If you’re interested in the following topics, you’re welcome to join these working group sessions on Friday:

16:00 to 16:30 – “New mapping standards for the web”

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.

16:30 to 17:00 – “Indoor Positioning and Mapping”

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.

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!