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7/ with that the first half of the evening was done, and we moved to a nearby bar for discussion. Thank you sponsors:
OpenCage https://opencagedata.com
Mapular https://mapular.com
OGC https://www.ogc.org
for funding the drinks
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Ingo Boegemann speaking at Geomob Berlin, 25 February 2026
Drivers lose a lot of time finding parking and the correct entrance
Experienced drivers have local knowledge that can be captured and used to improve future deliveries
An example of how it works in practice
6/ Last but not least was Ingo Boegemann of Truemetrics https://www.truemetrics.io discussing the challenges of how they use driver behavior to improve last-mile delivery
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Finn Geiger speaking at Geomob Berlin, 25 February 2026
DuckDB proved too heavy for practical use
How Mapular's simpler solution compares
Key learnings from the project
4/ Third speaker of the evening was Finn Geiger from Mapular https://mapular.com describing the challenges they faced in quickly rendering massive amounts of POI data. After experimenting with DuckDB they eventually built a much simpler solution.
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Ayesha Anwar speaking at Geomob Berlin, 25 February 2026
Why SAR?
Project Overview
Mapping the flooding
3/ Our next speaker was Ayesha Anwar who spoke about flood mapping using SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) which has the benefit of detecting flooding through clouds and at night.
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Unfortunately good intentions don't always yield a great product, and he shared lessons learned with us in his talk.
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The entrance to the UP42 office
A brief intro presentation about UP42
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for a delightful Geomob Berlin.
Here's our recap of the evening.
First things first, thanks to hosts UP42 https://up42.com for sharing their office with us.
UP42 is currently hiring: https://up42.com/company/careers
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Many thanks to our friends at UP42 for hosting us tonight at Geomob Berlin. Talks start in 20 min! #geomobBER
One schedule change announcement: We have moved the date of our April Berlin event to 🗓️ Wednesday, 22nd of April
thegeomob.com/post/april-22nd-2026-geo...
Speaker volunteers are needed:
https://thegeomob.com/volunteer-to-speak
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Alexander Lehmann speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
EV charging has different use cases and requirements
The data can help site owners determine what the best charging solution for their users is
6/ How to use geospatial data to help overcome charging and range anxiety for drivers of electrical vehicles was the focus of the next talk by Alexander Lehmann of HERE
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Alana Belcon speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
The oldest known map
One of the first "world" maps
Maps can be manipulated
5/ Next up was Alana Belcon, sharing her life-long love of maps, and taking us through the major milestones in the history of human map making.
She closed with the wise reminder to never trust the map, to always question everything
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Patrick Nicklaus speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
Patrick Nicklaus speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
Patrick Nicklaus speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
Patrick Nicklaus speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
4/ Routing was also the focus in our next talk
Patrick Niklaus, of Kale Ai https://kale.ai shared the work they are doing to use #OpenStreetMap data to optimize mixed fleet delivery operations, particularly cycle delivery.
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Harald Körtge speaking at Geomob Berlin 19 Nov 2025
the Palm Pilot, cutting edge in its day
Many routing concepts from long ago remain highly relevant today
3/ First speaker was Harald Körtge who took us on a walk down memory lane sharing his experiences programming a routing service for Palm Pilot devices over 20 years ago.
While the hardware has changed radically since then, many of the core concepts remain
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Some of the Geomobsters at the pub after the talks
About to start the talks
It was another great one last night at Geomob Berlin
Here's our summary thread of the evening for this who couldn't attend
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We‘re setting up for Geomob Berlin. Will post a full summary thread of the evening tomorrow #geomobBER
Sept 25th, 2025 #geomobBER thegeomob.com/post/sept-25th-2025-geom...
Michael Cruickshank - 25 Sept 2025 SplashMaps best speaker prize winner!
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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Noam Raby presenting at Geomob Berlin
the challenge
Visitor design pattern
8/ Last but not least was Noam Raby sharing his open-source project to create a library for better visualization of query forms.
noamra.github.io/ogc-cql2-filters/
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Aurélie Shapiro presenting at Geomob Berlin
very difficult to use earth observation to quantify cocoa production due to forest cover
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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Felix Delattre presenting at Geomob Berlin
we need new technologies to deal with the tsunami of data
COG!!!
eoAPI is open source, everyone is encouraged to get involved
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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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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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
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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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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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
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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We will post a detailed summary of the evening tomorrow
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