When and where?

Geomob Zürich took place on the evening of Thursday, May 8th, 2025 May 15th, 2025 at the Meta Zürich office Giesshübelstrasse 30, 8045 Zürich: OpenStreetMap - Google Maps

Enter on the ground floor, you may see Samsung signs, and look for Meta reception desk behind glass doors near the toilets.

Agenda

  • Doors open at 18:00, set up and general mingling

  • Talks begin at 18:30 with a very brief introduction

  • Each speaker will have slides and speak for ideally 10 minutes or less. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions.

  • Relaxed discussion over beers drinks, and pizza paid for by our generous sponsors.

The speakers:

  • Oliver Wiplfi - Mapterhorn

  • John Shimshack - Reasons for the “duplicates” Problem on Meta Maps and Collaborative Ways to Solve It

  • Stefan Keller - OSM Swiss style: Innovations and Challenge

  • INTERMISSION

  • Petr Pridal - TimeMap.org: interactive map of history

  • Marco Bernasocchi - Streamlining fieldwork with Qfield

  • Michael Anthony - Nature Audits based on Satellite Data

  • Gjore Milevski - Fire, wind & terrain: Building contextual visualizations with Deck.gl (saving for next time)

(talks are full up for this round but feel free to pre submit for next round, perhaps in August)

Speaking slots are full this time! Would you like to speak in a future event? We will likely meet in September and December next. Speaker volunteers are always welcome

The organizers:

Geomob Zürich (GeomobZRH) is organized by Chris Beddow

Thanks

Geomob would not be possible without speakers and sponsors.

See the list of past speakers.

Please get in touch if you would like to speak at a future Geomob event.

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