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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

News: Grass 8.5.0 2026 Canadian Census Soundtrack  VertiGIS Acquires 1Spatial FME Flow and MCP Web corner Historica AI Interactive Map  Topic: Amy Rock of the UCGIS @ AAG  Events: Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026): 21 - 23 September, London,UK, and online 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) - 22--25 September, York    Music:  Those Days Were Ours by Saints of Valory

News: Sketchup, meet Claude ESA's Celeste in-orbit demonstrator transmits first signal The Map Shop Australia closing Web corner: https://paleolatitude.org/ Topic: Pix4D @ AAG Events: Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas S+SNZ Conference 2026: 9-11 September, Auckland, NZ UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 October, Grand Forks, ND

News: Artemis II Web corner National Council for Geographic Education GeoCircle Virtual Meetups Topic: Angel Lee, Director of Education Solutions at Esri   Events: GISPro: October 12-15, Milwaukee NCGE Annual Conference: October 16 - 18, Richmond, Virginia 81st SEDAAG Annual Meeting: 22 - 23 November, Tuscaloosa - Call for papers/posters. Music: UKE Like It by Brady Grey

News: Spatial computing grows as an investment trend Satellites confirm old sailor myth Web corner Financial Times (FT) Magazine special feature on mapping a changing world Topic: AAG interview, Mike from BayGeo Events: WV GeoCon: 1-3 June, Morgantown Music: Way It Feels by Alt Bloom

News: QGIS 4.0 Norrköping release Google Maps and Gemini ADA Web & Mobile Rule countdown CMU uses Sleep Cycle data to detect outbreaks Web corner: ESRI 3D interactive Dance of Continents  Topic: https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/ https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/03/02/when-geospatial-is-consumed-at-ai-scale/ Events: Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop: 14-16 April in Lafayette Louisiana  ACH 2026: 24-26 June, Virtual 2026 ASPRS International Technical Symposium: 5-8 October, Virtual  GIS-PRO 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee Music: Sad That I'm Still Sad by Liminal

News: Google Maps Granted Access to South Korea's Map Data ESA to launch Celeste LEO-PNT on March 24 A Farewell to ArcMap ArcGIS Online Feb '26 updates Texas A&M and NSF NCAR release MESACLIP Earth System Dataset AMS responds to potential NSF NCAR closure Bilawal Sidhu's WorldView Web corner:  NYC Layers of the Past Cartographic Project  Topic: Terrestrial mapping at GeoWeek Esri and Pix4D Topcon Emesent Events: GeoBusiness 2026: 3-4 June. London State of the Map 2026: 28-30 August, Paris GeoWeek 2027: 23-27 February, Salt Lake City

News: China rolls out satellite short messages NV5 releases GeoAgent Common Space  How GPS Shaped the World book bought by HarperNonFiction Web corner: Navigate National Geographic MapMaker with a game Controller Topic: Contemplating conferences Music: Time Remembered by Jane's Party