Fantastic energy last night at Geomob Berlin
Huge thanks to our friends at Bettermile https://bettermile.com for once again hosting us (they are hiring).
Here's our summary of the evening, made possible by generous sponsors 🙏
• @dawarich
• FORMATION https://tryformation.com
• Herbert Held https://www.herbertheld.de
• Mapular https://mapular.com
• @opencage
• OGC https://www.ogc.org
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2/ First speaker was Markus Gräser, showing off his Virtual Reality experiment allowing you to fly through the world using #OpenStreetMap data.
Very cool demo, very challenging technically
Check it out here: https://ctrlw.github.io/osm4vr/
3/ Next we heard from Nataliia Lazareva presenting her work on a Data Driven Approach to Berlin’s Housing Crisis
Specifically she looked at the student housing situation - how bad is it, where is it most severe, and how could the situation be improved.
Learn more: https://github.com/natashlazarpro/rethinking_student_housing
4/ Oliver Thamm was our 3rd #geomobBER speaker. Oliver discussed his passion project of building a global engine for simulation of antiquity civilizations for gaming.
A massively complex project involving all sorts of interesting geospatial challenges and datasets
The audience selected this talk for the coveted SplashMaps best speaker prize! 👏
5/ Things then took a nautical turn as Amir Borovac presented Orca https://getorca.com
A navigational tool for sailors, particularly recreational sailors, for all phases of the sailing journey
6/ Last, but not least, was Linda Ochwada of TerraTask https://www.terratask.de a tool to help facility managers and local governments better plan green spaces, particularly around the changing climate.
TerraTask's intuitive interface makes the costs and benefits of green space design transparent.
7/ with much to discuss it was off to the pub to reflect on what we had learned.
Many thanks to everyone who came along, and our sponsors who fund the drinks 🍻
Geomob Berlin is thriving, with no shortage of people working on interesting things.
The next Berlin event is already planned, we'll be back on 1 Oct. for our next event, which will be run in partnership with GeoIT https://geoit.org
Sign-up is open, we hope to see you there!
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