Conferences / State of the Map
State of the Map 2024
Sep 6–8, 2024 · University of Nairobi Towers, University of Nairobi main campus, Nairobi, Kenya
- Conference
- State of the Map Software engineering
- Dates
- Sep 6, 2024 – Sep 8, 2024
- Venue
- University of Nairobi Towers, University of Nairobi main campus
- Place
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 216OSM wiki (SotM WG): '~216 participants in Nairobi (also having online tickets) and 95 attendees with only online Venueless tickets'. Prospectus had expected 300-400.
- Website
- 2024.stateofthemap.org
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 82 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Hybrid (Nairobi + online). Ticket prices only captured as 'on the door' from pretix after booking closed. Speakers: every scheduled session from the pretalx schedule export (talks, workshops, academic track where published separately), one row per speaker per session; affiliations taken from each speaker's pretalx bio where it states an employer/university, else null.
Ticket prices
Sponsorship packages
| Package | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supporter | €500 | — | 2024.stateofthemap.org | |
| Bronze | €2,000 | — | 2024.stateofthemap.org | |
| Silver | €7,500 | — | 2024.stateofthemap.org | |
| Gold | €15,000 | — | 2024.stateofthemap.org | |
| Platinum | €25,000 | — | 2024.stateofthemap.org |
Sponsors 6
Speakers and talks 82
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achituv Cohen | Ariel University | Speaker | From Complexity to Clarity: Simplifying OpenStreetMap Data for Improved Active Transportation Analysis | — |
| Alex Hoferek | Carleton University | Speaker | Investigating Corporate Editors in OpenStreetMap | — |
| Amour Nyalusi | — | Workshop | From Source to Map: Strategies for Integrating External Data into OpenStreetMap | — |
| Anastazia Caroll | Open Map Development Tanzania | Speaker | Women in OSM Tech - What worked best for me | — |
| Andrew Hain | — | Speaker | OpenStreetMap and the GDPR | — |
| Anna Zanchetta | — | Speaker | Assessing the performance of AI-assisted mapping of building footprints for OSM | — |
| Arnalie Vicario | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Benedcto Adamu | — | Speaker | A Novel Approach to Street-Level Data Collection: Using Customized Bajaji (tricycle) and Mapillary to Enrich OpenStreetMap in Dar es Salaam | — |
| Benjamin Herfort | HeiGIT | Workshop | Easy Access to ohsome full history OSM contributions using cloud hosted GeoParquet | — |
| Benjamin Herfort | — | Speaker | Shifting trends in global evolution of corporate mapping in OSM | — |
| Claire Halleux | — | Speaker | Improving data homogeneity across a country | — |
| Craig Allan | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Daniela Waltersdorfer Jimenez | — | Speaker | OSMF Funding | — |
| Daniela Waltersdorfer Jimenez | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Daniele Santini | — | Speaker | State of the art in combining OSM and Linked Data | — |
| Dennis Raylin Chen | — | Speaker | The Journal of Importing Open Data Address in Taiwan into OpenStreetMap | — |
| Derick Yang | Strava | Speaker | Generating Ways with the Strava Heatmap | — |
| Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro | United Nations | Speaker | UN Maps - Supporting Peace with Open Data | — |
| Dr. Joel Thomas | — | Speaker | Crisis Mapping: Teaching High School ELL Students How to Make Maps That Save Lives | — |
| Enock Seth Nyamador | — | Workshop | The worst and best of OpenStreetMap in Ghana (Africa) | — |
| Erica Hagen | Map Kibera Trust | Speaker | Mapping Kenya: 15 Years of Map Kibera and beyond | — |
| Erick Mnyali | — | Speaker | Incorporating OpenStreetMap into Academic Curricula: Insights from GeoTE Tanzania's Five-Week Field Training programs with YouthMappers and Academic Partners | — |
| Frederik Ramm | — | Speaker | On the Ground | — |
| Guillaume Rischard | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | Preparing for disasters with open map data and tools - learning through anticipatory action in Zimbabwe, Liberia and Timor Leste | — |
| Ilya Zverev | — | Speaker | Go Out And Map | — |
| Ilya Zverev | — | Workshop | Mapping the classroom with Every Door | — |
| Jochen Topf | — | Speaker | On the Ground | — |
| Johanes Petro Machela | Open Map Development Tanzania | Workshop | Exporting high-quality Atlas maps in bulk by leveraging OpenStreetMap Data in QGIS | — |
| Jorieke Vyncke | — | Speaker | Strengthening Collaboration between Organizations and Local Communities in West Africa Through the OSMer in Residence Program | — |
| Joshua Ogure | Map Kibera Trust | Speaker | Mapping Kenya: 15 Years of Map Kibera and beyond | — |
| Julian Psotta | HeiGIT | Speaker | openrouteservice version 8 - Experiences and insights from 10+ years of running and providing a global OSM-driven, free and open-source routing engine | — |
| Kingsley Chika CHUKWU | — | Speaker | Analyzing the Spatial Distribution of Fuel Stations in Harare, Zimbabwe: Leveraging OpenStreetMap for Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Recovery | — |
| Laura Mugeha | Code for Africa | Workshop | Get to know OSGeo and expand Your Open Mapping Toolkit | — |
| Laura Mugeha | Code for Africa | Speaker | A Replicable Model for OpenStreetMap Training Programs in High Schools | — |
| Luis Sebastian Bravo Chacon | — | Speaker | Open mapping through tropical forest biodiversity conservation | — |
| Luisa Lo Presti | Maynooth University | Speaker | Analysis of renewable energy infrastructure representations in OpenStreetMap | — |
| Marco Minghini | — | Speaker | What happens when VGI is threatened? A systems perspective analysis of the events behind the introduction of rate limiting in OpenStreetMap | — |
| Markus Tremmel | Deggendorf Institute of Technology | Speaker | MapLibre Tiles: A Next Generation Vector Tiles Format specially designed for OSM data | — |
| Martin Raifer | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | Setting the Stage for the Future of Web Based Mapping | — |
| Mary Muthee | — | Speaker | Community Capacity Building- Case Study OSM Kenya | — |
| Mateusz Konieczny | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | OSMF board – what are they even doing? | — |
| Mateusz Konieczny | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Workshop | OSM Wiki editing workshop | — |
| Mateusz Konieczny | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Mateusz Konieczny | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | Do we need 11 000 shop=* values? | — |
| Michael Auer | — | Workshop | Easy Access to ohsome full history OSM contributions using cloud hosted GeoParquet | — |
| Michael Montani | United Nations | Workshop | Hands-on data validation on OSM: best practices and tools | — |
| Michael Montani | United Nations | Workshop | Hands-on data validation on OSM: best practices and tools | — |
| OSMF board | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Paul Pickell | University of Washington | Workshop | Build an OpenStreetMap walking tour with a free and open source video game | — |
| Paweł Struś | University of the National Education Commission in Kraków | Speaker | Beyond the seventh mountain, beyond the seventh river - Openstreetmap as a base map in geographical research | — |
| Pragya Pant | Kathmandu University | Speaker | The OSM Spectrum | — |
| Rabina Poudyal | — | Speaker | The OSM Spectrum | — |
| Rafael Troilo | — | Workshop | Easy Access to ohsome full history OSM contributions using cloud hosted GeoParquet | — |
| Roland Olbricht | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Sajjad Anwar | Development Seed | Speaker | