15 Minute Maps
This podcast is dedicated to those people making positive change in the world using GIS, mapping and cartography. Each guest is given 15 minutes to describe their dream map, and how it could impact the work they do.
Hello and welcome to 15 Minute maps, where I ask my guests to let their minds roam free and come up with a new idea for their dream map. The first known map of the world was created three thousand years ago, (of a flat disc-like world surrounded by water,) and today we are making maps of the furthest reaches of the known universe. In between lie a myriad of mapping possibilities. What if we could do away with resource limitations… think beyond the conventions of time, space and political boundaries? What new kinds of map could we dream up?
Episodes
14 episodes
Episode 14 - Brianna Pagan Corremonte: The Story of a Forest Fire
She Lost Her Home to Wildfires… and Turned It Into a Powerful Mapping Idea That Could Not Only Save Lives but Local History as Well!Professor Brianna Pagan Corremonte - remote sensing expert, technical leader, environmentalist, and ultra...
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Episode 13
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21:06
Episode 13: Esperanza Ortega-Tapia - Climate Change Driven Loss of Cultural Farming Heritage
In this very moving episode, Esperanza Ortega-Tapia describes her dream of being able to map the loss of farming land within BIPOC communities in the United States. A topic incredibly close to her heart, Esperanza not only takes us on a journey...
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Episode 13
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18:44
Episode 12 - Guido Pizzini: Communities at the Heart of Humanitarian GIS Preparedness
In this episode, Guido Pizzini - Director, Business Development, Impact and Partnerships at Immap Inc. - takes us through his dream of mapping community response to climate change. This idea is driven by his reading of Landscapes of Retreat:&nb...
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Episode 12
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22:59
Episode 11 - Sven Schmitz-Leuffen: The Gap Map
Sven Schmitz-Leuffen, GIS and Technical Solutions Lead at the International Committee of the Red Cross has a problem, how to know where and to whom should the ICRC be delivering support to? Well here is where the Gap Map comes in, a comprehensi...
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Episode 11
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23:17
Episode 10 - Song Huang: Dark Skies
From time to time, one feels the need to break with tradition, and while this podcast has normally only dealt with planetary GIS and mapping, in this episode we go beyond our atmosphere and look up and out. Prof. Sung Huang, associate professor...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:17
Episode 9 - Maaz Sheikh: GIS for All
In this episode I am joined by Maaz Sheikh, young GIS entrepeneur and start up king. Ageospatial, the platform he created, uses AI agents and large language models (LLMs) to assist the less GIS savvy in creating their maps. While a contentious ...
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Episode 9
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19:32
Episode 8 - Rhiannan Price: STEAM not just STEM
Rhiannan Price, program lead at Nasa Lifelines, blends art and science to create her dream map. An advocate of community mapping, Rhiannan believes that modern mapping does not go far enough to evoke the community implications of places so ofte...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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20:30
Episode 7 - Varsha Sivaram: Empowering Research with a Geospatial Platform
Varsha Sivaram, senior economic geographer at FRAYM, takes us into her world where she blends academic research with practical data solutions. In a world where data is king, how do you harness that data correctly and ethically? How do you ensur...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:29
Episode 6 - Andrew Schroeder: Users as Creators
GIS IS DEAD! This weeks guest is Andrew Schroeder, Co-founder of WeRobotics, Co-director of CrisisReady, and Vice President of research and analysis at Direct Relief. It may come as a surprise to some given Andrew's back...
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Episode 6
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20:03
Episode 5 - Richard Brittan: A Poverty Map that Works
Today I am joined by Richard Brittan, founder of the innovative GIS company ALCIS. Richard identifies the lack of mapping of poverty in most parts of the world. He focusses on Afghanistan and the problems that surveyors and GIS experts have in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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20:28
Episode 4 - Joel Myhre: A Holistic View of the World
Mahalo to the global GIS Ohana from this weeks guest Joel Myhre, humanitarian technology innovator. With a CV as long as the Magna Carta, Joel has worked in every facet of humanitarian technology and has travelled the globe supporting a myriad ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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20:28
Episode 3 - Nathaniel Raymond: The BLIMP
This week I am joined by Nathaniel 'Natty' Raymond - Executive Director of Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University. Co-founder of Sentinel Satelites (with one George Clooney, yes that George Clooney), Nathaniel has worked a huge vari...
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Episode 3
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22:29
Episode 2 - Olivier Cottray: A Map in the Eye of the User
Today I am joined by Olivier Cottray, Director of Humanitarian Solutions at ESRI, and with nearly 5000 followers on LinkedIn, he is the closest the humanitarian Geospatial community has to a celebrity. Starting his career working for the...
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Episode 2
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20:07
Episode 1 - Jessie Pechmann: A different Kind of World Map
For the first ever episode of 15 Minute Maps I am Joined by Jessie Pechmann, storied humanitarian and Geospatial expert. She is currently the Humanitarian GIS and Data protection lead with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM), and has p...
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Episode 1
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