A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: David Attenborough's 99th birthday New spectral bands for Landsat Next Mexico sues Google Lunar positioning system NSF at 75   Web corner NSF STEM Day Facilities Coloring Book    Music: “Garden Groove” by AFAUN  

  News: GOES-19 now operational ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal QGIS 4.0 coming  Topic: What we would like to see in geospatial tools Events: Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona Music: city of lights by LUCØ

News: PreGISP Apple Maps adding indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand Web corner Citizen Science Month 2025 and One Million Acts of Science Topic: NC GIS interviews EagleView ROK Tech Music Stranger Danger by Solo Kei

News: Data Rescue Project Committee cuts Are drones on the path to commoditization Web corner Pittsburgh in 50 maps Topic: Interviews from the 2025 NC GIS Conference Jackson Adams from NCTech Inc. Dale Loberger from BCS, Inc. Events: Big Ten GIS Conference 2025 April 11 virtual Horizons April 27-29 Denver Louisiana May 6-8 in Baton Rouge Louisiana Music: "Good Company" by Yu Ishii

News: Esri AGO updates Map viewer classic road to deprecation  AGE roadmap  SketchUp 2025 Microsoft removing location history API from Windows 11   Web corner Inaugural David J. Weaver GIS Research Fellow at Boston Public Library   Topic: Cartography in 3D   Events: QGIS User Conference 2025: 2-3 June, Norrköping, Sweden    Music: Storyteller by Julianna Laine  

House Keeping: geofeeds.me News: QGIS as digital public good The role of a name or shuffling toponyms Topic: We continue to look back at the history of geospatial technologies Events: Social Science History Association: 20-23 November, Chicago - Abstracts due March 1   Music: "brightside" by Dawson Hollow

News: Some US federal data is going offline, but you may be able to access duplicate copies on non-federal servers National Honor Society for Geospatial Technology applications open Penn State studies honey bee movements using QR codes Topic: Geography (and other) references we return to often. Events: GeoBusiness: 4-5 June, London RGS/IBG: 26-29 August. Birmingham, Abstracts due by March 7 GISPro: 6-9 Oct, Denver, CO, Abstracts due by May 5 Geography2050 (AGS): 20-21 November, NYC  

News: Copernicus Sentinel-2C commissioned (copernicus site) NC no longer requires drone test U.S. Navy surface fleet trains on GPS alternatives Landsat's 12 millionth image! Topic: This week we talk about how this year's CES coverage prompted conversations centered around AR/VR/xR and how the broader wearables market will like impact the utility and adoption for these visual hardware. Web Corner:  Ken Burn's in the classroom: Maps, Art, and Environment   “Until it's found” by Will Orchard  

News: World Lidar Day (Feb 12) World Magnetic Model (WMM) updated Drones to map rare plants in Hawaii   Web Corner:  Whatsapp Chatmap with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) Topic: Discussion around questions Jesse has had this week What is the National Geospatial Collaborative But OSM is infrastructure!!! Drone news impacts Are we nearing the end of the “Arab Spring”   Events: geo-week: Feb 10-12, Denver GIS Research UK: 23-25 April, Bristol Music: Unglued by MYFEVER

News: Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022) Foursquare open source places Niantic's LGM goal Google Location History  WebCorner: URHere Podcast from 2021  

News: Esri Updates ArcGIS Pro 3.4 ArcGIS Online November Autodesk investment in GAMMA AR MS Earth Copilot RFP out for 2025-29 Landsat Team Topic: This week Jesse sat down with current URISA president, John Nolte, to discuss the rebranding and transition to the Geospatial Professional Network Events: Geo Week: 10-12 February, Denver Commercial UAV Expo Europe: 8-10 April, Amsterdam  GISPro: Oct 6-9, Denver  

News: Gemini coming to Google's mapping apps (from Google) Unity 6 Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product Windows 10 security for $30 GISP accredited by CESB Events: International GNSS Day: Oct 23 annually  

