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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 651
4 October 2020

Virtual Tours, space anniversaries, and data capture.

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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:

• Zuni Map – Counter-mapping place

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 650
20 September 2020

This week we look at some news.

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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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 649, Part 2
13 September 2020 (recorded 6 September 2020)

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing.

This week we continue our conversation about how visualization can help to convey information and how state and school systems may (or may not) be using visualization tools for varying purposes in our current time of uncertainty. The conversation began in the previous part of the episode.

–WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map
–WVDHHR Dashboard
–South Carolina
–Virginia education
–Virginia Department of Health
–New York
–Illinois
–Tennessee
–Maryland
–Georgia
–CNN

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 649
6 September 2020

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing.

–WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map
–WVDHHR Dashboard
Part 2 of the conversation coming next weekend.