News:

• Back-up your Google Location History while you can
• Google Maps updates
• Apple Maps updates
• USGIF accredits programs at South Dakota State University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• WingtraCloud for uas mapping

Topic:

• A discussion of our 'duct tape', or the way we link applications to get results

News:

• Ordnance Survey creates National Vernacular Mapping Tool
• Oakridge National Laboratory team map Coca River, Ecuador
• USGS using remote sensing to explore groundwater discharge impact on coral
• USGS call for William T. Pecora Awards nominations
• Air taxi developers in race for FAA certification
• Geomagnetic storms impact agricultural GPS
• Finland investing in AR and VR for maritime and road training
• Amazon Redshift announces support for H3 hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing

Topic:

• Talking about state conferences

Events:

• 2024 EO for Africa Symposium, September 23 - 26, Frascati, Italy, call for abstracts
• URISA GIS-Pro 2024, October 7-10, Portland, ME, call for abstracts

This week's song is Carry Us Home by HARBRS

News:

• FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality
• White House/OMB AI guidelines
• UNESCO names 18 new Geoparks
• The impacts of open edit
• Overture Maps beta

Topic:

• Metageography

Events:

• State of the Map US: 6-8 June, Salt Lake City
• International geographical congress 2024: 24-30 August, Dublin

This week's song is "Idaho" by Arbour Season

News:

• Daniel Huffman's Projection Collection has revived card trading
• Surface Area Rivers and Lakes Database released
• Study of museum collections finds warming waters impact mussel shells
• GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research proposes Digital Twins of the Ocean
• NOAA documents 4th global coral bleaching event
• Landsat Extended Acquisition of the Poles (LEAP) for Polar twilight zone
• Location Europe creates cross-boundary geospatial data platform
• New online volcano eruption near-real time watch map announced

Events:

• WV Geocon: 13-16 May, Charleston, WV
• InterGeo 2024: 24-26 September, Stuttgart, Call for ideas open
• Commercial UAV Expo: 3-5 September, Las Vegas

News:

• University of the Bundeswehr Munich creates 3D city maps from a single SAR satellite
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Sahel Region universities map groundwater

Topic:

• This week we wander into a conversation about files, folders, and data as well as thoughts on versioning.

Events:

• SOTM 2024: 6-8 September, Nairobi, Call for academic track due 10 May
• Agile 2024: 4-7 June, Glasgow
• Geography2050: 22-24 November, New York

News:

• FCC ups limits to be called 'broadband'
• Google used AI to model flooding
• Voyager 1 responds to "poke"

Topic:

This week we discuss the importance of citizen science on the eve of Citizen Science Month and touch a bit on this year's quickly approaching EarthDay.

News:

• NASA releases Hubble Telescope Tabletop Adventure
• Methane tracking satellite
• NGA expands commercial acquisitions with 'Luno'
• NGA opens NGOC
• NSGIC states geospatial maturity assessment

Events:

• Geospatial World Forum (GWF): 13-16 May, Rotterdam
• ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium: 11-14 June. Las Vegas
• NACIS: 16-19 Oct, Tacoma

News:

• Moon landing

• Korea's KASS operational

• US DOJ moves to dismiss Ligado case

• Esri to roll out AI Assistants in 2024

Topic:

• Are our perspectives (on tech) changing as we progress through our careers?

News:

• OSM as digital public good

• Google Maps incorporating generative AI

Topic:

• Why is the GIS Industry resistant to technological change?

Events:

• World LiDAR Day: 12 Feb

• Geo Business: 5-6 June, London

• GIS Pro: 7-10 Oct, Portland, Mn

News:

• NAPGD 2022-submit GNSS or leveling data

• Techtree launches AROUND

• NSA in data purchase news

• Real impacts of mobile map attribute errors

• Mars helicopter Ingenuity mission ends

• Japan's lunar lander

Events:

• 4S (Small Satellites, Systems, Services) Symposium: 27-31 May, Palma de Mallorca, Spain