A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

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A Podcast of Geography and geospatial technologies

Episodes

A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 776
Jan 09, 2026

News:

FCC bans drones produced abroad Mattel releases Barbie doll honoring astronaut and imagery analyst, Dr. Ellen Ochoa

Topic:

The annual annual review and prognostications

 

Events:

Digital Cultural Heritage in the Era of AI and Extended Reality: 26 May, Cyprus NEH 250 Years of Teaching With Maps Summer Institute, 13-31 July, 2026, Chicago, IL Due March 6


Music: "Are you with me" by Josh Quat

Duration: 00:43:19
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 775
Dec 14, 2025

Topic: Gifts for your computer  Hardware, software, services, knowledge… 

Duration: 00:41:54
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 774
Dec 06, 2025

Topic:

Alli Crandell, Director of The Athenaeum Press and Digital Initiatives Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University Cross over episode with Recreat.us Podcast

 

Duration: 00:29:32
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 773
Nov 16, 2025

 

News:

Gemini is Google Maps MapGuide Open Source 4.0 GISCI recertification grace period New Emlid models  Sentinel 1D

Web corner

#30DayMapChallenge

Topic:

Geography Awareness Week Making Spaces of Possibility https://www.aag.org/geography-awareness-week-2025/ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/242619483f124ee2b10848e9ddb49782 https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/celebrate-geography-awareness-week/ https://www.gisday.com/en-us/overview  

Events:

GeoWeek: Feb 16-18, Denver

 

Music: A Place Called Home by Justin Morgan

 

Duration: 00:39:09
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 772
Nov 02, 2025

News:

Grounding with Google Maps Geospatial Reasoning and Gemini in Google Earth Google AR/Galaxy XR Meta Ray-Ban Display Meta's Wearables Device Access toolkit announced Amazon AR for delivery drivers

 

Web corner:

The Leventhal Center's Atlasscope Map Tool

 

Events:

GeoAI 2026: 3-5 June, Ghent city center, Belgium CFP due 20 January The 2026 International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM): 21-23 May, Benidorm, Spain  CFP  due 5 January The 2026 GIS-in-Central-Asia (GISCA) conference: 28-30 May, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Duration: 00:37:18
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 771
Oct 15, 2025

News:

2026 Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV World Championship Open

Web corner

Mapping the Past: The Welsh LiDAR Portal 

Topic:

Unique GIS Jobs (From reddit)

I'm a geography major with a concentration in GIS and I've done some digging through jobs but what are some unique GIS related jobs? What companies that you wouldn't think have a GIS person have them?

Events:

AAG: 17-21 March, San Francisco - Abstracts due October 30 PA G...

Duration: 00:34:02
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 770
Oct 02, 2025

News:

First images from NISAR, joint NASA-ISRO SAR mission Niantic spatial creates geospatial Death Stranding game Earthmover climate startup focuses on weather data

Web corner:

Maps Learning Hub

Topic:

Geography as an interdisciplinary binding agent

 

Events:

CalGIS 2026, January 20-23, Redlands, CA, call for papers GISSuRF 2026, January 30-31, Andhra Pradesh, India, call for papers 2026 GIS/Valuation Technologies Conference, March 30 – April 2, Mobile, Alabama, call for papers

Duration: 00:41:07
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 769
Sep 19, 2025

News:

International Geomagnetic Reference Field Explorer Updated Researchers use AI machine learning to uncover hidden earthquakes

Web corner

McAtlas - McAtlas.com

Topic:

This week we return to a discussion on worldbuilding this time focusing more on games that allow for worldbuilding.

Music: Who Put That Ceiling There by niko

 

Duration: 00:29:07
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 768
Sep 04, 2025

News:

New U.S. Cooperative National Geologic Map for the Nation CREAM AI developed to address satellite space debris  Study Analyzes National Geography Curriculum across countries

Web corner

Esri World Sizes App

Topic:

Geography and AI

Music: "Why Do I Cry" By Vian Izak

Duration: 00:53:30
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 767
Aug 20, 2025

Topic:

WorldPop interview with Professor Andrew Tatem and Heather Chamberlain.

