A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 280

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

24 Apr 46min

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

10 Apr 21min

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

28 Mar 23min

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

7 Mar 45min

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

22 Feb 44min

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

6 Feb 41min

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

20 Jan 36min

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

19 Des 202436min