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 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.

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!

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

Doors open at 8.00am!

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!

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.

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.

Most people will know their iOS apps City Maps 2Go, the most popular offline map app; and City Guides 2Go, destination guides for wonderful cities like Paris, New York, London, and Rome.

Ulmon has developed their own Ulmon Vector Maps map rendering engine, which delivers swift rendering, high detail on every zoom level, and very compact file sizes at the same time. Ulmon Vector Maps was launched this January at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, and gets its 2.0 this summer, delivering another 50% file size reduction and threefold rendering performance.

Meet the guys at the conference to exchange ideas and experiences!

And for traveling to SotM, stop worrying about data connectivity and have a map of Denver in your pocket, OSM-style!
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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