Map showing 24h of car sharing in Berlin

By Aleks Buczkowski

Interesting project by Data Storytelling Group. They got an access to data from German car sharing company DriveNow and created an awesome visualisation of urban mobility in Berlin. DriverNow offer this cool new short-term car renting model where you check and book the nearest car via app and you leave it off wherever you want.

The visualisation has been made based on origin-destination matrix provided by DriveNow. Based on the location and time of the beginning and end of each journey guys from Data Storytelling Group estimated the optimal routes between these two points for each car.

When you start the launch the visualisation it starts from the midnight and goes through 24h of a typical day in Berlin. The timeline on the bottom of the screen shows the time and the number of moving cars every 10 minutes. You can use it also a navigation bar to move forward to a particular moment in time. You can also turn on a heat map feature which will show you how streets are changing colour as the day progresses.

The map differentiates cars which are driving and which are parked. It also shows the top most visit districts on Berlin.

Really cool visualisation.

source: Data Storytelling Group and Geoawesomeness

Satellite Masters Conference and Awards Ceremony

Explore cutting-edge space applications from 20 - 22 October 2015 in Berlin - After the great success last year, the second edition of the conference will showcase a unique portfolio of innovative applications based on satellite data and infrastructures.

The Satellite Masters Conference is much more than just a networking event: it is a unique marketplace for sharing ideas on space-based innovation and connecting with the world's leading network for downstream satellite business. The conferencewill feature an outstanding blend of sessions, solution soundbites, and roundtable discussions centred around leveraging satellite-derived data and other space solutions for business and society in the following fields: tackling global change with sustainable solutions, managing disasters and security with data from space, big data from space for business in the cloud, small satellites with a big impact on the new space economy, satellite services for European infrastructures, smart cities: sustainable living based on data from space.

The conference is geared toward all those looking to benefit from the emerging satellite applications market, including start-ups, SMEs, researchers, investors, institutional stakeholders, and industry entities.

The annual Awards Ceremony of Europe's major innovation competitions for space applications - the Copernicus Masters and the European Satellite Navigation Competition - will cap off the event. The most brilliant awardees will also present their business cases during the conference.

The Satellite Masters Conference and the Awards Ceremony will kick off with a high-level roundtable on the subject 'Space 4 Digital Business', opened by Dorothee Bär, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI). Don't miss the opportunity to join the discussion about the impact of space on the digital economy of Matthias Petschke, Director of European Satellite Navigation Programmes, European Commission (EC); Philippe Brunet, Director I - Space Policy, Copernicus and Defence, European Commission (EC); Carlo des Dorides, Executive Director of the European GNSS Agency (GSA); Prof Dr Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA); Dr Hubert Reile, Program Director Space Research and Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR); and Thorsten Dirks , President of Bitkom.

On 22 October, the European GNSS R&D Day will showcase success stories on research applications and instruments designed to support entrepreneurs.

The conference is organised by Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) in cooperation with the European GNSS Agency and will be hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in Berlin from 20 - 22 October 2015.

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