Fellow geomobsters,

I'm pleased to announce the line up of our next event to be held on Thursday the 17th of May. We will once again generously be hosted by our good friends at UCL, who have made a lecture theatre in the basement of the Chadwich building available for us (room B05).We will have signs up on campus guiding you to the room.

As always things will kick off at 18:30, please be on time.We ask that you register on the Lanyrd page so that we can get aa rough idea of numbers

Our lineup this time features a great set of speakers:

• Longtime London geo presence Harry Wood will talk about the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. 
• We'll get a behind the scenes peak at the good work going at at FixMyStreet from Mark Longair.
• Mark Iliffe continues the evening's theme of using maps to make the world a much nicer place by telling us about Taarifa.
• Finally we'll close by learning of Robin Houston's work on CarbonMap.

As per tradition, the group will then adjourn to the nearby Jeremy Bentham pub for geobeers and reflection on the evening's talks. The whole thing is again generoudly sponsored by Lokku, makers of property search engine Nestoria. If that makes them sound like nice people, you should know they are hiring.

We look forward to seeing you at 18:30 on the 17th.

Fellow geomobsters,

many thanks to all of you who came to the February event, it was our largest turn out yet, the talks were well received and the geobeers were tasty. There are a few photos in the twitter stream (link below).

Post-geomob is of course pre-geomob. Our next event will be Thursday May 18th. We are still finalising the venue details and the speaker list, though the speakers who have already commited ensure that this will be an event not to be missed. As ever, please sign up on the lanyrd event page so we can get an estimate of attendance. For more details as they emerge please be sure to follow us on twitter.

If any of our corporate readers would be interested in co-sponsoring along with the the good folks at Lokku, please do get in touch.

And on a final note, we are delighted to see the recent news that WhereCamp EU will be held on 28-29th April in Amsterdam. We encourage all to attend what is certain to be a worthwhile event.

We look forward to announcing more details of our May 17th event in the near future.

Fellow geomobbers, I digitally come before you today with good news: we've finalized the line up for our first event of 2012 and I believe you'll agree that we are in for a geotreat (and I'm not just refering to the post event geobeers).

First of all, let us again thank our gracious hosts, University College London, who have generously allowed us to return. On the evening of Thursday, February the 16th, things will kick off at 18:30 in G07 in the Chadwick. As at past events we'll have some signs up on campus directing you. Please arrive on time so we can get started promptly. Also, please register at the event page over on Lanyrd.

Ok, enough organisational chit chat, let's move on to our lineup for the evening:

• Anna Powell-Smith will discuss her work on DomesdayMap.
  

• Bertrand Clerc and Benedikt Gross will be discussing their work on Mashing up OSM and Mental Maps.
  

• Ed Freyfogle will discuss Nestoria's recent switch from Google Maps to OSM.

• Matt Amos of MapQuest Open will give us a peak behind their tech curtain.

As usual the format will be a very brief intro, then each speaker will present for 10-15 minutes with a few minutes for questions, and the mob will then retire to the the Jeremy Bentham for discussion and geobeers graciously subsidised by our sponsor Lokku.

One final note, if you like geomob, you may well be interested in the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit also being held at UCL on the 17th and 18th. Please check it out.

We look forward to seeing everyone on February 16th.
 

Just thank you all for a great year of geomob conferences, 2012 will also embrace interesting speakers and fun geomob moments. We can anticipate so far that the first geomob meeting of next year will be on February the 16th, you can confirm your assistance now.

More information about the speakers to come soon.

Merry Christmas from the Geomob team!

We typically run Geomob events every three months or so. But following a lot of interest from the speakers, we thought to squeeze one more in, before the year is out.

Here are the details, hope to see you there!

WHEN

24th of November

Doors at 18:30, talks start at 18:45

WHERE

Room G08, Chadwick building, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT

SPEAKERS

- Azmat will introduce Bus Mapper, a new app that every Londoner who takes the bus will find very useful and CityMapper, perfect to get around any city quickly and easily.

- Matt McAlister (Director of Digital Strategy at Guardian Media Group) will talk about the launch of n0tice, an open community notice board.

- Tom Ward will speak about the fascinating geohashes project.

- And finally, long-time geomob community member Steven Feldman will talk about the latest from the openstreetmap GB. You can find more information about this project here.

ENTRANCE IS FREE

Please, sign up as "Attending" for this event on lanyrd and follow @geomob on Twitter.

The bad new is that it won't take place until November, the good new is that there is enough time to get ready for it!

See you all there!

As we mentioned some time ago, the next Geomob meeting will take place on Thursday 15th of September.

So, here is all the information you need to know before attending the event.

DATE, TIME AND LOCATION

15th September, 18:30 BST

Pearson Lecture Theatre - North East Entrance, UCL, Gower Street, London, W1T 5HB

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Daniele Quercia talking about his research, including rethinking mobile recommendations.