News: Geospatial Professional Network China's eLoran ESA new EO science strategy  WebCorner: Geoawesome Blog “You Are #Geoawesome” Video Series Topic: Ai https://www.geospatialworld.net/videos/google-ai-geospatial-boosts-make-in-india/ https://eijournal.com/news/products-2/nearmap-elevates-location-intelligence-with-new-generation-of-ai-derived-insights https://anitagraser.com/2024/10/06/llm-based-spatial-analysis-assistants-for-qgis/ Events: Geo Week: 10-12 Feb, Denver Geo empower event scholarship 16th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development: 13-16 March 2025, Tokyo, Abstracts due Nov 15

News: Zillow adds climate risk data Interagency sea-level rise  Geospatial Analytics market growth InterGEO sees several new sensor and GNSS launches Topic: Discussing government data use for planning and emergency events Music: Sky Groovin by Akolo

News: New Galileo Satellites declared operational Web Corner:  2024 Fall Foliage Map and U.S. Prediction  Topic: This week Jesse talks to Nat Case and Dan Coe about Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design which continues the series. Volume 7 is available now for preorder and will begin shipping in October. Music sundays by Mad Keys

News: Geofence warrants  Overture Maps general availability and alpha addresses BVLOS drone rules are coming Mapping a News Desert in Maryland Topic: Relevance of 20 years of OpenStreetMap   Events: EuroCarto 2024, September 9 -11, Vienna, Austria GIS in the Rockies 2024, September 26, Denver Music: I've Given It Up by NITE

Topic: This week we discuss our thoughts on Geography as we get ready for the fall semester, plus talk about the idea of micro credentials Video referenced by Frank - Why Is Edinburgh Split in Two? Event Corner: GIS-Pro, Oct 7-10, Portland, ME NACIS2024, Oct. 16–19, Tacoma

Topic: This week we sit down on our 19th Anniversary to talk with Bern Szukalski of Esri about his time in the industry and the growth of connected and cloud based geospatial technologies.  

News: IDC's 2030 geospatial market trends Google Google Maps on iPhone adds Speedometer (5 years after Android) Google not bringing pop-up ads to Maps (during navigation) GeoHipster call for 2025 calendar content Not news, but reminder that the NSRS update is still coming (in 2026?) OGC IndoorGML v2.0 Conceptual Model open for comment Topic: Interview with Ariel Seidman, co-founder and CEO of HiveMapper about their approach to data collection and distribution, as well as how they are building their data and tools.

News: Bentley e-on software now free with perpetual license  GOES-U satellite launched  CogniSat6 - AI-driven remote sensing ShakeAlert Earthquake System adds GPS Sensors  AGO June 2024 ArcGIS Web Editor UAS proposed legislation  Counter Uas FAA reauthorization DJI ban Library of Congress Cartographic Fellowship  Music: 40 Hours On The Road by Adriel Rivera  

News: Back-up your Google Location History while you can Google Maps updates Apple Maps updates  USGIF accredits programs at South Dakota State University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign WingtraCloud for uas mapping  Topic: A discussion of our 'duct tape', or the way we link applications to get results  

News: Ordnance Survey creates National Vernacular Mapping Tool Oakridge National Laboratory team map Coca River, Ecuador  USGS using remote sensing to explore groundwater discharge impact on coral USGS call for William T. Pecora Awards nominations Air taxi developers in race for FAA certification Geomagnetic storms impact agricultural GPS Finland investing in AR and VR for maritime and road training Amazon Redshift announces support for H3 hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing  Topic: Talking about state conferences  Events: 2024 EO for Africa Symposium, September 23 - 26, Frascati, Italy, call for abstracts  URISA GIS-Pro 2024, October 7-10, Portland, ME, call for abstracts  This week's song is Carry Us Home by HARBRS  

