono.cards/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/get_ChronoCards It's probably worth riffing on this idea of uncertainty just for a minute. I think this is one thing that we all have in common. There'll be something about our lives, professional or private that we are uncertain about. I've had the pleasure over the last three, four, or five years of talking with a few different people that have overcome a lot of uncertainty. People that are self-taught software developers like Mike, people that have started their own GIS geospatial consultancies, and build their own businesses around their skills, none of those people have overcome uncertainty. None of those people are now immune to uncertainty! They have simply learned to live with it. So as someone who has experienced and continues to experience a lot of uncertainty, these stories have really helped me they've really had a positive impact. It's been great to know that other people go through this too. So here are some links to those episodes and hopefully, they will inspire you as well. From GIS Analyst to Software Engineer https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-gis-analyst-to-software-engineer/ Starting your own geospatial consultancy https://mapscaping.com/podcast/starting-your-own-geospatial-consultancy/ Self-employment in the GIS / Geospatial industry https://mapscaping.com/podcast/self-employment-in-the-gis-geospatial-industry/ Being self-employed in the earth observation sector https://mapscaping.com/podcast/being-self-employed-in-the-earth-observation-sector/ Mid-career change https://mapscaping.com/podcast/mid-career-change/ I quit my job https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-quit-my-job/

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ATWJE - Jonathan Sofley, Just Say No