15 Minute Maps

Episode 25 - Momin Ashraf: The Foggara System

Forget Silicon Valley. The most innovative "smart technology" for water management might have been invented 1,500 years ago in the Algerian desert. Host Hugo Powell welc

Episode 24 - Éloïse Neff: All Terrain GIS

What if the best map isn't a map at all—but the system that makes mapping effortless? Eloise Neff spent seven years at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) building geogr

Episode 23: Willa Sumer - Wildlife and water... Tackling a Californian Crisis

Why do biologists wake up at 4 AM to look for birds? And what does that have to do with California’s housing crisis? In this episode, California based GIS analyst and co

Episode 22: Mathew Roberts - Where the Money Flows

What if you could see exactly where the world’s money goes—in real time? From Swiss bank accounts to mobile money in Sierra Leone, and from colonial resource extraction t

Episod 21: Max Malynowsky - Offline is the New Online

What if humanitarians had an offline-first mapping tool as reliable as a Garmin GPS? In this episode, Max Malynowsky — software engineer at the OCHA Centre for Humanitari

Episode 20 - Saïd Abou Kharroub: The One-Stop-Shop Map

What if all the data needed to respond to a humanitarian crisis already existed — but was scattered, siloed, and hard to use? In this episode of 15-Minute Maps, I’m join

Episode 19 - Yann Rebois: Mapping the Invisible in Cities

Urban crises are some of the hardest environments to map — and yet that’s where millions of the world’s most vulnerable people live. In this episode of 15-Minute Maps, H

Episode 18: Cornelia Scholz - The Dragon's Map

What if our most trusted maps are quietly lying to us? This week on 15 Minute Maps, GIS technical advisor Cornelia Schultz (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre) joins

Episode 17 - David de Ridder: Rerouting… to Better Health

In this episode of 15 Minute Maps, I speak with David de Ridder, Senior Research Fellow at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), who specializes in spatial epidemiolog

Episode 16 – John Huth: The Map Hidden in the Waves

Ever Wondered How You’d Navigate the Ocean With No Compass, No GPS, and No Land in Sight? Well this episode once again proves the importance of maintaining indigenous kno

Episode 15 - Guilherme Iablonovski: The Map of Matter

We often talk about rebuilding after a disaster, but we leave so little thought for rthe materials needed. Have you ever thought about where all the rubble goes after a w

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 -

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 top

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 clima

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 del

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

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)

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 do

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 ki

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.