All Blog Posts (11)

An Innovative Web Platform To Combat Global Poverty

I am the executive director of CollaborAid, a nonprofit that is building an online community where aid providers in developing countries can connect, collaborate, and share information with each other and the communities they serve. The planning behind our innovative functionality was developed through extensive feedback from NGOs, international volunteers, and local stakeholders. You can preview a snapshot of what we are building at http://collabora… Continue

Added by Michael Wenger on November 2, 2009 at 9:39pm — No Comments

GIS Research UK (GISRUK) - Call for Papers

The Programme Committee for the GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference in 2010 are pleased to open the call for papers. The GISRUK conference series is the UK’s national GIS research conference, established in 1993. GISRUK conferences are primarily aimed at the academic community though we welcome research papers from outside academia. The conferences attract delegates from all parts of the UK, together with the European Union and North America, and from disciplines including Geography, Computer S… Continue

Added by Christopher Osborne on July 7, 2009 at 4:10pm — No Comments

Location Technologies Masterclass- anyone want to guest?

Looking for people who'd like to guest at this event to demo applications of interest. Let me know. Jonathan ---------- Location Technologies Masterclass announced at City University London Tuesday 16th June 2009 The giCentre at City University London announce their summer Masterclass on Location Technologies. This one-day Masterclass will offer participants a comprehensive vision of where LBS, sat-nav and mobile GIS are headed in the next 5 years and will cover positioning, geo-content and b… Continue

Added by Jonathan Raper on May 11, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Call for Papers - 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming, 29.09.2009 in Lübeck, Germany

Dear all, I am co-organising a workshop on mobile (geo) gaming in Northern Germany and thought you might potentially be interested, as publications in English language are permitted. Also, Lübeck is a really beautiful city by the sea which is served directly from London Stansted by Ryanair - so going there wouldn't explode your budget. Please find details of this call and a PDF for printing at http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-ga… Continue

Added by Leif Oppermann on April 29, 2009 at 10:35am — No Comments

"Connecting Innovation" & "Collaborate for New Business: the Workshop" - 26th of March 2009 - The Old Market - Hove, UK

"Connecting Innovation" Today creativity and innovation have become the driving forces of our economy and society. Innovation can be considered as the creative output of an ongoing process that develops and applies new knowledge to work, life, product and services. A new field is emerging for innovation where economic, technological, social and cultural trends move more closely. This new field is not located in distinct domains but is situated at the intersection and crossover where dif… Continue

Added by Alfonso Comitini on March 16, 2009 at 11:38pm — No Comments

Mother Event in the Valley - 17th March Meetup

Quick shout out to let you know that our Mother event, WebMapSocial, has a meetup on the 17th. If you're a regular in the Valley (unlike myself) you really should go along. More details here - http://www.meetup.com/webmapsocial/calendar/9765626/ Continue

Added by Christopher Osborne on March 9, 2009 at 11:36pm — No Comments

Locating Electric Car charging Points in Westminster using geotagged images

We've just put together a very basic app in Flickr, Google Maps, and Microsoft VE that lets users locate 'Juicepoints' in Westminster: Flickr http://www.trekwireless.co.uk/jp/flickr Google Maps http://www.trekwireless.co.uk/jp/gm Microsoft Virtual Earth http://www.trekwireless.co.uk/jp/ve There are currently seven Juicepoint bays within the… Continue

Added by Tim Woolford on February 4, 2009 at 2:36pm — No Comments

Photographs from January #geomob

Hi guys - I've added some photographs from today's #geomob to the "Photos" section - feel free to use them wherever you like (just as a courtesy informing me about it :) ). If you need slightly-higher-res photos - please visit my Flickr for them! Continue

Added by Roman Kirillov on January 29, 2009 at 10:11pm — No Comments

London Calling #Geomob Meetup Review

Andrew Grill, one of the presenters at our first event has written up a review over at his blog London Calling. Read all about it here. Continue

Added by Christopher Osborne on December 3, 2008 at 2:22pm — No Comments

Geotagged Images in Mapping, GIS and Navigation Applications

Really enjoyed the Meetup last Thursday. Looking forward to the next event. BTW - I am giving a talk at BCS HQ tomorrow (Wed 3rd Dec) eve on using geotagged images in mapping, GIS and navigation applications. The event is free, but you do need to register here Tim Woolford Continue

Added by Tim Woolford on December 2, 2008 at 11:55pm — No Comments

Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog Updated

After last night's immensely enjoyable first meetup I've written up the event on our official blog and included the deck I presented on Fire Eagle. http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2008/11/28/london-geomobile-developers-meetup-group/ Thanks to Chris for organising the event and to Nick and Andrew for being sterling co-presenters. Hope to see you all at the next meetup. Continue

Added by Gary Gale on November 28, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments