For outdoor activities like cycling, hiking, road or mountain biking the user needs a lot of different information to choose the best fitting or better the most beautiful route for his activity. Smart phones provide the hardware for true turn-by-turn navigation.
In this talk Markus Hallermann will discuss the challenges of maps and the rich information the user demands planning and navigating a outdoor route.
Grown up in Austria and with a background in physics Markus is CEO and co-founder of komoot.
Follow him on Twitter: @walsertal
Martin Soutschek is our first speaker at GeoMonday the 1st, who is coming from the beautiful Alpine area south of Germany. He is Head of Research & Development at ALPSTEIN Tourismus GmbH & Co.KG. For more than ten years, he has been engaged with geo technology in the area of Location Based Services (LBS) and earth viewer platforms.
His talk will cover the broad area regarding outdoor & touristic mapping and related geo services.
Follow him on Twitter: @Soutschek