News:

Gaussian Splats in gltf Draft Part 108 Natural language searches in map apps OSM vector tiles Instagram Map AlphaEarth

Web corner

Allen Carroll's new book

Events:

State of the Map: 3-5 Oct, Manila - call for posters  Geoweek 2026: 16-18 Feb, Denver

 

Duration: 00:57:43
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 766
Aug 09, 2025

This week Sue, Jesse, and Frank have a conversation about Geography, disciplines, where we are, and where we were.

Music: Imaginary by Oceanne

Duration: 00:41:47
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 765
Jul 24, 2025

Topic:

This week we spoke with Willow Ross and Eden Kinkaid of the GeoZone Collective about 'zines and how they can give voice to geographers. https://geoz.one/

House Keeping:

20 years of avsp

Music: Windowseat by Zion Isaiah

 

Duration: 00:58:05
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 764
Jul 11, 2025

News

Storymaps.com deprecation AGO update  Google Earth gets historical streetview MethaneSat likely lost First images from the Biomass satellite TEMPO mission extended Eagleview One platform release

Web corner

pntportal.eu

Topic:

Esri UC

Music: Feel You Here by Melissa Polinar

Duration: 00:45:45
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 763
Jun 27, 2025

News:

sUAS related Executive Orders Google Maps updates help you get around more sustainably (in Europe) Climate Station launches on Sony Playstation 5

 

Web corner:

Science Homecoming Interactive Map

Topic:

Jesse talks to Zach Jaffe of Map I.T. about the services they provide, the impact of the tight coupling of AEC and GIS software for BIM, reality capture, and ArcGIS Indoors.

Events:

State of the Map 2025: Oct 3-5, Manilla Spatial Data Science Conference (SDSC25): Oct 14-15, New York City 

Music: Garden Hose by Drew Elliot

Duration: 00:38:56
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 762
Jun 12, 2025

News:

Some climate data returning Impacts to NSRS GISP-E Certified Professionals  The Action Plan for GeoSkills survey

 

Topic:

Constructed landscapes DisneySea Sanrio Puroland Edo-Tokyo Open Air Museum World Expo 2025, Osaka  etc

 

Music: We're Super Sonic by Lola Buzz

 

Duration: 00:53:12
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 761
May 28, 2025

News:

GeoWoodstock XXI (GCANXX1) 25th anniversary of geocaching  The Pew Research Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Interactive Map NGA announces the Year of NGA-AI   St. Louis geospatial industry responds to tornados Missouri S&T to offer first U.S. master's degree in geospatial engineering Status of Remote Sensing and the Utilities Industry  Land subsidence study on risk to U.S. infrastructure OGC Introduces MUDDI for Undersea Cables  National Trust UK exceeds conservation targets  First AI-generated map of Britain's peatlands OpenStreetMap used to make better video games The QGIS Project Paper  Talbot Historical Society New Online Database  Geospatial Council of Australi...

Duration: 00:44:58
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 760
May 17, 2025

News:

David Attenborough's 99th birthday New spectral bands for Landsat Next Mexico sues Google Lunar positioning system NSF at 75

 

Web corner

NSF STEM Day Facilities Coloring Book 

 

Music: "Garden Groove" by AFAUN

 

Duration: 00:24:21
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 759
Apr 24, 2025

 

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

Duration: 00:46:21
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 758
Apr 10, 2025

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

Duration: 00:21:19
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 757
Mar 28, 2025

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

Duration: 00:23:07
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 756
Mar 07, 2025

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

 

Duration: 00:45:33
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 755
Feb 22, 2025

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

Duration: 00:44:12
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 754
Feb 06, 2025

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

 

Duration: 00:41:12
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 753
Jan 20, 2025

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

 

Duration: 00:36:47
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 752
Dec 19, 2024

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

Duration: 00:36:43
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 751
Dec 05, 2024

News:

Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022) Foursquare open source places Niantic's LGM goal Google Location History 

WebCorner:

URHere Podcast from 2021

 

Duration: 00:34:32
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 750
Nov 19, 2024

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

 

Duration: 00:45:28
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 749
Nov 08, 2024

News:

Gemini coming to Google's mapping apps (from Google) Unity 6 Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product Windows 10 security for $30 GISP accredited by CESB

Events:

International GNSS Day: Oct 23 annually

 

Duration: 00:29:28
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 748
Oct 19, 2024

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

Duration: 00:45:21
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 747
Oct 02, 2024

News:

Zillow adds climate risk data Interagency sea-level rise  Geospatial Analytics market growth InterGEO sees several new sensor and GNSS launches

Topic:

Discussing government data use for planning and emergency events

Music: Sky Groovin by Akolo

Duration: 00:35:57
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 746
Sep 22, 2024

News:

New Galileo Satellites declared operational

Web Corner: 

2024 Fall Foliage Map and U.S. Prediction 

Topic:

This week Jesse talks to Nat Case and Dan Coe about Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design which continues the series. Volume 7 is available now for preorder and will begin shipping in October.

Music sundays by Mad Keys

Duration: 00:40:23
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 745
Sep 12, 2024

Duration: 00:37:40
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 744
Aug 22, 2024

News:

Geofence warrants  Overture Maps general availability and alpha addresses BVLOS drone rules are coming Mapping a News Desert in Maryland

Topic:

Relevance of 20 years of OpenStreetMap

 

Events:

EuroCarto 2024, September 9 -11, Vienna, Austria GIS in the Rockies 2024, September 26, Denver


Music: I've Given It Up by NITE

Duration: 00:43:48
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 743
Aug 09, 2024

Topic:

This week we discuss our thoughts on Geography as we get ready for the fall semester, plus talk about the idea of micro credentials Video referenced by Frank - Why Is Edinburgh Split in Two?

Event Corner:

GIS-Pro, Oct 7-10, Portland, ME NACIS2024, Oct. 16–19, Tacoma

Duration: 00:40:46
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 742
Jul 24, 2024

Topic:

This week we sit down on our 19th Anniversary to talk with Bern Szukalski of Esri about his time in the industry and the growth of connected and cloud based geospatial technologies.

 

Duration: 00:48:39
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 741
Jul 19, 2024

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.

Duration: 00:55:16
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 740
Jul 05, 2024

News:

Bentley e-on software now free with perpetual license  GOES-U satellite launched  CogniSat6 - AI-driven remote sensing ShakeAlert Earthquake System adds GPS Sensors  AGO June 2024 ArcGIS Web Editor UAS proposed legislation  Counter Uas FAA reauthorization DJI ban Library of Congress Cartographic Fellowship 


Music:

40 Hours On The Road by Adriel Rivera

 

Duration: 00:45:35
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 739
Jun 22, 2024

News:

Back-up your Google Location History while you can Google Maps updates Apple Maps updates  USGIF accredits programs at South Dakota State University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign WingtraCloud for uas mapping 

Topic:

A discussion of our 'duct tape', or the way we link applications to get results

 

Duration: 00:49:55
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 738
May 23, 2024

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 abst...

Duration: 00:44:09
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 737
May 07, 2024

News:

FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality White House/OMB AI guidelines  UNESCO names 18 new Geoparks The impacts of open edit Overture Maps beta

Topic:

Metageography 

Events:

State of the Map US: 6-8 June, Salt Lake City International geographical congress 2024: 24-30 August, Dublin

This week's song is "Idaho" by Arbour Season

 

Duration: 00:46:03
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 736
May 01, 2024

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

Duration: 00:26:33
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 735
Apr 10, 2024

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

Duration: 00:35:21
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 734
Apr 01, 2024

News:

FCC ups limits to be called 'broadband' Google used AI to model flooding Voyager 1 responds to "poke"

Topic:

This week we discuss the importance of citizen science on the eve of Citizen Science Month and touch a bit on this year's quickly approaching EarthDay.

