• QGIS 4.0 Norrköping release
• Google Maps and Gemini
• ADA Web & Mobile Rule countdown
• CMU uses Sleep Cycle data to detect outbreaks

Web corner:

• ESRI 3D interactive Dance of Continents 

Topic:

• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/
• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/03/02/when-geospatial-is-consumed-at-ai-scale/

Events:

• Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop: 14-16 April in Lafayette Louisiana 
• ACH 2026: 24-26 June, Virtual
• 2026 ASPRS International Technical Symposium: 5-8 October, Virtual 
• GIS-PRO 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee

Music: Sad That I'm Still Sad by Liminal

• Google Maps Granted Access to South Korea's Map Data
• ESA to launch Celeste LEO-PNT on March 24
• A Farewell to ArcMap
• ArcGIS Online Feb '26 updates
• Texas A&M and NSF NCAR release MESACLIP Earth System Dataset
• AMS responds to potential NSF NCAR closure
• Bilawal Sidhu's WorldView

Web corner: 

• NYC Layers of the Past Cartographic Project 

Topic:

• Terrestrial mapping at GeoWeek

  • Esri and Pix4D
  • Topcon
  • Emesent

Events:

• GeoBusiness 2026: 3-4 June. London
• State of the Map 2026: 28-30 August, Paris
• GeoWeek 2027: 23-27 February, Salt Lake City

• China rolls out satellite short messages
• NV5 releases GeoAgent
• Common Space 
• How GPS Shaped the World book bought by HarperNonFiction

Web corner:

• Navigate National Geographic MapMaker with a game Controller

Topic:

• Contemplating conferences

Music: Time Remembered by Jane's Party

• Dr. Gladys West passes at 95
• Ninth GPS III successfully launched
• Space Force cancels Resilient GPS project
• TikTok (US) TOS include detailed location data
• Project Genie (only available to Ultra subscribers)

Web corner

• City as a Living Laboratory (CALL)

Topic:

• 2026 thoughts on location based services

Events:

• 2026 International Conference on Geography and Travel (ICGT) April 1, Pune, India
• Geographical Association (GA) Conference: April 8-10, in Sheffield, UK 
• European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly: May 3-8, in Vienna, Austria & online
• Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM): June 22-25, in Reykjavik, Iceland

Music: Used to Know by Finn Mungo

• US withdraws from everything..
• Ohio uses Waze for snowplowing 
• UVA uses imagery and AI to map ghost trees
  

Web corner

• Lost At Night georeference Earth's lights 

Topic:

• CES 2026

Events:

• AAG Annual Meeting node 17 - 21 March, watch party call for participants 
• QGIS user conference: 5-6 October, Laax, Switzerland 

Music: My Hide and Seek by Vian Izak

• 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

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

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

• 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

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 GIS Conference 2026: 15-17 April, State College, PA - oral submissions due Jan 11
• Esri UC: 13-17 July, San Diego - Abstracts due October 24

Music: Link in the Chain by The Old North

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

Music: Imaginary by Oceanne

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Australia (GCA) appoints a national advertising and partnerships manager
• Independent Map Artists' Map of the Month Club 
• SEDAAG Awards Call for Nominations 
• UNMappers partner with EUthmappers on Open Mapping for Secondary Schools
• Library of Virginia exhibit on Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816–1826

Web corner

• Paul Revere's Ride and Maps

Music: It all tumbles down by Kid in Flight

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

WebCorner:

• URHere Podcast from 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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:

• 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

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

• 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

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

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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?  

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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!

• 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...

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

July 9, 2023

News:

• MA Location Shield Act

• NavIC 9th satellite 

• Vietnam bans Barbie movie over map 

• Esri UC

• 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

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

• Microsoft Build

• Google I/O

• Apple WWDC

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

Topic:

• Landscape considerations and representation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• 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/ 

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Topic:

• Unexpected challenges in working with GIS

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• SpaceX Crew-3 mission successfully launches and docks with ISS - CREW-3 MISSION - SpaceX - Updates
• COP26 
• Fugro New Generation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Topic:

• Interview with Christopher Fowler, Associate Professor of Geography and Demography, Penn State University

• Hexagon Power Portfolio 2022
• QGIS 3.22 released
• NGA launched the Phase 4a of its MagQuest Challenge
• Landsat 9 proceeding through commissioning phase

Topic:

• Geography Awareness Week 2021
  • National Geographic
  • AAG
  • AGS 

 Events: 

• GeoWeek2022, Feb 6-8, Denver, CO

• 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 

• Landsat 9 launched
• Earth Science Week
• Geography Awareness Week 

Topic:

• Local foods as a representation of Cultural Geography

 Events: 

• Geography2050 November 15-19, Virtual

• Amtrak scholarships
• Landsat 9 launch coming up

Topic:

• This week we ask some questions about the ideas surrounding data response and data preparedness for hazard events

• 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

• Trimble providing venture funding
• Haiti Earthquake
• Census redistricting data available now

Topic:

• Recreating landscapes - snapshots in time and space

 Events: 

• UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

• 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

• A "New" Ocean
• FAA Recreation test

Topic:

• A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains 

Events: 

• NCGE: Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

• China puts a rover on Mars - 
• GAO report on DOD navigation
• Apple WWDC location announcements
• • Video - Maps update
  • Video - Object capture API (aka photogrammetry) 
• Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS - 
• AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial - 
• Lego (official) map

• Google IO google maps

Topic:

• This week we talk about how we can consider and infer geographic concepts through 2D and 3D representations 

Events:

• Earth Archive Virtual Conference: 15-16 June
• Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021: September 7-9 Las Vegas NV

• Moving a border
• Rand McNally releases new Road Atlas
• Ookla and MapBox partnership
• Maptitude 2021 released
• Props to the Mars Helicopter!
• New SWOT satellite launching in 2022 to measure Earth's water

Topic:

• Deepfakes
• • UW news
  • Article
  • 2018 article
  • GCN article