GeoRabble Sydney Meetup
Event Information
Description
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.
GeoRabble #3
An evening to share geo-ideas, full of fun, and free of sales-pitches.
Date: Thursday 22 September, 2011
Time: Doors open 5.30pm, talks from 6.30pm
Location: Upstairs at the The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex Street, Sydney
Format: Short (10 minute) talks, followed by discussion/networking
Registration: Attendance is free, but we need you to register.
Speakers
We expect a great line-up of speakers. Confirmed so far are:
Angela Clark (EveryMap): “Putting Sydney on the Wiki Map”
- Mapping is at the heart of the Sydney wiki and the map is the place way for people to explore the City.
Keith Austin (Freelance Journalist): “Looking Back, Going Forward”
- In a landscape dominated by high-tech GPS, Keith Austin champions the utility and beauty of an old-fashioned map
Geoff Thompson (NSW Planning): “Urban feasibility model”
- How GIS is being used to shape Sydney
Stephen Lead (Ajilon): “how to make a map which doesn’t suck”
- Examples of great (and not-so-great) online maps to determine whether it’s possible to build user-friendly maps without sacrificing functionality or performance.
If you too want to speak at GeoRabble #3 or in the future, let us know here.