Finally I'm sitting in another ICE from FRA back home to Würzburg and I'm awake enough to write some words. WhereCampEU was simply so great that I didn't find time and energy to write blogposts during the two days.

The first day was at WallaceSpace, a very small, but nice and comfortable venue 100 meters away from my hotel. After some breakfast and chatting we started with some introduction words from Gary Gale and Christopher Osborne about the history of WhereCamps, the organization and idea behind the WhereCampEU and how it will work in the next 2 days. As the WhereCampEU is a so called unconference, there was no call for papers or a speaker list before. Like at other BarCamps we had a wall where everyone could put some little post-it's (yes, a tech conference with paper!) with a title for his talk/presentation/discussion/brainstorming session and their name as well. The grid is usually arranged to have the rooms as columns and the time for the rows. The whole thing really worked well (I expected it work well with all that smart people there). The only disadvantage was that you always had to go to the wall between the session and check where to go next as it wasn't online on your MacBook/Laptop/iPhone/... available. Also you only had the title as a basis for your decision to where to go next, but that isn't really a disadvantage as you sometimes join session that turn out to be unexpectedly very interesting. Most of the time the hardest decision was to decide where not to go because there were a lot of interesting sessions at the same time.

But let's get to some content. The first session I attended was John Fagan speaking about the history of Mulit-Map and Geo-APIs in the web. He works for AxonActive and he had to find an API that would return him Isochrones. But as it turned out he wasn't able to find any API that returned good results and was still affordable. At the end he had to build his own service like it was done back in 1999/2000 by Mulit-Map at the beginning.

More blogging coming soon, also watch #wherecampeu on Twitter and the WhereCampEU wiki.