State Of The Map 2011

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 Tiachi 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

We’ve had 5 great State of the Map conferences. Manchester, Limerick, Amsterdam, Girona and Denver. Big question is: where are we going to in 2012?

We would like to have your help with finding a great venue for the largest annual OpenStreetMap conference.

Would you like to have the 2012 edition of State of the Map in your city? Submit your proposal on our Call for Venues page on the wiki. More details about criteria and the information we would like to have from you can also be found at that wiki page.

We hope to announce our 2012 venue in the beginning of the new year.

State of the Map is over. Memories of 3 fantastic days remain. If you would like to relive SotM11, please have a look at the presentations. (Not all of the presentations have been uploaded yet)

Or …. have a look at all the photo’s taken during State of the Map.

Thank you all for being at State of the Map and for making it yet again a great conference!

Some important facts:

Venue Address: 1200 Larimer Street, Denver, CO 80204
Friday Location: The Tivoli building – Student Union entrance
Weekend Location: NorthClassroom

Doors open at 8.00am!

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.

In case you hadn’t noticed: The schedule is now available! We still have to fill in some of the details so be sure to keep an eye on this website.

Skip to the Schedules: Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Every year there is a competition to host the best ever State of the Map conference. This affair is no different! Be sure to register now!

The 5th Annual State of the Map will be hosted in the fun, adventurous and GIS centric city of Denver, Colorado. Consisting of three days, you have fantastic opportunities to discover how OSM is used in business, meet new international OSM friends and tune up on your mapping skills.

Friday starts off with a bang on Business day. Want to use the freely available OpenStreetMap map data in your business? Opportunities abound to hear how other enterprises utilize OSM. You’ll also gain insight on tools that are available to hit the ground running with OSM! Business day is simply a powerful day not to miss. Check out our Friday program.

Community, community, community! The weekend is all about the great clan that is OSM. Packed with talks, panels and social events, all day and into the night! New to OpenStreetMap? Come and meet us and learn what we are passionately working on, who the movers and shakers are and join in on the fun! Have a look at our program for Saturday and Sunday.

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.