Featured events

All the videos from the FOSS4G Oceania event from last year are now online. There’s tonnes of them with presentations covering a diverse range of topics. Most are 20 minutes long so a nice length to watch without having to invest too much

If it’s possible to find a silver lining with this pandemic, it would be the way the spatial community has come together to help each other out and share knowledge. So many physical events have been cancelled this year and it’s been

One event that slipped under my radar this year is OpenGeoHub. It looks like it was a really interesting one and the talks have been uploaded to YouTube. Tomislav Hengl (OpenGeoHub Foundation)OpenGeoHub is a not-for-profit research foundation with headquarters in Wageningen, the Netherlands

If you’re like me and weren’t able to attend NACIS this year then you’ll be glad to hear that the videos of the talks have been released and are available on YouTube. So many amazing talks on so many different topics

This week saw the start of Topi Tjukanov’s #30DayMapChallenge. The general idea is that for each day of November you create something with spatial data and share it with the wider community. The catch is that each day has a specific theme that

State of the Map US took place back in September and hosted a variety of talks related to the OpenStreetMap ecosystem. The videos of these talks have recently been released and can be found by clicking each talk title after following the link. State

From what I could see online, FOSS4G UK was a big success and packed full of interesting talks. I unfortunately wasn’t able to make it but I’m glad to see that the live stream was recorded and is already available to watch.

Coupled with the FOSS4G videos is this collection of slides from various talks, curated by programmerpunk. A perfect companion to the recordings. os-geoinformatics/foss4g2019This repository contains publicly available slides of the presentations from FOSS4G Bucharest, Romania. - os-geoinformatics/foss4g2019os-geoinformaticsGitHub

I wasn’t able to make FOSS4G in Bucharest this year, which was gutting as it looks like I missed a fantastic event from what I could see online. Fortunately the whole event was recorded so everyone like me can catch up on what

The Research and User Support for Sentinel Core Products (RUS Training) is a place to learn all about how to use Sentinel satellite data. It’s free and there are a selection of upcoming courses to choose from. Previous courses and webinars have been

If you’d like to learn about remote sensing using radar then you should check out the Echoes in Space course. It’s online and you can join the course even after its started, so you can learn at your own pace. Echoes in

NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) offers an ongoing series of webinars covering a variety of topics related to NASA Earth science data. They offer both introductory and advanced sessions throughout the year. Applied Remote Sensing Training

A new display has been opened at Hughenden — north-west of London — to shed light on the secret wartime map-making operation that happened there. They created maps for Bomber Command, including maps for the historic ‘Dambusters’ raid. What’s crazy is that this secret operation

A large number of slides and videos have been released from this year’s NOAA Geospatial Summit, primarily focused on geodesy and related fields. 2019 Geospatial Summit | National Geodetic Survey