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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 738

May 23, 2024·44 min·4 clips
The Ordnance Survey's new tool includes nicknames like Jabba the Hutt and Harry Potter Bridge for emergency response.
This episode covers recent geospatial news, including the Ordnance Survey's vernacular mapping tool, a disappearing waterfall in Ecuador, coral reef impacts in American Samoa, GPS disruptions in agriculture, and Amazon's new spatial indexing system. The hosts also reflect on the value of state GIS conferences for networking and professional development.

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A practical GIS news roundup about place names, driver assistance, and spatial indexing.

Episode 738 is a news-heavy geospatial roundup with Frank and Barb while Jesse and Sue are in Japan. It stays on practical mapping and location tech, moving from Ordnance Survey's vernacular place-name tool to in-car augmented reality for drivers, and then to Amazon Redshift's…

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Press play for a low-key GIS news episode that moves from vernacular place names to H3 hexagons without losing the plot.

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