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.

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.

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.

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

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

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  HERE Technologies without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone …

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.

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 10minutes long.

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

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 …