Making the entire world accessible via a single API

BCN Data Engineering is happy to announce the 2nd event for the BCN Data Engineering meetup group!

This time we’ll have Ed Freyfogle (https://www.linkedin.com/in/edfreyfogle/) present about the OpenCage Geocoder (https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/) and how you can use this to enriching for your data sets.

Schedule

19:00 Doors open & beers

19:30 Alessandro’s talk & Q/A

20:00 More beers/chats

21:00 Wrap

Talk: “Making the entire world accessible via a single API”

Ed Freyfogle will present about the OpenCage Geocoder an API for forward and reverse geocoding built on top of OpenStreetMap and other open geodata sources. The service provides a single, simple API to make life easy for developers e.g. by enriching your huge spatial data set into specific locations. The talk will also explain what the OpenStreetMap project – with 3 million registered users and well over a million edits a day – is and how it has evolved.

The speaker:

Ed lives in Barcelona with his wife and two children. Previously he spent 10 years in the London start-up scene, where he co-founded and later successfully exited a real estate meta-search engine. He started his career as a software developer for yahoo.de in Munich. Besides growing OpenCage he invests in and advises European location-based service start-ups.”

Learn more about Ed at http://www.freyfogle.com (http://www.freyfogle.com/) or https://twitter.com/freyfogle