It's our 50th episode and we are celebrating in style with an interview with the creator of  Uber's Kepler.gl, what could be better than that! Plus we have a bit of survey news, Fifa embraces GPS, and New Zealand Emerging Spatial Professionals get in the know with a careers conference.

We're back after a 6-week break - you know you've missed us!  In the news in this episode, we celebrate Open Street Map's 14th Birthday, we wonder if GIS is mainstream and consider if Google is out to annoy flat earthers. Plus in Topic of the Week we fall in love all over again with the paper map.  Export to Shapefile makes a welcome return.

17901 attendees, 2400 gallons of coffee, 2200 staff,  480 Technical Workshops, 307 Exhibitors, 198 Paper Sessions, 124 Special Interest Groups, 34 Plenary speakers, and 1 Jack Dangermond.  These are just some of the stats that sum up the 2018 Esri User Conference.  In this special episode Chris, and Mark are joined by the very affable Kurt Towler, host of the fabulous podcast Speaking of GIS.  We discuss all things UC whilst relaxing in the map gallery.

In this episode, we have another great interview, this time with Santiago Giraldo, Director of Marketing at Carto.  Hear what he has to say about the state of the spatial industry and how organizations use Carto to turn location data into business outcomes.

In this episode, we interview Linda Hecht, geographer, marketer and geospatial location leader.  We discuss Linda's long career at Esri and what makes her tick now, we talk about her passion for geography and its impact on marketing and we ask what she believes the future of GIS will look like.

In this episode we have lots of news, from cognitive maps to open source conference goodness.  Esri demonstrates its employer credentials and someones denies Australia's existence.  Plus the New Zealand Prime Minister asks why New Zealand is left off so many maps. In topic of the week we discuss Google's changes to the Google Maps API

In this episode, Chris and Mark consider the ethical implications of our industry and discuss the concepts of geospatial justice and geoslavery.  Does location pose a special case for data privacy or is it little more than another data point on your digital profile?  Plus we take a look at the news affecting our industry from ArcGIS updates to Carto conferences as well as a blast from the past as Top Gear takes a look at early SatNav systems.

So check out our new website! It's got proper show notes just like other grown up podcasts and a big back catalog of our previous podcasts for you to download and enjoy.  In this episode we get our game on with Soccer Maps, we hold out for our Mercedes Benz sponsorship, we talk about Blockchain and location and have an argument as to why New Zealand is the most special spatial country in the world.