#geomob London

Summer #geomob - 11 July 2013 at Google Campus

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:37:00 +0100

Fellow geomobsters,

I’m pleased to announce a great lineup for this summer’s event which will be held at 18:30 on Thursday the 11th of July. We’re very thankful to Google for once again hosting us at their Old Street Campus. We’re lucky to have five great speakers this time so we’ll try to kick off promptly. Please be on time.

The evening’s agenda.

Noah Veltman will start us off talking about his SF Placenames project.
Savio Dimatteo will take us through some of Nestoria’s geocoding challenges.
Relatedly, Michael Tandy will talk to us about falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.
Someone from the MapsData team will be showing off their service.
And we’ll close with what is sure to be an impressive demo from the ViziCities team.

Many thanks to all the speakers.

As per long standing #geomob tradition the talks will be followed by a visit to a local pub where the geobeers will generously be provided by sponsors OpenCage Data and knowwhere consulting.

As always, if you can join us please sign up via the Lanyrd page for the event so we can get an estimate of numbers. You’ll also find a map to the venue on that page.

We look forward to seeing everyone on the 11th.

Finally, due to all the action around #maptember, our autumn event won’t be until October. More details to follow here and via our twitter feed (you do follow us, right?). If you would like to speak or if you know of anyone who should speak, please get in touch.

Welcome OpenCage Data as new #geomob sponsor

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:30:09 +0100

Fellow geomobsters,

I’m delighted to announce our new sponsor OpenCage Data.

OpenCage helps organisations make use of OpenStreetMap data by providing a simple and affordable data extraction service. In their own words “OpenStreetMap data when you want it, in the format you want it”. If you want to avoid the yak-shaving involved in ongoing data extraction give OpenCage a try.

This week we’ll be posting the lineup for our next event which will be on 11th of July at 18:30 at Google’s Old Street Campus. Please register on the event page on Lanyrd so we can get a sense of the numbers. We look forward to seeing everyone there, the post-talk geobeers will be on OpenCage Data and our other sponsor knowwhere consulting.

Date set for July #geomob

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:05:09 +0100

Fellow geomobsters,

We’re just two and a half weeks from our next meeting on the 25th, but it’s never too early to start plotting a future #geomob. As such we’ve set he date and location for summer event: on July 11th at 18:30 we’ll be back at Google’s east London Campus. Please sign up on Lanyrd if you will be attending. Many thanks to the good folks at Google for hosting us once again.

The first speaker has already been found, but we’re hard on the hunt for more. Please let us know if you have something interesting to present or if you’d like to recommend someone else.

We look forward to seeing everyone in two weeks at UCL, and then again in July.

Spring #geomob - 25th of April at UCL

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Fellow geomobbsters,

many thanks for the strong turn out at our February event. A good time was had by all.

The pace of geoinnovation remains relentless and as such we turn our attention to our next event. At 18:30 on Thursday the 25th of April we’ll be back at UCL, this time in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre (in Basement of the Chadwick building - we’ll post signs).

As always many thanks to UCL for hosting us, and to our sponsors who make the whole thing possible. So that we can get a handle on numbers please sign up on the Lanyrd page for the event, where you can also find a map.

Our speaker line up is looking very good, ~~nevertheless we may be able to squeeze in one more~~. (Edit: we’re now full for this event, but please let us know if you’d like to speak in the future) If anyone is interested (or have an interest in speaking at future geomobs) please get in touch - the easiest way is by pinging us on twitter.

We look forward to hearing from the following speakers:

Brendan Gill of OpenSignal
Vasanth Subramanian of Locatable
Benedikt Gross of the Royal College of Art
Jon Corbett of the University of Britisch Columbia
Phillip Ronnenberg of OpenPositioningSystem
Gary Gale will close with a look at Vaguely Rude Place Names

I hope you will agree it looks like a promising lineup. Please arrive promptly. As per long standing #geomob tradition the talks will be followed by discussion and geobeers at a nearby pub.

I am look forward to toasting you all with geobeers on April 25th.

First #geomob of 2013 - 7 Feb at the BCS

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:52:00 +0000

Happy New Year geomobbsters!

We have several announcements to make as we kick of the 2013 #geomob season.

First of all we’re very pleased to announce that the Association for Geographic Information (more commenly known as “the AGI”), is joining us as an ongoing promotional sponsor. We look forward to welcoming AGI members at all future #geomob events.