Duration: 00:31:00
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 733
Mar 15, 2024

News:

NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure Methane tracking satellite  NGA expands commercial acquisitions with 'Luno' NGA opens NGOC NSGIC states geospatial maturity assessment 

Events: 

Geospatial World Forum (GWF): 13-16 May, Rotterdam ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium: 11-14 June. Las Vegas NACIS: 16-19 Oct, Tacoma



Duration: 00:39:12
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 732
Mar 01, 2024

News:

Moon landing

Korea's KASS operational

US DOJ moves to dismiss Ligado case

Esri to roll out AI Assistants in 2024

 

Topic:

Are our perspectives (on tech) changing as we progress through our careers?  

 

Duration: 00:43:06
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 731
Feb 14, 2024

News:

OSM as digital public good

Google Maps incorporating generative AI

 

Topic:

Why is the GIS Industry resistant to technological change?

 

Events: 

World LiDAR Day: 12 Feb

Geo Business: 5-6 June, London 

GIS Pro: 7-10 Oct, Portland, Mn

Duration: 00:45:02
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 730
Jan 30, 2024

News:

NAPGD 2022-submit GNSS or leveling data

Techtree launches AROUND

NSA in data purchase news

Real impacts of mobile map attribute errors

Mars helicopter Ingenuity mission ends

Japan's lunar lander

 

Events: 

4S (Small Satellites, Systems, Services) Symposium: 27-31 May, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

 

Duration: 00:24:38
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 729
Jan 02, 2024

Our annual conversation looking back on 2023 and forward to 2024.

Duration: 00:35:27
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 728
Dec 23, 2023

News:

EU AI Act passes

University students build first Irish satellite to launch into space

ISS at 25

 

Topic:

50, 45, 30 years of GPS

 

Events: 

GeoWeek 2024: 11-13 February, Denver

RGS-IBG 2024: 27-30 August, Dublin

GIS Pro 2024: 7-10 Oct, Portland, Maine

Duration: 00:41:02
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 727
Dec 02, 2023

News:

Google updates Maps USDA updates Plant Hardiness Zone map SkyTruth updates features

Topic:

Interview with Egyptologists Laura Ranieri Roy and Francois Roy of Ancient Egypt Alive and the new Secrets of Egypt Revealed podcast.    

Events: 

Replaying Japan: August 19-21, Buffalo and Rochester IGC2024: 24-30 August, Dublin, Abstracts due by 12 January

Duration: 00:49:33
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 726
Nov 16, 2023

News:

Drone Data access continues to grow

Dakota Landmap Art on tour

QGIS 3.34 released

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 released

OSM gets a $150k donation from Microsoft 

 

Topic:

"Place" and its place

 

Events: 

Geo Business 2024: 5-6 June, London, call for speakers closes in February

Duration: 00:46:56
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 725
Nov 04, 2023

Geography Awareness Week, Day of Geography, and GIS Day are just around the corner!

American Association of Geographers GAW National Geographic GAW GIS Day Day of Geography (page down as of posting)

And for all of the other days, here is Sanborn's list of national Geography-related holidays!

Duration: 00:32:12
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 724
Oct 26, 2023

News:

UK PNT Plan

Landsat STELLAs program

New NSF grant focused on GRASS GIS 

New Esri MOOC - GIS for Climate Action starts Oct. 25th

 

Topic:

Geospatial annoyances...

Duration: 00:49:55
Spatial Conversations - Daniel Huffman on the Map Projection Cards Kickstarter
Oct 22, 2023

The audio from a recent episode of VSTV where Jesse talks to Daniel Huffman about the Map Projection Cards Kickstarter which ends in October, 2023.

Duration: 00:11:42
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 723
Oct 05, 2023

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...

Duration: 00:40:58
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 722
Sep 21, 2023

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

Duration: 00:41:46
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 721
Sep 07, 2023

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

Duration: 00:40:23
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 720
Aug 23, 2023

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

Duration: 00:31:15
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 719
Aug 11, 2023

News

Voyager 2 Pinged - 37 hours round trip call Hotter Atlantic, but fewer hurricanes Report on National Data Infrastructure CNSTAT and U.S. Census

Topic:

Dashboards - what's next?

