About

I'm a geographer who writes code. Previously, I have built software to document and report on land rights, to support community and participatory mapping, and to analyse and visualise crowd-sourced geographic information.

Now

What I'm up to, as of 31 August 2024:

Based in Melbourne, Australia.
Work at Development Seed, helping scientists find whales in satellite images and visualising global food distribution networks.
Learning to make better photographs.

Keep in touch

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The best way to get in touch is via email: hi@oliverroick.net

Publications

I wrote and published papers on community mapping and volunteered geographic information.

Roick, O.; Haklay, M. & Ellul, C. (2016): GeoKey – open infrastructure for community mapping and science. Human Computation 3(1) doi: 10.15346/hc.v3i1.8
Roick, O. & Heuser, S. (2013): Location Based Social Networks – Definition, Current State of the Art and Research Agenda. Transactions in GIS 17(5) doi: 10.1111/tgis.12032
Roick, O.; Hagenauer, J. & Zipf, A. (2011): OSMatrix — Grid based analysis and visualization of OpenStreetMap. State of the Map EU. Wien, July 2011.
Roick, O.; Neis, P. & Zipf, A. (2011): Volunteered Geographic Information - Datenqualität und Nutzungspotentiale am Beispiel von OpenStreetMap. Kommission "Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie (DGfK) - Symposium Königslutter 2011.
Roick, O.; Gerlach, R. & Lemmens, R. (2008): Using Open Standards for Browser-based Integration and Visualization of Geo-Spatial Data. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10(EGU2008-A-07829).