Who are we?
Let’s Talk Spatial is Bengaluru’s community for GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and everything maps.
We started as a bunch of spatial enthusiasts who connected online and decided to build a platform for local geospatial folks. We are heavily inspired by community initiatives like the classic GeoBLR and GeoPune groups.
As working professionals, researchers, developers, and students, we believe in open sharing, technical learning, and community support (and drinking plenty of chai!).
What we do
We run monthly, in-person meetups, workshops, and mapping parties in Bengaluru to:
- Share Technical Insights: Learn about cloud-native geospatial architectures, Earth observation tools, STAC APIs, open-source routing, and more.
- Network & Connect: Meet geospatial engineers, cartographers, data scientists, and academicians working in the field.
- Learn & Grow: Help students and newcomers navigate open-source tools (QGIS, PostGIS, Python, GDAL) and geospatial career paths.
The Committee
Our community is run by a volunteer committee that handles speaker outreach, theme planning, venue coordination, and catering (mostly chai).
Aman Bagrecha
Geospatial Consultant
Aman is a developer with experience in Python and Deep Learning. He has a keen interest in open specification spatial data formats. A regular blogger, Aman shares remote sensing and GIS case studies on YouTube and GitHub. Writing clean, well-tested code to monitor Earth in all aspects is what excites him.
Thiyaku S
Geospatial Consultant
Thiyaku is an expert in remote sensing and GIS for agriculture and water resources. His work centers around microwave data, image fusion, and dashboard development. An open-source advocate, Thiyaku also works extensively with QGIS, GRASS, Python, R, and GeoServer.
Amruth Kiran
Senior Associate - Geospatial Lab, IIHS
Amruth’s main interests lie in spatial data infrastructures and knowledge systems. Building scalable, cloud-based architectures on AWS and Azure for handling remote sensing data is his forte. Open-source development, teaching, and field work bring him down from the cloud to solid ground.
Santhosh M
Technical Specialist (Geospatial), RMSI
Santhosh is a machine learning and Google Earth Engine fan. A teacher at heart, Santhosh has built QGIS tutorials and works with open-source GIS tools and services. A civil engineer turned data scientist, his work spans domains like urban expansion, fire event prediction, and above-ground biomass estimation.
Interested?
Register and we’ll reach out to you when events are scheduled.