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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

News:

• Artemis II

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• National Council for Geographic Education GeoCircle Virtual Meetups

Topic:

• Angel Lee, Director of Education Solutions at Esri

Events:

• GISPro: October 12-15, Milwaukee
• NCGE Annual Conference: October 16 - 18, Richmond, Virginia
• 81st SEDAAG Annual Meeting: 22 - 23 November, Tuscaloosa - Call for papers/posters.

Music: UKE Like It by Brady Grey

News:

• Spatial computing grows as an investment trend
• Satellites confirm old sailor myth

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• Financial Times (FT) Magazine special feature on mapping a changing world

Topic:

• AAG interview, Mike from BayGeo

Events:

• WV GeoCon: 1-3 June, Morgantown

Music: Way It Feels by Alt Bloom

News:

• QGIS 4.0 Norrköping release
• Google Maps and Gemini
• ADA Web & Mobile Rule countdown
• CMU uses Sleep Cycle data to detect outbreaks

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• ESRI 3D interactive Dance of Continents

Topic:

• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/
• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/03/02/when-geospatial-is-consumed-at-ai-scale/

Events:

• Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop: 14-16 April in Lafayette Louisiana
• ACH 2026: 24-26 June, Virtual
• 2026 ASPRS International Technical Symposium: 5-8 October, Virtual
• GIS-PRO 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee

Music: Sad That I'm Still Sad by Liminal

News:

• Google Maps Granted Access to South Korea's Map Data
• ESA to launch Celeste LEO-PNT on March 24
• A Farewell to ArcMap
• ArcGIS Online Feb '26 updates
• Texas A&M and NSF NCAR release MESACLIP Earth System Dataset
• AMS responds to potential NSF NCAR closure
• Bilawal Sidhu's WorldView

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• NYC Layers of the Past Cartographic Project

Topic:

• Terrestrial mapping at GeoWeek

  • Esri and Pix4D
  • Topcon
  • Emesent

Events:

• GeoBusiness 2026: 3-4 June. London
• State of the Map 2026: 28-30 August, Paris
• GeoWeek 2027: 23-27 February, Salt Lake City

News:

• China rolls out satellite short messages
• NV5 releases GeoAgent
• Common Space
• How GPS Shaped the World book bought by HarperNonFiction

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• Navigate National Geographic MapMaker with a game Controller

Topic:

• Contemplating conferences

Music: Time Remembered by Jane's Party

News:

• Dr. Gladys West passes at 95
• Ninth GPS III successfully launched
• Space Force cancels Resilient GPS project
• TikTok (US) TOS include detailed location data
• Project Genie (only available to Ultra subscribers)

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• City as a Living Laboratory (CALL)

Topic:

• 2026 thoughts on location based services

Events:

• 2026 International Conference on Geography and Travel (ICGT) April 1, Pune, India
• Geographical Association (GA) Conference: April 8-10, in Sheffield, UK
• European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly: May 3-8, in Vienna, Austria & online
• Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM): June 22-25, in Reykjavik, Iceland

Music: Used to Know by Finn Mungo

News:

• US withdraws from everything..
• Ohio uses Waze for snowplowing
• UVA uses imagery and AI to map ghost trees

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• Lost At Night georeference Earth's lights

Topic:

• CES 2026

Events:

• AAG Annual Meeting node 17 - 21 March, watch party call for participants
• QGIS user conference: 5-6 October, Laax, Switzerland

Music: My Hide and Seek by Vian Izak