A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 689
24 April 2022

Catching up on the news

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News:

• Trimble releases (re-releases?) Sketchup for iPad 
• Planet’s Pelicans 
• Storymaps.com
• Nature Conservancy partnership launches dynamic kelp map
• No More Anti-Satellite Missiles in the US
• Drone Blood Delivery Works in Rwanda
• Mapping signal interference between 5G and GPS
• To the moon
  • ESA to test GNSS on the moon
  • A KNaCK for the moon

Events: 

• Digital storytelling festival: May 10 – June 12, virtual 
• State of the Map 2022: August 19-21: Florence, Italy

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 688
3 April 2022

We discuss what we think “geospatial” means today.

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News:

• Arctic scientists work with indigenious tribal elders study Alaska Kotzebue ice 
• New appointments to NGAC
• Imagery market forecasted to continue to grow

Topic:

• What is geospatial today? The constant progression of the definition, focus, and industry 

Events: 

• 8th International Conference on Cartography & GIS, Nessebar, Bulgaria 20-25 June 
• WVAGP 2022 Conference, May 24th, Morgantown WV

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 687
27 March 2022

Unexpected items we run into when sharing GIS knowledge.

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News:

• GPS on Benchmarks program
• Yellowstone thermal vents mapped
• Newberry’s Crossings exhibit

Topic:

• This week we talk about some of the unexpected challenges that we run into when sharing and training for geospatial technologies.

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 686
6 March 2022

This week we talk about various news and the invasion of Ukraine.

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News:

• Mobile World Congress
• GISCI Endorsement Designation Program
• NGA developing commercial imagery buying guide
• Goes-t Launch
• USGS Releases topoBuilder Tool for Custom Topographic Maps
• New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps. mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps.
• Concerns about Russia targeting GPS, Communications 
  • Hawkeye 360
• Premise

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 685
20 February 2022

This week we talk to Isaac Brodsky of Foursquare about the recent release of Hex Tiles.

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News:

• SpaceX loses several satellites 
• Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia 
• GISCI announces June exam date

Topic:

• Isaac Brodsky of Foursquare talks about Hex Tiles and how they can be used for geospatial analysis.
• Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai

Events: 

• GeoIgnite 22: 1-3 March, virtual
• Citizen Science Conference, 23-26 May, hybrid

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 684
6 February 2022

This week we discuss some ideas around this round of the Metaverse.

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News:

• Google’s Firmina subsea cable will run from Myrtle Beach, SC to South America
• SpaceX Satellite Internet
• NOAA GOES T launching on March 1st
• Landsat 9 operational
• Nearspace 10cm available
  • Public Labs
• ISS to be retired in 2030
• GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released
• Endurance22 expedition sets to find’s Shackleton’s lost ship

Topic:

• Jesse asks a few questions about this round of the Metaverse about where it we think it will go this time, ideas from previous rounds that we would like to see again

Events: 

• GISPro call due March 15
• Trimble Dimensions+: Nov 7-9, Las Vegas

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 683
23 January 2022

This week we talk to Dr. Alastair Bonnett about islands, diversity, and his recent books.

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News:

• Sentinel 1B issues
• Tonga eruption
• 2021 was 6th warmest year
• 44 superdove satellites launched
• ArcGIS IPS
• GISP-R
• 5G rollout delayed around airports

Topic:

• We speak to Alastair Bonnett about his 2020 mass market book, Elsewhere, which looks at the role islands play, and touch on his new academic text, Multiracism. 

Events: 

• GEOINT 2022 Symposium
• GEO Business 2022

Spatial Conversations
Shownotes – Episode 27
21 January 2022

Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst about the Geospatial Education Certificate

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This week Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst, Associate Director of the GeoTech Center about the Geospatial Education Certificate (GeoEdC).

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 682
09 January 2022

This week we talk to Dr. Rebecca Theobald about redistricting.

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News:

• CES2022 overview

Topic:

• Frank and Barb sit down with Dr. Rebecca Theobald for the second part of our recent series of discussions on redistricting. 

Events: 

• HxGN Live Global: 20-23 June, Las Vegas
• Commercial UAV Expo: 6-8 September, Las Vegas

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 681
28 December 2021

This week we discuss ‘What is “your Geography”?’

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News:

• NOAA approves sell of 10cm data
• Geospatial Maturity Assessment report

Topic:

• This week, instead of wrapping-up the year (that we can barely remember) we discuss, instead, the question…What is “your Geography”?

Events: 

• GIS Pro 2022: 3-6 Oct, Boise, ID