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