6/ Marc was recently a guest on the Geomob Podcast (Ep. 253)
3/ Next we heard from Michael Dales, @mynameismwd@mastodon.se
Planetary Computing Fellow at Univ. of Cambridge about the significant challenges scientists face in dealing with the ever-growing jumble of tools and massive volumes of spatial data that has now increasingly become available.
It was another great Geomob London last night. Thank you to all of you who came, to Geovation for hosting, to our speakers for sharing their stories, and of course the sponsors
Here's our summary thread of the evening
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5/ @Mprioleau Marc Prioleau of the Overture Maps Foundation was next, detailing exactly what Overture is and isn't, and the progress they have made since launching 3 years ago
2/ First up was Andy Ashburner telling us the story of the rise, fall, and then rise again of @pindrop
An app to make it as easy as possible to share locations.
https://www.pindrop.it
4/ 3rd speaker of the evening was Helen Mazalon, sharing a project she worked on to apply GIS skills to help most efficiently deploy resources to reduce poverty in northern Uganda
London! We will see you tonight from 6pm back at Geovation in Clerkenwell.
We have six interesting talks followed by discussion at the pub.
Hope you can join us: