News:

• NASA images show effects of record Antarctic temperatures
• Do good maps sway minds? Apparently not :(
• The Met Office going big on hardware
• OGC adopts new version of IS3, Indexed 3D Scene Layer and Scene Layer Package Format Specification
• Inaccurate maps cost logistics companies $6b a year

Topic:

• Are textbooks the best way to go in our digital world?

Cool Stuff:

• Mini Tokyo 3D

Events Corner:

• GeoConnect Asia moves to 2021
• Esri Developer Summit: 10-13 March, Palm Springs, CA
• Applied Geography Conference: 18-20 October, Baltimore, MD
• 2020 Dimensions User Conf: 2-4 November, Nashville

News (00:40)

• Google Maps update for its 15th anniversary - Google
• OneWeb's first large batch of smallsats launches
• NASA and ESA's Solar Orbiter launching Feb 9th
• ArcGIS Pro 2.5
• Esri GIS tech poster competition at AAG

Topic (19:50)

• Impacts of geotagging
• Sharing experiences
• • Overtourism?

Cool Stuff (49:45)

• Hacking a traffic Jam in Google Maps

Events Corner (52:40)

• Geo Connect Asia 2020: 18-19 March, Singapore
• MidAmerica GIS Symposium: 20-23 April, Omaha
• Small Sat Conference: 27-28 April, London
• Geoint Symposium 2020: 26-29 April, Tampa

News:

• Huawei switching to Tom Tom instead of Google maps because of US ban
• Increasing number of GLONASS satellites
• HxDR

Topic:

• Countdown to 50th anniversary of EarthDay

Cool Stuff:

• Satellite map

Events Corner:

• Move2020: 11-12 February, London
• 10th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition: 17-18 March, Kuala Lumpur
• GeoIgnite2020: 22-24 June, Ottawa

News:

• CES2020
• Here's 3D models help cars
• Concerns about satellite constellations impacting astronomy
• Landsat 9 sensors ready, launch at the end of 2020

Topic:

• Why you should understand coding and programming (even if you aren't planning to)

Web Corner:

• Turn by turnables

Events Corner:

• Hexagon Tour & Live

• GeoWeek 2020 - ASPRS, ILMF, & MAPPS

• GISPro 2020

We talk about some the items that caught our attention over the last decade.

• The cloud
• Data privacy and ethics
• Hardware
• Data creation and overload
• Remote Sensing data growth

• 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!