AVSP Episode 659

January 24, 2021

News:

• Saudi Arabia proposes linear city
• HERE launches Premier 3D Cities
• Esri Canada's 3D cities model resources
• Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism
• Successful launch and deployment for NASA's ELaNa mission CubeSats
• SpaceX Transporter-1

Topic:

• Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective  

Events corner

• HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500
• ACH2021: July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1
• GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MDzoom

AVSP Episode 658

January 10, 2021

News:

• EU announces Destination Earth
• FAA announces RemoteID plans
• USGIF academic consortium
• URISA Coalition of Young Professionals
• Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing
• javascript

News:

• MapBox moves to 3D and changes license
• Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration 
• Digital Coast Act signed into law

Topic:

• Reality capture?
• • Terrestrial lidar
  • Drone photogrammetry 
  • Reality capture in our/your pocket
  • Scale shift?

Events

• GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November

News:

• Here WeGo Deliver
• Introduction of ArcGIS Field Maps leads to deprecation countdown for existing Esri apps
• Esri buys Turkish software firm Zibumi for 3D viz

Topic:

• Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

House Keeping:

• Map Projections for Babies Kickstarter

News:

• Google tests letting users add Street View images with their phones
• Google’s Tree Canopy Project
• OpenStreetMap commercialization
• NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalists
• Sentinel 6 launch 

Topic:

• We briefly talk about our favorite geographies...which means many things unto itself.

Cool Stuff:

• https://reearth.io

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford. You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week

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