Category: Show Notes
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 664

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 664
4 April 2021
What we learned (or remembered) this week
References for this week’s episode:
- Mapping vaccine distribution (from January)
- Prospect & Refuge
- FAA updates
- Mars helicopter
- Blades in the Dark
- Evergreen stuck in the Suez
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 663
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 663
22 March 2021
We take a swing at the question “When will I use this in the real world?” and the ideas around the question for training.
Topic:
- A conversation spurred by (shiver) a Facebook post. We talk about how we look at tutorials and training and their place in learning GIS (or, really, anything these days).
Events corner
- 2021 Korea Geospatial Information Roadshow: March 22-26, Virtual
- State of the Map 2021: July 9-11, online. Call open for talks, workshops, (April 4) and panels (June 6)
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 662

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 662
7 March 2021
Anthony Calamito of Enview
News:
- Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas
- Congressional push for timing backup for GIS
- Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair
Topic:
- This week we talk to Anthony Calamito of Enview about AI and 3D point cloud data.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 661

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 661
28 February 2021
Space news and stuff
News:
- Perseverance!
- India launches Amazonia 1 satellite for Brazil
- Canon built a smallsat for advertising (and research)
- Atlas of the Human Planet
- iOS beta gets crowdsourced info
- QGIS 3,18 released
- ArcGIS platform
- GeoWeek 2022 Advisory board
- Next step in (counter)Ligado stuff
Cool stuff:
Events corner
- NCGIS 2021 presentations up on YouTube soon
- ASPRS 2021: March 29-April 2, virtual
- GISPro 2021: 3-6 Oct, Baltimore, Abstracts due March 31
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 660

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 660
7 February 2021
News and discussing visual media
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 – Episode 659

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 659
24 January 2021
Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective
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 – 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: