As you probably know, we have a deep commitment with the open data and mapping communities. We feel supporting people and organisations passionate about the values and technologies that in the end make CartoDB possible is a good thing. And the UK is home to some of the most active open communities in the world.
This is why we were super excited to host, together with our dear friends at Illustreets, a new edition of our world famousCartoDBeers. We were lucky enough to have Google Campus as our venue this time, where we spent an awesome evening listening to great people and drinking beer. Not necessarily in that order.
Robin Hawkes spoke about the amazing work he and his startup ViziCities have been doing to gain a deeper insight into what’s happening in our cities, using open source technologies to visualise urban data in 3D from the browser.
Steve Preston demoed SkillsRoute, a tool that shows us how open data can help young people be more aware of their options, and in which ways their educational choices can evolve their careers.
Andrew Moist, from Land Insight showed an impressive tool that visualises spatially all sorts of public data, in order for people in the real estate world to identify new opportunities and leads.
A personality in the open data world, Jeni Tennison talked about the incredible work that OpenAddresses UK has been doing in order to have a freely accessible, open repository of addresses in the United Kingdom, working closely with the global chapter in America.
We ended the session with a couple of demos of the latest stuff from CartoDB, including massive polygon rendering and time-based maps with Torque, as well as some nice time afterwards talking about maps and open data. Thank you so much to all who attended, and special thanks to our great partners Illustreets, who are always a treat to host these events with.
See you at the next CartoDBeers!