GeoRabble Perth #21 | The Return

Posted on 02/11/2018 by GeoRabble

We’re back!

After a bit* of a hiatus, Perth GeoRabble is back in action and ready to ‘rabble! And just in time for the end of year festivities too 😉

Join us on the 28th of November as we have an exciting starting line up of speakers including:

Ross Lewin – Can Artificial Intelligence find the Ants? Work being done to trial hyperspectral imagery and Machine Learning/AI in the detection of Red Imported Fire Ants (RFIA) in Brisbane for the Queensland Government.
Ikrom Nishanbaev – Exploring Australian Cultural Heritage Sites with the Geospatial Semantic Web

With more to be announced very soon!

Logistical details:

28th November 2018
Doors open 5:30pm
Presentations from 6:00pm
Universal Bar, 221 William St, Northbridge
A handful speakers, 10 minutes each, a room full of ‘rabblers, and the usual rules
Attendance is free, but for catering purposes please help our hosts by registering here

Follow @georabble on twitter or use the hashtag #georabbleper to join the conversation.

We can’t hold these events without the help of the greater Geocommunity! Please contact us if you’d like to be a part of sponsoring a future event or get involved in helping organise an event.

This event brought to you by the Perth GeoRabble team and sponsored our friends @ Hexagon Geospatial

*might maybe be a tad of an understatement

GeoRabble Melbourne #13

Posted on 29/10/2018 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Thursday 22 November 2018 at The Clyde Hotel. Networking drinks start 5:30pm. Presentations commence: 6:00pm followed by more networking.

Grab yourself a free ticket and enjoy the night with friends sharing geospatial ideas, free of sales pitches and hidden agendas! Each presentation is light, relevant to geo-something and only 10 minutes long.

Speakers

Stephen Lead: Bootleaf, a lightweight web-mapping framework.
Bootleaf is an open-source web-mapping framework based on Bootstrap and Leaflet. This presentation shows how to get started with using this tool to create responsive web-mapping apps in minutes.

Yashar Jamei: Analysing the relationship between spatial development patterns and urban heat island(UHI) phenomenon.
The multidisciplinary approach of this study combines the characteristics of GIS, Remote Sensing, landscape ecology and urban planning and has the potential to obtain new findings that will help urban planners in mitigating UHI effects.

Chris Roach & Jake Geddes: Telling a story with open source tech and time series web maps.
Chris and Jake were involved in a proof-of-concept exercise to research an endangered mammal species in Victoria, and to tell their story using open source software and time series web map visualisation. The presentation will look at the technical and data handling challenges along the way in this 4 day exercise.

Steve Pemerton: Improving Melbourne’s bus routes to meet real-life travel needs
Using GIS to test whether we’d achieve better public transport outcomes in Melbourne, for a real-life set of trip patterns, if we reconfigured our bus routes into a network of sparser but more direct and frequent services, in an intersecting grid.

More speaker details to be released soon…

If you have a great geospatial idea that you would like to share with a group of like-minded people, we want you for our next GeoRabble! Contact the GeoRabble committee to express your interesting topic in 20 words or less, or email your idea to melbourne@georabble.org

A very special thanks to our Sponsor FOSS4G SotM Oceania without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone …

FOSS4G

Surprise Guest Speaker Announced for GeoRabble Sydney: Thursday 18 October

Posted on 16/09/2018 by GeoRabble

We have a surprise, last-minute guest speaker to announce!

Edie Bannerman, Youth Ambassador for Plan International Australia, will present their work on the “Free to Be Crowd-sourced Mapping Project” (http://planfreetobe.org/).

Through Free to Be, thousands of girls and young women in Sydney, Delhi, Kampala, Lima and Madrid have reported their experiences and shared their stories, to help create safer and more inclusive cities for everyone.

It’s not too late to register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/georabble-sydney-returns-tickets-50670880969

Other speakers for GeoRabble Sydney: “The Unusual Suspects” are…

Shesha Maheshwari: “GeoAI – How emerging technologies (such as mobile apps, smart wearables etc) use geospatial data for various purposes”
What the benefits are of such applications, as well as what their impacts are moving into the future – with a specific focus on the Cybersecurity/Information Systems Security Domain.
Hugh Saalmans: “Insurance, Customers, Disasters and Geo”
In March 2017, Cyclone Debbie damaged over $3bn worth of homes, businesses, farms and infrastructure along a 1000km long corridor – how did a big insurer, with thousands of customers impacted, use geospatial information to respond?
Roney Rodrigues: “From unprofitable cattle ranches to multibillion-dollar developments: All starts with… LiDAR!’
The use of LiDAR for architectural master plans and models, which have helped to raise funds from investors for the development of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. In both cases it is not the technical aspects of processing data or the final product that were generated. It’s all about creating solutions for customers that had no idea RS data could help them.
Chris Counsell: “Everyone’s a suspect”

