15 Minute Maps

Hugo Powell

English Earth Sciences Natural Sciences Science Technology

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Episodes 20

Avg. Duration 20m

Activity Sporadic

Since Aug 2025

Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

This podcast is dedicated to those people making positive change in the world using GIS, mapping and cartography. Each guest is given 15 minutes to describe their dream map, and how it could impact the work they do.

Hello and welcome to 15 Minute maps, where I ask my guests to let their minds roam free and come up with a new idea for their dream map. The first known map of the world was created three thousand years ago, (of a flat disc-like world surrounded by water,) and today we are making maps of the furthest reaches of the known universe. In between lie a myriad of mapping possibilities. What if we could do away with resource limitations… think beyond the conventions of time, space and political boundaries? What new kinds of map could we dream up?

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Recent Episodes

S1E20 Episode 20 - Saïd Abou Kharroub: The One-Stop-Shop Map

Dec 22, 2025 18m

What if all the data needed to respond to a humanitarian crisis already existed — but was scattered, siloed, and hard to use?In this episode of 15-Minute Maps, I’m joined by Saïd Abou Kharroub, a GIS…

S1E19 Episode 19 - Yann Rebois: Mapping the Invisible in Cities

Dec 15, 2025 20m

Urban crises are some of the hardest environments to map — and yet that’s where millions of the world’s most vulnerable people live.In this episode of 15-Minute Maps, Hugo Powell is joined by Yann…

S1E18 Episode 18: Cornelia Scholz - The Dragon's Map

Dec 09, 2025 19m

What if our most trusted maps are quietly lying to us?This week on 15 Minute Maps, GIS technical advisor Cornelia Schultz (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre) joins Hugo to reveal a hidden truth…

S1E17 Episode 17 - David de Ridder: Rerouting… to Better Health

Nov 24, 2025 19m

In this episode of 15 Minute Maps, I speak with David de Ridder, Senior Research Fellow at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), who specializes in spatial epidemiology and digital public…

S1E16 Episode 16 – John Huth: The Map Hidden in the Waves

Nov 17, 2025 21m

Ever Wondered How You’d Navigate the Ocean With No Compass, No GPS, and No Land in Sight? Well this episode once again proves the importance of maintaining indigenous knowledge.That question led…

S1E14 Episode 15 - Guilherme Iablonovski: The Map of Matter

Nov 10, 2025 20m

We often talk about rebuilding after a disaster, but we leave so little thought for rthe materials needed. Have you ever thought about where all the rubble goes after a war or a flood?That’s the…

S1E13 Episode 14 - Brianna Pagan Corremonte: The Story of a Forest Fire

Nov 03, 2025 21m

She Lost Her Home to Wildfires… and Turned It Into a Powerful Mapping Idea That Could Not Only Save Lives but Local History as Well!Professor Brianna Pagan Corremonte - remote sensing expert,…

S1E13 Episode 13- Esperanza Ortega-Tapia: Climate Change Driven Loss of Cultural Farming Heritage

Oct 27, 2025 18m

In this very moving episode, Esperanza Ortega-Tapia describes her dream of being able to map the loss of farming land within BIPOC communities in the United States. A topic incredibly close to her…

S1E12 Episode 12 - Guido Pizzini: Communities at the Heart of Humanitarian GIS Preparedness

Oct 20, 2025 22m

In this episode, Guido Pizzini - Director, Business Development, Impact and Partnerships at Immap Inc. - takes us through his dream of mapping community response to climate change. This idea is…

S1E11 Episode 11 - Sven Schmitz-Leuffen: The Gap Map

Oct 13, 2025 23m

Sven Schmitz-Leuffen, GIS and Technical Solutions Lead at the International Committee of the Red Cross has a problem, how to know where and to whom should the ICRC be delivering support to? Well here…

S1E10 Episode 10 - Song Huang: Dark Skies

Oct 06, 2025 23m

From time to time, one feels the need to break with tradition, and while this podcast has normally only dealt with planetary GIS and mapping, in this episode we go beyond our atmosphere and look up…

S1E9 Episode 9 - Maaz Sheikh: GIS for All

Sep 29, 2025 19m

In this episode I am joined by Maaz Sheikh, young GIS entrepeneur and start up king. Ageospatial, the platform he created, uses AI agents and large language models (LLMs) to assist the less GIS savvy…

S1E8 Episode 8 - Rhiannan Price: STEAM not just STEM

Sep 22, 2025 20m

Rhiannan Price, program lead at Nasa Lifelines, blends art and science to create her dream map. An advocate of community mapping, Rhiannan believes that modern mapping does not go far enough to evoke…

S1E7 Episode 7 - Varsha Sivaram: Empowering Research with a Geospatial Platform

Sep 15, 2025 19m

Varsha Sivaram, senior economic geographer at FRAYM, takes us into her world where she blends academic research with practical data solutions. In a world where data is king, how do you harness that…

S1E6 Episode 6 - Andrew Schroeder: Users as Creators

Sep 08, 2025 20m

GIS IS DEAD! This weeks guest is Andrew Schroeder, Co-founder of WeRobotics, Co-director of CrisisReady, and Vice President of research and analysis at Direct Relief. It may come as a surprise to…

S1E5 Episode 5 - Richard Brittan: A Poverty Map that Works

Sep 01, 2025 20m

Today I am joined by Richard Brittan, founder of the innovative GIS company ALCIS. Richard identifies the lack of mapping of poverty in most parts of the world. He focusses on Afghanistan and the…

S1E4 Episode 4 - Joel Myhre: A Holistic View of the World

Aug 25, 2025 20m

Mahalo to the global GIS Ohana from this weeks guest Joel Myhre, humanitarian technology innovator. With a CV as long as the Magna Carta, Joel has worked in every facet of humanitarian technology and…

S1E3 Episode 3 - Nathaniel Raymond: The BLIMP

Aug 18, 2025 22m

This week I am joined by Nathaniel 'Natty' Raymond - Executive Director of Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University. Co-founder of Sentinel Satelites (with one George Clooney, yes that George…

S1E2 Episode 2 - Olivier Cottray: A Map in the Eye of the User

Aug 11, 2025 20m

Today I am joined by Olivier Cottray, Director of Humanitarian Solutions at ESRI, and with nearly 5000 followers on LinkedIn, he is the closest the humanitarian Geospatial community has to a…

S1E1 Episode 1 - Jessie Pechmann: A different Kind of World Map

Aug 04, 2025 18m

For the first ever episode of 15 Minute Maps I am Joined by Jessie Pechmann, storied humanitarian and Geospatial expert. She is currently the Humanitarian GIS and Data protection lead with the…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does 15 Minute Maps have?

15 Minute Maps has published 20 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences.

Is 15 Minute Maps still active?

15 Minute Maps is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 20m.