The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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AI in QGIS

I've been playing around with a lot of large language models lately, and it is absolutely fascinating to watch them work. But what happens when you bring that directly into QGIS? Right now, AI in the geospatial industry is a lot like a fast, enthusiastic new intern, incredibly helpful, and sometimes completely wrong, but improving at a rate that no human can compete with.  As we hand more of our geoprocessing tasks over to these algorithms, and computing becomes more pervasive, are our own GIS skills becoming obsolete? Or are we just unlocking radically different opportunities to rethink our careers?

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  AI in QGIS

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  Geospatial Makers Start Building!

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  Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source

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  A5 Pentagons Are the New Bestagons

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  The Sustainable Path for Open Source Businesses

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  Free Software and Expensive Threats

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  Mapping Your Own World: Open Drones and Localized AI

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  From Data Dump to Data Product

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  Reflections from FOSS4G 2025

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  Building a Community of Geospatial Storytellers

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  I have been making AI slop and you should too

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  Scribble: An AI Agent for Web Mapping

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  Mapillary

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  Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks

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  Hivemapper

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  Tracking Elephants