A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: Spatial computing grows as an investment trend Satellites confirm old sailor myth Web corner Financial Times (FT) Magazine special feature on mapping a changing world Topic: AAG interview, Mike from BayGeo Events: WV GeoCon: 1-3 June, Morgantown Music: Way It Feels by Alt Bloom

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

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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