Huge thanks to Coworkidea for once again hosting us, and @opencage@osm.town and the OGC for sponsoring.
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10/ wait! One more! If Iberian geoinnovation is your thing don‘t forget to check out Geocamp / SotMes coming up on the 13th in Zaragoza https://2025.geocamp.es/
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9/ time to head to the pub for discussion 🍻
Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees, it was a fun one.
Our next Barcelona event will be in March or April. Please volunteer if you would like to speak: https://thegeomob.com/volunteer-to-speak
See you in 2026!
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8/ With the talks concluded it was time to vote for the best speaker ...
congratulations to Matteo👏👏👏 who earned the SplashMaps voucher!
https://www.splash-maps.com
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Gerard Margarit speaking at Geomob Barcelona
Flood risk maps
Detecting oil spills at sea
Very detailed land use maps from sat imagery
7/ Last but not least Gerard Margarit took us through some of the earth observation activities at GMV https://www.gmv.com 📡
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6/ Maria Guzmán was our 4th speaker of the evening, telling us about GISWater https://www.giswater.org a QGIS plugin for mapping water networks. Maria showed us several interesting aspects of the tool and discussed the global community behind it. Open Source at its best 💪
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Alex Lopez presenting at Geomob Barcelona
The Threat Landscape
Map of GPS jamming from gpsjam.org
What can we do about GPS jamming?
5/ Our next speaker was Alex Lopez from Indra Space tell us about GPS jamming. A big problem in need of dependable solutions.
He showed us a map from gpsjam.org gpsjam.org/
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Núria Julià Selvas presenting at Geomob Barcelona
GeM+ a geospatial metadata manager
We need standards to help manage data from many different sources
OGC Sensor Thing API
4/ next we heard from Núria Julià Selvas of CREAF https://www.creaf.cat about citizen science and how it can help expand the size of datasets, especially in the context of geospatial data where having many measurements from all over can be critical to getting the full picture.
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Matteo Ferrari speaking at Geomob Barcelona
Lane Patrol provides cities with scenario simulation tools
Matteo Ferrari speaking at Geomob Barcelona
Matteo Ferrari speaking at Geomob Barcelona
3/ First speaker was Matteo Ferrari presenting Lane Patrol https://lanepatrol.com and their work on helping cities assess and plan cycling infrastructure 🚴♀️
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Thank you sponsors!
2/ First up, we of course need to thank our hosts CoworkIdea https://coworkidea.com for once again letting us use their space, and and our sponsors OGC https://www.ogc.org and OpenCage https://opencagedata.com for funding the drinks 🍻 during the discussion portion of the evening 🙏
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Geomob Barcelona discussion at the pub
Geomob Barcelona discussion at the pub
Thank you everyone who joined us last night in Barcelona, it was another fun one, and our final Geomob event of 2025!
Here's our summary of the evening
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We are off! Our first Geomob Barcelona speaker is Matteo Ferrari presenting Lane Patrol. We will post a full summary of the evening tomorrow #geomobBCN
OpenCage https://opencagedata.com
OGC https://www.ogc.org/
Gràcies!
We are once again hosted by our friends at COWORKIDEA https://coworkidea.com
We hope you can join us!
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Speakers at the December 3rd Geomob Barcelona
The line-up is now set for the December 3rd Geomob Barcelona.
It should be a great one, we hope you can join us!
Details / Sign-up: thegeomob.com/post/dec-3rd-2025-geomob...
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of this new style of development.
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public school data tools are ok but not as good as they could be
Toni shows us his tool which aggregates more data and makes it more easily visible
More to come, anyone who wants to get involved is welcome
4/ sticking with the topic of schools, Toni del Hoyo returns to the Geomob Barcelona stage to share his personal side project to build a better Barcelona school analysis tool by aggregating all the various open data.
Contributors welcome: https://github.com/thoyo/escoles
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built and open-sourced to take on the task.
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Isaac Hoyes of onocoy presenting at Geomob Barcelona
Traditional reference station data is very precise, but also very expensive. Particularly for the developing world this is cost prohibitive
onocoy uses much cheaper hardware. This is compensated for by having a think network of community participation
Isaac Hoyes of onocoy presenting at Geomob Barcelona
2/ First speaker was Isaac Hoyes of onocoy https://onocoy.com
Through a worldwide, engaged community they are making high-precision positioning radically cheaper. Participants in the network use low-cost base-stations to share precise positioning data while also earning money.
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Consortium https://www.ogc.org
- OpenCage https://opencagedata.com
Here's our summary of the evening
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We are at the pub #geobeers #geomobBCN
Talks start in 15 min. Will post some pics tonight and then a full summary tomorrow
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then discussion over drinks paid for by our sponsors OGC https://www.ogc.org and OpenCage https://opencagedata.com
Thank you to COWORKIDEA https://coworkidea.com for once again hosting us.
See you Wednesday!
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