A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: New NOAA Drought website New Sentinel-based long-term global fire dataset Tilt brush going open Microsoft releases Sustainability City in Minecraft Amnesty International will create maps of facial recognition cameras GISCI Map Contest   Topic: News and discussing visual media

AVSP Episode 659 January 24, 2021 News: Saudi Arabia proposes linear city HERE launches Premier 3D Cities Esri Canada's 3D cities model resources Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism Successful launch and deployment for NASA's ELaNa mission CubeSats SpaceX Transporter-1 Topic: Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective   Events corner HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500 ACH2021: July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1 GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MDzoom

AVSP Episode 658 January 10, 2021 News: EU announces Destination Earth FAA announces RemoteID plans USGIF academic consortium URISA Coalition of Young Professionals Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing javascript

News: MapBox moves to 3D and changes license Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration  Digital Coast Act signed into law Topic: Reality capture? Terrestrial lidar Drone photogrammetry  Reality capture in our/your pocket Scale shift? Events GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November

News: Here WeGo Deliver Introduction of ArcGIS Field Maps leads to deprecation countdown for existing Esri apps Esri buys Turkish software firm Zibumi for 3D viz   Topic: Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

House Keeping: Map Projections for Babies Kickstarter News: Google tests letting users add Street View images with their phones Google’s Tree Canopy Project OpenStreetMap commercialization NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalists Sentinel 6 launch  Topic: We briefly talk about our favorite geographies...which means many things unto itself. Cool Stuff: https://reearth.io

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford. You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week

News: iPhone 12 Pro (and iPad Pro) w/ lidar James Fee Ed Parsons xyht http://3dscannerapp.com and updated this week Partikle Landsat 8 hiccup India launches EOS-1 satellite   US Postal Service wants to monetize its mapping data Mapbox Election Mapping Challenge extended until Nov. 30th  Topic: TravelTime interview Cool Stuff: ESRI Accessible Basemaps

News: ArcMap (10.8) End of Life outlined Esri releases beta ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity and Unreal Engine Drones in the supply chain Hivemapper studio Microsoft releases building footprints for Australia Topic: This week we riff on the title of a recent AAG seminar to discuss how Geography relates to closely related fields … “encroachment or opportunity” Cool Stuff: Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s official maps

News: Facebook’s Project Aria - mapping your entire life Augmented Reality - Geology’s ‘killer app’....? Amazon’s ‘Virtual Tours’ Oct 4th - Sputnik anniversary World Space Week Oct. 4-10th - Satellites are the Theme -  Cool Stuff: Zuni Map - Counter-mapping place

Last chance to respond to U.S. Census Weather NOAA Turns 50! Fastest run to greek letters for Atlantic Tropical Storms Western US Wildfires La Nina Sentinel 6 launch planned for November Startup Satellite Vu looking to add thermal to commercial remote sensing 2020 StoryMaps Competition Esri signs MoU with UN-Habitat Esri acquires nFrames HP Rolls out new DesignJet printers WV Messes with Harvard Mapping Model    

This week we continue our conversation about how visualization can help to convey information and how state and school systems may (or may not) be using visualization tools for varying purposes in our current time of uncertainty. The conversation began in the previous part of the episode.

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing.  Amazon gets ok to test drone delivery Parrot gets Army contract AI and ML in geospatial Examples from conversation WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map WVDHHR Dashboard

We start with a general chat, but we do mention the White Houses Science Office's question of what should they do to protect GPS, and changing perspectives about Google Maps.