A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: US Supreme Court rules that 4th Amendment includes location data National Geographic Museum of Exploration opens Explore the stars in VR ArcGIS Online June update Climate.us ECMWF releases earthkit 1.0 Mapping underground fungi that help our planet Sentinel 1A mission ends Google Earth Pro desktop end of life   Web corner MapTap  

News: DGEO at Clark SpatialSQL moves to general availability MCP expanding for geospatial   Geoscientists map continent-sized geostructure under Antarctica Russian satellites jamming GPS signals Web corner Mega geocache Topic: Digital Earth/Gaussian Splats  Apple releases 3D Gaussian Splats   NYT R&D Guide to Gaussian Splats Events: 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ,...

News : Upcoming unmanned NASA moon missions in 2026 Spexi and Niantic Spatial deliver a drone-to-3D pipeline Long Island Sound Lawn Fertilizer Pollution Tool  Web corner UK Geography New National Curriculum Change Topic : Thoughts on The GIS Industry Has Already Split in Two Events : Commercial UAV Expo : 1-3 September, Las Vegas CaGIS Conference - 8-11 September, St. Louis NACIS : 21-24 October,...

News: Grass 8.5.0 2026 Canadian Census Soundtrack  VertiGIS Acquires 1Spatial FME Flow and MCP Web corner Historica AI Interactive Map   Topic: Amy Rock of the UCGIS @ AAG   Events: Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) : 21 - 23 September, London,UK, and online 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) - 22--25 September, York     Music:  Those Days Were Ours by...

News : Sketchup, meet Claude ESA's Celeste in-orbit demonstrator transmits first signal The Map Shop Australia closing Web corner : https://paleolatitude.org/ Topic : Pix4D @ AAG Events : Commercial UAV Expo : 1-3 September, Las Vegas S+SNZ Conference 2026 : 9-11 September, Auckland, NZ UAS Summit & Expo : 13-14 October, Grand Forks, ND

News: Artemis II Web corner National Council for Geographic Education GeoCircle Virtual Meetups Topic: Angel Lee, Director of Education Solutions at Esri   Events: GISPro : October 12-15, Milwaukee NCGE Annual Conference : October 16 - 18, Richmond, Virginia 81st SEDAAG Annual Meeting : 22 - 23 November, Tuscaloosa - Call for papers/posters. Music: UKE Like It by  Brady Grey  

News: Spatial computing grows as an investment trend Satellites confirm old sailor myth Web corner Financial Times (FT) Magazine special feature on mapping a changing world Topic: AAG interview, Mike from BayGeo Events: WV GeoCon : 1-3 June, Morgantown Music: Way It Feels by  Alt Bloom

News : QGIS 4.0 Norrköping release Google Maps and Gemini ADA Web & Mobile Rule countdown CMU uses Sleep Cycle data to detect outbreaks Web corner: ESRI 3D interactive Dance of Continents   Topic : https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/ https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/03/02/when-geospatial-is-consumed-at-ai-scale/ Events : Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop : 14-16 April...

News : Google Maps Granted Access to South Korea's Map Data ESA to launch Celeste LEO-PNT on March 24 A Farewell to ArcMap ArcGIS Online Feb '26 updates Texas A&M and NSF NCAR release MESACLIP Earth System Dataset AMS responds to potential NSF NCAR closure Bilawal Sidhu's WorldView Web corner:  NYC Layers of the Past Cartographic Project   Topic : Terrestrial mapping at GeoWeek Esri and Pix4D Topc...

News : China rolls out satellite short messages NV5 releases GeoAgent Common Space  How GPS Shaped the World book bought by HarperNonFiction Web corner: Navigate National Geographic MapMaker with a game Controller Topic : Contemplating conferences Music: Time Remembered by  Jane's Party  

News: Dr. Gladys West passes at 95 Ninth GPS III successfully launched Space Force cancels Resilient GPS project TikTok (US) TOS include detailed location data Project Genie (only available to Ultra subscribers) Web corner City as a Living Laboratory (CALL) Topic: 2026 thoughts on location based services Events: 2026 International Conference on Geography and Travel (ICGT) April 1, Pune, India Geog...

