Spatial Snippets is our weekly round-up of all the bits and pieces of geospatial news that didn’t make it into our normal ...

As regular readers of this newsletter know, my primary focus over the past year has been to champion the importance of geodesy and to prepare the geospatial ...

In 1969, Jack and Laura Dangermond launched Esri with a bold idea: geographic tools could help people understand – and ...

A British endurance swimmer and ocean advocate, Lewis Gordon Pugh, once said, “We need to save the Arctic not because of the ...

Lee County reported that it recently launched a new online tool to help the community stay informed about active nuisance accumulation cases underway through the code enforcement process. Nuisance ...

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Connecting the dots: By applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery, researchers have built an unprecedented database of man-made structures across the globe. The data could reshape ...

Back in May 2025, Jacob Harris was half-asleep in bed at his East Vancouver home when a big idea hit him. Earlier in the week, his partner Karoline Moore had brought home lino printing supplies from a ...

On a walk through a forest, you might spot lots of trees, flowers and even animals along the way. But what would you do if you saw a robot dog? Many people like to walk their dogs in the forest, but ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round—showing the Mediterranean to the East—but its inclusion set a ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...