State Of The Map 2012

The OpenStreetMap Foundation, State of the Map Working Group, (SotM-WG) announced today that State of the Map 2013 will be held in Birmingham, England, from 6th – 8th September 2013.

More at blog.osmfoundation.org

January 31st the Call for Venues for State of the Map 2013 closes.
So far only 1 bid is in, your chances of winning will never be better!

Please submit your proposal here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues

In exactly 1 week from now the State of the Map 2012 Tokyo will open its doors!

There are still some tickets left so be sure to get your tickets here.

Online registration will close exactly 24 hours before the conference starts, September 5th 9:30am local time in Tokyo or earlier if we’re sold out…

The Japanese local team has found a great place for the already legendary pre-conference drinks: HUB, British Pub near Sjinjuku station.

Check out their website. They even have Guinness 🙂

Be careful: There are four HUB’s near that station, be sure to go to the right one, here are the coordinates on OSM.

This is not a sponsored event so buy your fellow mappers a drink!

Hope to see you there September 5th, around 8pm!

Pre-conference drinks

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Pre-conference drinks 35.690244, 139.702112 HUB Pre-conference drinks September 5th, 8:00pm

We have a little surprise for you!

As you may know, there is an OpenStreetMap book by Frederik Ramm, Jochen Topf and Steve Chilton.

The publisher, UIT Cambridge, has kindly provided us with 200 copies of the English version of this book.

We are very happy to announce that the first 200 registrants will get a free copy!

If you haven’t done it yet, make sure you register now!

More information about the book on www.openstreetmap.info.

Just a quick note on which countries people have signed up from. We have people registered from 18 different countries so far! The top countries are: Japan, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.

We’ve been working on selecting the best talks for SOTM12 and we’re almost ready to release the schedule. Visit the site again next week to have a look at the program!

Here’s a sneak peek on what to expect:

Since we’re in Japan it seemed right to have an entire day dedicated to Crisis related OpenStreetMap talks. Kinya Inoue, who himself is from Fukushima, will tell you about mapping before and after the tsunami, even about mapping radiation levels. Arlene Ducao will tell you about OpenIR, a web application offering geo-located infrared data as on-demand map layers. We will have Kate Chapman telling you about the achievements made by HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and how you can participate.

But besides crisis response there’s tons of other stuff:

Ryan Peterson will talk about Traffic information on OSM. Tim Waters will talk about Addiction to OSM, also known as OCOSMD (Obsessive-Compulsive OpenStreetMap Disorder). There is a tech talk by Frederik Ramm on ‘Optimising the Mapnik/osm2pgsql Rendering Toolchain’. We have routing talks by Chine-hung Liu on Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City Bus Routing system and Dennis Luxen on routing with the daily planet.

For more talks keep F5-ing this website!

We’ve already gotten some great proposals for talks on SOTM12 but we still have some more slots left. So the deadline is now extended until May 31st, submit your ideas through Call for Presentations. Don’t wait too long as space is filling up quickly!

Proposals submitted before our earlier deadline (April 30th) will get a confirmation this week and we hope to announce them on this blog next week so you can know what to expect.

You may wonder what the SOTM team is working on at the moment, so let me give you an update.

As you may have noticed, registration is now open, thanks for all who have registered already! You still have some time to get your ticket at early bird prices. If you are an OSMF member you will get an e-mail soon with details on the extra €10 discount. This means you can get a ticket for 3 days of OSM fun for only 75 euro!

The Call for Presentations deadline is approaching fast. If you submit your talk before the end of April you have a very good chance to get accepted. We will let you know in the first week of May and hope to start publishing some talks then.

Of course we’re always looking for new sponsors so have a look at our Sponsors page if you want to request our Sponsorship brochure.

The local team in Tokyo is working on the catering and looking into some excursions we would like to offer.

We’re also working on the Scholarship program for this year and hope to announce this very soon.

Hope to see you all in Tokyo!

We now also have a Facebook event page and in case you want to learn some Japanese, there’s also a Facebook group SotM 2012 Tokyo in Japanese.

‘Liking’ the Facebook pages will not get you into SOTM 2012 but there have been rumours that registration is about to open! So stay tuned!