State of the Map Scotland 2013

Welcome

The State of the Map Scotland 2013 Unconference (SOTMS) will be held on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th October 2013 10am-4pm. It will be held at Inspace which is the building next to the Informatics Forum of Edinburgh University. The conference is roughly set so that professional groups can make engage with the Openstreetmap.org community on Friday and giving their insights of use of maps and data in their work. This makes for an enjoyable Friday afternoon outside the office. The Openstreetmap communitys presentations are on the Saturday.

The talks/discussions are usually in time sets of 30 minutes this includes setting up and questions so the talks are usually aimed at 20 minutes. Each day we have a section called Lightning talks. This is where people can introduce short talks for 5 mins, they can also ask questions of the crowd about any subject or ask if anyone would like to talk off conference about a particular subject.

The Third day is in a different location and consists of a Geografical Informations Systems Hackers day and Tutorials for those new to Openstreetmap. See below for details.

This year our main speaker is from International Rescue Corps They will be giving an hour long talk. We are also requesting donations for their cause to be collected on the day. Please look for the donation buckets. We also have a small number of OSM jackets £20 all money to IRC

Hackday

It will be followed by a hack day at techcube at summerhall Location on Sunday. This event will be free but space are limited to 45. The event will be organised so that hackers can arrange themselves into areas of mutual interest and a selection of 30 minute tutorials for people new to openstreetmap will also be held.Please bring your own laptops.

Tutorials include

• Introduction to openstreetmap
• Editing with the online editor potlatch or ID
• Editing with JOSM
• Introduction to Taginfo

Collaboration

State of the map Scotland is brought to you with collaboration with Open Glasgow part of Future City Glasgow a Future Cities Demonstrator funded by the UK ’s Technology Strategy Board.

• Twitter : @openglasgow

Speakers

Competition

Openstreetmap.org survey jackets will be given to delegates who have come from the furthest north or south of the UK an one from the furthest country away from the UK. Jackets will be given out at the end of the day on Saturday.

Booking

We will be able to accept walk-ins on the day though we may ask you for your name an organisations just so we can judge the numbers for next years conference

Other events

Please be aware of these other events

EdinburghApps

EdinburghApps ,Creative Exchange, Leith is a new event being run by the City of Edinburgh Council and Connected Capital. It invites teams to take part in building solutions to solve civic issues. There will be a number of themes, and identified challenges. There will be a range of awards and the aim of the event is to deliver usable solutions that will change the city, improving life for the citizens of Edinburgh and empowering businesses, developers, organisations and individuals.

• 26 September 2013 Icebreaker Event
• 8 November 2013 Welcome Evening
• 9 November 2013 Final Project Day
• 10 November 2013 Awards Event

Sunday 27th October at 1pm Wikipedia Meetup

Tuesday 29th October 2013 :NHS Lothian Innovation Event: Surgeons Hall Edinburgh

About Openstreetmap.org

We are a group of international volunteers who are making a map of the world. We have approximately 1,3500,000 people signed up to our website of whom 50,000 contribute data each week. Some people call us the Wikipedia of maps. Once we have the map data, we can present it (render) in different ways. Examples of our maps

• Edinburgh
• Cycling Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Transport
• Edinburgh Detail
• Edinburgh Zoo
• Hospital

We work internationally for example 600 volunteers created a map of Haiti after the earthquake see Haiti Video

We have worked with the World Bank, Red Cross, and UN.

We have had volunteer groups mapping slums in Nairobi

• Kibera

or Refugee camps

• Dadaab

We have recently had our 8th birthday, we are well established and growing very fast

Drinks

• Coffees and tea's throughout the day will be supplied by volunteers: We have a 20L water Urn and plastic cups. We will have basic tea, coffee sugar and milk - please bring biscuits

Internet Access

Internet Access will be available for the duration of the conference from Edinburgh university for £1: all speakers will have free access. To be doubly safe we would request that some attendees bring their own mobile internet.

Hotels

Edinburgh is a very tourist friendly city and there are many hotels of all price ranges. Inspace is a 15 minute walk from the train station. 20 minutes from the bus station.

Learning

For those that are interested in learning how to edit Openstreetmap.org please see Learnosm.org for beginners lessons. Main hands on teaching sessions will be available on sunday at the hackday

Tasks

• biscuits and coffee We have a 20L urn, cups and spoons, please bring coffee biscuits

Volunteers

Please add your name here if you would be willing to help out on either of the two days Tasks Reception - People will be coming in at different times they will need to be shown the board with all the post-it notes for talks or connections Gallery - making sure that the slide shows are running smoothly and that paper maps are put up.

Other Posters and Logos

Associated Groups

Openstreetmap.org hope that we will be able to build stronger ties to larger groups such as Universities, Libraries or NGO or government agencies. Those who wish to say they are going to attend please contact Bob Kerr to add your name.

Where

Inspace 1 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Twitter

See @OSMScotland . Hashtag for conference: #sotmscot

Previous and next SotmS

• State of the Map Scotland 2011. In 2011 we had a total of 20 half hour sessions in 2012 we have 24 half hour sessions dedicated to mappers and 16 half hour sessions dedicated to external groups
• State of the Map Scotland 2012
• State of the Map Scotland 2015