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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 2h

And yes, this does mean we have SEVEN events coming up!

We look forward to seeing you all in London (2x), Antwerp, Berlin, Edinburgh, Barcelona and/or Utrecht 💪🌍

Thank you to our sponsors, local organizers, venue partners, and most of all speakers who make it possible 🙏

Screenshot of the list of upcoming Geomob events on the Geomob homepage

Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 3h

We are excited to announce the next Geomob Barcelona, which will take place on the evening of 🗓️ Wednesday, December 3rd. We will once again be hosted by our friends COWORKIDEA https://coworkidea.com at their co-working space just a few minutes from Plaça de Catalunya.

Geomob Barcelona venue provided by CoworkIdea, event sponsored by OpenCage and OGC

Map of Barcelona with a pin showing the location of CoworkIdea, where Geomob Barcelona will be held

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 19h

Geomob London sponsor Geolytix https://geolytix.com are hiring for a Software Configuration Developer

https://geolytix.com/blog/we-are-hiring-software-configuration-developer/

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 2d

We have some good and bad news about Geomob London coming up on Wed. Oct 22nd at Geovation in Clerkenwell.

The good news is we have a great line-up of speakers that you all seem very interested in.

The bad news is that the sign-up is now closed, we are at maximum capacity for the venue. Sorry.

Speaker line-up for Geomob London on 22 October 2025

Geomob London venue parters and global supporters

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 8d

Huge thanks 🙏 to all of our organizers, sponsors, venue partners, and speakers who make it possible 💪

We hope to see you at an event soon!

Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 8d

This means we have six events on the upcoming Geomob schedule - you have your choice of London 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (2x), Antwerp 🇧🇪, Berlin 🇩🇪, Edinburgh 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Utrecht 🇳🇱, and possibly we will add more.

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 10d

We're looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow (Sept. 30th) at Geomob Edinburgh, this time at the offices of Esri UK

New venue, but the traditional Geomob recipe: interesting talks followed by relaxed discussion over #geobeers

Door open at 6, talks start at 6:30

speaker list for Geomob Edinburgh on 30 Sept 2025

map showing location of the Esri UK office where the 30 Sept 2025 Geomob Edinburgh will take place

Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

11/ one final note - for those in Berlin who like a good geo-event - on Monday, 29th Sept the 2nd GeoIT Symposium will take place at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences

https://geoit.org/?page_id=5995

Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

10/ thus we moved to the second half of the evening: relaxed discussion at a nearby pub.

Thanks again everyone for a great evening, wonderful to see so many of you, both regulars and first-timers.

Our next Berlin event will be on 🗓️ Wednesday, 19th of November

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

9/ as per Geomob tradition the audience then voted for the SplashMap best speaker winner ...

Congrats to Michael for taking the prize! 👏👏👏

Thank you to all of the speakers for sharing their projects.

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Michael Cruickshank - 25 Sept 2025 SplashMaps best speaker prize winner!

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

8/ Last but not least was Noam Raby sharing his open-source project to create a library for better visualization of query forms.

https://noamra.github.io/ogc-cql2-filters/?cql=vehicle_height+%3E+%28bridge_clearance-+1%29

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

7/ Our next speaker was Aurélie Shapiro of the Food & Agriculture Organisation discussing their project to measure sustainable cocoa agriculture.

Challenging but important work in the efforts to limit deforestation.

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Aurélie Shapiro presenting at Geomob Berlin

very difficult to use earth observation to quantify cocoa production due to forest cover

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

5/ Third Geomob speaker was Felix Delattre of Development Seed discussing eoAPI https://eoapi.dev their open-source service to help grapple with the problem of ever growing volumes of geospatial and earth observation data

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Felix Delattre presenting at Geomob Berlin

we need new technologies to deal with the tsunami of data

eoAPI is open source, everyone is encouraged to get involved

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

Specifically she shared projects to better quantify the extent of boreal forests and tracking the changes to permafrost landscapes. Finally she introduced us to the tool Arctic Landscape EXplorer (ALEX) https://alex.awi.de

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

4/ Next up was Léa Enguehard of the Alfred Wegener Institute where she works on research around the effects of climate change on the Arctic.

Léa Enguehard presenting at Geomob Berlin

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

3/ First up we heard Michael Cruickshank, telling us about his efforts to model infrastructure inter-connectivity, specifically showing us an example case in Mombasa, Kenya 🇰🇪

Learn more: https://anthropoceneanalytics.eu

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Michael Cruickshank speaking at Geomob Berlin

Cities are where most people live, and incredibly complex systems

many systems depend on other systems, often in surprising ways

showing how failure of power transmission can lead to failure of water supply

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

Dave Whittingham (himself a former Geomob best-speaker winner) briefly introduced Bettermile, and then organizer Peter Rose of Mapular introduced the talks

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

2/ We start by thanking our generous hosts from Bettermile for the use of their excellent facility for the talks, an our sponsors Mapular, OpenCage, and the OGC for funding the post-talk drinks 🙏

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

What a fun night we had last night at Geomob Berlin! Thank you to everyone who came along, the Berlin geo scene is thriving.

Here's our summary of the evening.

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Some of the mob outside the Kneipe during the post-talk discussions

the crowd right before we started the talks

speaker lineup for the 25 Sept 2025 Geomob Berlin

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

We will post a detailed summary of the evening tomorrow

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 13d

About to start Geomob Berlin. Thank you Bettermile for hosting!

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 14d

Many thanks to our sponsors for making the evening possible:

- Mapular https://www.mapular.com
- OGC https://www.ogc.org
- OpenCage https://opencagedata.com

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 14d

Berlin! Tonight is the night!

We will see you from 18:00 at the offices of Bettermile https://bettermile.com in Kreuzberg

It should be another fun and informative evening.

Full details and speaker line-up:
https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-25th-2025-geomobber-details

Speakers for Geomob Berlin on 25 Sept 2025

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Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 15d

Tomorrow (Thurs, Sept 25th) Geomob Berlin 🇩🇪
https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-25th-2025-geomobber-details

Next Tuesday (Sept 30th) Geomob Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
https://thegeomob.com/post/sept-30th-2025-geomobedi-details

We look forward to seeing you there.

#geomobBER #geomobEDI

Speaker line-up for Geomob Berlin on 25th Sept.

Speaker line-up for Geomob Edinburgh on 30th September

Geomob @geomob.bsky.social · 17d

Like episodes about #OpenStreetMap or geospatial start-ups? We have category pages over on the site where you can find many more:

OSM: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/tags/openstreetmap

Start-ups: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/tags/startup

Geomob website screenshot of the page listing all OpenStreetMao podcast episodes

Geomob website screenshot of the page listing all Geospatial start-up podcast episodes