View of Barcelona from Museu Nacional D’art de Catalunya by Matthew Walters, Panoramio contributor The summit was an exciting opportunity for many of our top contributors to share their geographic crowd-sourced efforts, work directly with Google engineers to brainstorm potential new product features, and set strategies for improving the overall Geo community. Attendees also had a chance to mind-meld with our product leaders during a day of unconference sessions, sharing thoughts, ideas, and stories about their experiences that will help us to improve our products.
Following a keynote address by Aidan Chopra, Google Geo Evangelist, attendees shared their inspiring projects and practices with a rapt audience. We learned from
Levan Beruchashvili how the
National Agency of Public Registry helped map the entire country of Georgia for its
recent graduation to Google Maps.
Arek Pawlowski described hosting multiple SketchUp workshops at his university, creating almost 450 models in an ongoing effort to put all of Toruń, Poland into 3D. As it is the user-generated content that fuels the Google Geo products, these and other contributor testimonials stood out as the highlight of the summit.
Attendees at the Google Geo User Summit Barcelona!
To learn more about the Google Geo User Summit Barcelona, visit the
event website, where you can browse
photographs of the conference and its beautiful setting along the Mediterranean coast. Extensive
session notes and user presentations are also available. If you’re interested in attending future events, please see the
Map Maker Events Calendar,
3D Events Calendar and
Panoramio Events Calendar. This summit was one exciting part of an ongoing celebration of the passionate mappers, modelers, and photo contributors who are improving Google Maps and Google Earth for the world to share. A tremendous thanks to all those who attended and helped make the event a success!
Posted by Lori Savageau, Community Manager, Google Map Maker
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