Conferences / Software engineering

State of the Map

At a glance

Next event: —Bogotá, Colombia
Call for papers: No public call found
Audience: 200 attendees2026 · source
Past ticket prices: £10–£4402026 event · Champs-sur-MarneNext event prices not recorded
Past sponsorship prices: €500–€25,0002026 event · Champs-sur-MarneNext event packages not recorded
Sponsors: 56 recorded in 2026▲ +70% vs 2025 (33)2026 is year to date.
Program freshness: 97/100#34 of 143 · 2% rerunsTalk novelty and speaker variety.
Similar conferences: FOSS4G, CNG Forum, SatSummit

Organizer: OpenStreetMap Foundation (State of the Map Working Group); regional editions by local OSM communities
Category: Software engineering
Website: stateofthemap.org
Social: X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Mastodon · YouTube
Typical place: 23 cities
Topics: —

The global OpenStreetMap conference, with general tracks and an academic track (OSM Science). Global editions have no suffix; regional editions are recorded with suffixes (us, eu, africa, latam, asia) when they published a real agenda. SotM 2020 (planned for Cape Town) and SotM 2021 were online-only and are not recorded; there was no global edition in 2023 (SotM Europe 2023 in Antwerp ran instead). SotM 2027 is announced for Bogotá (July 2027). Regional events not recorded: SotM Latam 2024 tiers use animal names (kept as printed). SotM Asia 2020 (cancelled), 2022 Legazpi and 2023 Bangkok (no agenda found); SotM Africa 2021 (online); SotM France and FOSS4G SotM Oceania (national/joint events). Social accounts are the global conference's; regional ones include https://en.osm.town/@sotmeu, https://x.com/OSMLatam and https://x.com/sotmasia. Talks for pretalx-run editions come from the pretalx schedule exports; SotM US talks from openstreetmap.us and Sessionize.

Speakers it attracts

The 777 people who spoke at State of the Map in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.

1%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 11% of conferences

5have keynoted another conference

86%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit

Where they work (184 with a known employer type)Universities & research 52%Other 29%Vendors 8%Practitioners (end-user companies) 5%Consultancies 3%Media & community 2%

Most established speakers

Matt White · European Center for Quantum SciencesKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: PyTorch Conference, MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
Brandon Liukeynote here · Overture Maps FoundationSpoke at 4 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America, FOSS4G Europe…
Celine Jacquinkeynote hereKeynoted 1 other conference: FOSS4G
Said TurkseverKeynoted 1 other conference: FOSS4G
Selene Yang RappaccioliKeynoted 1 other conference: FOSS4G
Stefan Keller · Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)Keynoted 1 other conference: Swiss PGDay
Cristiano GiovandoSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America, CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
Jennings AndersonSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America, CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
Jose MacchiSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G Europe, CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
Maggie Cawley · OpenStreetMap USSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America, SatSummit
Pirmin KalbererSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G Europe, CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
Yuri Astrakhan · Rivian Volkswagen TechSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSS4G, FOSS4G North America, FOSS4G Europe

Events232019–2027

Sponsoring companies142284 sponsorships

Speaker appearances2,080

Activity by year

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.

Complete list

Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

Events

Dates	Event	Place	Format / status	Attendance	Sponsors	Speakers
2027	State of the Map 2027	Bogotá, Colombia	Announced	—	—	—
Oct 27–29, 2026	State of the Map Latam 2026	Mexico City, Mexico		—	11	112
Sep 6–7, 2026	State of the Map Asia 2026	Osaka, Japan		—	6	48
Aug 28–30, 2026	State of the Map 2026	Champs-sur-Marne, France		535	28	176
Jun 26–28, 2026	State of the Map Africa 2026	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania		—	7	80
Jun 11–13, 2026	State of the Map US 2026	Madison, United States		200	13	92
Nov 14–15, 2025	State of the Map Europe 2025	Dundee, United Kingdom		—	9	65
Oct 3–5, 2025	State of the Map 2025	Quezon City (Metro Manila), Philippines		—	12	79
Sep 4–6, 2025	State of the Map Latam 2025	Medellín, Colombia		—	10	137
Jun 19–21, 2025	State of the Map US 2025	Boston, United States		300	13	123
Dec 6–8, 2024	State of the Map Latam 2024	Belém, Brazil		—	5	36
Nov 30, 2024 – Dec 1, 2024	State of the Map Asia 2024	Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh		352	6	79
Sep 6–8, 2024	State of the Map 2024	Nairobi, Kenya		216	6	82
Jul 18–21, 2024	State of the Map Europe 2024	Łódź, Poland		—	6	55
Jun 6–8, 2024	State of the Map US 2024	Salt Lake City, United States		230	17	96
Nov 30, 2023 – Dec 2, 2023	State of the Map Africa 2023	Yaoundé, Cameroon		—	12	108
Nov 10–12, 2023	State of the Map Europe 2023	Antwerp, Belgium		300	18	72
Jun 8–11, 2023	State of the Map US 2023	Richmond, United States		315	16	145
Aug 19–21, 2022	State of the Map 2022	Florence, Italy		—	19	123
Apr 1–3, 2022	State of the Map US 2022	Tucson, United States		—	21	71
Nov 1–2, 2019	State of the Map Asia 2019	Dhaka, Bangladesh		461	9	51
Sep 21–23, 2019	State of the Map 2019	Heidelberg, Germany		570	24	147
Sep 6–8, 2019	State of the Map US 2019	Minneapolis, United States		—	16	103

Attendance over time

Reported attendance for 10 of 23 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

Similar conferences

Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.

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