A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

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Topic: A wish discussion of places we would like to go, how we can experience locations virtually, and where we would like to go back to... Indeed virtual experience commercial Botchan Karakuri Clock, Matsuyama

News: Hexagon Geospatial HXGN Content Program provides free imagery to fight COVID-19 Smartphone location and COVID-19 ArcGIS Online Grocery Store Reports - Form NASCAR Hold Virtual eRace Census has begun! - March 12th COVID-19 might mean students are undercounted Deadline delayed 2 weeks until mid August Topic: Dashboards Cool Stuff: Reddit's Imaginary Maps Events Corner: Check out these virtual cons while we await the re-opening of conference season AAG Microsoft Build

News: ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 New FAA rule requires drones to broadcast location to Internet constantly Here geodata models - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQc-f0-v7w Coronavirus leads to drop in Chinese pollution First Survey of the Mason-Dixon Line in 40 years Vatican"s ethical AI guidelines Topic: Privacy news https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/31/fcc-finds-one-or-more-carriers-broke-law-by-selling-customer-location-data https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/28/fcc-proposes-carrier-fine-over-phone-location-data/ https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/08/facebook-buys-computer-vision-startup-scape/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/07/databases-that-track-millions/ Cool Stuff: WWI Trench Map of 1917 movie Events Corner: Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC) Annual Conference: April 8-9, Kingsport, Tennessee Geospatial World Forum: April 7-9, Amsterdam Geoint: April 26-29, Tampa Geo business 2020: May 20-21, London

News: NASA images show effects of record Antarctic temperatures Do good maps sway minds? Apparently not :( The Met Office going big on hardware OGC adopts new version of IS3, Indexed 3D Scene Layer and Scene Layer Package Format Specification Inaccurate maps cost logistics companies $6b a year Topic: Are textbooks the best way to go in our digital world? Cool Stuff: Mini Tokyo 3D Events Corner: GeoConnect Asia moves to 2021 Esri Developer Summit: 10-13 March, Palm Springs, CA Applied Geography Conference: 18-20 October, Baltimore, MD 2020 Dimensions User Conf: 2-4 November, Nashville

News (00:40) Google Maps update for its 15th anniversary - Google OneWeb's first large batch of smallsats launches NASA and ESA's Solar Orbiter launching Feb 9th ArcGIS Pro 2.5 Esri GIS tech poster competition at AAG Topic (19:50) Impacts of geotagging Sharing experiences Overtourism? Cool Stuff (49:45) Hacking a traffic Jam in Google Maps Events Corner (52:40) Geo Connect Asia 2020: 18-19 March, Singapore MidAmerica GIS Symposium: 20-23 April, Omaha Small Sat Conference: 27-28 April, London Geoint Symposium 2020: 26-29 April, Tampa

News: Huawei switching to Tom Tom instead of Google maps because of US ban Increasing number of GLONASS satellites HxDR Topic: Countdown to 50th anniversary of EarthDay Cool Stuff: Satellite map Events Corner: Move2020: 11-12 February, London 10th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition: 17-18 March, Kuala Lumpur GeoIgnite2020: 22-24 June, Ottawa

News: CES2020 Here's 3D models help cars Concerns about satellite constellations impacting astronomy Landsat 9 sensors ready, launch at the end of 2020 Topic: Why you should understand coding and programming (even if you aren't planning to) Web Corner: Turn by turnables Events Corner: Hexagon Tour & Live GeoWeek 2020 - ASPRS, ILMF, & MAPPS GISPro 2020

We talk about some the items that caught our attention over the last decade. The cloud Data privacy and ethics Hardware Data creation and overload Remote Sensing data growth

New Map of Titan's Terrain NASA and Boeing prepping Space Launch System (SLS) Google's New Content Creation Tools for Geography Presentations Google releasing Cardboard as an open source project Google Maps to show which streets have better lighting for walkers Google.org funds Vera to help collect data on prison populations (Vera's page) Apple Maps changes to Crimea in Russia (CIA WFB Ukraine) New high-resolution imagery API from Near Space Labs Radiant Earth Foundation releases Radiant MLHub for open access to Earth Observation training data sets Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon USDOI grounds drone fleet FAA moving forward to meet recreational UAS pilot test requirement from last falls reauthorization bill Utah Congressman announces House GIS Working Group Global Flood Monitor Say goodbye to the Foot… the Survey Foot Census Using Online Collection For First Time in 2020

This week we talk about where you can go to download data, with just a few examples. National Map Data.gov Census Bureau EarthExplorer LandsatLook viewer Sentinel remote sensing data access Natural Earth Data OpenStreetMap State data clearinghouses MapWV, PASDA, NCOneMap City data sets – Chicago, Charlotte, New York

Files and data services

Catching up on news

Geovangelizing!

Conferences conversation

Catching up on some news

Talking about open-ness

Catching up on news about Galileo, chipsats, CityGML, and others.

Galileo is timeless...the importance of GNSS.

"Play" map vs official map, a question from a news story

Catching up on news and a little about a trip to Japan

An interview with Susan Hemback and Michael Harmon from Loudon County GIS Forum 2018 followed by a conversation about the importance of local and regional conferences.

The beauty and intrigue of the pulp novel 'mapbacks'

Recent topics connected to privacy

A conversation about Gerrymandering by members of a panel that took place at the AAG 2019 conference.

Frank and Barb talk to Marvin Davis about conveying public information through Story Maps.

Catching up on the news.

A conversation with Michael Goodchild on GIS and Geography.

Discussion with Dr David Padgett about Environmental Justice and community mapping.

A discussion about spatial stories

Catching up on CES and recent news

Our year-end discussion of 2018.

Catching up on the news

Geography Awareness Week

Spooky places.

Jeff Jalbrzikowski of NOAA's National Geodetic Survey

A review of Remote Sensing satellites and sites.

Dr. Matthew Wilson on University of Kentucky.

Some recent news and a discussion of verisimilitude in GIS.

A discussion of the AAG's new time and fee structure for conference registration and a discussion of paper vs poster vs digital presentations.

A conversation with Elvin Slavik on our 600th episode celebrating our 13th anniversary.

We talk about the Esri UC and OGC announcements

Catching up on news from the SCOTUS, Galileo, HxgnLive, and others.

Interviews recorded at the Loudoun County GIS Forum.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related topics

Why you should be thinking 'app' when making you (web)map

Catching up on news.

Our Earth Day 2018 discussion

A round-up of news from the last couple of months.

A few more conference tips and tricks