News: FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality White House/OMB AI guidelines  UNESCO names 18 new Geoparks The impacts of open edit Overture Maps beta Topic: Metageography  Events: State of the Map US: 6-8 June, Salt Lake City International geographical congress 2024: 24-30 August, Dublin This week's song is “Idaho” by Arbour Season  

News: Daniel Huffman's Projection Collection has revived card trading Surface Area Rivers and Lakes Database released Study of museum collections finds warming waters impact mussel shells GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research proposes Digital Twins of the Ocean NOAA documents 4th global coral bleaching event Landsat Extended Acquisition of the Poles (LEAP) for Polar twilight zone Location Europe creates cross-boundary geospatial data platform New online volcano eruption near-real time watch map announced  Events: WV Geocon: 13-16 May, Charleston, WV InterGeo 2024: 24-26 September, Stuttgart, Call for ideas open Commercial UAV Expo: 3-5 September, Las Vegas

News: University of the Bundeswehr Munich creates 3D city maps from a single SAR satellite The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Sahel Region universities map groundwater Topic: This week we wander into a conversation about files, folders, and data as well as thoughts on versioning. Events: SOTM 2024: 6-8 September, Nairobi, Call for academic track due 10 May Agile 2024: 4-7 June, Glasgow Geography2050: 22-24 November, New York

News: FCC ups limits to be called ‘broadband' Google used AI to model flooding Voyager 1 responds to “poke” Topic: This week we discuss the importance of citizen science on the eve of Citizen Science Month and touch a bit on this year's quickly approaching EarthDay.

News: NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure Methane tracking satellite  NGA expands commercial acquisitions with ‘Luno' NGA opens NGOC NSGIC states geospatial maturity assessment  Events:  Geospatial World Forum (GWF): 13-16 May, Rotterdam ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium: 11-14 June. Las Vegas NACIS: 16-19 Oct, Tacoma

News: Moon landing Korea's KASS operational US DOJ moves to dismiss Ligado case Esri to roll out AI Assistants in 2024   Topic: Are our perspectives (on tech) changing as we progress through our careers?    

News: OSM as digital public good Google Maps incorporating generative AI   Topic: Why is the GIS Industry resistant to technological change?   Events:  World LiDAR Day: 12 Feb Geo Business: 5-6 June, London  GIS Pro: 7-10 Oct, Portland, Mn

News: NAPGD 2022-submit GNSS or leveling data Techtree launches AROUND NSA in data purchase news Real impacts of mobile map attribute errors Mars helicopter Ingenuity mission ends Japan's lunar lander   Events:  4S (Small Satellites, Systems, Services) Symposium: 27-31 May, Palma de Mallorca, Spain  

Our annual conversation looking back on 2023 and forward to 2024.

News: EU AI Act passes University students build first Irish satellite to launch into space ISS at 25   Topic: 50, 45, 30 years of GPS   Events:  GeoWeek 2024: 11-13 February, Denver RGS-IBG 2024: 27-30 August, Dublin GIS Pro 2024: 7-10 Oct, Portland, Maine

News: Google updates Maps USDA updates Plant Hardiness Zone map SkyTruth updates features Topic: Interview with Egyptologists Laura Ranieri Roy and Francois Roy of Ancient Egypt Alive and the new Secrets of Egypt Revealed podcast.     Events:  Replaying Japan: August 19-21, Buffalo and Rochester IGC2024: 24-30 August, Dublin, Abstracts due by 12 January

News: Drone Data access continues to grow Dakota Landmap Art on tour QGIS 3.34 released ArcGIS Pro 3.2 released OSM gets a $150k donation from Microsoft    Topic: “Place” and its place   Events:  Geo Business 2024: 5-6 June, London, call for speakers closes in February

Geography Awareness Week, Day of Geography, and GIS Day are just around the corner! American Association of Geographers GAW National Geographic GAW GIS Day Day of Geography (page down as of posting) And for all of the other days, here is Sanborn's list of national Geography-related holidays!

