Editor in Chief, Joe Francica, spoke with Tomas Larsson, marketing director, Trimble Survey and Maarten Vandenbroucke, president, Gatewing, the provider of the X100 unmanned aerial vehicle about unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for an inside look at the applications and the equipment. Trimble recently bought Gatewing and listeners will find this interview especially useful as the market is set to rapidly expand.

With the impending merger of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, Dr. Walkter Scott, Founder, Vice President and CTO, DigitalGlobe sat down with Editor in Chief Joe Francica to provide his views on where the company is headed, the budget situation in Washington and the technical advantages of the WorldView constellation.

This summer, the Arctic ice cap shrank--melted-to an all-time tiny size. Half what it was in 1980. The planet is changing. We explore. Guests: David Robinson, climatologist and professor in the department of geography at Rutgers University. Walt Meier, research scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center, which has been measuring the Arctic sea ice cover since 1979.

The early verdict is in: Apple Maps on iOS 6 underwhelms the tech press and some users. What does this situation suggest about the state of consumer mapping and are there implications for GIS professionals?

You may not have heard but the International Map Trade Association renamed itself the International Map Industry Association. Have map publishers been part of the GIS and online mapping revolution? Can they find a way to straddle the two worlds?

To understand many of the triumphs, tragedies and conflicts in the world, geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan says to look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge Of Geography, Kaplan argues that geography is central to understanding the history and future of world affairs.

The long northern hemisphere summer is over and the geospatial industry is gearing up for fall. What should we expect? What would we like to see? Our editors get listeners ready for the next few months.

ProPublica investigative reporter Peter Maass says cellphone companies monitor where we are, who we call, what we buy -- and often provide it to law enforcement when requested. "They are collecting a heck of a lot more information than we expect them to be collecting about us," he tells Fresh Air.

Last week the news was all about Hurricane Isaac. All sorts of maps beyond those of its predicted course filled government and media websites and blogs. Old apps were refreshed and new ones announced. A week later, we look back and share six pieces of advice for mapmakers as learned from Hurricane Isaac.

The Documents that Changed the World podcast series is the brainchild of Joe Janes, a professor in the UW Information School. He uses the series to investigate the backstories and often evolving meaning of important historical documents, both famous and less known. ...This installment, however, was written and narrated by Andrew Brink, a former student of Janes’ and a 2012 graduate of the Information School. ...Janes said the John Snow map was a compelling topic because “it’s the Nineteenth Century version of big data; coalescing and condensing new and multiple streams of information — textual, numerical and observational — in ways they never had before, to make them far more useable.”