Continueing on the theme of sponsorship we have more good news, November’s sponsor Knowwhere consulting is returning to help us with our February event. Along with permanent sponsor Lokku Ltd, makers of property search engine Nestoria, we now have a solid basis to ensure #geomob remains an informative and enjoyable (and thirst quenching!) event.

Of course the final piece in the sponsorship puzzle is our locaiton sponsors who donate their facilities. Our first event of 2013 will take place on Thurday the 7th of Februray at 18:30 and we’re very fortunate to be invited back to the British Computing Society’s excellent facilities near Covent Garden (The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street London, WC2E 7HA to be precise).

Our agenda for the evening features

Simon Willison, founder of Lanyrd

Chris Connell, creator of Mixer

Stuart Grant of geo.me

Dan Karran speaking about Bomb Sight

and we hope to add one or possibly even two more speakers to the list as wel (all speaker suggestions, for this event or future events are always gladly received). All of which will be followed by traditional #geobeers and informal discussion at a nearby pub. Please sign up on the Lanyrd page for the evening so we can get a sense of numbers, and please arrive on time as we will kick off promptly.

A final note for those who just can’t wait until February to get your geofix: WhereCampEU is happening in Rome onthe 18th and 19th of January. Closer to home, the OSM London pub meetup series kicks off this Thurday evening (10th of Jan).

We look forward to seeing all of you on the 7th of Feb at 18:30.

Agenda for 22 Nov #geomob

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:44:00 +0000

Fellow geomobbsters,

the details have now been fleshed out and I’m pleased to report we have a great line up planned for our final #geomob of 2012, which will be held at 18:30 22 November in Room 508 of UCL’s Roberts Building at Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE . Many thanks to UCL for having us back once again, and to our sponsors Knowwhere Consulting and Lokku, makers of Nestoria, who will be fuding the post event beers.

Our speaker list for the evening:

As you can see we’ve expanded from our usual 4 speakers to 6, so we’ll have to keep things moving along. Please arrive on time so we can kick things off on schedule.As always each speaker will have 10-15 minutes to present followed by 2-3 questions from the audience. Please note we are in a different room and building that we have been in in the past, so leave enough time to find it. There’s a map over on the event Lanyrd page.

If you can’t join us on the 22nd we look forward to seeing you at the first #geomob of 2013 which will take place at 18:30 on 7th of February. The British Computer Society has very generously made their facilities near Covent Garden available to us. You can see the speaking and attending list on Lanyrd - please do sign up so we can get an idea of the number to expect.

I close by saying I look forward to geobeers with all of you on the 22nd.

Final #geomob of 2012 - Thursday 22 Nov at UCL

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:23:00 +0100

Geomobbers,

many thanks to speakers, attendees, and our hosts, Google, for another good #geomob a few weeks back. Such is the relentless pace of innovation in the location based services space though, that we don’t have time to dwell on past events, we turn our attention to the future.

Our Q4 event will be taking place on Thursday the 22nd of November at 6:30pm. Our good friends at UCL have been gracious enough to host us once again, for which we’re very grateful. This time we’ll be in the Roberts Building, room 508. As always, please sign up on Lanyrd so we can get an idea of numbers. As per long standing geomob tradition we will afterwards retire to the Jeremy Bentham pub. I’m very pleased to announce that the November event features the arrival of a new sponsor. Along with Lokku, this event’s geobeers will be co-sponsored by knowwhere consulting! A few of the speakers are already commited, but if you or your organisation would like to speak, please get in touch. We will be closing out the list shortly.

If you can’t bear the thought of waiting until November to get your geofix, fear not. On Wednesday 24th of October Google’s Old Street Campus will be hosting the all day W3G 2012 Conference. The theme of “Is Open the New Black” will know doubt appeal to many geomobbers and we hope to see you all there.

Finally, for those of you ready to write off 2012 and turn your attentions to the green pastures of 2013, we’ve already set the date (and first speaker) of the Q1 #geomob. On Thursday the 7th of February we’ll return to the BCS near Covent Garden.

Yours in geolove,

the #geomob team

Line up of 20 Sept #geomob

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:47:00 +0100

Fellow geomobsters,

we hope the summer was enjoyable and everyone is ready to get back into the geoswing of things.

Next Thursday evening we’ll be meeting at 18:30 at Google’s Silicon Roundabout Campus for another #geomob. Many thanks to our friends at Google for making the venue available to us.

