Veranstaltungen

The international State Of The Map conference will take place in Heidelberg from 21 to 23 September 2019! Contributions can be submitted until 25 April 2019 and there is a travel grant programme (see quoted text below)

The following is the original announcement from the mailing list (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-March/009839.html):

Hello,

From 21 to 23 September 2019, the next State of the Map will take place at the University of Heidelberg. SotM is the international OpenStreetMap conference.

The Call for Papers for the FOSSGIS 2019 Conference, which is taking place in Dresden from 13.03.2019 to 16.03.2019, has been extended to 13.11.2018.

So anyone who needs a few more days to write their paper now has them.

Z_GIS has now published the official photos of AGIT30 (AGIT celebrated its 30th anniversary this year).

These can be found under the following link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uni-salzburg/collections/72157696276650571/

This was the third day!

The big rush is over, but we were still able to advise some visitors on OpenStreetMap and FOSSGIS. It was interesting to hear about all the places where open-source GIS software is already in use, without the respective organisations making a big deal about it. ;-)

[caption id=“attachment_608” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] Interesting talks with visitors[/caption]

At around noon, most of the other exhibitors were already starting to pack up their exhibition stands. We needed a little longer because there were still questions from visitors.

New day, new visitors!

Not quite, we were also able to welcome many interested visitors from yesterday again today. This resulted in many exciting discussions and conversations, including with HERE.

Particularly exciting for me were the conversations with visitors who want to join the OpenStreetmap project, yes, there are still non-mappers.

We had ongoing conversations with both mappers and OpenStreetMap users. We were told about experiences with the map material from all over the world. We were delighted that most users noted very good coverage, which in some places was clearly different from commercial providers. This showed us that OpenStreetMap data is increasingly being accessed, especially in African areas. At this point, I would like to pass on the praise to all mappers who are doing a really great job and without whose commitment OpenStreetMap would not be possible.