Good news Nestoria lovers, our very own data magician Marc Tobias will be speaking at the next Oxford Geek Night on Wednesday, 11 April at the Jericho Tavern. “mtm” (as we lovingly refer to him) will be holding a 5 minute lighting talk on geocoding (address to coordinate conversion) and the challenges of UK postal codes.
Prior to geographic data he worked on customer databases, product databases (Amazon book catalogue), news data (Yahoo! News), horoscopes (don’t ask), metrics data (Yahoo! Search worldwide) and property databases. The talk should be well worth hearing.
Several other members of the Nestoria team will in attendance as well. We’d love to get any feedback anyone has about what we’re up to. Over the last six months we’ve done some interesting work with various volunteer-driven, UK geodata related projects - for example images from geograph.org.uk and links to local representative from TheyWorkForYou - and we’re always on the lookout for other groups to partner with. If you’re at the event and you work with an interesting site that might be a good match for the Nestoria audience please let us know. And of course we’re always interested in finding more smart developers or discussing our API.
The headline speakers sound top notch. If you’re in the Oxford area and interested in innovation on the internet, this looks to be a great event. Congrats to the organizers and thanks to the folks at Torchbox for organising the event. Here’s the Upcoming listing for the event.
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