A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: 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

News: 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

News: 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

News: 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

News: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week Sue, Jesse, and Frank have a conversation about Geography, disciplines, where we are, and where we were. Music: Imaginary by Oceanne

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