You want more SotM?
The US State of the Map conference is right around the corner, happening on October 13-14 in Portland, OR. Check it out if you want more OpenStreetMap sessions and conversations, or couldn’t make the Tokyo event.
Full details are at http://stateofthemap.us.
Tokyo has too many choices for having dinner or a drink. And most of them can’t host very large groups.
To simplify meeting others around Shibuya and Shinjuku Station we publish this list of restaurants and pubs:
Shinjuku
Shibuya
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 |  Dubliners (Irish pub) http://www.ginzalion.jp/shop/brand/lion.html Ginza Lion (restaurant, same building's ground floor) http://www.ginzalion.jp/shop/brand/dubliners.html |
| Hobgoblin (1st or 2nd floor) http://www.hobgoblin.jp/Shibuya/tabid/120/language/ja-JP/Default.aspx |
| Abbots Choice |
Main: Convention Hall (2F)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/
Second: Conference Room (3F)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/
Two of our Japanese sponsors, IMES/CCC and KDDI, asked us if we could provide an open session format to get in touch with the OSM community, exchange ideas and discuss with like-minded people.
If you’re interested in the following topics, you’re welcome to join these working group sessions on Friday:
W3C is developing the next generation standard for SVG as SVG 2, and Satoru Takagi (KDDI) has been the driving force behind SVG Map and a Tiling and Layering Module for SVG, to be included in SVG 2. In short, the purpose of this web standard proposal is to make mapping a basic function of WWW.
Satoru Takagi is interested to learn more about the OSM community, to meet developers with interest in map rendering techniques and standards, and to discuss about map rendering related topics.
The IMES (Indoor Messaging System) consortium and Creative City Consortium want to present their latest activities in an “Indoor Positioning and Mapping Project” at the Edge City, Futako-Tamagawa in Tokyo.
During the session the project team will explain what IMES is and present their indoor positioning and mapping experiences in Futako-Tamagawa, a so called Edge City for living, working and shopping. Beside a demonstration of IMES and how to integrate the collected data into OSM they would like to meet other OSM community members, that are active or interested in indoor mapping, and discuss about specific indoor mapping topics.
Shu Higashi is going to organize a pre-SotM unofficial Mapping Party in Akihabara on Wednesday 5th.
You can easily find the guide to the “Akihabara Electric Town Exit” in English everywhere in Akihabara Station and Shu Higashi will be waiting 2 times (10:00 and 13:30) at Akihabara Electric Exit of Akihabara Station (outside of the gate) with OSM Paper lantern.
More details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
Please come on and join us!
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OpenScienceMap is a project with the aim to provide the complete OSM data as vector tiles for mobile devices. It features multi-scale vector data, super-fast OpenGL rendering, and efficient data compression.
Accompanying the talk “OpenScienceMap: Multi-Scale Vector Tile Maps” by Falko Schmid on Friday 11am you can download the App for your Android device (runs from 2.3 on) from: http://code.google.com/p/vector-tile-map/downloads
Did you miss the call for papers?
Or do you want to present your latest OSM achievements?
Then sign-up and add your name and talk title to the conference Wiki for a “Lightning Talk” and we will give you 5 minutes to impress the audience.
There will be an English and a Japanese LT session on Thursday and one more in English on Friday.
If you haven’t done it yet, make sure you register now!
We received great presentation proposals in the past weeks. Thanks a lot to everyone who submitted a proposal! We asked to describe each proposal with a few keywords. Look at the tag cloud visualization to see what is hot in 2012. Anything missing?
Got an idea for a talk? The call for presentations was extended until May 31st, so there is still some time left to submit your ideas through Call for Presentations.
Sushi is the most famous Japanese dish outside of Japan, and one of the most popular dishes among the Japanese themselves. In Japan, sushi is usually enjoyed on special occasions, such as a celebration.
When staying in Tokyo why not visit the famous Tsukiji Fish Market in the early morning and have Sushi for breakfast? Or find a Kaiten-zushi sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table and counter seat.
To learn more about the tradition of Japanese Sushi watching the video is highly recommended.
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After a long flight, landed in a totally different time zone you may be awake in the middle of the night. So why not climbing Mt. Fuji in the night to see the sun rise from the top?
Mount Fuji (富士山 Fuji-san) is with 3776 meters the highest mountain in Japan and one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains”.
Mt. Fuji is officially open for climbing during July and August via several routes and you won’t be alone: thousands of people climb the mountain every summer. Climbing from October to May is very strongly discouraged, so beginning of September sounds like a perfect match.
There are several climbing routes, but if you want to enjoy Mt. Fuji at a more leisurely pace and from a nice natural surrounding, you should head to the Fuji Five Lake (Fujigoko) region at the northern foot of the mountain, or to Hakone, a nearby hot spring resort.
Be aware that even during official climbing seeason, when Tokyo often swelters in 40°C heat, temperatures at the top can be below freezing at night and climbers must dress adequately!
Find more information about climbing Mt. Fuji at Wikitravel or Japan-Guide.
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