A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

Apr 24, 2025

News:

• GOES-19 now operational
• ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal
• QGIS 4.0 coming 

Topic:

• What we would like to see in geospatial tools

Events:

• Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter
• 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona

Apr 10, 2025

News:

• PreGISP
• Apple Maps adding indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand

Web corner

• Citizen Science Month 2025 and One Million Acts of Science

Topic:

• NC GIS interviews
  • EagleView
  • ROK Tech

Music Stranger Danger by Solo...

Mar 28, 2025

News:

• Data Rescue Project
• Committee cuts
• Are drones on the path to commoditization

Web corner

• Pittsburgh in 50 maps

Topic:

• Interviews from the 2025 NC GIS Conference
  • Jackson Adams from NCTech Inc.
  • Dale Loberger from BCS, Inc.

Events:

• Big Ten GIS Conference 2025 April 11 virtual
• Horizons...

Mar 7, 2025

News:

• Esri
  • AGO updates
  • Map viewer classic road to deprecation 
  • AGE roadmap 
• SketchUp 2025
• Microsoft removing location history API from Windows 11

Web corner

• Inaugural David J. Weaver GIS Research Fellow at Boston Public Library

Topic:

• Cartography in 3D

Events:

• QGIS User Conference 2025: 2-3...

Feb 22, 2025

House Keeping:

• geofeeds.me

News:

• QGIS as digital public good
• The role of a name or shuffling toponyms

Topic:

• We continue to look back at the history of geospatial technologies

Events:

• Social Science History Association: 20-23 November, Chicago - Abstracts due March 1

Music: "brightside" by Dawson...