 

Duration: 00:49:52
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 718
Jul 24, 2023

Reminiscing on 18 years of the podcast.

Duration: 00:48:51
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 717
Jul 17, 2023

AVSP Episode 717

July 9, 2023

 

News:

MA Location Shield Act

NavIC 9th satellite 

Vietnam bans Barbie movie over map 

Esri UC

 

Duration: 00:43:52
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 716
Jun 26, 2023

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, Berli...

Duration: 00:48:25
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 715
Jun 15, 2023

Topic:

Our discussion on AR/VR, AI, and other topics from recent developer conferences.

Microsoft Build

Google I/O

Apple WWDC

 

Duration: 00:46:47
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 714
May 17, 2023

News:

NV5 acquires L3 Harris Viz portfolio Lidar smallsat swarm Hackers test satellite security

Topic:

Landscape considerations and representation

Duration: 00:48:19
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 713
Apr 28, 2023

News:

Virginia Norwood and earth observation

Maxar to be acquired 

5G constellation to support IoT

CalTech releases 5.7 terapixel Mars mosaic

New USGIF Scholarships for 2023

Topic:

EarthDay, sustainability, and geo

 

Duration: 00:48:33
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 712
Apr 06, 2023

News:

NRO hyperspectral contracts (planets, pixxel, hypersat)

BlackSky commissions newest satellites in 18 hrs

Cesium for Omniverse

Topic: Interviews from NC GIS Conference

OpenDataSoft

TwinCity Data

NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics

 

 

Duration: 00:27:48
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 711
Mar 23, 2023

Duration: 00:31:56
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 710
Mar 10, 2023

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...

Duration: 00:47:47
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 709
Feb 25, 2023

News:

National Geographic Photos for 2022 Pew AI study Bing/ChatGPT Google/Bard IE being deleted ArcGIS Reality

Topic:

A discussion of data types

Events: 

WVAGP: 9-10 May, Lansing, WV

Duration: 00:43:34
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 708
Feb 08, 2023

News:

topoBuilder and OnDemand Topo Maps officially part of the National Map NISAR to launch in 2024 QGIS call for crowd funding OGC Geo for Metaverse working group GRASS GIS 8.2.1

 Topic:

Microsoft Places as modern geography?

 Events: 

GIS Pro: 16-19 Oct, Columbus, OH - Abstract dates coming soon NCGE: 27-29 Oct, Columbia, SC - Abstracts due April 1

 

Duration: 00:42:24
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 707
Jan 19, 2023

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 Internat

Duration: 00:42:18
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 706
Jan 07, 2023

Year in review: This week we discuss some of the trends and highlights that we remember from 2022.

Duration: 01:00:03
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 705
Dec 28, 2022

Topic:

This week we answer some questions about our conference experiences and planning. With the changes in conferences and the continuous additions of folks coming into the field, it is always an evolving process.

Events: 

PlaceGames...coming eventually

Duration: 00:51:56
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 704
Dec 01, 2022

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

Duration: 00:49:21
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 703
Nov 14, 2022

Topic:

Thoughts on "GIS and Society" as we approach the 30th anniversary of the Friday Harbor meetings 

Events: 

Digital Geospatial Intelligence for National Security (DGI) Conference, February 27 - March 01, 2023, London UK Esri Developer Summit, March 7 - March 10 2023, Palm Springs CA GeoBuiz Summit, March 6 - March 8 2023, Monterey CA 

Duration: 00:41:53
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 702
Nov 04, 2022

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

Duration: 00:28:59
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 701
Oct 17, 2022

This week we sit down with Elvin Slavik (Director of Esri R&D Center, Australia) to catch-up and talk about some general thoughts on technology. 

Duration: 00:43:40
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 700
Oct 04, 2022

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 fou...

