Geospatial shop talk with field-tested judgment.
The Geoholics is a geospatial show built around working surveyors, technologists, and field-minded guests. Recent conversations move from GeoWeek recaps and product leadership to lidar workflows, data governance, underground rail surveys, and archaeology in Arizona.
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The Geoholics is an industry-room conversation for people who live around surveying, mapping, lidar, drones, GIS, geomatics, and civil infrastructure. It is not a polished lecture series. It sounds like colleagues catching up after a long event, then turning toward the work with enough experience to know where the hard parts hide. Recent episodes lean into GeoWeek energy, sponsor updates, conference calendars, and the network of companies and practitioners around the show. Then the technical conversations take over. Matt Nugent’s episode works through product leadership, automation, sensor operators, and the need for human override when robots and cameras make decisions in the field. Ted Knaak’s conversation around TopoDOT Solutions gets into mobile scanning, trajectory validation, process checks, and data governance. Gordon Perry, PLS brings the scale and complexity of underground Penn Station surveying into view, including track levels, transit agencies, and the problem of mapping hidden infrastructure beneath Madison Square Garden. ASPRS Gulf South Region brings standards, certification, licensing-board enforcement, and the difference between accuracy and precision into plain language. SmartDrone’s episode compares lidar and photogrammetry through jobs where processing time, vegetation returns, and volume calculations matter. Jenna Kent’s episode widens the frame into archaeology, pre-construction compliance, class one and class three surveys, prehistoric ceramic replication, and respect for history. The show moves quickly. It jokes, riffs on music, thanks partners, and closes with takeaways like listen to clients, understand the process, be flexible, stay curious, and get hands dirty. Under the looseness is a consistent professional ethic: tools are only valuable when they serve the mission, the project, and the public. The result is a geospatial show that feels close to the people actually doing the work.
Made for: The show suits surveyors, geospatial professionals, GIS and lidar practitioners, drone-mapping teams, civil infrastructure people, and students entering the field. It also fits listeners who like technical conversations that keep the jobsite, client, and data trail in view.
What sets it apart: The Geoholics stands out by pairing informal conference camaraderie with detailed conversations about real workflows, standards, verification, and professional responsibility. It treats technology as useful only when practitioners can explain, govern, and defend the result.
This is a podcast for geospatial professionals. The group discusses a variety of topics including surveying, geospatial, geomatics, GIS, civil engineering and much much more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Geoholics makes geospatial technology legible by connecting measurement tools, automation, and standards to the decisions practitioners make in the field.
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GeoWeek color and product talk meet where automation still needs human override.
Geoholics episode 277 lands as a relaxed post-GeoWeek conversation, folding Denver conference energy, geospatial product work, and the familiar question of when automation should give way to a person.
A practical survey-data discussion about calibration, data governance, and why matching field checks still matter.
The piece stays centered on survey data, scanner calibration, and the larger point that field work only matters when the pieces line up. It treats the surveyor role as more than collection: the job is to manage meaning, origin, and fit, and that gives the discussion a clear…
Penn Station surveying becomes a scale-rich, practical look at infrastructure and precision.
Episode 274 of The Geoholics centers on Gordon Perry, PLS, and his practical account of underground surveying at New York Penn Station. The discussion lays out a station track level three stories below street surface, 11 platforms, storage yards, and about 35 miles of track…
A grounded discussion of geospatial standards, licensing, and why accuracy is not the same thing as precision.
The Geoholics' Episode 276 frames an ASPRS-related conversation around a practical question: how geospatial work earns trust. NCWS, state licensing boards, contracts, standards, and safeguards for companies and the public are treated less as background policy than as the…
A practical survey-tech chat that stays tied to real field work.
The episode settles into a practical survey-tech discussion after the opening banter and sponsor housekeeping. Its strongest stretch is the case for LIDAR over photogrammetry on some measurements, especially when faster processing matters for a 500-acre mixed-use development…
A grounded conversation about archaeology, pottery, and the work behind the dig.
This episode keeps its feet on the ground: archaeology, prehistoric ceramic replication, and the compliance work that sits around fieldwork. It moves through wild clay, temper sources, pit firing, class 1 desktop review, class 3 survey, and the habit of checking project limits…
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David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
A conversation at Hexagon LIVE 2025 Day 2 with Matt Bainbridge about remote sensing technologies including UAV, LIDAR, and Gaussian splats.
Mikel Bowman discusses his role as a cultural guru at Bowman Legacies, exploring themes of legacy, community, and identity in a geospatial context.
The hosts of the Geoholics podcast discuss their Spotify playlist featuring songs from guests and introduce the Wingtra Ground all-in-one kit for aerial surveys.
The Geoholics episode 277 brings Matt Nugent, vice president of product at Overwatch Imaging, into a long interview framed by GeoWeek in Denver and the next stop in Salt Lake City.
["The Geoholics episode with Ted Knaak centers on point clouds, data governance, and TopoDOT, while the hosts also preview GeoWeek, the Western Regional Surveyors Conference, and TUC 26 in Orlando.", "Knaak, president at TopoDot, is presented as a geospatial veteran with time at GE space systems, Regal USA, and the early LiDAR era.", "He says a point cloud is only a 3D picture until survey teams attach control, provenance, and extraction rules in the office.", "The discussion focuses on practical failure modes such as multiple scanners, mismatched datums, oversized files, and teams spending hours hunting for data that should already be organized."]
The Geoholics Episode 274 brings on Gordo Perry to talk rail surveying, lidar, and the logistics of working inside New York Penn Station.
The Geoholics' Episode 276 features a five-person panel from ASPRS's Gulf South region — conference chair Bill Swope, vice president/past president Scott Dunham, association coordinator Yuki Day, and regional president Balaji — previewing the April 8-10 Gulf South conference at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
The Geoholics podcast welcomes Brian Owens for his fifth appearance, discussing the upcoming friend of the program list for 2026.
Rob Cammack says Magellan is built so a field tech can use it on day one, without a drone expert.
A San Antonio cemetery project done 'out of granny guilt' pushed Jenna Kent from military operations into archaeology.
The hosts introduce the episode, discuss upcoming events InnerGeo and Women Surveyors Summit, and welcome guests Anna Rios and Amanda Allred.
A discussion about the future of GNSS with GEODNET and Bad Elf, featuring Mike Horton and Larry Fox.