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To help you find your way to Where Camp 2015, we’ve added a 3D venue map of Berlin’s Beuth University (building A) to HERE Maps for Android. You can get the HERE Maps application for free right here: https://pages.here.com/app/

We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday!

Where Camp Committee

Dear WhereCamp Navigation Conference Participants,

On behalf of the organizers, we are looking forward to welcome you soon to the 5th edition of WhereCamp Berlin.

Starting with Stanford WhereCamp in 2012 the event evolved from a pure barcamp via campfire editions to a conference. Also we feel that our community grow at the same time. And now it is time to share the current activities with more actors via an association. Running activities are:

Geomonday, www.geomonday.org

WhereCamp Naivgation Conference, www.wherecamp.de / www.navigation-conference.org  

Selfsponsored Activities, e.g. osm2print3d starting with Jan’s http://osmbuildings.org/?lat=52.52111&lon=13.40988&zoom=16&tilt=30# to a prepared 3D print https://3d-button.com/de/uploads/e1def0a9-3d3f-49b3-bf1f-a76f402f6b93/ , you can order directly.

Geolabs-Geolapps Contest (current one: https://www.komoot.de/hack15 and 3.000 EUR )

and more.

If you like these activities and you like to be part of it, drop your name at http://geoit.org/ . There is an open call for foundation members. You well get informed and can decide later personally or corporate).

We will explain this idea also tomorrow at the end of the day, at 17:50 h (see agenda, http://wherecamp.de/agenda)

Best regards

on behalf of all organizers

Prof. Dr Rolnad Wagner

As WhereCamp Berlin, the Berlin’s premier conference focusing on the latest trends and insights around digital mapping, navigation and local intelligence is near the corner, we are happy to present you the WhereCamp App (available for now for the Android users)

The app is created by our partners from Heidelberg Mobil using the Deep Map SDK. 

The app:

Includes the fairground map that would help you to localize the Beuth University

Helps you navigate onsite

and covers also the event´s agenda.

Download the app and take all the information you’ll need for the event.

The team at our sister brand OpenCage Data have rolled something out that we though Nestoria dev readers might find relevant.

Given a bunch of geodata about a location, (for example like what you might get from OpenStreetMap) how can we form that data into an address or placename that makes sense to a consumer. This challenge is non-trivial as address formats are different from country to country. So we've released an open source set of templates (in the widely used Mustache format) that can be used to programmaticaly format addresses correctly.

It's all in the "address-formatting" repository over on github. NOt all countries are done yet, but bit by it they are being added.

The templates themselves are programming language independent. As regular readers of this blog will know, we're heavy users of perl and as such have written a perl implementation of a parser. Geo::Address::Formatter is over on CPAN, just waiting for you to use it (and the code's of course on github, where we welcome your pull requests). That said, they would welcome other parser implementations.

There's a post up on the OpenCage blog that goes into the motivations of project, and explains the problem set in more detail. There have already been a few pull requests coming in, and more are of course welcome.

When attending to an event people are looking to get “something” that can be of value to them.

So, why WhereCamp Berlin?

Because …you have a bunch of reasons. We just want  to mention one, that we find it very important: the chance to connect with the geo community. Good reason?

If this is not what you are looking for,  then just take a look at the last edition’s opinions. At X-Mas Campfire edition, the guys from Here prepared a cool poster for participants in order to express their thoughts and to motivate their presence at the event. 

It seems to be the season for conferences, and conference sponsorship announcements.

Earlier this week we told you about the State of the Map '11 sponsorship.

Today, it's the turn of WhereCampEU '11 - "the geo unconference for Europe". We're proud to be one of WhereCampEU sponsors again.

WhereCampEU is a great event featuring the cutting edge of European digital geography practice (and even some theory!). You can read more about last year's event in our interview with the WhereCamp kingpin (and ex-Nestorian) Chris Osborne.

This year, WhereCampEU will take place in Berlin, on 27th and 28th of May. Do keep an eye on WhereCampEU blog and Twitter account for more details. 

My talk from Ignite Spatial at WhereCampTB, talking about the OSM Tampa Bay meetup group. Check out the slides in better detail here.

My Ignite talk about the OSM Tampa Bay mapping group at WhereCampTB last weekend — and what we're doing to grow and improve OpenStreetMap in the Bay Area.