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
Our 2nd talk is really special. Wilken Holle will speak about maps for horse riders:
Especially in community of horse riders a different map usage is widespread. Conventional maps on Smartphone cannot be used due to the lack of important details. Small paths, stairs or poisonous plants are some of the factors that play an important role for the orientation in the terrain. The orientation feature of the ReiterApp is intended to help finding the best route. Or the fastest. Or the safest. Or the most beautiful…
Follow him on Twitter: @wilkenholle
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