A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies VerySpatial

AVSP Episode 659
January 24, 2021
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, MDzoom

AVSP Episode 658
January 10, 2021
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

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

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:
Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

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

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford. You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.