A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 539
29 February 2016
Topics include: XPrize, Esri FedGIS Conference, USGIF scholarships, and futuristic data storage
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Music
Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society
Discussion topics
Map of the most vulnerable places to climate change
Japan’s population dropped by nearly a million in 5 years
VW told to make electric charging stations and cars in US
Homesteading in Space: White House Looks to SciFi for help
Facebook’s high resolution map of world population density (DigitalGlobe’s blog)
3D Maps for the Blind
Tiny disc stores 360 TB of data for up to 13 billion years
IBM Watson AI XPrize announced
Esri FedGIS Conference
DHS releases data sets on ArcGIS Online
NSGIC will push for national addressing database
2016 USGIF scholarships
GISCI’s 5th Annual Map Contest
Events Corner
FOSS4G-NA: 2-5 May, Raleigh, NC
GEOINT 2016 Symposium: 15-18 May, Orlando, FL
6th Digital Earth Summit: 7-8 July, Beijing, China
