PyData Berlin Geocoding / Mapping Special

In this extra event for November we'll take a closer look at Geocoding and mapping APIs. We have two presentations, a short overview of what geocoding is and how it is used Comtravo and a longer workshop presentation by senior software engineer at HERE.com Dinu Gherman.

The meetup is hosted at Comtravo near U-Bhf Schönleinstrasse, doors open 18:45, and Comtravo has kindly agreed to provide good food and drinks.

As always we are very limited in terms of space, so please keep your RSVPs up to date.

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Geocoding at Comtravo - Matti Lyra (~15 minutes)

Comtravo is a business travel agency with a focus on making business travel radically simple. The Data Science team at Comtravo extracts travel booking requests from customer emails. One part of this process is identifying and resolving location mentions to specific locations on the planet. For instance, flight requests need to have an origin airport and a destination airport, both resolved to an IATA airport code, but hotel requests require resolving hotel names to unique IDs. Finding out which one of the Motel One Berlin hotels was meant requires more than a simple search.

Predict the spatial distribution of Ridepooling demand with machine learning - Sabine (~15 minutes)

Door2door’s mission is to reduce urban traffic by enabling cities and communities to provide a Ridepooling service as an alternative to private cars. The success of this service depends a lot on operating it at the right time in the right area. In the presentation, Sabine Kaiser will show how to use machine learning to predict the spatial distribution Ridepooling demand in urban areas based on a variety of openly available geographic features.

Exploring HERE Location APIs - Dinu Gherman (~60 minutes)

This workshop style presentation will outline essential RESTful APIs offered by HERE.com. Dinu Gherman (senior engineer at HERE Technologies) will demonstrate many examples for these APIs in a live Jupyter notebook Python environment, and include inputs from the audience to build a small, but useful application on the spot. Dinu will cover at least the following APIs: geocoding and reverse geocoding, places, map tiles and map images, routing, isolines, traffic, transit, places, and map-matching.