A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 660
7 February 2021

News and discussing visual media

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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:

• Discussing/talking about how to talk about visual media

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 659
24 January 2021

Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective

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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, MD

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 658
10 January 2021

This week we catch up on news

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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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 657
27 December 2020

This week we discuss the term “reality capture” and how it connects to geospatial.

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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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 656
13 December 2020

Will Cadell talks about Prescient.earth

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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:

We spoke with Will Cadell of SparkGeo about a variety of geospatial ideas, but focused on Prescient.earth

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 655
29 November 2020

We briefly talk about our favorite geographies

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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

Spatial Conversations
Shownotes – Episode 26
17 November 2020

Jesse spoke with Dan Ford about his new Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies. You can also find info on the Maps for Babies website

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A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 654
15 November 2020

A quick chat about Geography Awareness Week

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A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 653
8 November 2020

A conversation with Charlies Davies about TravelTime

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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 with igeolise co-founder Charlie Davies

Cool Stuff:

• ESRI Accessible Basemaps

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 652
25 October 2020

An existential question of GIScience and/or Geography

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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