After a very long hiatus GeoRabble is finally returning to Canberra! Accompanying Locate22, we’ll be kicking off Monday night’s activities with drinks and good times.

Join us and our wonderful speakers at King O’Malley’s in Civic on Monday 23rd May, thanks to our generous sponsor NGIS. Book now through eventbrite as places are limited! 

For those new to GeoRabble, our event is a chance to catch up with other GIS folks and make new friends. There will also be a few presentations strictly adhering to the following rules:

Presentations no longer than 10 minutes.

• Celebrate each others’ triumphs.
• Respect each others’ choice – no technology bigotry.
• No sales pitches – this includes services, software, data etc.
• No company logos or ‘about us’ slides.

We look forward to seeing you in person at:

Location: 131 City Walk, Canberra ACT 2601

(Or -35.27836, 149.13102 or ///boot.horses.models for the elite GeoGeeks amongst us)

Date: Monday 23rd May

Time: 7-9pm

Tickets available on Eventbrite

Speaker line up

• Amelia Davies (she/her), Director Location Capability Australian Bureau of Statistics, Chair of the SSS-DLN – Inclusion@Work Index
• Warwick Sayers, Nova Systems – Geospatial in PowerBI
• Ben Turrell, Simple Spatial

That’s a wrap! Fantastic GeoRabble Melbourne event last night, thanks to our speakers, Mina, Phil, Steve and our sponsor, Spatial Vision.

If you are interested in speaking or what to sponsor, get in touch, until next time Rabblers…

So its been a long time between talks, between drinks it’s been a long time full stop.

The crew is bringing you a GeoRabble Melbourne event for Thursday 24th March at the Clyde Hotel. Head over to Eventbrite to get tickets:

We have four great speakers in the wings and are looking for two more.

So if interested, please email or drop us a line on the social feeds. Special mention to our Sponsor Spatial Vision!

It would be great to see you all and as we get more information we will be sharing it.

Speaker line up

Mina Jahanshahi

Let’s talk slope analysis and why it’s flawed

Months ago a front-page ABC article detailed how differences in a GIS slope analysis created variances on the map and had material impacts on logging areas. As spatial professionals, we should be able to fully understand and defend the geo-processes we use and more importantly what we don’t use.

Rafe Benli

Place naming and Traditional Owner languages

Learn about the importance of place naming, connections to Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality and initiatives planned for the United Nations Decade of Indigenous Languages.

Philip Mallis

Mapping Banh Mi

Banh mi are probably one of the most popular lunch meals in Australia. I set out to map the over 300 shops in Melbourne that sell them, including data on the cost. This can reveal some interesting spatial insights!

Philip is a transport planner working in Melbourne, and makes maps in his spare time. You can see these at: https://maps.philipmallis.com

Steve Bennett

15,000 random adventures

In 2008, the xkcd webcomic published a formula that generates a random, unpredictable location every day within each 1 degree graticule. Thus was born the sport of “geohashing”, which has since seen more than 15,000 expeditions around the world, as serendipity-seekers set out through sun, snow and suburbia to stand…nowhere special. Steve showcases the highs and lows of this literally random caper, through a purpose-built data visualisation tool, geohashing.win.

Steve is a freelance web developer and Mapbox expert, known for visualisations of large datasets such as opentrees.org. More examples at hire.stevebennett.me.

And thanks to our Sponsor Spatial Vision!!

If that wasn’t enough Spatial Vision are recruiting, check out their page for opportunities: spatialvision.com.au/careers

With GeoRabble Sydney fast approaching, we’re excited to announce our lineup of speakers for the evening. Tickets are limited, so register now to guarantee your spot – there are only 20 left!

Speakers:

Nick Evershed, the data and interactives editor for Guardian Australia, will be talking about visualising COVID-19 data for the public.

Mary-Ellen Feeny will be tackling the ‘allied industries’, discussing spatial and the converging environments of data science, engineering, automation, predictive analytics.

Alex Allchin will be presenting on treasure hunting with old maps, detailing his adventures in using modern tech to find survey marks from the 1800s.

Brittany Dahl will be sharing her experience mentoring the next generation of GeoGeeks.

Wilson Yung will be speaking about using mobility data analysis to understand post-lockdown business recovery.

We look forward to seeing you there!

After a long hiatus GeoRabble is finally returning to Sydney for one last hurrah before we say goodbye to 2021.

That’s right, you read correctly folks: a real life face-to-face event on Wednesday 15th December, where all backgrounds will be real and no one will be on mute. (Apart from when our wonderful speakers will be presenting, of course – more on that soon!)

Thanks to our generous sponsors at Mercury Project Solutions, there will even be some food provided on the night. 

Register now to reserve your spot at *THE* GeoGeek event of the season. Places are limited!

For those new to GeoRabble, our event is a chance to catch up with other GIS folks and make new friends. There will also be a few presentations strictly adhering to the following rules:

• Presentations no longer than 10 minutes.
• Celebrate each others’ triumphs.
• Respect each others’ choice – no technology bigotry.
• No sales pitches – this includes services, software, data etc.
• No company logos or ‘about us’ slides.

We look forward to seeing you in person at:

Location: The Occidental Hotel, 43 York St, Sydney NSW 

(Or 33°52’00.1″S 151°12’20.5″E for the elite GeoGeeks amongst us)

Date: Wednesday 15th December

Time: 6-9pm

Thanks again to our sponsor:

GeoRabble Sydney is this week, and we’re excited to announce the lineup of speakers who have kindly volunteered to enlighten us for the evening. Tickets are limited so get in quick!

#1 Peita Blythe:

Peita is a map illustrator & designer who has drawn locations all over the world. She will be sharing insight into her design process, including her recent Inner West Ale Trail project.

#2 Ken Tsang:

Ken is a developer and brains behind many cool mapping applications. He will be speaking about the trials and tribulations of building his most recent ‘viral’ project COVID-19 Near Me.

#3 Claire Daniel:

Claire is an urban planner, programmer and spatial data person currently undertaking a PhD. They will be speaking about the challenges of data for good urban planning, particularly focusing on business location data in the hope that the audience might have some ideas.

#4: Matt Williams & Nate Henry:

Spotto is a Sydney startup turning assets into location data. Their technology is enabling all sorts of useful indoor mapping, such as helping hospitals find critical equipment. They’ll be talking about their journey and the challenges of finding things.