We hope you can join us. details on the site: https://thegeomob.com/

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12/ Our next London event will be on January 28th, sign-up is open, and the speaker list is set: https://thegeomob.com/post/jan-28th-2026-geomoblon-details

But before then we also have events in many other cities: Antwerp, Berlin, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Barcelona, and Utrecht.

11/ Our sponsor Geolytix https://geolytix.com is currently hiring for a Software Configuration Developer

Job description: https://geolytix.com/blog/we-are-hiring-software-configuration-developer/

10/ Huge thanks to our sponsors who make the evening possible:

- Geolytix
- Esri UK
- Ed Parsons
- SplashMaps
- Thunderforest
- Mappery
- OpenCage
- Open Geospatial Consortium

and of course Geovation for hosting us

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9/ Lots to discuss, which is thirsty work, so we headed to the pub. It was a very rainy evening so we all jammed inside, unfortunately no group photo this time.

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8/ With the talks over it was time to vote for the best speaker!

Each talk had its merits, but the winner of the coveted SplashMap best speaker prize was ... Dustin.

Congrats! 👏👏👏

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Dustin's consultancy A/B Street Ltd builds open-source transportation planning tools: https://abstreet.uk

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7/ Last but not least was Dustin Carlino, discussing the challenges of using #OpenStreetMap for pedestrian walking, specifically in cases of busy, uncrossable roads. We need correct tagging of crossings for more accurate real-life routing and planning.

6/ Next up we heard from Christine Langston about her research on housing construction and climate risk. The unfortunate conclusion is that policy seems to be disproportionally encouraging the construction of housing in high-risk areas 😟

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5/ An introduction to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the important work they do in providing a forum for collaborative geospatial standard setting was the topic of Nigel Edmead's talk.

Get involved in defining the future of geospatial: https://www.ogc.org

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4/ Our third speaker was James Cheshire, author of the just released book "*The Library of Lost Maps" *about his discoveries in the UCL map library. James shared the story behind one of the maps

This book is definitely one for any map lover's holiday shopping list.
https://libraryoflostmaps.com

3/ next speaker was artist Rain Wu, sharing some of her map-related projects. This talk was a thought-provoking reflection on the different concepts a map is, and the difference between the map and reality

Learn more about Rain's work: https://rainwu.net/

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2/ first speaker was Joe Leach, discussing the pleasures and pains of UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers)

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These are of course only two of the EIGHT upcoming Geomob events (including Geomob Belgium 🇧🇪 in Antwerp on Nov 18th, the night before).

We hope to see you at an event soon. Get all the details over on the site: https://thegeomob.com