News:

• Mozambique Unveils Geospatial Platform to Accelerate Broadband Coverage
• SparkPNT
• OpenConstellation 1.0
• SkyFi Launches MCP

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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