Tag: sotm
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Looking back at SOTM Africa and Missing Maps Gathering
The recently concluded State of the Map Africa 2023, hosted in Yaoundé, Cameroon, marked the fourth edition of this regional OpenStreetMap (OSM) conference. The State of the Map was a great opportunity to get to know the people who are at the center of building open mapping communities in African countries. For the first time…
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HeiGIT at State of the Map Europe 2023
This year’s State of the Map Europe Conference (SotM EU) took place in Antwerp, Belgium. HeiGIT’s Benjamin Herfort and Jochen Stier visited the conference. SotM is a platform hosting OSM mappers, open-source developers, researchers, GIS professionals, cartographs and many more interested people. The goal is to offer an opportunity for those groups and individuals to…
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GIScience and HeiGIT at SotM 2022
We are happy to announce that, this year, GIScience and HeiGIT has had four contributions to the FOSS-Community “conferencathon” in Florence. As QGIS-Meeting, State of the Map, HOT unSummit and FOSS4G all took place consecutively, the schedule was shaping up to be extremely packed. We’d like to highlight some specific events and topics that you…
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GIScience Contributions to the 2019 State of the Map Academic Track proceedings
Recently the SOTM 2019 Heidelberg Academic Track Proceedings have been published. GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and HeiGIT contributed several talks and posters. Below you can find an overview. Contact us if you are interested in further details on ongoing research. Klonner, Hartmann, Djami, Zipf, A. (2019). “Ohsome” OpenStreetMap Data Evaluation: Fitness of Field Papers for…
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State of the Map and HOT Summit in Heidelberg
Over the last few days, Heidelberg has been host to the annual HOT Summit and State of the Map conference with a combined attendance of over 800 people. The HOT summit ran from the 19th-20th September and had over 200 attendees from more than 40 different countries. The SotM conference, running from the 21st to…
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OpenStreetMap, eine stille und nützliche digitale Revolution
Über 500 Mitgestalter des ehrenamtlich erstellten Kartenwerks treffen sich in Heidelberg. Ihr Motto: „Freie Projekte benötigen freie Daten“ Verkehrsminister Winfried Hermann: „Nachhaltige Mobilität und frei verfügbare Daten passen sehr gut zusammen“ Ein besonderes Beispiel der digitalen Mitgestaltung ist die OpenStreetMap (abgekürzt: OSM). Am Wochenende ist Heidelberg das Zentrum der OSM-Community. Vom 21. bis zum 23.…
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Pressekonferenz: State of the Map, Heidelberg 21.09.2019
Presseeinladung 18.09.2019 (PDF Link hier) Weltkonferenz für eine Freie Karte Die Macher von OpenStreetMap treffen sich in Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg und Verkehrsministerium Baden-Württemberg unterstützen Initiative Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hochwertiges digitales Kartenmaterial muss nicht kommerziell sein. Seit mittlerweile 15 Jahren zeigen die die Macher der OpenStreetMap (OSM), dass eine weltweite Community in ehrenamtlicher Arbeit frei…
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Program of Academic Track for State of the Map 2019 Heidelberg is online
Also the program of the “Academic Track” for ‘State of the Map‘ (SotM) as been released now. Early bird ticket prices are still available until 7th of July. See the website for all the details: 2019.stateofthemap.org Two contributions are by members of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg: Analyzing the spatio-temporal patterns and impacts of large-scale data…
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Program for State of the Map (SotM 2019) Heidelberg has been released
The program for ‘State of the Map‘ (SotM) as been released, and early bird ticket prices are still available until 7th of July. See the website for all the details 2019.stateofthemap.org #OpenStreetMap talks, workshops & discussions as mappers across the world come to #Heidelberg, #Germany from 21st to 23rd of September. Also do not forget…
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Call for State of the Map 2019 academic track is open
The call for State of the Map 2019 (SOTM) academic track is now open until: 10th May 2019. Read more: https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/ tl;dr Please read the submission guidelines and submit your presentation proposal before May 10 to the submission form. This year’s State of the Map conference in Heidelberg will again feature a full day Academic Track session. Following…
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Interested in sponsoring the State of the Map conference 2019?
State of the Map 2019 conference will be held in Heidelberg, September 21-23 2019. Interested in sponsoring? Want to help build bridges through scholarships? Sponsorship packages are available at https://2019.stateofthemap.org/Sponsorship2019.pdf
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Seasons greetings by GIScience Heidelberg
The whole GIScience Heidelberg research group does wish to all of you happy and peaceful holidays and all the best for the new year! We are looking forward to working together and especially welcome you to Heidelberg in 2019 for the State of the Map conference and HOT Summit or any other opportunity. Let’s bridge…