News:

• David Attenborough's 99th birthday
• New spectral bands for Landsat Next
• Mexico sues Google
• Lunar positioning system
• NSF at 75

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• NSF STEM Day Facilities Coloring Book 

Music: “Garden Groove” by AFAUN

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

Music: city of lights by LUCØ

News:

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

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• Citizen Science Month 2025 and One Million Acts of Science

Topic:

• NC GIS interviews
  • EagleView
  • ROK Tech

Music Stranger Danger by Solo Kei

News:

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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