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 April 27-29 Denver
• Louisiana May 6-8 in Baton Rouge Louisiana

Music: "Good Company" by Yu Ishii

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 June, Norrköping, Sweden 

Music: Storyteller by Julianna Laine

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 Hollow

News:

• Some US federal data is going offline, but you may be able to access duplicate copies on non-federal servers
• National Honor Society for Geospatial Technology applications open
• Penn State studies honey bee movements using QR codes

Topic:

• Geography (and other) references we return to often.

Events:

• GeoBusiness: 4-5 June, London
• RGS/IBG: 26-29 August. Birmingham, Abstracts due by March 7
• GISPro: 6-9 Oct, Denver, CO, Abstracts due by May 5
• Geography2050 (AGS): 20-21 November, NYC

News:

• Copernicus Sentinel-2C commissioned (copernicus site)
• NC no longer requires drone test
• U.S. Navy surface fleet trains on GPS alternatives
• Landsat's 12 millionth image!

Topic:

• This week we talk about how this year's CES coverage prompted conversations centered around AR/VR/xR and how the broader wearables market will like impact the utility and adoption for these visual hardware.

Web Corner: 

• Ken Burn’s in the classroom: Maps, Art, and Environment

“Until it’s found” by Will Orchard

News:

• World Lidar Day (Feb 12)
• World Magnetic Model (WMM) updated
• Drones to map rare plants in Hawaii
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Web Corner: 

• Whatsapp Chatmap with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT)

Topic:

• Discussion around questions Jesse has had this week

  • What is the National Geospatial Collaborative
  • But OSM is infrastructure!!!
  • Drone news impacts
  • Are we nearing the end of the “Arab Spring”

Events:

• geo-week: Feb 10-12, Denver
• GIS Research UK: 23-25 April, Bristol

Music: Unglued by MYFEVER

News:

• Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022)
• Foursquare open source places
• Niantic’s LGM goal
• Google Location History 

WebCorner:

• URHere Podcast from 2021

News:

• Esri Updates
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.4
  • ArcGIS Online November
• Autodesk investment in GAMMA AR
• MS Earth Copilot
• RFP out for 2025-29 Landsat Team

Topic:

• This week Jesse sat down with current URISA president, John Nolte, to discuss the rebranding and transition to the Geospatial Professional Network

Events:

• Geo Week: 10-12 February, Denver
• Commercial UAV Expo Europe: 8-10 April, Amsterdam 
• GISPro: Oct 6-9, Denver

News:

• Gemini coming to Google’s mapping apps (from Google)
• Unity 6
• Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android
• Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product
• Windows 10 security for $30
• GISP accredited by CESB

Events:

• International GNSS Day: Oct 23 annually

News:

• Geospatial Professional Network
• China’s eLoran
• ESA new EO science strategy 

WebCorner:

• Geoawesome Blog “You Are #Geoawesome” Video Series

Topic:

• Ai
  • https://www.geospatialworld.net/videos/google-ai-geospatial-boosts-make-in-india/
  • https://eijournal.com/news/products-2/nearmap-elevates-location-intelligence-with-new-generation-of-ai-derived-insights
  • https://anitagraser.com/2024/10/06/llm-based-spatial-analysis-assistants-for-qgis/

Events:

• Geo Week: 10-12 Feb, Denver
  • Geo empower event scholarship
• 16th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development: 13-16 March 2025, Tokyo,
  • Abstracts due Nov 15