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

E239 - Hivemapper

Published: December 5, 2024

Duration: 51:29

In this week’s episode, I’m thrilled to welcome back Ariel Seidman, founder of HiveMapper. Ariel was my very first podcast guest back in 2019, and HiveMapper has come a long way since then!

We explore how HiveMapper has evolved from a drone-based mapping system to a cutting-edge platform collecting street-level data at a global scale. Ariel shares the challenges of scaling large-scale mapping efforts, the pivot to building their own hardware, and the role of blockchain-based incentives in driving adoption.

Here are just a few topics we cover:

Why HiveMapper shifted focus from dron...