GeoMeetup Holiday Social

🎄 Bay Area GeoMeetup Holiday Social!

Maps, Mingling & Merry Geospatial Mayhem!

📅 Thursday, December 10, 2026
📍 Felt HQ Oakland, California
🎟️ GeoMeetup Holiday Social | Talks, Networking & Fun Activities

**Join us for a special holiday edition of Bay Area GeoMeetup, hosted by our friends at Felt.com!**

We’re wrapping up the year with an evening of fascinating geospatial talks, great conversations, festive activities, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the Bay Area’s mapping and geospatial community.

Whether you’re a GIS professional, developer, researcher, entrepreneur, cartographer, or just someone who loves maps, come celebrate another year of geographic innovation with us!

🎤 Featured Talks

🗺️ When GIS Gets the Geography Wrong

**Tessa Turner, Bloq.it**

Why do successful infrastructure networks fail when deployed in new markets?

This talk explores how GIS models mistake static geographic proxies for the relationships that actually drive accessibility and demand, examining cultural behavior, user friction, network effects, and how relational mathematics might improve spatial modeling.

It’s a fascinating challenge to conventional GIS thinking: What if the most important geography isn’t just where things are, but how people, places, and systems relate to one another?

🌎 Where the Vibes At?

GeoMeetup's own Silas Toms will present the new VibesAt.online tool, designed to create "vibetineraries" for a night out or a hike along the cross-town trail or a quick intro to the vibes and offerings of a new neighborhood. Finally you'll have an answer for that most pressing of questions: Where the Vibes At?

🌎 A Special Presentation from Felt

The Felt Team

Our hosts at Felt will share a presentation highlighting their work in modern web mapping and geospatial technology.

More details on their presentation to come!

🎉 Holiday Fun & GeoCommunity

This isn’t just another evening of presentations! We’re celebrating the people who make the Bay Area geospatial community so creative, collaborative, and fun.

Expect:

• 🎄 Holiday festivities and fun activities
• 🗺️ Engaging talks and lively discussion
• 🤝 Networking with GIS professionals, developers, founders, and map enthusiasts
• 🎁 A few surprises and plenty of geospatial cheer!

Whether you’ve joined us all year or this will be your first GeoMeetup, we’d love to see you.

📍 Event Details

When: Thursday, December 10, 2026
Where: Felt HQ, Oakland, California
Hosted by: Bay Area GeoMeetup & Felt
Time: 5:30pm

Come for the maps. Stay for the people. Celebrate the geography!

See you at the GeoMeetup Holiday Social! 🎄🌎

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