Directions Media - Podcasts

Podcast: Interview with Kass Green, Remote Sensing Rock Star

joe.francica@directionsmag.com (Joe Francica) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500

If anyone can provide a perspective on the "consumerization" of satellite imaging and its impact on the profession of remote sensing science it's Kass Green. Editor in Chief Joe Francica recently to sit down with this true remote sensing rock star in Scottsdale, Arizona and they discussed the impact of Google Earth on the remote sensing, privacy issues, and how change detection applications of remotely sensed data might well become just another feature provided by Google.

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Podcast: GIS Interpreters: Helping GIS Software Developers and Domain Experts Speak the Same Language

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500

How much does a domain expert, such as a forester, need to know about GIS software and programming to communicate with a software develop who will build a useable app? How do those experts who use GIS in planning, medical care, and agriculture learn to communicate with programmers? And, how do programmers, especially those new to GIS, learn about its quirks? Our editors explore go-betweens who help interpret and how changes in technology may be making communications easier.

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Podcast: An Interview with Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Media on Where 2.0

joe.francica@directionsmag.com (Joe Francica) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:20:00 -0600

Foursquare vs. Gowalla? How about Bing Maps vs. Google Maps? Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media and chairperson of the Where 2.0 Conference shares his views on some of the more popular web-based mapping platforms and social networks that are "location-aware." In this conversation with Editor in Chief Joe Francica, Forrest also discusses the popularity of the conference and its objective of bringing together both the GIS and neogeography crowd.

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Podcast: Platial Shuts Down while Microsoft Opts in to User Generated Location Data from Navizon

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0600

This week we look at two news items connected at least superficially by reliance on crowdsourced geospatial data. Platial, one of the early players to offer a simple way to customize Google Maps, announced it was ceasing operations. Microsoft announced a contract with Navizon, a company that crowdsources the data collection of Wi-Fi access points. Why did small but clever Platial not make it? Why is Microsoft turning to small, less familiar Navizon and crowdsourcing over a well-known player like Skyhook?

Podcast: Congress' Location Privacy Hearing

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600

Last week the Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a joint hearing titled, "The Collection and Use of Location Information for Commercial Purposes." Our editors examine the issues raised in testimony and in comments by interested stakeholders. Among them: Is location privacy akin to medical record privacy? What are the obligations of the software developer in making privacy policies and controls clear and easy to access? What about location privacy and young people?

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Geolenz CTO Brian Knoth

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

If you think that geocoding and reverse geocoding are mature technologies, ones only likely to have minor tweaks in the coming months and years, then you need to learn about Geolenz, a company that's putting more context, more information, and more customization into those two processes. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with CTO and co-founder Brian Knoth about the company's newly launched services.

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Podcast: Unitended Consequences of Sharing Your Location Online

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Last week PleaseRobMe.com made headlines across the tech, social and popular media spaces. The site, with its quirky title, does not suggest using location information found on the Web to try to break into homes, but rather warns of the unintended consequences of sharing personal location information. Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg examine the website and its goals, and explore some other unanticipated but possible consequences of over-sharing location information. Might you be denied a job? Will you have to pay more for insurance? Also noted: a Congressional hearing on location data and privacy tomorrow.

Podcast: Microsoft Uses TED as a Platform to Announce Bing Maps Update

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Last week Microsoft used a talk at TED to unveil some new features for its Bing Maps platform. Goodies included slicker zooming, live georeferenced video feeds, integration of Flickr photos, Worldwide Telescope....a sort of "kitchen sink" of eye candy. But of course it's only eye candy until professional and consumer focused developers tune it to solve specific problems for work and play. Our editors share what impressed them and consider how this enhanced platform might be used.

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with the Duo Behind the Award Winning Wayfinder NYC App

(Adena Schutzberg) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600

Wayfinder NYC was the big winner in this month's Big Apple Apps competition, which pitted apps that use public information against one another for prizes. The app uses location-based technology, data and augmented reality to help you get around New York City. Steven Lao and Victor Sima tell the story of how the app came to be, the surprising challenge they faced and introduce their newest app which covers Vancouver's transportation system, just in time for the Olympics.

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Podcast: Apple to Gatekeep Location-based Ads

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Last week Apple provided further direction to its developer community regarding the implementation of location-based ads in apps destined for its App Store. The LBS apps must "provide beneficial information, and will not be accepted if they use "location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a users location." Why is Apple stirring this pot at this time? Our editors weigh in.

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Crispin Flower about ArcSquirrel

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Crispin Flower, application developer and Associate Director of exeGesIS SDM Ltd, about his company's new product that links ArcMap and Microsoft SQL Server, ArcSquirrel. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

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Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Diana Sinton, University of Redlands about Geodesign

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:38:00 -0600

Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with Dr. Diana Sinton of the University of Redlands, one of the organizers of January's GeoDesign Summit about geodesign, the success of the summit and what interested geospatial practitioners and designers can expect going forward. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

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Podcast: Using the Spatial Database of Tweets

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

This week the world was a-twitter with news related to geocoded tweets and how they can be useful to those involved in emergency response, the media and business. Our editors explore what's being done and what might be done with the spatial database of tweets.

