GeomobThank you everyone who joined us last night in Barcelona, it was another fun one, and our final Geomob event of 2025!
Here's our summary of the evening
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2/ First up, we of course need to thank our hosts CoworkIdea https://coworkidea.com for once again letting us use their space, and and our sponsors OGC https://www.ogc.org and OpenCage https://opencagedata.com for funding the drinks 🍻 during the discussion portion of the evening 🙏
3/ First speaker was Matteo Ferrari presenting Lane Patrol https://lanepatrol.com and their work on helping cities assess and plan cycling infrastructure 🚴♀️
4/ next we heard from Núria Julià Selvas of CREAF https://www.creaf.cat about citizen science and how it can help expand the size of datasets, especially in the context of geospatial data where having many measurements from all over can be critical to getting the full picture.
5/ Our next speaker was Alex Lopez from Indra Space tell us about GPS jamming. A big problem in need of dependable solutions.
He showed us a map from gpsjam.org https://gpsjam.org/?lat=54.03978&lon=39.35828&z=4.3&date=2025-12-02
6/ Maria Guzmán was our 4th speaker of the evening, telling us about GISWater https://www.giswater.org a QGIS plugin for mapping water networks. Maria showed us several interesting aspects of the tool and discussed the global community behind it. Open Source at its best 💪
7/ Last but not least Gerard Margarit took us through some of the earth observation activities at GMV https://www.gmv.com 📡
8/ With the talks concluded it was time to vote for the best speaker ...
congratulations to Matteo👏👏👏 who earned the SplashMaps voucher!
9/ time to head to the pub for discussion 🍻
Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees, it was a fun one.
Our next Barcelona event will be in March or April. Please volunteer if you would like to speak: https://thegeomob.com/volunteer-to-speak
See you in 2026!
10/ wait! One more! If Iberian geoinnovation is your thing don‘t forget to check out Geocamp / SotMes coming up on the 13th in Zaragoza https://2025.geocamp.es/