Maps have been popular for millennia. What’s different today is they’re online, and just about anyone can make them. The result is a true GeoRabble; dinosaurs, Monopoly, t-shirts and kids(?) games. We’ll take a look at some of the more unusual applications of GIS online and how your wildest GIS ideas aren’t that far away.
Ian Hay: “Mapping Pacific Island slums and atolls: grounding geospatial methods in community-led approaches”
Presentation on some projects that we’ve done which have used drones, mobile data collection services, and have included ‘open’-ish spatial data protocols. They are international development projects in the Pacific regarding informal settlements (slums) and climate change vulnerability assessment, with a local village focus. The availability of new technology platforms has profoundly influenced our (spatial) work.

Registrations are now open: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/georabble-sydney-returns-tickets-50670880969

After too long an absence, we’re delighted to announce that GeoRabble Sydney will be back, on Thursday October 18th, from 6PM at the Occidental Hotel in York Street.

As usual, entry is free, and there will be pizza (courtesy of HERE Technologies)

Theme of this Rabble is “The Unusual Suspects” – celebrating the unusual, unsuspected, and surprising applications of geoinformation and -technology. Think using GPS for herding cattle, new uses of drones, photogrammetry in health, GIS on Mars, mapping in insurance and finance, to name just a few.

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GeoRabble Melbourne # 12 – Thursday 26 July

Posted on 02/07/2018 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Thursday 26 July 2018 at the Imperial Hotel – Bourke Street, Melbourne. Networking drinks start 5:30pm. Presentations commence: 6:00pm followed by more networking.

Speakers

Dr Elizabeth Jean Taylor　- Space age car parking　Using remote sensing to track surface car parking extent and occupancy.
RMIT research piloting image detection from aerial imagery to estimate surface car parking use, to inform planning and transport questions.

Phillip Mallis – Creating a Map of New Britain, PNG
Maptime Melbourne uses Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team tools to assist pediatrics in Papua New Guinea (and you can too!).

Surveyor-General of Victoria Craig Sandy – The impact of five centimeters
How will five centimeters impact the surveying and spatial industry.

Steve Bennett – Millions of features, no database!
How do you turn millions of features into a snappy, interactive web map with no database, no server and no budget? With an automated vector-tile generation pipeline, of course.

Rita Butera – Victorian Women’s Health Atlas
Using reliable evidence based data, the Atlas assists in the identification of gender impacts on key health areas.

John Ward – Problems in Defining Geospatial Catchment Areas for Economic Activity

Tickets are available via eventbrite.

A very special thanks to our Sponsor HERE Technologies without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone …

https://www.here.com/en

GeoRabble Tas #9

Posted on 30/04/2018 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble Tas #9

GeoRabble is back in Hobart for the first time this year! Jacobs has agreed to sponsor the event, which means we can run one, so we are! No surprises, it’s just a great chance to catch up with some nice folks with similar interests and share a few words over a beverage or two.

Presenters

View the eventbrite registration link below to find out about presenters.

Details

Date: Thursday 28th June, 2018
Time: Doors open 5:00pm, Presentations from 5.20 pm
Location: Republic Bar in Hobart

Standard GeoRabble Format: A handful speakers, 10 mins each, usual rules.

Registration: Attendance is free, but for catering purposes we need you to register!

What is GeoRabble?

GeoRabble is about celebrating the everyday challenges and triumphs of working with location. Everything from the mundane to the glamorous, unfiltered by professional bodies, government and private company agendas and industry politics.

Who is GeoRabble for?

Anyone who has anything to do with GeoHipsters, GeoTech, GeoDev, GeoBusiness, GeoTrends, GeoFutures, GeoPasts – you name it, as long as you’re passionate and want to share your challenges, triumphs, frustrations and pride in the work that you do.

Please contact us if you’d like to be a part of sponsoring a future event.

The Small Print follows: GeoRabble Rules

1. Celebrate each others’ triumphs
2. Respect each others’ choice – no technology bigotry
3. No sales pitches – this includes services, software, data etc.
4. No company logos or ‘about us’ slides
5. Keep it short

Follow @georabble on twitter or use the hashtag #georabbletas to join the conversation

Supported by Jacobs. Thanks Jacobs 😉

GeoRabble “GeoCareers” at Geosmart Asia – Locate 18

Posted on 08/03/2018 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble “GeoCareers” @ Geosmart Asia – Locate 18, Monday April 9th

GeoRabble is pleased to announce that we are holding a GeoRabble at Geosmart Asia – Locate 18. This event is going to be a special event about GeoCareers, and we’re going to have presenters from a variety of stages in their careers talk about the wins and the losses, the victory and defeat, and we can all learn a little bit about why we start and stay in the spatial industry.

