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@sparkgeoLinks 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.htmlEven Rouault, current maintainer of GDAL: @EvenRouaultSTAC (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 : Intro02:35 : Beginning of episode: Will presents himself and the story of creating Sparkgeo20:30: Do you miss coding?23:25 : Keeping up with the ever changing technical side of things27:00 : 3 main reasons that make geospatial so popular today32:02 : 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 data46:25 : The "geospatial product trap"55:10 : How is Sparkgeo not falling for this trap?1:06:00 : Choosing the projects Sparkgeo works on1:09:50 : GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Layer) & open source1:18:50 : Cloud infrastructure in geospatial1:27:55 : Google Earth Engine1:31:22 : Will's Book recommendations Feel free to drop me a line, I'd love to know what you think of [email protected]@gmail.comThanks for listening!