News: US withdraws from everything .. Ohio uses Waze for snowplowing  UVA uses imagery and AI to map ghost trees Web corner Lost At Night georeference Earth's lights  Topic: CES 2026 Events: AAG Annual Meeting node 17 - 21 March, watch party call for participants  QGIS user conference : 5-6 October, Laax, Switzerland    Music: My Hide and Seek by Vian Izak

News: FCC bans drones produced abroad Mattel releases Barbie doll honoring astronaut and imagery analyst, Dr. Ellen Ochoa Topic: The annual annual review and prognostications   Events: Digital Cultural Heritage in the Era of AI and Extended Reality : 26 May, Cyprus NEH 250 Years of Teaching With Maps Summer Institute , 13-31 July, 2026, Chicago, IL Due March 6 Music: "Are you with me" by Josh Quat

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Topic : Alli Crandell, Director of The Athenaeum Press and Digital Initiatives Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University Cross over episode with Recreat.us  Podcast  

  News: Gemini is Google Maps MapGuide Open Source 4.0 GISCI recertification grace period New Emlid models   Sentinel 1D Web corner # 30DayMapChallenge Topic: Geography Awareness Week Making Spaces of Possibility https://www.aag.org/geography-awareness-week-2025/ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/242619483f124ee2b10848e9ddb49782 https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/celebrate-geogra...

News : Grounding with Google Maps Geospatial Reasoning and Gemini in Google Earth Google AR/ Galaxy XR Meta Ray-Ban Display Meta's Wearables Device Access toolkit announced Amazon AR for delivery drivers   Web corner: The Leventhal Center's Atlasscope Map Tool   Events : GeoAI 2026 : 3-5 June, Ghent city center, Belgium CFP due 20 January The 2026 International Conference on Geographical Informati...

News: 2026 Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV World Championship Open Web corner Mapping the Past: The Welsh LiDAR Portal   Topic : Unique GIS Jobs (From reddit ) I'm a geography major with a concentration in GIS and I've done some digging through jobs but what are some unique GIS related jobs? What companies that you wouldn't think have a GIS person have them? Events: AAG : 17-21 Mar...

News: First images from NISAR, joint NASA-ISRO SAR mission Niantic spatial creates geospatial Death Stranding game Earthmover climate startup focuses on weather data Web corner: Maps Learning Hub Topic: Geography as an interdisciplinary binding agent   Events: CalGIS 2026 , January 20-23, Redlands, CA, call for papers GISSuRF 2026 , January 30-31, Andhra Pradesh, India, call for papers 2026 GIS/Va...

News: International Geomagnetic Reference Field Explorer Updated Researchers use AI machine learning to uncover hidden earthquakes Web corner McAtlas - McAtlas.com Topic : This week we return to a discussion on worldbuilding this time focusing more on games that allow for worldbuilding. Music:  Who Put That Ceiling There by niko  

News: New U.S. Cooperative National Geologic Map for the Nation CREAM AI developed to address satellite space debris   Study Analyzes National Geography Curriculum across countries Web corner Esri World Sizes App Topic: Geography and AI Music: "Why Do I Cry" By  Vian Izak

Topic: WorldPop interview with Professor Andrew Tatem and Heather Chamberlain. News: Gaussian Splats in gltf Draft Part 108 Natural language searches in map apps OSM vector tiles Instagram Map AlphaEarth Web corner Allen Carroll's new book Events: State of the Map : 3-5 Oct, Manila - call for posters  Geoweek 2026 : 16-18 Feb, Denver  

This week Sue, Jesse, and Frank have a conversation about Geography, disciplines, where we are, and where we were. Music: Imaginary by Oceanne

Topic: This week we spoke with Willow Ross and Eden Kinkaid of the GeoZone Collective about 'zines and how they can give voice to geographers. https://geoz.one/ House Keeping: 20 years of avsp Music: Windowseat by  Zion Isaiah  

News Storymaps.com deprecation AGO update   Google Earth gets historical streetview MethaneSat likely lost First images from the Biomass satellite TEMPO mission extended Eagleview One platform release Web corner pntportal.eu Topic: Esri UC Music: Feel You Here by Melissa Polinar