Some really nice geospatial podcasts to enlighten your day

Geodorable: https://geodorable.com/

• If you like maps and location then you might find listening to a couple of middle-aged guys from the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand) chat irreverently about geospatial stuff just the ticket!

Isn't That Spatial: http://isntthatspatial.net/

• "Isn't That Spatial" is the podcast bringing everyday geography and urbanism into your earspace.

The Mappyist Hour: http://themappyisthour.com/

• Geographer and Geo types talking about how incredible their profession is "after hours"

The Scene From Above Podcast: https://www.geoger.co.uk/podcast

• The #scenefromabove podcast aims to present an informal podcast looking at the world of modern remote sensing and Earth observation, fuelled by their passion for all things raster and geospatial: a mix of news, opinion, discussion and interviews.

GeoGedöns (in German): http://geogedoens.de/

• Ein Podcast von zwei enthusiastischen Satellitennavigationsbegeisterten, die gerne Technik testen und Spiele spielen, die sich am Handy bzw Smartphone abspielen und für die meist eine Lokalisation via Satelliten nötig ist.

Radio OSM (in German): http://podcast.openstreetmap.de/

• Berichte und Neuigkeiten rund um OpenStreetMap, ​die freie Wiki-Weltkarte

Everyday Geo: http://soundcloud.com/everydaygeo

• JBGeoPro - Joe Bob Penor (United States), Soundcloud Podcast

A VerySpatial Podcast: http://www.veryspatial.com/

• Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies. The VerySpatial blog is intended to be a location for the hosts and participants of A VerySpatial Podcast to link to interesting sites and articles on Geography and related information.

A geeky intro into Fortran

On the 9th of  November I organised another local coding meetup. This time we got an introduction Introduction to Fortran and Forth in order to understand some of the origins of programming.

Our resident CompSci member Benson prepared and presented the materials and gave us a glance onto these two arcane, almost ancient programming languages. Yet Fortran is still very much alive and used in a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) scenarios.

You can use command line and a simple text editor (vi, emacs, nano, gedit, atom, notepad++, kate). For the faint-hearted Atom ( https://atom.io/ ) has most of the features we needed for this session, is open and cross platform.

Links to Fortran language standard and tutorial:

• Standards committee: https://wg5-fortran.org/
• Tutorial: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortran_77_Tutorial

While Benson prepared a preconfigured VM for us, you can try out Fortran with a Gnu Fortran GCC installed by yourself, and maybe even Eclipse Fortran IDE:

• https://www.eclipse.org/ptp/
• https://www.eclipse.org/photran/

Links to Forth language standard and tutorial:

• Standard: https://forth-standard.org/
• Tutorial: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/
• Example simple interpreter: https://github.com/howerj/libforth
• Example interpreter for educational purposes: https://github.com/sayon/forthress

The materials are also collated on my GitHub account again. Happy coding :-)