The Rabble is FREE, and will be held in Adelaide, on Monday the 9th of April, from 4 to 5.30 pm in the Interaction Zone in the main exhibition hall.

The format the the afternoon is going to be a panel session, where a fine bunch of surveying and spatial professionals discuss their career, including mentors and mentoring, the institutions and committees, and the future! Come and take part in asking the questions and hearing the answers, and grab a drink and a bite to eat.

Presenters

Chair: Mina Jahanshahi, Senior Advisor – Location Intelligence at GHD

Panel members:

Mary Ellen Feeney, Asia Pacific B&I Technical Director GIS at Jacobs
Stephanie Pradier, Communications Manager at CRC for Spatial Information
Roshni Sharma, GIS Analyst at EMM Consulting and SSSI YP National Chair
Denise McKenzie, Executive Director Communications and Outreach at OGC.

What is GeoRabble?

Who is GeoRabble for?

Anyone who has anything to do with GeoTech, GeoDev, GeoBusiness, GeoHipsters, GeoTrends, GeoFutures, GeoPasts – you name it, as long as you’re passionate and want to share your challenges, triumphs, frustrations and pride in the work that you do.

Please contact us if you’d like to be a part of sponsoring a future event.

The Small Print follows: GeoRabble Rules

1.     Celebrate each others’ triumphs
2.     Respect each others’ choice – no technology bigotry
3.     No sales pitches – this includes services, software, data etc.
4.     No company logos or ‘about us’ slides
5.     Keep it short

Follow @georabble on twitter or use the hashtag #georabbletas to join the conversation

We can’t hold these events without the help of the greater GeoCommunity!

Huge thanks to our sponsor, Veris! Thanks heaps 😉

How to Register….

Attending GeoRabble is free, but we need you to register for catering purposes. Please register now!

GeoRabble Melbourne #11 | Wednesday 21 March

Posted on 14/02/2018 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Wednesday 21st March 2018 at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow, 94-96 Bourke Street, Melbourne. Networking drinks start 5:30pm. Presentations commence: 6:00pm followed by more networking.

Speakers

Sarah Goodwin — Multivariate Geographic Analysis — A framework for visualising multiple variables across scale and geography.

Simon O’Keefe — Government web services — A look into WMS/WFS (web mapping services/web feature services).

Geordie Millar — Radiosonde hunting for fun & (no) profit — Geordie is a spatial developer working with the latest in open source tech, but spends his spare time chasing weather balloons that come crashing down to earth.

Anton Thomas — Method mapping — A cartographer connects with the region he’s mapping using his senses as a guide.

Andrew Bashfield — Surveying at RMIT — Tales from Carlton, the best-surveyed place in Australia

Michael Cushen – Map Mosaic Portraits – Using PostGIS, Python, and QGIS to make Geo-Portraits

Mina Jahanshahi – Who Maps the World? The history of women in cartography, impacts of a male-dominated industry, how the industry is changing

Tickets are available via eventbrite.

If you have a great geo-spatial idea that you would like to share with a group of like-minded people, we want you for our next GeoRabble! Contact the GeoRabble committee to express your interesting topic in 20words or less, or email your idea to melbourne@georabble.org

A very special thanks to our Sponsor GHD without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone …

GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition – GIS Day: Wednesday 15th November 2017

Posted on 30/11/2017 by GeoRabble

The Perth crew changed things up for GIS Day 2017 with GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition.

The surprise for this one was that it was ‘everyone in’ – with full Rabble participation. After a few limbering ales to celebrate the Aussie win over Honduras in the World Cup Qualifier – MC Carly split us into a couple of teams to find out if:

Big Brother is really here?

Open Source beats Proprietary?

And Cloud trumps On-Premises?

It turns out we must have really enjoyed those drinks because we decided Big Brother still isn’t here yet, Proprietary really does beat Open Source, and On-Premises trumps Cloud!

Actually, it was all down to the quality of our teams and debate leaders of course. There were eloquent speeches that would have made Obama proud. Taking a lead from the world game – there were a few ‘own goals’ when we forgot which side we were on – especially when our MC had us switch sides at the last minute for the second debate. And there was, well, the Rabble.

A special thanks go out to MC Carly for keeping things (relatively) civil, special guest Rabbler – the Dark Spatial Lord – for being our resident disruptor, and to our Perth GeoRabble for getting into this one (and not running screaming from the bar).

A big thanks also goes to our sponsor of the night – NGIS – thank you for your support!

