News:

• iPhone 12 Pro (and iPad Pro) w/ lidar
• • James Fee
  • Ed Parsons
  • xyht
  • http://3dscannerapp.com and updated this week Partikle
• Landsat 8 hiccup
• India launches EOS-1 satellite
• US Postal Service wants to monetize its mapping data
• Mapbox Election Mapping Challenge extended until Nov. 30th

Topic:

• TravelTime interview

Cool Stuff:

• ESRI Accessible Basemaps

News:

• ArcMap (10.8) End of Life outlined
• Esri releases beta ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity and Unreal Engine
• Drones in the supply chain
• Hivemapper studio
• Microsoft releases building footprints for Australia

Topic:

• This week we riff on the title of a recent AAG seminar to discuss how Geography relates to closely related fields … "encroachment or opportunity"

Cool Stuff:

• Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland's official maps

News:

• Facebook's Project Aria - mapping your entire life
• Augmented Reality - Geology's 'killer app'....?
• Amazon's 'Virtual Tours'
• Oct 4th - Sputnik anniversary
• World Space Week Oct. 4-10th - Satellites are the Theme -

Cool Stuff:

• Zuni Map - Counter-mapping place

• Last chance to respond to U.S. Census
• Weather
  • NOAA Turns 50!
  • Fastest run to greek letters for Atlantic Tropical Storms
  • Western US Wildfires
  • La Nina
• Sentinel 6 launch planned for November
• Startup Satellite Vu looking to add thermal to commercial remote sensing
• 2020 StoryMaps Competition
• Esri signs MoU with UN-Habitat
• Esri acquires nFrames
• HP Rolls out new DesignJet printers
• WV Messes with Harvard Mapping Model

This week we continue our conversation about how visualization can help to convey information and how state and school systems may (or may not) be using visualization tools for varying purposes in our current time of uncertainty. The conversation began in the previous part of the episode.

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing.

• Amazon gets ok to test drone delivery
• Parrot gets Army contract
• AI and ML in geospatial
• Examples from conversation
  • WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map
  • WVDHHR Dashboard

We start with a general chat, but we do mention the White Houses Science Office's question of what should they do to protect GPS, and changing perspectives about Google Maps.

News:

• WoldView Legion launching in 2021
• Garmin hit by Ransomware
• NSRS modernization delayed
• Congressional opposition to Ligado continues to grow through letters to FCC
• MyGalileoDrone competition announced
• Mars Perseverance launch

Cool Stuff:

• GRASS GIS turns 37 and gets a new look on the web

Events Corner:

• NearMap Navig8 - available
• Indiana Geographic Information Council - Sept 29-Oct 1, Virtual
• AAG - April 7-11, Seattle/Virtual

This week we look back about on our 15 year history and, in celebration of Comic Con week, talk about pop culture.

News:

• UC and other news
• ArcGIS Pro 2.6 coming "soon" with some key upgrades
• Voxels
• Kubernetes
• Experience builder
• MapViewer beta

Topic:

• Do we think virtual conference options will remain in the 'post' COVID-19 world

Cool Stuff:

• QGIS US Virtual meeting July 17, 24, 31