Ian Oszwald of Social Ties will talk about using AI to discover interesting people at events. We recommend you to download the Social Ties app, now on iPhone AppStore and on the UK Android Market.

Blaine Cook, ex-Osmosoft, ex-Twitter, ex-Yahoo FireEagle, author of OAuth, giving us his perspective on LBS and making web a little more responsive and a little more human.

And new speaker Dino Ravnic, CEO at GisCloud who will be speaking on, well, GIS in the cloud and replacing Flash map viewers with HTML5. For those who want to get more familiar with GisCloud, check this to learn how the company won Seedcamp 2010.

ENTRANCE IS FREE

Do not forget to sign up as "Attending" for this event on lanyrd and follow @geomob on Twitter

The current sponsors are Lokku and Nokia.

We know it's still six weeks away, but you should mark your diary to not miss the great line up of speakers.

Here are the main details, with more info to come soon.

DATE AND TIME

15th September, 18:30 BST

LOCATION

Pearson Lecture Theatre - North East Entrance, UCL, Gower Street, London, W1T 5HB

SPEAKERS

Daniele Quercia talking about his research, including rethinking mobile recommendations.

Ian Oszwald of Social Ties will talk about using AI to discover interesting people at events.

Blaine Cook, ex-Osmosoft, ex-Twitter, ex-Yahoo FireEagle, author of OAuth, giving us his perspective on LBS and making web a little more responsive and a little more human.

ENTRANCE IS FREE

Please, sign up as "Attending" for this event on lanyrd

Follow @geomob on Twitter

Si tu respuesta es "totalmente", no te sientas mal. Es normal que todos los usuarios de Internet nos estemos volviendo un poco adictos a esta magnífica herramienta que google nos ofrece. En Nestoria trabajamos por mejorar su implementación ya que nuestros usuarios lo utilizan constantemente.

En primer lugar es mucho mas fácil de acceder y entender que cualquier otro mapa, y en segundo, ha llegado a ofrecer un nivel de servicios que prácticamente ya no es necesario ni salir de casa ni consultar ninguna otra fuente para encontrar lo que necesitamos. Veamos algunos ejemplos.

La pestaña "Negocios" no solo te permite incluir la localización de tu negocio para que cualquier persona desde cualquier parte del mundo pueda encontrarte, si no que además, permite a tus clientes escribir criticas sobre su experiencia.

Google Maps Street View, tras todas las criticas y problemas que ha tenido por violar la privacidad en las calles, esta ya disponible prácticamente en toda España, véase el mapa de alcance.

Así que si eres de los que todavía salen a la calle, sonríe porque nunca se sabe cuando el coche de google pasara por delante de tu casa.

Todas estas y muchas otras ideas de los genios que trabajan en Google pueden tener su lado positivo o negativo según el uso que se haga de ellas. Pero, al ultimo éxito del buscador, aunque se basa en la nube de ceniza procedente del volcán Islandés que tantos quebraderos de cabeza nos a dado a todos, sólo le encuentro utilidades positivas. Y es que a través de Flightradar24 (seguimiento a tiempo real de vuelos de Google Map) ahora puedes comprobar tantas veces como quieras dónde se encuentra la nube, analizar sus movimientos y visualizar los vuelos que no han sido cancelados.

De momento parece que a España no se acerca y que así sea por mucho tiempo.

Once again, Geomob community did not disappoint.

Even on a day with tough competition from other events, Geomob gang turned out in force to see small but select team of cracking presenters:

• Vikas from Microsoft Bing Maps; 
• James from UCL Department of Geography / CASA; and 
• Jan from Eeve, an exciting startup just about to launch.

In the case you could not make it to the talks - the presentations are posted on our Slideshare account.

We'd like to thank all the speakers, attendees and sponsors, including Nokia - the latest addition to the sponsor list.

Have a nice summer and mark your diaries for the next Geomob - 15th of September!

London is full of exciting tech events, but if you are into geo and mobile you should join us on the 12th May for Geomob. 

We have great mix of speakers from a range of startups, established companies and academic projects. 

We are exited to have the Bing Maps Team come and talk about their service. Microsoft has been investing heavily into Bing maps with some exciting announcements recently - Global Ortho Project & BlackBerry Maps.

We also have four great talks lined up from CASA's James Cheshire on how he built a map of London's most common surnames and three startups called Evee,  Scoville and Lovefresh, which have been receiving a lot of attention, some even before launch.

So, for your quarterly geo and mobile fix, sign up on Lanyrd, and make it to UCL (Pearson Lecture Theatre - North East Entrance, Gower Street, London, W1T 5HB) at 6.30pm on the 12th of May.

The nearest tubes are Euston Square, Warren Street & Euston - (see map)

Entrance is free and all are welcome to come along to geodrinks at the Jeremy Bentham Pub after the event.

PLEASE SIGN UP AS "ATTENDING" for this event on lanyrd