Duration: 00:40:10
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 699
Sep 08, 2022

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

Duration: 00:44:33
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 698
Aug 23, 2022

News:

Landsat 9 hand-off Google fined in Australia  New USGS Director sworn in  Artemis 1 going to the moon on Aug. 29th 

 

Topic:

Geographic connections for back to school season

 

Events:

ICPARS2022 International Conference on Precision Agriculture and Remote Sensing: 20-21 September, Toronto CA RGS-IBG2022: 30 August to 2 September, Newcastle UK and online

Duration: 00:35:05
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 697
Aug 10, 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

Duration: 00:32:03
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 696
Jul 24, 2022

A look back at Landsat's 50 years on our 17th anniversary episode.

Duration: 00:31:00
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 695
Jul 21, 2022

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

Duration: 00:48:34
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 694
Jul 06, 2022

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

Duration: 00:48:22
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 693
Jun 24, 2022

News:

Xona testing GPS alternative demo satellite UK looking at PNT options Google's "Dynamic World" app Google Maps add Air Quality Index on iOS and Android Apple Maps expanding Airbus expanding data access through OneAtlas GeoTech Center updating GTCM, get involved BRICS countries developing data sharing satellite system

Duration: 00:23:20
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 692
Jun 09, 2022

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

Duration: 00:49:43
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 691
May 26, 2022

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



Duration: 00:45:05
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 690
May 12, 2022

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 Earthqu

Duration: 00:38:06
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 689
Apr 28, 2022

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

Duration: 00:28:34
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 688
Apr 07, 2022

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

Duration: 00:42:45
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 687
Mar 31, 2022

News: GPS on Benchmarks program Yellowstone thermal vents mapped Newberry's Crossings exhibit

 

Topic:

Unexpected challenges in working with GIS

 

Duration: 00:43:06
A VerySpatial Podcas -_Episode 686
Mar 11, 2022

News:

MWC GISCI Endorsement Designation Program NGA developing commercial imagery buying guide Goes-t Launch USGS Releases topoBuilder Tool for Custom Topographic Maps New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps. mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps. Concerns about Russia targeting GPS, Communications  Hawkeye 360 Premise

 

Duration: 00:43:50
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 685
Feb 24, 2022

News:

SpaceX loses several satellites  Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia  GISCI announces June exam date

Topic:

Isaac Brodsky, fourSquare talks about Unfolded's hex tiles Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai

Events: 

GeoIgnite 22: 1-3 March, virtual Citizen Science Conference, 23-26 May, hybrid

Duration: 00:33:41
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 684
Feb 10, 2022

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

Duration: 00:45:36
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 683
Jan 30, 2022

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

Duration: 00:55:25
Spatial Conversations - Interview about GeoEdC
Jan 22, 2022

This week Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst, Associate Director of the GeoTech Center about the Geospatial Education Certificate (GeoEdC). 

Duration: 00:21:55
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 682
Jan 10, 2022

News:

CES2022 overview

Topic:

 

Frank and Barb sit down with Rebecca Theobald for the second part of our recent series of discussions on redistricting. 

 

 Events: 

HxGN Live Global: 20-23 June, Las Vegas Commercial UAV Expo: 6-8 September, Las Vegas

Duration: 00:49:36
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 681
Dec 28, 2021

News:

NOAA approves sell of 10cm data Geospatial Maturity Assessment report

Topic:

What is "your Geography"? What is your 'take on', 'approach to', path to "here" etc

Events: 

GIS Pro 2022: 3-6 Oct, Boise

Duration: 00:40:11
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 680
Dec 15, 2021

Housekeeping:

We will be receiving an AAG Media Achievement Award

Topic:

This week we talk to Dr. Emily Yeh of the University Colorado Boulder about her time as the President of AAG, the breadth of Geography, and the upcoming AAG Conference in NYC. 

Events: 

SatShow 2022: March 22-24, Washington, DC

Duration: 00:39:44
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 679
Dec 02, 2021

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.

Duration: 00:49:52