Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for a delightful Geomob Berlin.
Here's our recap of the evening.
First things first, thanks to hosts UP42 https://up42.com for sharing their office with us.
UP42 is currently hiring: https://up42.com/company/careers
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2/ Our first speaker was a Dave Whittingham (a past best speaker winner!). Dave returned to share his story trying to build a basic, map-based travel sharing tool for a cycling trip.
Unfortunately good intentions don't always yield a great product, and he shared lessons learned with us in his talk.
3/ Our next speaker was Ayesha Anwar who spoke about flood mapping using SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) which has the benefit of detecting flooding through clouds and at night.
4/ Third speaker of the evening was Finn Geiger from Mapular https://mapular.com describing the challenges they faced in quickly rendering massive amounts of POI data. After experimenting with DuckDB they eventually built a much simpler solution.
5/ Benjamin Trigona-Harany was our next speaker and he gave a very entertaining talk about his hobby project of mapping Ottoman transportation networks. Lots of beautiful and interesting old maps in this talk.
The audience later awarded this talk the SplashMaps best speaker prize 👏👏👏
Learn more: https://www.jaxartes.net/pages/ottoman-transit/
6/ Last but not least was Ingo Boegemann of Truemetrics https://www.truemetrics.io discussing the challenges of how they use driver behavior to improve last-mile delivery
7/ with that the first half of the evening was done, and we moved to a nearby bar for discussion. Thank you sponsors:
OpenCage https://opencagedata.com
Mapular https://mapular.com
OGC https://www.ogc.org
for funding the drinks
8/ It was a fun and educational evening, thank you everyone!
The only negative was that we had to limit attendance due to the size of the venue. We need your help to find larger venues for future events. Please let us know if you can help!
Our next Berlin event will be on 🗓️ Wednesday, 22 April - sign-up is open, we still have a few speaking slots to be filled. Please volunteer.
https://thegeomob.com/post/april-22nd-2026-geomobber-details
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