This June: harder better faster ONLINE

Geographers, map lovers, spatial people... Happy belated Birthday to us!
We celebrate the first belated birthday after relaunch of Geo Berlin!

THIS TIME: ONLINE
--> ZOOM-Invitation will be accessible with RSVP (located at location).

#When? June 3rd | Wednesday | 7pm , 19.00 !!!
#Where? ZOOM-Conference -> Access link will be accessible with RSVP. (Thanks to our sponsor con terra GmbH)
#Drinks and Pizza: Please prepare yourself :-)

##Talks

#William Jones - "Transport advocacy through smart data analysis and visualisation"

A significant challenge that cities face is how to visualise the accessibility and frequency of public transport in a way that policy-oriented decision makers can understand. Melbourne, Australia, metropolitan area has experienced significant population growth in recent years, which has placed enormous pressure on the city’s public transport infrastructure. One major growth area absorbing residential expansion is the City of Casey, which is located 40km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District. Its population has doubled in the past 10-years and is expected to exceed 500,000 people by 2041. This has put pressure on its public transport infrastructure, meaning that services can’t keep pace with population growth and the City of Casey is heavily reliant on cars. Consequently, the City of Casey Council decided to advocate for adequate planning and investment into public transport. The advocacy campaign’s aim was to achieve the local and state government goal to ensure that residents can access essential services (such as hospitals, schools, community centres and areas of employment) within 20 minutes by sustainable transport modes. To achieve the 20-minute neighbourhood goal, cognise the advocacy requirements and understand the current service provided, it was necessary to visualise the current state of public transport accessibility and frequency. Traditional accessibility modelling in GIS results in catchment maps that show the geographic coverage of public transport; however, coverage alone does not illustrate whether there is good public transport service as frequency is a significant component. A public transport service may have a large geographic coverage, however, a low frequency and especially a frequency that does not match demand, has a major impact on patronage.

#Riccardo Klinger - "from map to web"

Bridging the gap: from map to web. In this talk I will show different ways of publishing a map as a webmap using qgis2web, qgis2threejs, xyz studio and Esri based solutions.

#Dennis Wilhelm - "Building an API for real time transit data"

Together with Stadtwerke Münster GmbH we (con terra GmbH) developed an API providing realtime bus positions in Münster as well as up-to-date information about the timetables. In this talk I will explain how and why we combined FME Server and AWS Services (API Gateway, Lambda, Dynamo DB) to create both, a Websocket stream for realtime events and a REST API following the OpenAPI specification.

#Andy Gup - "Fun with the latest web mapping tech"

Hold on for an overview of cutting edge, custom geo-visualization and analysis capabilities in the browser and no plugin is needed. Modern browsers, WebGL and the latest versions of JavaScript have sparked a whole new era of geo functionality that wasn’t possible before. Demos were built with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

##Please use our form if you like to present your ideas, problems, solutions as well in an upcoming Meetup:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedoVweBkesFXYm3GsiDH4d9gTor7JrdvOktsUmZ4Pnxn7Z1Q/viewform

##Aftershow
The ZOOM-Session is our place to hang out.

Best regards,

Riccardo and Michael