A VerySpatial Podcast

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 :
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:
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 :
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:
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:
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

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:

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

News :
RemoteID requirement looms Scientists debut 100 million year dynamic geological model 10th GPS III satellite complete, available for launch SV6 deemed operational Satellites threaten Radio Astronomy Antarctic sea ice extent hits a new record low Newly published study looks at navigation through the Northeast Passage U.S. Agency mapping, Environmental Justice Index (EJI) tool, and Justice40 Initiative Heritage Quest citizen science identifies 1,000s of prehistoric burial mounds using Lidar Mapbox 3D Live Navigation Ford files patent to let cars repossess themselves
Events :
The Pennsylvania GIS Conference : 10 - 12 April, State College Innovation, connected, autonomous (ICA) Summit : 15-16 May, Frankfurt GeoBusiness : 17-18 May, London

News:
Human brain’s spatial perception changes over time. BT announces creation of a drone superhighway in Southern England John Deere (in space) Artificial Intelligence model used to track beavers Senators question FCC’s new broadband map FCC space bureau Inrupt announces updates to the W3 Personal Online Data Store “Solid Pod” Osm data model study Overture map foundation

Events :
GeoNight :The international "Night of Geography" hosted by the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe (EUGEO) and The International Geographical Union (IGU), April 14th 2023. 2023 Digital Construction Week : May 17-18, London, UK. The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG ): May 28 - June 1, 2023, Orlando, FL

News:
NOAA Aurora Dashboard (Experimental) Spire Global Launches ‘Dark Shipping’ Tracking Satellites cause concerns for radio observatories FCC launches new broadband map - asks for crowdsource help
Topic:
Unexpectedly helpful or cool tools for our GIS/geography work
Events :
Satellite 2023 (SatShow), March 13 - March 16, Washington, DC Geospatial World Forum (GWF) , May 3- May 5, 2023, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS) , June 12- June 13, 2023, Québec, Canada

News:
Starlink as a location service GPS Interference in Texas Nobody Can Explain Array Labs receives round of funding for 3D imaging satellite constellation Volunteered data helps with global vegetation mapping Study of narwhal migration shows impact of climate change
Topic:
Thoughts on Geography Awareness Week
Events :
URISA LEAP : Location, Enterprise Addressing, and Public Safety Conference, Feb 7 - Feb 9, Hosted Virtually Blue Marble GeoTalks 2023 , Jan 25, 2023, Hosted Virtually 2023 6th International Conference on Geoinformatics and Data Analysis (ICGDA 2023), April 13 - 15, 2023, Marseille, France

News:
Response to report on Ligado India pushing NaVIC Study shows climate change affecting world's lakes Google Maps now includes efficient EV routes Google Maps now includes augmented reality results New US center of population Planet moving into hyperspectral New additions to Galileo FCC De-orbit rules

Events :
NEURISA Day is a conference hosted by New England URISA and will be held virtually on October 24 & 25, 2022. The theme this year is Creating Community Connections, which aims to showcase how important it is for us as a geospatial community to connect and engage. More information can be found here https://neurisa-day-2022-urisa.hub.arcgis.com/

News:
Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan passes away FTC Sues data broker for tracking location information Newly published research shows Arctic lakes are drying up Hydrosat gets Tier 1 remote sensing license for thermal imaging Esri Small Nonprofit Organization Grant Initiative Geospatial Revolution: Mapping the Pandemic nominated for regional Mid-Atlantic Emmy

Topic:
Geospatial Metaverse NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH - AI, Metaverse, and Digital Humans

Events :
Earth Science Week , October 9th - 15th International Geoethics Day , October 13th, 2022 Geography Awareness Week , November 14-19th, 2022 GIS Day , November 16th, 2022

News:
OSM turns 18 New Google Maps Functionality Critical Flaws in Chinese GPS Chip - US Government advises to stop using Xiaomi previews consumer-targeted smart glasses Storm chaser drones gathering data during hurricane season Rhine way lower than it should be (and way earlier than normal) UKHO Admiralty Maritime sunsetting paper charts after 222 years. SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with South Korea's first Moon mission
Events :
ICMSEGARS2022 : 09-10 December, New York

News:
Esri UC - personal favorites FCC Proposes new definition for broadband OGC joins metaverse standards group FTC will address exploitation of location and health data First images from James Webb Space Telescope
Topic:
This week Jesse asks questions about time in geospatial
Events :
Geography2050 : 17-18 November, New York GeoWeek 2023 : 13-15 February, Denver AAG 2023: 23-27 March, Denver

News:
Winners of the 2022 ArcGIS Online Competition for HS and MS students ArcGIS Pro 3.0 requires .net 6 Ed license now includes Drone2Map Standard QGIS 3.26 Smarty geocoding plug-in Drone data on demand service Projection trading cards
Topic:
Web GIS is Modern GIS? - teaching GIS as web-based - where are we, what are positives/negatives, etc.
Events :
geocom : 11 October, London

News:
The Great American Rail-Trail and US Bicycle Route System Google ARCore Geospatial API Google’s new camera will fit in any car NOAA Aids Largest-Ever West Coast Oyster Data Map
Topic:
How to address imposter syndrome and the value of an elevator speech
Events :
Teaching and Learning About the Anthropocene : June 21, Virtual Education Summit @ Esri UC : July 9–12, San Diego, CA Esri User Conference : July 11–15, San Diego, CA

News: Google Immersive View Google’s Scene Exploration isn’t a landscape explorer…yet Close call for Sentinel 1A USGIF: new scholarships and working group to focus on diversity
Topic:
This week we speak with Hannah Gunderman about the importance of data management for cultural geographers and qualitative data sources
Events :
HxGN LIVE Global 2022 : 20-23 June, Las Vegas CommercialUAV Expo : 6-8 Sept, Las Vegas GIS-Pro : 2-6 October, Boise, Idaho

News:
Declaration on the future of the Internet A new letter regarding Ligado A Drone caught smuggling guns
Topic:
Webmaps MiniTokyo3D WV511 Monterey aquarium FlightAware Birdcast live bird migration map Chicago Crime Map Nasa Earth at Night #Onemilliontweetmap Human Atlas The National Map NOAA C-CAP Land Cover Atlas LandsatLook U.S. Census Interactive Maps San Diego Wildfire Emergency Map Haiti Earthquake Map OSM Show Me The Way Radio Garden

News:
Trimble releases (re-releases?) Sketchup for iPad Planet’s Pelicans Storymaps.com Nature Conservancy partnership launches dynamic kelp map No More Anti-Satellite Missiles in the US Drone Blood Delivery Works in Rwanda Mapping signal interference between 5G and GPS To the moon ESA to test GNSS on the moon A KNaCK for the moon

Events :
Digital storytelling festival : May 10 - June 12, virtual State of the Map 2022 : August 19-21: Florence, Italy

News: Arctic scientists work with indigenious tribal elders study Alaska Kotzebue ice New appointments to NGAC Imagery market forecasted to continue to grow

Topic:
What is geospatial today? The constant progression of the definition, focus, and industry

Events :
8th International Conference on Cartography & GIS , Nessebar, Bulgaria 20-25 June WVAGP 2022 Conference : May 24th, Morgantown WV

News: Google's Firmina subsea cable will run from Myrtle Beach, SC to South America SpaceX Satellite Internet NOAA GOES T launching on March 1st Landsat 9 operational Nearspace 10cm available Public Labs ISS to be retired in 2030 GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released Endurance22 expedition sets to find's Shackleton's lost ship
Topic:
A few questions about this round of the Metaverse
Events :
GISPro call due March 15 Trimble Dimensions+ : Nov 7-9, Las Vegas

AVSP Episode 683

January 23, 2022

News:
Sentinel 1B issues Tonga eruption 2021 was 6th warmest year 44 superdove satellites launched ArcGIS IPS GISP-R US 5G rollout delayed around airports
Topic:
We speak to Alastair Bonnett about his 2020 mass market book, Elsewhere , which looks at the role islands play, and touch on his new academic text, Multiracism .
Events :
GEOINT 2022 Symposium GEO Business 2022

News:
NASA and ESA partner on collaborative tool and open data Unity acquiring WETA tools DJI Mavic 3 Snapchat map continues to grow Lockheed Martin contract to build GPS IIIF satellites 15, 16 and 17 (SV15-17) Trimble creates three scholarships to honor Gladys West
Topic:
Project sustainability is an ongoing issue in digital (and analog) work as accessibility, technology, and data formats change overtime. This week we discuss some issues and offer some options to begin to address these long term issues.

News:
GEOINT News: NGA plans annual reassessment of commercial remote sensing NRO issues BAA call for commercial remote sensing technologies Preview of NASA'a VIPER Lunar Rover Vautrin Lud Geography Prize goes to geographer from the National University of Singapore
Topic:
Geo certificates revisited GeoEdC Certification NatGeo Certification ASPRS Certifications GISP Certification GeoINT Certification RGS Chartered Geographer

Events :
DH2022: 25-29 July, Tokyo

News:
Greek Scientists want to name heat waves National Geographic and DeBeers partner on Okavango Eternal project NASA debuts new interactive website for Landsat 9 ahead of launch Next 3 GPS III satellites complete (sv06, 07, 08) Space Force’s Main Job - Protecting GPS
Topic:

A quick discussion on the need for resilience in our technology and systems as highlighted by some recent issues.
Events :
URISA’s LEAP conference : Feb 1-3, Virtual AAG: Feb 25- March 1, in-person & virtual

News:
Geospatial Revolution Part 5 Hexagon acquires Immersal Autodesk Tandem Esri announcements 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI) ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online SURE for ArcGIS (“Reality capture” at scale) ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall Link features to BIM documents Velocity Real time data/IoT Cloud Data Warehouses Pro Pantone colors for symbology Online like pop-ups Data Engineering (view) Data preparation Can visualize descriptive stats for each field in file Online Blending for symbology Instant Apps

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, virtual GISPro 2021 : 3-6 Oct, Baltimore, Abstracts due March 31

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 corner
HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500 ACH2021 : July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1 GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MDzoom

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

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 illustrations inside Switzerland’s official maps

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 Mapping Model

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 AAG - April 7-11, Seattle/Virtual