Our lineup for the evening is

Simon Tokumine - Introduction to CartoDB
Laurence Penney - One dimensional maps
George MacKerron - mappiness
Bart Denny - recce

As per time honoured #geomob tradition, we will then retire to the pub - The Fox - to reflect on the talks and general geo-merriment, with the first round or two paid for our ever loyal sponsors Lokku.

Based on the Lanyrd page, it seems we will have a good turnout.

If you can’t make it next week don’t be too disappointed, more geo fun is on the way. On October 24th Google Campus will play host to the all day W3G (un)conference. The theme this year is “Is open the new black”, keynote speaker is Tom Steinberg who has been leading great work on openness in government (geo related and otherwise) over at mySociety (regular geomobbsters will recall the talk at our last event about mySociety project FixMyStreet). W3G promises to be an interesting day where paticipants can go into more depth than our #geomob format allows.

In addition, we’ll squeeze in the final #geomob of the year on Thursday the 22nd of November. A few speakers are already on the agenda, but we’re on the hunt for more. All recommendations welcome.

We look forward to seeing everyone next Thursday at 18:30.

Q32012 #geomob - 20 Sept at Google Campus / Old Street

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:58:00 +0100

Geomobsters,

before you all slip off on your summer holidays, we thought we’d remind you to get Thursday the 20th of September in the old diary as the date of our next #geomob.

For the last year we’ve relied on the exceptional generosity of the good folks at UCL, but this time we thought we’d mix things up a bit and head east to Silicon Roundabout. We’re very pleased to announce that our friends at Google have invited us to use the shiny new Google Campus facility.

While the venue has changed the format hasn’t. We’ll be sticking with our tried and true recipe - four or five speakers each presenting for 10-15 minutes and a few audience questions, all of which will be followed by geobeers at a nearby pub (the #geomob organisers will be diliegntly “testing” candidate pubs in the coming months to ensure we maintain our rigerous quality standards, but all suggestions are welcome).

As ever, please sign up on Lanyrd so we can get an idea on numbers. Several speakers have already commited, and the lineup is looking very strong, but further suggestions would also be gladly received.

We look forward to seeing everyone in September!

On a final note, those who can’t go months without a geo event, we invite you to check out WhereCamp Berlin which is happening this weekend.

Q22012 #geomob - 17 May at UCL

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:40:00 +0100

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.

Our next event - Thursday 17th of May, 2012

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:24:00 +0000

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.

First #geomob of 2012 - Feb 16th at UCL

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:30:00 +0000

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.

Merry Christmas and happy geoyear!

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:21:00 +0000

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!

Another Geomob before Christmas? Sure, 24th of November...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:02:00 +0100

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!

Two weeks to the next Geomob!

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:03:00 +0100

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.

Next Geomob - Thursday, 15th of September!

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:30:00 +0100

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

Geomob May '11 - Bing, Eeve, CASA...

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:14:00 +0100

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!

Make the 12th of May a GeoMob Day

Tue, 03 May 2011 12:07:00 +0100

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

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Are you attending the next GeoMob event on Thursday, 12th of May?

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:32:00 +0100

If not then you should be.

We have a brilliant line up of speakers who are all innovating in the field of geo location. So, here are the details, with more to follow soon.

DATE

May 12th (Thursday), 18:30h

LOCATION

UCL, the Pearson Lecture Theatre (North East Entrance),

Gower Street,

London, W1T 5HB (map)

SPEAKERS

The Bing Maps Team

James Cheshire of CASA

Mark Spofforth of Lovefresh

Geoff Tidey of Lovefresh

Jan Senderek of Evee

We would like to give a big thanks to the UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering and Muki Haklay and Ollie O’brien in particular.

ENTRANCE IS FREE & ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US AT THE PUB AFTER THE EVENT.

PLEASE SIGN UP AS “ATTENDING” for this event on lanyrd

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Turn your phone into environment monitor - NoiseTube team talks at UCL

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:49:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone who attended our Geomob event earlier this month.

If you miss geo talks why don’t you check out this talk? It’s organised by Muki Haklay (Senior lecturer in GIS at UCL) and features the team behind the NoiseTube, an application that turns mobile phones into environmental data monitors.

We would also like to thank Muki Haklay and Ollie O’brien and everyone else in UCL for hosting us at our next Geomob event on Thursday, 12th of May.

Everyone who is interested in attending should tag themselves as ‘attending’ on the event page, and we will announce the event at a later date.