Category: Show Notes
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 658

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 658
10 January 2021
This week we catch up on news
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 – Episode 657

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 657
27 December 2020
This week we discuss the term “reality capture” and how it connects to geospatial.
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 – Episode 656

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 656
13 December 2020
Will Cadell talks about Prescient.earth
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 – Episode 655

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 655
29 November 2020
We briefly talk about our favorite geographies
House Keeping:
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:
Spatial Conversations – Map Projection for Babies

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

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 654

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 654
15 November 2020
A quick chat about Geography Awareness Week
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 653

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 653
8 November 2020
A conversation with Charlies Davies about TravelTime
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:
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 652

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 652
25 October 2020
An existential question of GIScience and/or Geography
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:
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 651

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 651
4 October 2020
Virtual Tours, space anniversaries, and data capture.
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:
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 650

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 650
20 September 2020
This week we look at some news.
News:
- 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