News: UK PNT Plan Landsat STELLAs program New NSF grant focused on GRASS GIS  New Esri MOOC - GIS for Climate Action starts Oct. 25th   Topic: Geospatial annoyances...

The audio from a recent episode of VSTV where Jesse talks to Daniel Huffman about the Map Projection Cards Kickstarter which ends in October, 2023.

House Keeping: Daniel Huffman's Map projections cards Kickstarter Watch for an opening video this week.  News: Google sued over directions Guinness Book of World Records revokes mountain climbing records The National Honor Society for Geospatial Technology launches China working on ground-based timing system Topic: This week we interview Marc Prioleau, Executive Director of Overture Maps Foundation about their venture into open data, access, and direction.  Events:  Geography 2050: 16-17 November, New York 2024 Symposium on Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate: 2 - 6 June, Hawaii  

News: 3Dntm Gridded US Census data coming? Geofence warrants  Customs and border patrol to stop buying phone location data Unity “install” charges announced Topic: This week we talk to Anthony Villanti, Managing Director & Founder of GapMaps about their expansion into the North America markets Events:  Geo Week 2024: 11-13 February, Denver, CO Game Developer Conference: 18-22 March, San Francisco, CA   Music: Stay Here by Art Grad

News: GLONASS launch Indian mission successfully lands on the Moon Japan hoping to launch lunar lander mission on Sept. 7th MIT measures river flows on Mars using remote sensing Google Maps Platform adds environmental data APIs Mapbox 3D updates Topic: Integrating new technologies into existing workflows Events:  InterGeo 2023: 10-12 October, Berlin Applied Geography Conference: 25-28 October, Pittsburgh, abstracts Sept 13 GoGeomatics: 6-8 November, Calgary Music:  "All we live for" by WolfClub

News: Hillary hits the west coast of North America Planet completes acquisition, growing Earth Data platform PostGIS 3.4 released Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada Topic: Highlighting Geography (and geospatial) as students return to classrooms Events:  Geography 2050: 16-17 November 2023, New York City, NY 6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Mgmt Strategy Workshop: 6-10 November, Santa Fe, NM SotM 2024: 6-8 September, Nairobi, Kenya

News Voyager 2 Pinged - 37 hours round trip call Hotter Atlantic, but fewer hurricanes Report on National Data Infrastructure CNSTAT and U.S. Census Topic: Dashboards - what's next?  

Reminiscing on 18 years of the podcast.

AVSP Episode 717 July 9, 2023   News: MA Location Shield Act NavIC 9th satellite  Vietnam bans Barbie movie over map  Esri UC  

News: More BeiDou satellites launched U.S. NIST announces Ultra-Precise Timing Links to Geosynchronous Satellites Saildrones!   Web Corner:  Arctic Indigenous Peoples languages and revitalization map project released   Topic: Story, narrative, vignettes, story boarding…narrative design for geoviz https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar/storytelling   Events:  2023 NSGIC Annual Conference and first annual National Geospatial Golf Classic: September 24-29, New Orleans, LA NYGeoCon 2023: September 25-27,  Albany, NY INTERGEO 2023:  October 10th - 12th, Berlin, Germany

Topic: Our discussion on AR/VR, AI, and other topics from recent developer conferences. Microsoft Build Google I/O Apple WWDC  

News: NV5 acquires L3 Harris Viz portfolio Lidar smallsat swarm Hackers test satellite security Topic: Landscape considerations and representation

News: Virginia Norwood and earth observation Maxar to be acquired  5G constellation to support IoT CalTech releases 5.7 terapixel Mars mosaic New USGIF Scholarships for 2023 Topic: EarthDay, sustainability, and geo  

News: NRO hyperspectral contracts (planets, pixxel, hypersat) BlackSky commissions newest satellites in 18 hrs Cesium for Omniverse Topic: Interviews from NC GIS Conference OpenDataSoft TwinCity Data NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics