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State of the Map/Planning/Vision

Key aims

  • Bring together the OpenStreetMap community (see "Conference Attendance")
  • Keep costs low for attendees (supported by sponsorships)
  • Run a scholarship programme (enabling people to attend who otherwise couldn't)

Further detail

State of the Map aims to be a general, multi-disciplinary conference. We strive to bring together a balanced attendance representing the many groups within OpenStreetMap. We also wish to maintain a balance of themes. To ensure this we regularly collect this information (e.g. as part of our call for proposals, and in our feedback survey).

Conference attendance

We strive to attract a people and organisations from all groups. They may cross groups, and may be on a range of professional/paid to hobbyist/volunteer. In no particular order:

  1. Data Contributors
    • community
    • public administration
    • companies
    • NGOs / aid organisations
  2. Data Users
    • commercial
    • non-profit and public service
    • research/scientific
    • personal
  3. Core OSM
    • software developers who work on our shared tools
    • documenters/teachers
    • the OSMF working groups
    • OSMF board (strategy and vision)

Conference themes

We have identified the following themes (topics) and we aim for SotM to include a balanced mix of them.

  • Cartography / visualization
  • Data collection / creation
  • Data use / analysis
  • Education / documentation
  • Humanitarian
  • Intro to OSM
  • Local community / diversity
  • Organization / legal
  • Technical / IT operations
  • Transport / planning
  • Other
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