That's right - July in Amsterdam is SOTMizing time. The State of the Map is OpenStreetMap's awesome annual conference - covering all aspects of OpenStreetMap, from mapping, to cartography to hacking. This year's mapping bonanza takes place in Amsterdam from the 10th - 12th July 2009. The three day conference will feature talks from the mappers, cartographers and coders who are making OpenStreetMap happen.
Weekend tickets cost just €100 - and *until Sunday 29th March you can get your ticket at a special early bird rate of €75*. To register, click here: http://www.stateofthemap.org/register-now/ The call for papers was published recently - we're inviting participation from anyone involved in OpenStreetMap or open geodata. This year's themes are: *OSM 2010 - **Taking OSM from 100,000 to 1,000,000 contributors* OpenStreetMap has come a long way in a very short space of time. With 100,000 contributors all around the world, OpenStreetMap has its future ahead. But there are also some big challenges ahead. How can OpenStreetMap continue to support new mappers around the world? How can the successes of mappers from well mapped countries be repeated in the unmapped world? What will a community of 1,000,000 mappers look like and what technical infrastructure needs to be put in place to support OSM’s growth? What are the new challenges that the OSM community must rise to in order to attract more mappers from diverse cultural backgrounds? What lessons can be learned from other open-source and open content communities who have made the transition from bedroom projects to world renowned successes? *New Mapping Frontiers - Expanding OSM into new communities, new regions and mapping new features with OSM* OSM started with some roads and footpaths in central London and now includes 1000s of different types of geodata around the world. As OSM continues its goal to provide a free map of the world, where will the line be drawn between “mappable” and “unmappable”. The third and fourth dimensions, indoor mapping and historic mapping are all there for the taking. What about aerial imagery? Will UAVs and community contributed aerial data provide detailed, open datasets? Is there really such a thing as “ground-truth”, or is all mapping subject to interpretation? What about subjective data: where do reviews, ratings and personal opinions fit in the OSM database? As OSM is taken up by new communities, what are the cultural barriers that need to be broken to make sure that new mapping frontiers are crossed? *OSM Application Development - Building applications that use the OSM APIs* OSM’s APIs provide a great base for all kinds of application development. What are the killer apps of 2009? Will this be the year of the OSM Mobile Editor? How can OSM’s trailblazing cartography continue to break new ground? What are the “enterprise” tools and services that are bring OSM maps to new users around the world? *Tools Tips and Techniques - Practical workshops that take a deep dive into a specific area of OSM* Are you power user of an OSM tool? If you’d like to share your expertise with OSM editors, cartography tools or OSM APIs, you can propose a session to host. Maybe you want to learn more about a particular area of OSM - if so you can also request a session to be given. For more details and to submit a paper, head over to: http://www.stateofthemap.org/call-for-papers/ Hope to see you there. -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b
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