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This is part 2 in a mini series about my career across Cambodia, Kuwait, Qatar and London. It contains reflections on my time in Kuwait working for Amec, Amec Foster Wheeler before it was purchased by Wood PLC in October 2017.

I continue to use Nick Haslam’s dehumanization continuum diagram as a tool to interpret what I saw. Here is the diagram again but against an animation of the bombs dropped on Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam:

https://youtu.be/wrIOj5zWzig

Reflections on doing geospatial in Cambodia. Prompted by Free The Map, a book about change in the way we do cartography. This is in the lead up to an episode with the author, Henk Van Houtum.

Dehumanization: An Integrative Review: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6927454_Dehumanization_An_Integrative_Review

Eviction and relocation events 1982-2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: https://youtu.be/-7TEcs3lQFs?si=vL575_mAFsaENPjb

Kabul Falling, Episode 8, Still Falling: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EvXclesyIwQGoL9xWHsNW

US Bombing of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. This is an animation of 1.6+m bombing sorties over Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in the decade from 1965. It was an attack to stop communism: https://ndthl.carto.com/viz/3d0dbb10-a36e-11e5-91e4-0e5db1731f59/public_map

Free The Map: https://freethemap.org/

Making Maps Without Borders, a travel blog I kept about my time in Cambodia: http://v2.travelark.org/travel-blog/gisnoborders/1

Sahmakum Teang Tnaut: https://teangtnaut.org/en/

This episode relates to the just concluded Geo Week in Denver. I went yesterday after receiving free entry to the exhibition hall by the guest from today’s podcast. Similar to the Iceye episode released during Geospatial Risk Summit 2 weeks ago, this episode is a way to get a feel for the things discussed at Geo Week and who attends.

Hayden Howard is Executive Vice President atCompassData, Inc. We return to the theme of global base maps created by tech companies in this episode. It extends the last one of the topic withJordan Regenie. He mentioned CompassData as participating in the Microsoft campaign to create 3D cities and Streetside imagery for Bing Maps. Hayden was decent enough to come on and explain what they did. In their own words, they’re a “Leader in providing Global Ground Control Points (GCP) Survey data for remotely sensed data by satellites and other GIS applications.”

Hayden also told us a story about how epic these surveys can be - such as going around Australia.

A great episode and high time we hit the surveying subindex on the pod.

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