• New Map of Titan's Terrain
• NASA and Boeing prepping Space Launch System (SLS)
• Google's New Content Creation Tools for Geography Presentations
• Google releasing Cardboard as an open source project
• Google Maps to show which streets have better lighting for walkers
• Google.org funds Vera to help collect data on prison populations (Vera's page)
• Apple Maps changes to Crimea in Russia (CIA WFB Ukraine)
• New high-resolution imagery API from Near Space Labs
• Radiant Earth Foundation releases Radiant MLHub for open access to Earth Observation training data sets
• Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon
• USDOI grounds drone fleet
• FAA moving forward to meet recreational UAS pilot test requirement from last falls reauthorization bill
• Utah Congressman announces House GIS Working Group
• Global Flood Monitor
• Say goodbye to the Foot… the Survey Foot
• Census Using Online Collection For First Time in 2020

This week we talk about where you can go to download data, with just a few examples.

• National Map
• Data.gov
• Census Bureau
• EarthExplorer
• LandsatLook viewer
• Sentinel remote sensing data access
• Natural Earth Data
• OpenStreetMap
• State data clearinghouses MapWV, PASDA, NCOneMap
• City data sets – Chicago, Charlotte, New York

Files and data services

Catching up on news

Geovangelizing!

Conferences conversation

Catching up on some news

Talking about open-ness

Catching up on news about Galileo, chipsats, CityGML, and others.

Galileo is timeless...the importance of GNSS.