#32: Why Meta Is Betting Big on Open Maps
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta has more than 3 billion users across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its new AR glasses. Behind t...
ArcGIS Pro: Still the Best GIS?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ArcGIS Pro has been the center of GIS workflows for decades but how does it hold up in a world movin...
#30: A5: The Global Grid System Changing How We Map the World with Felix Palmer
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Felix Palmer, creator of A5, a new global grid system that’s rede...
Beyond the Hype: Embeddings, Foundation Models, and the Future of Earth Observation with Isaac Corley and Christopher Ren
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really take to teach AI to understand our planet?In this episode, Matt sits down with I...
How Mapbox is Quietly Powering the AI Map Revolution with Kieran McCann
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI can answer almost anything, except “where.” That gap is huge, and Kieran McCann from Mapbox...
Why GeoAI Changes Everything in Mapping & Analytics: Tee Barr on Geography 2050
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GeoAI isn’t just another buzzword, it’s a turning point for the entire geospatial industry. In t...
Turning GIS into ROI, One Stock at a Time
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a geospatial professional decides to map the entire business of our industry?In th...
The End of Expensive Space Data: NOVI’s Vision for Earth Observation
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if satellites became as smart and as accessible as your smartphone?In this episode, I sit down ...
From Leafmap to GeoAI: Open Source, Education, and What’s Next with Dr. Qiusheng Wu
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Qiusheng Wu, associate professor, open-source advocate, and cre...
Why Open Data Isn’t Really Open: Navigating Licenses in Geospatial with Mina Nada
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Open data is supposed to unlock innovation, but what happens when “open” isn’t really open?In ...
How Preset Is Reinventing BI with Open Source and Geospatial Power
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a hackathon project becomes one of the most influential open-source BI tools in th...
An Honest Conversation About Imposter Syndrome in GIS
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I open up about something many of us in GIS rarely talk about — imposter syndrome...
Building Smarter Pipelines for AI, Maps, and ML with Airflow
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re working with spatial data, AI workflows, or massive batch jobs, you’ve probably hacked...
Esri vs Open Source GIS: The Real Debate No One’s Having
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a heated LinkedIn debate turns into a real conversation?In this episode, I sit dow...
The Fight to Free Geospatial Data...And What Comes Next?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Rethinking Geospatial for a Sustainable World with Nadine Alameh
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Investing in Earth: The VC Strategy Behind the Geospatial Boom
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is this the worst job in GIS?
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Your GIS Career Feels Stuck (And What to Do About It)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Hidden Data Crisis in GIS (And How to Solve It)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📩 Get every update from my newsletter ➡️ https://forrest.nyc ⬅️What if you could stop wra...
How a Data Analyst Became a GIS Expert (And What You Can Learn)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with David Price, GIS Project Manager for Wood County, Ohio, to explore...
Is There Any Hope for the GIS Career Path?
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a future in GIS? How can you break past the salary ceilings and position yourself for long-...
Why We’re Still Bad at Predicting Wildfires
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📩 Get every update from my newsletter ➡️ https://forrest.nyc ⬅️Wildfires are getting more...
Why GIS Needs the Cloud (And What’s Next)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, geospatial professionals have been forced to download massive datasets—only to discard ...
The Hidden Flaw in Location Data (And How to Solve It)
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Let's shake up geospatial
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt returns to discuss the future of Spatial Stack—what it is, where it’s headed, and how it wi...
The spatial intelligence cloud with Will Lyon and Ryan Avery from Wherobots
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apache Sedona has been a core element of the geospatial analytics space for several years now, and i...
Modernizing spatial data standards for everyone with Chris Holmes
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Standardizing spatial data for specific verticals or use cases has been tried many times throughout ...
How AI will crack open geospatial data access with Hantz Févry
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get access to just the data you need? And what if that data isn't in large datasets or tr...
Big geospatial visualization with lonboard and Kyle Barron
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with Kyle Barron from Development Seed, we will learn lonboard, a new Python pa...
Build, scale, and ship geospatial workflows of any size with Fused
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Isaac Brodsky, CTO and Co-Founder at Fused where we will dive deep into scaling geospatial work...