Maps Are Infrastructure and They Need Data

March 30
11 mins

Episode Description

What happens to the data after it's collected? In this episode, Bryce explores the real-world value locked inside a standardized drone imagery network — and why the most important data is often the kind nobody knew they'd need.

  • (00:00) - What is drone data used for?
  • (01:25) - Welcome to The Drone Network
  • (01:46) - Today's episode: how drone data upgrades the world map
  • (04:27) - Why don't we think about drones as infrastructure?
  • (04:52) - How do governments use drone data?
  • (06:47) - How drones are used to create "digital twins" for cities, infrastructure, and more...
  • (07:56) - How drones help disaster recovery before disasters happen
  • (09:27) - Drone infrastructure already exists!
  • (10:55) - Thanks for listening! Or viewing? You do you, superstar,

Topics covered: how fresh aerial imagery is reshaping property insurance underwriting and closing the protection gap; why city maps fall years behind physical reality and what drone networks do to fix that; digital twins explained plainly and where they actually matter; pre-disaster baseline mapping and why the best emergency map is the one built before the emergency; and the broader argument that drone networks are doing for the physical world what the internet did for text.


Hosted by Bryce Bladon. Edited by AJ Fillari

Theme: Lately - Kicktracks 

Sponsored by Spexi.com and LayerDrone.org 

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