We’re pleased to announce our speakers and panelists for next week’s Georabble!

If you haven’t already registered, please head to eventbrite or register at our meetup group.

We’re mixing things up again and will have a line up of talks followed by a panel session with our speakers, so come with questions, curiosity and hear from:

• Gerry Stanley (PSMA) Capturing building outlines across 7.7 million km² to find the last 50 metres could be regarded as challenge enough.
  Capturing 3D building attributes, surface cover, tree heights, swimming pools, roof material and more for 90% of Australia’s population is a much larger challenge…
• Oliver Slezak (https://twitter.com/itruckbot) propositions Georabble that a “Front Door” is the reference point at any location. He proposes to invite all digital mappers to co-operate to map “Front Doors” as its reference point, starting with allowing volunteered input.
• Brian Nicholls (AAM, https://twitter.com/nicholls_b) will present a “fully 3D enabled GIS based property booking system”.
• Michael Krason (Mailcall) Estimating delivery times is tricky. But when you have inaccurate addresses to play with, it becomes a different game. Hear more about routing and delivery time estimation when dealing with poor addresses.

If you just want to listen, enjoy the free food (courtesy of Pitney Bowes), and have a drink and a chat, please join us on the night!

As always, GeoRabble is a free event, but we need you to register for catering purposes. So please register here.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

From the Georabblepers, Tuesday 29 March 2016

The first Georabble Perth for 2016 reached for Mars and made it at least into orbit with an accidentally space and craft beer – based theme for Georabble Perth #16.

Chris Roach kicked-off proceedings talking about how to make our maps more accessible. Tim Berners-Lee once said “The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect”. How many of us think about making our maps accessible to those with disabilities? Chris showed us how, that with a little forethought, it’s possible to put our maps in the hands of those that can’t use a keyboard and even those with impaired vision through the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Continue reading Georabble Perth #16 shoots for new frontiers →

The GeoRabble crew are proud to announce our first three speakers, from our broad community for our 5th Anniversary celebrations.

They are;

• Andrew Harvey from Alantgeo presenting a talk called – One map to rule them all
• Rob Tyson and Jonathan Cairns-Terry from PwC talking on Geospatial Economic Modelling
• Luke Bacon from the Open Australia Foundation presenting – Fixing bugs in our democracy

Don’t forget to get your tickets at Eventbrite and remember we are at a new venue the King Street Brewhouse – 22 The Promenade, Sydney,  – View Map

Our valued sponsor for this event is Jacobs Engineering Group

Speakers:

• Special Guest Chris Wesson from Ordnance Survey UK (via Skype) on mapping Mars
• Nathan Eaton from our event sponsors, NGIS Australia
• Dr Amy Parker from Curtin University
• Chris Roach on Accessible Maps
• Danielle Brady on tracking fires from space

Date: Wednesday 23rd March 2016

Time: Doors open 5:30pm, Presentations from 6:00 pm

Location: Universal Bar, 221 William St, Northbridge 6003

Format: A handful speakers, 10 minutes each, a room full of Rabblers, and the usual rules.

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

Proudly sponsored by NGIS Australia and Landgate through WALIS

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