April Meetup: Lightning Talks

The April GeoDC meetup is on for Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 pm at Stetson's (http://stetsons-dc.com/index.php) at 16th and U streets NW. This month will feature a series of five minute lightning talks:

Kevin Pomfret (https://twitter.com/kpomfret)from theCentre for Spatial Law and Policy (http://www.spatiallaw.com/)will talk about thekey legal and policy issues that every geoprofessional should be aware of and why. Bobby Sudekum (http://twitter.com/bobws) will talk about how and why he built MeatText (http://www.meattext.com/), a location sharing iOS app that you really should be using with your friends. Andrew Wiseman (http://twitter.com/wisemana) will talk about a project undertaken by USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives to train Honduran students to map the bus system in Tegucigalpa, Honduras as part of a violence-disruption program by using GPS units and Google Earth. Max Richman (https://twitter.com/richmanmax) will show a visualization of mobile phone calls around the recent election in the Ivory Coast and talk about how InterMedia analyzed and mapped the data.
GeoDC meets the first Wednesday of every month to talk GIS, geodata, maps, geography, and all things location based. For updates, join the meetup group and follow us on Twitter at @geo_dc (https://twitter.com/geo_dc).

Stetsons is a 21 and over venue. If you are underage and want to attend, please contact us via the meetup page and we'll do our best to get you in.