Ep 2 - Will Cadell - Geospatial Consulting

Welcome to the 2nd episode in this experiment! It was a blast to sit down with Will, I hope you enjoy this, I certainly did. As last time here are most of the things we talked about:

Will Cadell & Sparkgeo on Twitter:

• @geo_will • @sparkgeo

Links to materials we talked about:

• The geospatial product trap blog post: https://sparkgeo.com/blog/the-geospatial-product-trap/ • GDAL sponsors page: https://gdal.org/sponsors/index.html • Even Rouault, current maintainer of GDAL: @EvenRouault • STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs): http://stacspec.org/ • Google Earth Engine: https://earthengine.google.com/ Seems like time-stamps were appreciated, so here they are:

00:00 : Intro

02:35 : Beginning of episode: Will presents himself and the story of creating Sparkgeo

20:30: Do you miss coding?

23:25 : Keeping up with the ever changing technical side of things

27:00 : 3 main reasons that make geospatial so popular today

32:02 : Do we have a role in educating people outside of geospatial about the field?

37:40 : OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) & STAC (SpatioTemporal Assets Catalog)

40:30 : Our responsibility to explain what we are doing with geospatial data

46:25 : The "geospatial product trap"

55:10 : How is Sparkgeo not falling for this trap?

1:06:00 : Choosing the projects Sparkgeo works on

1:09:50 : GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Layer) & open source

1:18:50 : Cloud infrastructure in geospatial

1:27:55 : Google Earth Engine

1:31:22 : Will's Book recommendations

Feel free to drop me a line, I'd love to know what you think of this!

• @MaxLenormand • minds.behind.maps@gmail.com

Thanks for listening!