State Of The Map 2012

我々は、いままでの数週間で大きなプレゼンテーションの提案を受けました。提案を提出してくれたみなさんに感謝！（最終締め切りは５月末日まで）我々は提案書にキーワードの記載を求めました。 そこで2012年のホットなキーワードを確認するために、タグクラウドの可視化を見てみましょう。何か欠けているものはありますか？

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.

私たちはとてもすばらしいプレゼンテーションの応募を受け取っていますが、その受け付けを 5月31日(木) まで延長しました。あなたのアイディアを 「プレゼンテーションの公募」 まで応募してください！ 締切を待たずに、思いついたらすぐに！！

前回の締め切り（4月30日）前に提出頂いた応募については、今週内容を査読し、我々は来週このブログでそれらを発表することを願っています。

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!

イベント会場

東京大学駒場リサーチキャンパス 生産技術研究所An棟2F

住所

〒153-8505 東京都目黒区駒場4-6-1
35.661719N 139.677560E (OSM map)

旅行に関する情報

日本から参加される方は、お手数ですが期間中の宿泊場所については各自で手配をお願い致します。会場へのアクセスで便利なエリアは渋谷・新宿になります。最寄り駅は京王井の頭線・駒場東大前駅、小田急線・代々木上原駅。学生ボランティアは合宿形式でイベント期間中は格安宿泊場所で合流予定ですのでご応募ください。

宿泊参考情報：楽天トラベル

詳細情報

より詳しい情報については SotM2012 Wiki を御覧ください。毎週最新の情報が更新される予定です。また質問などがあれば Facebook の日本語グループを活用してください。

SotM 2012 Tokyo イベント告知用に Facebookイベントグループ（英語） と日本語用の SotM 2012 Tokyo in Japanese グループをはじめました。

まだグループに参加していなければ是非登録してください。我々は随時最新の SotM に関する情報を発信します。そしてなによりSotMを楽しんでください！！

We’ve got ourselves a new logo! Nicolas Bozon has won our logo-contest with his Fuji-san logo. The logo depicts Mount Fuji, which (according to Nicolas) denotes the geography of Japan very well. The momiji leaves represents the Autumn season, during which SotM will be held. This all in the red sun which is well known from the Japanese flag.

We received a total of 9 logo’s with our logo-contest. It was great to see so much creativity within the OSM community. We would like to thank all participants who’ve submitted a logo for the contest.

The State of the Map (SotM) organizing committee announce Tokyo, Japan as the winning bid for the 2012 International conference for OpenStreetMap (OSM). The annual event will be held September 6th-8th 2012.

There were five proposals to host the leading international OpenStreetMap conference: Aveiro (Portugal), Havana (Cuba), Lille (France), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Tokyo (Japan). “We’ve received several strong bids. Deciding on the best location for State of the Map is always one of our biggest and toughest decisions.” says Henk Hoff, chairman of the SotM organizing committee. With the crisis Japan had to face the past year, the Japanese OSM has grown intensively; making Asia an important part within the OSM community.

“We strongly believe that holding State of the Map in Asia will widen and strenghten the international community as a whole, like it has done in Europe and North America in the past” commented Taichi Furuhashi of OpenStreetMap Japan.

2012 will host the sixth annual international conference, attracting over 250 people in attendance. Previous editions of this conference were held in Manchester (UK), Limerick (Ireland), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Girona (Spain), Denver (USA). Sponsorship details, volunteer opportunities and more information will be available in the near future.

photo: Tadataka INO – The regend of Mapper in Japan. CC-BY-SA Katori-city on Wikipedia