Remote Sensing
Landsat Next Is Now Landsat 10: What the Descope Means for Free Imagery
NASA and USGS swapped the promised three-satellite constellation for a single observatory launching in 2031. What survives, what was lost, and how to plan around it.
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Esri Platform
ArcGIS Enterprise 12 Is a Breaking Release: The Web AppBuilder Cliff Is Here
Enterprise 12.x drops JS 3.x apps, Web AppBuilder, and Configurable Apps for good. The new lifecycle, the migration paths, and the audit to run first.
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GeoAI
Run a Global Weather Model on Your GPU: Earth-2 and Aurora Go Open
NVIDIA open-sourced its Earth-2 forecasting family and Microsoft's Aurora 1.5 beats ECMWF ensembles on most targets — with checkpoints on Hugging Face.
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3D & Digital Twins
Two Years After Bentley Bought Cesium, the 3D Tiles Bridge to AEC Is Real
iModels stream into Cesium ion as 3D Tiles, reality capture is coming to Self-Hosted, and the Cesium team just got a Philadelphia hub.
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Careers
Geospatial Salaries in 2026: The Category Gap Nobody Talks About
Fresh data says geospatial engineers out-earn GIS analysts nearly two to one — and the ladder between the categories is Python, cloud, and AI literacy.
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GeoAI
CARTO Went Full MCP: When Your GIS Platform Becomes Tools for AI Agents
CARTO now exposes its entire platform as MCP tools that Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini agents can call directly — the first web GIS to go MCP-native.
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Geodesy
NAD 83 Is Retiring: What NATRF2022 Means for Your Coordinates
Every US coordinate will shift by up to four meters when NOAA's modernized NSRS lands. The timeline, the caveats, and how to prepare your data.
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GeoAI
AI Assistants Are Now Everywhere in ArcGIS — Here's What's Actually GA
Three assistants hit general availability in June 2026, credits aren't consumed, and admins finally get role-level control. What to know before your next upgrade.
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Careers
AI Needs Geography: What GeoAI Actually Means for Your GIS Career
Esri's ArcNews argues AI expands the GIS profession rather than shrinking it. The skills that will define the next decade of spatial work.
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Data Engineering
GeoParquet, PMTiles, COG, and Zarr: Cloud-Native GIS Formats, Explained
Parquet now has native geometry types and Overture ships the planet as GeoParquet and PMTiles. A field guide to formats that don't need a tile server.
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Industry
GIS Without the Desktop: Felt and the Browser-First Wave
Prompt-to-app AI, one-click AWS deployment, and a mobile field app — what Felt's 2025 run says about where GIS software is headed.
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GeoAI
AlphaEarth: Google Compressed the Planet Into Embeddings — and Set Them Free
64 numbers for every 10-meter square on Earth, now available as open Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs. Why foundation models just made remote sensing accessible.
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Industry
Maps for Machines: HERE, Mapbox, and the Race to Ground AI in Location
HERE's Location Reasoning promises deterministic spatial answers for AI agents while Mapbox wires MapGPT into dashboards. The location platforms are rebuilding for the agent era.
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Open Source
QGIS 4.0 Is Here: What the Qt6 Migration Means for Your Plugins and LTR Plans
The biggest QGIS jump since 2.x→3.x landed in February 2026. The LTR timeline, why Qt5 forced the move, and what plugin users actually need to do.
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Open Data
Overture's GERS Goes GA: Stable IDs Could End the Conflation Tax
2.6 billion buildings and 321 million road segments now carry persistent IDs. Why that changes the economics of joining data to basemaps.
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