Podcast: Is the 511 National Traffic Phone Number Worth $1.2B?

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

A Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) ruling expected in February will force states to implement a 511″ traffic information hotline. The cost? Some $1.2 billion - and states are not pleased. Those in balmy areas wonder why they need detailed weather information; those with rarely used rural roads are equally frustrated. Do we, in 2010, need a "dial in" traffic number?

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Mano Marks, Developer Advocate, Google

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:55:00 -0600

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Google developer advocate Mano Marks about the geoweb and the challenges of aligning it with the special properties, specifically page ranking, possible on the Web. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

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Podcast: The Challenge of Multiple User Generated Haiti Maps

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

As the world turns its attention to Haiti and how to best help the country in this challenging time, we look at a split in the geospatial community around user generated content of the impacted region. Vector map data from OpenStreetMap and Google Map Maker are available for use in supporting rescue and recovery efforts as well as apps for those looking on from a distance. But there are two from which to choose. Does this make for the best possible response?

Podcast: Safe Founders Introduce FME 2010

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

This week Safe Software introduced its 20th release of FME, FME 2010. Executive Editor Adena Schuzberg speaks with co-founders Don Murray and Dale Lutz about its speediness, and features for longstanding as well as new users. The pair also touch on cloud computing and Safe's use of it for customers and the company itself, the Olympics and 1 900 numbers.

Podcast: Pushing Vendor Ideas and Products into the Community

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

At the end of last week's Geodesign Summit ESRI made it clear it wanted the community, not ESRI to lead the concept forward. ESRI is not the first to attempt to free ideas or products made within corporate walls - consider Google's KML or Autodesk MapGuide. How well have efforts like this worked in the past? Can you ever remove a product or idea's origins?

Podcast: What We've Learned from Four Years of Podcasting

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Our editors took a break from geospatial over the holidays to ponder what they'd learned during four years of podcasting. They share some of the surprises, rewards and challenges as well as what's on their mp3 players.

Podcast: Google's Slow Walk to its Vision for Geospatial Cloud Computing

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0600

Last week Google added some search tools to its Map Data API. The announcement made few waves in a holiday focused geospatial community, the announcement and its implications are worth considering as they lay out the small steps Google is making to draw developers to its vision for geospatial cloud computing.

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Ken Snyder, President and CEO, PlaceMatters

(Adena Schutzberg) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:46:42 -0600

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed PlaceMatters President and CEO, Ken Snyder about that organization's efforts to include citizens in planning issues in their communities. PlaceMatters spun out of the Orton Family Foundation, the group behind the CommunityViz software. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Podcast: Geo Comes to TARP and Climate Change

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0600

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that includes language about geospatial analysis related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Jack Dangermond invites users to discuss the benefits of GIS to study and respond to climate change at the Geospatial Roundtable. What are the goals and implications of these efforts?

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Learon Dalby, NSGIC Board Member

(Adena Schutzberg) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0600

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) former president Learon Dalby about the 2009 NSGIC annual conference and the organization's advocacy agenda for the coming year. Among the topics explored: authoritative data, social media, the broadband mapping stimulus, NSDI, oversight, and Data for the Nation. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Podcast: Hands on with the New National Map Viewer and US Topos

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0600

The USGS rolled out two new products as part of its celebration of 125 years in the topographic mapping business: a new National Map Viewer

and the production version of US Topos, digital quads in GeoPDF format. Our editors put them through their paces.

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Ziv Baum, CEO, Zipano Technologies

(Adena Schutzberg) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:39:00 -0600

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Zipano Technolgies CEO Ziv Baum about the research into consumer behavior regarding sharing personal information that formed the basis of the company, how Zipano's privacy control "layer" differs from other options on the market, and his vision for how it may be implemented by a big carrier. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Podcast: The GIS and CAD Dance in 2009

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0600

What is the status of the GIS and CAD relationship in 2009? Does one need the other in the ways outlined by CAD companies in the mid-1990s? Have the big issues been resolved? Is there a trial separation going on? Will BIM bring them back together? Our editors look for clues in user, educator and software developer behavior as Autodesk University launches in Las Vegas this week.

Podcast: Implications for Twitter's Geolocation API

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0600

Last week Twitter released its geolocation API, an interface for developers to tack on, and gain access to the point locations from which tweets are sent, so long as users turn it "on." What are the possibilities for a giant, near-real time set of 140 character comments from around the world? Our editors contemplate challenges, opportunities and possible uses.