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

Files and data services

Catching up on news

Geovangelizing!

Conferences conversation

Catching up on some news

Talking about open-ness