A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 661

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

1 Dec 202055min

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

18 Nov 202015min

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week

16 Nov 202021min

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

10 Nov 202051min

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

27 Okt 20201h 8min

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

7 Okt 202043min

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

27 Sep 202038min

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.

13 Sep 202034min