A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: Geospatial Revolution Episode 5 trailer Cesium for Unreal Verizon RTK Google Earth releases upgraded Timelapse with Landsat imagery Carbon Mapper Topic:   EarthDay everyday    

References for this week's episode: Mapping vaccine distribution (from January) Prospect & Refuge FAA updates Mars helicopter Evergreen

Topic: A conversation spurred by (shiver) a Facebook post. We talk about how we look at tutorials and training and their place in learning GIS (or, really, anything these days).   Events corner 2021 Korea Geospatial Information Roadshow : March 22-26, Virtual State of the Map 2021 : July 9-11, online. Call open for talks, workshops, (April 4) and panels (June 6)

News: Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas Congressional push for timing backup for GIS Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair Topic: Anthony Calamito of Enview

News: Perseverance ! India launches Amazonia 1 satellite for Brazil Canon built a smallsat for advertising (and research)  Atlas of the Human Planet iOS beta gets crowdsourced info QGIS 3,18 released ArcGIS platform GeoWeek 2022 Advisory board Next step in (counter)Ligado stuff Cool Stuff http://radio.garden/ Events corner NCGIS 2021 presentations up on YouTube soon ASPRS 2021 : March 29-April 2,...

News: New NOAA Drought website New Sentinel-based long-term global fire dataset Tilt brush going open Microsoft releases Sustainability City in Minecraft Amnesty International will create maps of facial recognition cameras GISCI Map Contest   Topic: News and discussing visual media

AVSP Episode 659 January 24, 2021 News: Saudi Arabia proposes linear city HERE launches Premier 3D Cities Esri Canada's 3D cities model resources Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism Successful launch and deployment for NASA's ELaNa mission CubeSats SpaceX Transporter-1 Topic: Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective   Events corne...

AVSP Episode 658 January 10, 2021 News: EU announces Destination Earth FAA announces RemoteID plans USGIF academic consortium URISA Coalition of Young Professionals Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing javascript

News: MapBox moves to 3D and changes license Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration   Digital Coast Act signed into law Topic: Reality capture? Terrestrial lidar Drone photogrammetry  Reality capture in our/your pocket Scale shift? Events GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November

News: Here WeGo Deliver Introduction of ArcGIS Field Maps leads to deprecation countdown for existing Esri apps Esri buys Turkish software firm Zibumi for 3D viz   Topic: Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

House Keeping: Map Projections for Babies Kickstarter News: Google tests letting users add Street View images with their phones Google's Tree Canopy Project OpenStreetMap commercialization NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalists Sentinel 6 launch   Topic: We briefly talk about our favorite geographies...which means many things unto itself. Cool Stuff: https://reearth.io

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford . You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week

News: iPhone 12 Pro (and iPad Pro) w/ lidar James Fee Ed Parsons xyht http://3dscannerapp.com and updated this week Partikle Landsat 8 hiccup India launches EOS-1 satellite    US Postal Service wants to monetize its mapping data Mapbox Election Mapping Challenge extended until Nov. 30th   Topic: TravelTime interview Cool Stuff: ESRI Accessible Basemaps

News: ArcMap (10.8) End of Life outlined Esri releases beta ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity and Unreal Engine Drones in the supply chain Hivemapper studio Microsoft releases building footprints for Australia Topic: This week we riff on the title of a recent AAG seminar to discuss how Geography relates to closely related fields … "encroachment or opportunity" Cool Stuff: Cartographers have been hiding il...

News: Facebook's Project Aria - mapping your entire life Augmented Reality - Geology's 'killer app'....? Amazon's 'Virtual Tours' Oct 4th - Sputnik anniversary World Space Week Oct. 4-10th - Satellites are the Theme -  Cool Stuff: Zuni Map - Counter-mapping place

Last chance to respond to U.S. Census Weather NOAA Turns 50! Fastest run to greek letters for Atlantic Tropical Storms Western US Wildfires La Nina Sentinel 6 launch planned for November Startup Satellite Vu looking to add thermal to commercial remote sensing 2020 StoryMaps Competition Esri signs MoU with UN-Habitat Esri acquires nFrames HP Rolls out new DesignJet printers WV Messes with Harvard M...

This week we continue our conversation about how visualization can help to convey information and how state and school systems may (or may not) be using visualization tools for varying purposes in our current time of uncertainty. The conversation began in the previous part of the episode.

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing.  Amazon gets ok to test drone delivery Parrot gets Army contract AI and ML in geospatial Examples from conversation WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map WVDHHR Dashboard

We start with a general chat, but we do mention the White Houses Science Office's question of what should they do to protect GPS, and changing perspectives about Google Maps.

News: WoldView Legion launching in 2021 Garmin hit by Ransomware NSRS modernization delayed Congressional opposition to Ligado continues to grow through letters to FCC MyGalileoDrone competition announced Mars Perseverance launch Cool Stuff: GRASS GIS turns 37 and gets a new look on the web Events Corner: NearMap Navig8 - available Indiana Geographic Information Council - Sept 29-Oct 1, Virtual AA...

This week we look back about on our 15 year history and, in celebration of Comic Con week, talk about pop culture.  

News: UC and other news ArcGIS Pro 2.6 coming "soon" with some key upgrades Voxels Kubernetes Experience builder MapViewer beta Topic: Do we think virtual conference options will remain in the 'post' COVID-19 world Cool Stuff: QGIS US Virtual meeting July 17, 24, 31

News: 15th anniversary for Google Map API UK wants to unlock the power of location China launches last BeiDou satellite Five years for Sentinel 2-A Depth API now available for Google's ARCore Apple's Nearby Interactions Oculus Go discontinued Say goodbye to the Segway PT too   Topic: URISA issues statement concerning Code of Ethics in Florida GIS case

Sue & Jesse speak with Brendan Collins and Pablo Fuentes about MakePath, their open source xarray-spatial raster analysis tools, their use of open source for geospatial, and an example application where they modeled pharmacy deserts .