State Of The Map 2011

State of the Map is always a very popular conference and our capacity limit is just about at maximum!

We only have a handful of tickets left before we must close registration for the September 9-11, 2011 event.

photo cc by sa Alex Schweigert

Be sure to get your tickets to this years event before it’s too late!

Colorado summer nights can be filled with many entertaining options, but one classic event is taking in a major league baseball game at Coors Field and watching the Rockies play!

Flickr cc bt Tom McSparron

We’re happy to announce a group outing to the game on Friday night after the conference. We’ll map our way over to the stadium (about a 15 min walk) and enjoy the evening sun, maybe a Coors Light beer, a hotdog and cracker jacks!

The Rockies are scheduled to play the Cincinnati Reds at 6:40pm.

Find out more when you pick up your registration packet at State of the Map in Denver.

State of the Map always pulls a great international audience, and this year is no different! We’ll be making new friends from all over the planet.

Check out the countries registered that are visiting Denver:

Afghanistan Austria Australia Argentina Bangladesh Tunisia Philippines Haiti Columbia Canada Chile Georgia Germany

Denmark Estonia Spain Finland France United Kingdom Italy Japan Netherlands Norway Russia Sweden USA

State of the Map 2011 is fortunate to have an amazing family of sponsors this year, and we welcome Deloitte as a gold patron.

For the third year in a row, we welcome Trails as our sponsor at State of the Map!

Check out what Trails has to offer:

Trails is the first GPS iPhone app that allows you to record, import and export tracks onto your iPhone.

Record maps while hiking, on bike trips or while jogging directly on your iPhone. Easily import tracks and follow hikes of others!

You can export your tracks with two clicks in the standard GPX Format. This allows you to geotag and geocode your non-iPhone photos (via e.g. HoudahGeo) or to share your track with others via Google Earth, etc

Trails is featured in the New York Times Gadgetwise Blog and is recommended by MacLife as one of their 101 iPhone Apps.

Trails beats Garmin: A field experiment (german) shows that Trails (2.99 US$) on the iPhone is more precise than the Garmin Edge 305 (200 US$).

You can meet the Trails team this year in Denver at State of the Map!

We are proud to announce Bing as a returning sponsor of State of the Map event in Denver, Colorado.

Here’s what Bing has to say, “Events like 2011 State of the Map fuel the expansion of the global mapping community.  We are excited to be a sponsor and looking forward to Denver.”

Bing joins this year as a platinum level patron and we look forward to their participation.

In 2010, Bing announced the use of their aerial imagery for tracing in our OpenStreetMap editors.

Perhaps they will have another exciting announcement in September?

OpenStreetMap Video Competition

Want to attend State of the Map in Denver with a little bit of fame to your name?

Here’s your chance to win a free* trip in September to the annual OpenStreetMap event of the year!

Create a 1-3 minute video with the following criteria to guide you:

1. The video should be fun, unique and show what OpenStreetMap means to you.

2. Explain why we should choose you to be at State of the Map 2011!

3. Normal necessities and niceties:

No vulgar language

No nudity

No animal cruelty

4. Video must have CC, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licensing

5.  Post your video to YouTube.com with the hash symbol: #sotm11

6. Email your submission (plus link to video) to video@stateofthemap.org.

Hint: Promote your video on twitter, blogs, FaceBook, etc to get more views!

The competition is open now until July 8^th, 2011 11:59pm PST.

Winner will be announced by July 15^th, 2011.

Winner will be chosen by a combination of video popularity and by the SotM organizing committee.

Enter as many times as you like!

No purchase necessary.

*Free trip includes round-trip flight, hotel for three nights and one (1) Passport ticket to State of the Map 2011.

The State of the Map Committee is excited to announce a program to cover full travel and accommodations costs for mappers to attend State of the Map 2011 in Denver, Colorado (United States). We’re seeking nominations from the community for potential mappers.

We are seeking people from places where costs would prohibit attendance, developing countries, and places that are “interesting” geopolitically. The ideal candidates for funding are from countries with a small OSM community, perhaps just a few mappers in total. They have made a significant start at mapping their city, either through imagery or with their own GPS, and are directly familiar with the process of OSM. They may have started communicating among themselves, and made plans and scoped out the process for their local district. But, the community is nowhere near critical mass, and they need the inspiration and support to take OSM to the next level.

We need to act fast! State of the Map is just over 3 and a half months away, tickets and visas need to be arranged. In order to allow enough time for all the arrangements, the nomination period will be short, and ending at Sunday, June 25th. The number of scholarships rewarded will be based on the success of fund-raising. From the nominations received, we’ll review and invite scholars in late June.

Please send your nominations to scholarship@stateofthemap.org. For each nomination, include the mappers name, OSM user name, email address, location, and a paragraph or two on why they’d be great to have at SOTM. Self nominations are accepted.

Please forward this message to other relevant local OSM and mapping lists and social media!

As for regions, here are a few regions that seem to fit the bill, but nominations are not limited to these places at all.

• Eastern and Southern Europe: Belarus, Kosovo, Bulgaria
• Arab States: Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan
• Asia: Nepal, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Indonesia
• Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala
• Africa: Liberia, Ivory Coast, Swaziland

Sponsor-a-Mapper

In previous years there has been a scholarship program to help mappers who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend get to State of the Map. This year we are announces an “Sponsor-A-Mapper” program. There are plenty of deserving individuals from all of the world that can’t afford to attend SotM. To help them be able to come join the community in person in Denver why don’t you consider paying to cover a portion of the cost of their ticket?

We are attempting to raise an average of $2,500 USD per mapper in order to be sure to cover their costs. This will vary slightly by transportation costs depending from where the select scholarships are traveling.

The more money we raise the more mappers we can sponsor!

To Sponsor-a-Mapper please email scholarship@stateofthemap.org

Thank you!

As the saying goes, the early bird catches the best price to State of the Map. And there is a limited time left to catch discounts of up to $200!

Photo by Robert@EOS cc by Flickr

Be sure to register now before June 15th, 2011!

See you in Denver.