A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 793

News: Alabama continues the renaming issue MapQuest RustGIS Web corner CoastCraft uses environmental storylines for real-world  Topic: Interview with Dr. Shaun Dustin of Measure  Events: NCGIS: Feb 3-5, Winston-Salem Geoweek: Feb 23-25, Salt Lake City  Music: "Say Hey Alright" by Tiger Run   

News: Successful Sentinel 3C launch First images from new FireSat satellites WorldLabs to be acquired by AMD Lots of hardware announcements at INTERGEO… Topic: Geography Awareness Week coming November 15-21   Music: Back in Place by ZØYA

News: AI WorldLabs Atlas AI model IBM and NASA Lunar AI model   NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face Google releases WeatherNext3 AI model UN Endorses Equal Earth projection; France goes for Eckert IV Trimble releases SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor Web corner David Whyte poetry maps Topic: Laura and Nic of Environmental Professional Radio Events: R-Con 2026: 12-15 October, Boise Tolkien Conference Switzerland: 13 March, 2027: Lucerne "Maps and Landscapes in Tolkien's Middle-earth" Music: Chasing Nothing by Borrowed Wings  

News: NASA-ISRO NISAR SAR mission data products now available Geopera 2026 Bhote Koshe Flood open satellite data Cornell University's Cool Trees project releases first "Wall to Wall" map of city trees  Utility of GNIS continues to be eroded Geo Week event scholarship   Web corner: MiniTokyo3D Topic: Andres with Bootcamp GIS Summers and Mary of BlueRaster Events: 2026 SWAAG Annual Meeting - September 30, Lubbock, TX Middle Atlantic Regional Division Annual Meeting - November 20, Belair, MD 2026 Annual Meeting of SEDAAG - November 22-23, Tuscaloosa, AL   Music: "It's All Wrong (It's Alright)" by Cardboard Cat  

News: GOES 19 outage Suomi NPP data product delivery to end on November 1, 2026 Intermap acquires PCI Geomatics  FCC aims to ban more drones Internet famous bald eagle Jackie passes away Web corner: https://miniskyline.com/ Topic: Conversations from the Esri UC Map of Life CivQuest Events: QGIS User Conference: 5-6 October,  LAAX, Switzerland European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI): 17-20 November, Alicante, Spain

News: Mozambique Unveils Geospatial Platform to Accelerate Broadband Coverage SparkPNT OpenConstellation 1.0 SkyFi Launches MCP Web corner CyArk Tapestry Topic: Interview with Abi Wiedersberg and Will Mortenson of Overture Maps. Events: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: 1-4 September, London GIS-Pro 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee AGU Fall Meeting 2026: 7–11 December, San Francisco Music:  "It Was Worth It In The End" by Vian Izak  

Web corner: Destination Earth Topic: Questions we currently have about Geography/geospatial Music:  Around You (Ft. Alyssa) by REYUS  

News: US Supreme Court rules that 4th Amendment includes location data National Geographic Museum of Exploration opens Explore the stars in VR ArcGIS Online June update Climate.us ECMWF releases earthkit 1.0 Mapping underground fungi that help our planet Sentinel 1A mission ends Google Earth Pro desktop end of life   Web corner MapTap  

News: DGEO at Clark SpatialSQL moves to general availability MCP expanding for geospatial  Geoscientists map continent-sized geostructure under Antarctica Russian satellites jamming GPS signals Web corner Mega geocache Topic: Digital Earth/Gaussian Splats  Apple releases 3D Gaussian Splats  NYT R&D Guide to Gaussian Splats Events: 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 9 - 14 August,  Washington, D.C. Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment AGSE 2026, 21-25 September, Kumasi, Ghana  Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis 20th Anniversary Conference, 2-3 October, Boston, MA Music:  "In This Together" by Neighbor  

News: Upcoming unmanned NASA moon missions in 2026 Spexi and Niantic Spatial deliver a drone-to-3D pipeline Long Island Sound Lawn Fertilizer Pollution Tool  Web corner UK Geography New National Curriculum Change Topic: Thoughts on The GIS Industry Has Already Split in Two Events: Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas CaGIS Conference - 8-11 September, St. Louis NACIS: 21-24 October, Milwaukee GeoWeek 2027: 23-25 February, Salt Lake City  call for speakers   Music:  Pace by Brody Myles