Maybe we’ll give this format another run sometime. Let us know if you’ve got a question you’d like the wisdom of GeoRabble to answer via perth@georabble.org or #georabbleper.

And stay tuned for news about our 21^st GeoRabble Perth – coming early 2018.

In the meantime, if you’d like to get involved in GeoRabble organising, or would like to speak or sponsor, drop us a line through perth@georabble.org , or through twitter @georabble or #georabbleper.

GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition

Posted on 04/11/2017 by GeoRabble

GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition – GIS Day: Wednesday 15th November 2017

Want to do something a bit different for GIS Day this year?

Well join us for an alternative take on the usual GeoRabble format, and join your fellow geospatial peeps in a rousing ‘rabblin geo-debate on all things spatial!

We’re throwing the usual ‘Rabble format out the window and running with a special surprise format for this event – one which is sure to delight the senses and get your spatial tickers a-whirring!

For a sneak peak at some topics click here. Don’t be shy to jump in on some live pre-event online polling action.

If you’re a keen debater (or, dare we speculate, a team of debaters!) please get in touch at perth@georabble.org, as we are looking for some spatial instigators to help get things rumbling (or roaring!) along.”

Doors open 5:30pm, Debates kick-off from 6:00 pm
Universal Bar, 221 William St, Northbridge
Attendance is free, but for catering purposes please help our hosts by registering here

Follow @georabble on twitter or use the hashtag #georabbleper to join the conversation.

We can’t hold these events without the help of the greater Geocommunity! Please contact us if you’d like to be a part of sponsoring a future event or get involved in helping organise an event.

This event brought to you by the Perth GeoRabble team and sponsored by our friends @ NGIS.

GeoRabble Perth #19 – Student Edition – It’s A Wrap!

Posted on 31/10/2017 by GeoRabble

Suzy Urbaniak set the scene for the night with her infectious enthusiasm for science and education! Suzy shared her hands-on approach with real world and field based learning. She introduced her Centre of Resources Excellence Program, designed with STEAM front of mind – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths.

Next up was repeat speaker Dhan Prabhu, who introduced us to “get into resources”, a unique 3 day event in WA which showcases the resources industry to secondary school students. Small groups of students get to participate in hands-on interactive activities as presented by volunteer industry professionals from a wide range of resource related disciplines.

Get Into Resources 16-Jun-2017

Mark Williams spoke on his experiences with Participatory Mapping from Central Australia to Cambodia, in helping local inhabitants transcribe their expert knowledge of local environments in a geographical framework. Mark shared results of his masters study aimed at using community based adaptation and participatory mapping to explore how communities living in flood-prone river basins in Cambodia perceive and adapt to changes in flood regimes under the influence of climate change and other risk factors.

Participatory GIS and community based adaptation to climate change and other hazards – Mark Williams, M.Env,Sc (GIS and Environmental Management specialisation UWA)

Next up were Tristan Reed and Jeremy Siao Him Fa, sharing their GeoApp Development in the remote Ngalangangpum School in Warmun, 200km south of Kununurra. As part of the “Two-way Learning” model, combination of traditional indigenous methods and new economy skills, Tristan and Jeremy helped teach the students how to build a basic iPad app that functioned as a geo-diary, allowing students to catalog their excursions as well as important places around the town.

And our very own Darren Mottolini finished up with some guidance in mentoring – helping others think outside the box by sharing our geo experience and perspective on the world. Getting to the root of problems, identifying gaps and co-designing for unique solutions.

Thanks again to Damian Shepherd for MCing on the night and to our friends at Spookfish for sponsoring the Student Edition!

If you would like to help grow our Geocommunity, with brain expanding ideas or sustenance at upcoming events, please share with us at perth@georabble.org. We can’t hold these events without you!

Stay tuned via #georabbleper for news about our next event coming up soon.

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GeoRabble Melbourne #13

Surprise Guest Speaker Announced for GeoRabble Sydney: Thursday 18 October

GeoRabble Melbourne # 12 – Thursday 26 July

GeoRabble Tas #9

GeoRabble Tas #9

Presenters

Details

What is GeoRabble?

Who is GeoRabble for?

GeoRabble “GeoCareers” at Geosmart Asia – Locate 18

GeoRabble “GeoCareers” @ Geosmart Asia – Locate 18, Monday April 9th

Presenters

What is GeoRabble?

Who is GeoRabble for?

How to Register….

GeoRabble Melbourne #11 | Wednesday 21 March

GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition – GIS Day: Wednesday 15th November 2017

GeoRabble Perth #20 – The Debate Edition

GeoRabble Perth #19 – Student Edition – It’s A Wrap!