A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: China introduces Terry-Cotta SpaceX Dragon successfully launches manned mission and docks with ISS China launches multiple satellites, including Gaofen-9 remote sensing satellite Largest and oldest Mayan monument discovered   Topic: Kevin Ring of Cesium talks about the development of CesiumJS and the recent release of Cesium OSM Buildings   Cool Stuff: NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freed...

News: Push again Ligado decision continues Restrictions on US Satellite operators reduced PCI Geomatics rolls out Geomatica Cloud Data vs politics AAG letter to Florida   Topic: Interview with Scott Nowicki, Lead R&D Scientist for Quantum Spatial   Cool Stuff: MakePath's OS analysis tools quick guide   Events Corner: Virtual INSPIRE conference : 3-12 June FAA UAS Symposium : Ep 1 July 8-9, Ep 2 Au...

News: FAA announces 8 organizations working on Drone Remote ID FAA UAS Collegiate Training Initiative FAA establishes national spaceport office 25 years of GPS full operations 2nd GPS III satellite begins transmission US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS Trimble's WorksOS beta Esri's free COVID-19 Response Package for nonprofits and free access to Learn ArcGIS f...

Esri UC moving online Geo week events and others move to July in Chicago USGIF announces industry awards Galileo Masters 2020 Bentley opens software access Forecasts Wildfire season Hurricane season FCC votes to approve Ligado ( xyHT oped)

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Topic: A wish discussion of places we would like to go, how we can experience locations virtually, and where we would like to go back to... Indeed virtual experience commercial Botchan Karakuri Clock, Matsuyama

News: Hexagon Geospatial HXGN Content Program provides free imagery to fight COVID-19 Smartphone location and COVID-19 ArcGIS Online Grocery Store Reports - Form NASCAR Hold Virtual eRace Census has begun! - March 12th COVID-19 might mean students are undercounted Deadline delayed 2 weeks until mid August Topic: Dashboards Cool Stuff: Reddit's Imaginary Maps Events Corner: Check out these virtual...

News: ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 New FAA rule requires drones to broadcast location to Internet constantly Here geodata models - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQc-f0-v7w Coronavirus leads to drop in Chinese pollution First Survey of the Mason-Dixon Line in 40 years Vatican"s ethical AI guidelines   Topic: Privacy news https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/31/fcc-finds-one-or-more-carriers-broke-l...

News: NASA images show effects of record Antarctic temperatures Do good maps sway minds?  Apparently not :( The Met Office going big on hardware OGC adopts new version of IS3, Indexed 3D Scene Layer and Scene Layer Package Format Specification Inaccurate maps cost logistics companies $6b a year Topic: Are textbooks the best way to go in our digital world? Cool Stuff: Mini Tokyo 3D Events Corner: G...

News (00:40) Google Maps update for its 15th anniversary -  Google   OneWeb's first large batch of smallsats launches  NASA and ESA's Solar Orbiter launching Feb 9th ArcGIS Pro 2.5 Esri GIS tech poster competition at AAG Topic (19:50) Impacts of geotagging  Sharing experiences  Overtourism? Cool Stuff (49:45) Hacking a traffic Jam in Google Maps   Events Corner (52:40) Geo Connect Asia 2020 : 18-1...

News: Huawei switching to Tom Tom instead of Google maps because of US ban Increasing number of GLONASS satellites HxDR Topic: Countdown to 50th anniversary of EarthDay Cool Stuff: Satellite map Events Corner: Move2020 : 11-12 February, London 10th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition : 17-18 March, Kuala Lumpur GeoIgnite2020 : 22-24 June, Ottawa

News: CES2020 Here's 3D models help cars Concerns about satellite constellations impacting astronomy Landsat 9 sensors ready, launch at the end of 2020 Topic: Why you should understand coding and programming (even if you aren't planning to) Web Corner: Turn by turnables Events Corner: Hexagon Tour & Live   GeoWeek 2020 - ASPRS, ILMF, & MAPPS GISPro 2020    

We talk about some the items that caught our attention over the last decade. The cloud Data privacy and ethics Hardware Data creation and overload Remote Sensing data growth

New Map of Titan's Terrain   NASA and Boeing prepping Space Launch System (SLS) Google's New Content Creation Tools for Geography Presentations   Google releasing Cardboard as an open source project Google Maps to show which streets have better lighting for walkers   Google.org funds Vera to help collect data on prison populations ( Vera's page ) Apple Maps changes to Crimea in Russia   ( CIA WFB...

This week we talk about where you can go to download data, with just a few examples.   National Map Data.gov Census Bureau EarthExplorer LandsatLook viewer Sentinel remote sensing data access Natural Earth Data OpenStreetMap State data clearinghouses  MapWV ,  PASDA ,  NCOneMap City data sets –  Chicago ,  Charlotte ,  New York    

Files and data services

Catching up on news

Geovangelizing!

Conferences conversation

Catching up on some news

Talking about open-ness

Catching up on news about Galileo, chipsats, CityGML, and others.

Galileo is timeless...the importance of GNSS.

"Play" map vs official map, a question from a news story

Catching up on news and a little about a trip to Japan