A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 228

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: GeoConnect Asia moves to 2021 Esri Developer Summit: 10-13 March, Palm Springs, CA Applied Geography Conference: 18-20 October, Baltimore, MD 2020 Dimensions User Conf: 2-4 November, Nashville

23 Feb 202044min

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: 18-19 March, Singapore  MidAmerica GIS Symposium: 20-23 April, Omaha Small Sat Conference: 27-28 April, London Geoint Symposium 2020: 26-29 April, Tampa

9 Feb 202053min

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

28 Jan 202027min

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

14 Jan 202044min

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

31 Dec 201951min

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 Ukraine) New high-resolution imagery API from Near Space Labs  Radiant Earth Foundation releases Radiant MLHub for open access to Earth Observation training data sets  Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon USDOI grounds drone fleet FAA moving forward to meet recreational UAS pilot test requirement from last falls reauthorization bill Utah Congressman announces House GIS Working Group  Global Flood Monitor Say goodbye to the Foot… the Survey Foot  Census Using Online Collection For First Time in 2020

16 Dec 201958min

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

1 Dec 201954min

Files and data services

30 Okt 201940min