A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: NASA-ISRO NISAR SAR mission data products now available Geopera 2026 Bhote Koshe Flood open satellite data Cornell University's Cool Trees project releases first "Wall to Wall" map of city trees  Utility of GNIS continues to be eroded Geo Week event scholarship   Web corner: MiniTokyo3D Topic: Andres with Bootcamp GIS Summers and Mary of BlueRaster Events: 2026 SWAAG Annual Meeting - September 30, Lubbock, TX Middle Atlantic Regional Division Annual Meeting - November 20, Belair, MD 2026 Annual Meeting of SEDAAG - November 22-23, Tuscaloosa, AL   Music: "It's All Wrong (It's Alright)" by Cardboard Cat  

News: GOES 19 outage Suomi NPP data product delivery to end on November 1, 2026 Intermap acquires PCI Geomatics  FCC aims to ban more drones Internet famous bald eagle Jackie passes away Web corner: https://miniskyline.com/ Topic: Conversations from the Esri UC Map of Life CivQuest Events: QGIS User Conference: 5-6 October,  LAAX, Switzerland European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI): 17-20 November, Alicante, Spain

News: Mozambique Unveils Geospatial Platform to Accelerate Broadband Coverage SparkPNT OpenConstellation 1.0 SkyFi Launches MCP Web corner CyArk Tapestry Topic: Interview with Abi Wiedersberg and Will Mortenson of Overture Maps. Events: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: 1-4 September, London GIS-Pro 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee AGU Fall Meeting 2026: 7–11 December, San Francisco Music:  "It Was Worth It In The End" by Vian Izak  

Web corner: Destination Earth Topic: Questions we currently have about Geography/geospatial Music:  Around You (Ft. Alyssa) by REYUS  

News: US Supreme Court rules that 4th Amendment includes location data National Geographic Museum of Exploration opens Explore the stars in VR ArcGIS Online June update Climate.us ECMWF releases earthkit 1.0 Mapping underground fungi that help our planet Sentinel 1A mission ends Google Earth Pro desktop end of life   Web corner MapTap  

News: DGEO at Clark SpatialSQL moves to general availability MCP expanding for geospatial  Geoscientists map continent-sized geostructure under Antarctica Russian satellites jamming GPS signals Web corner Mega geocache Topic: Digital Earth/Gaussian Splats  Apple releases 3D Gaussian Splats  NYT R&D Guide to Gaussian Splats Events: 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 9 - 14 August,  Washington, D.C. Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment AGSE 2026, 21-25 September, Kumasi, Ghana  Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis 20th Anniversary Conference, 2-3 October, Boston, MA Music:  "In This Together" by Neighbor  

News: Upcoming unmanned NASA moon missions in 2026 Spexi and Niantic Spatial deliver a drone-to-3D pipeline Long Island Sound Lawn Fertilizer Pollution Tool  Web corner UK Geography New National Curriculum Change Topic: Thoughts on The GIS Industry Has Already Split in Two Events: Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas CaGIS Conference - 8-11 September, St. Louis NACIS: 21-24 October, Milwaukee GeoWeek 2027: 23-25 February, Salt Lake City  call for speakers   Music:  Pace by Brody Myles

News: Grass 8.5.0 2026 Canadian Census Soundtrack  VertiGIS Acquires 1Spatial FME Flow and MCP Web corner Historica AI Interactive Map  Topic: Amy Rock of the UCGIS @ AAG  Events: Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026): 21 - 23 September, London,UK, and online 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) - 22--25 September, York    Music:  Those Days Were Ours by Saints of Valory  

News: Sketchup, meet Claude ESA's Celeste in-orbit demonstrator transmits first signal The Map Shop Australia closing Web corner: https://paleolatitude.org/ Topic: Pix4D @ AAG Events: Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas S+SNZ Conference 2026: 9-11 September, Auckland, NZ UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 October, Grand Forks, ND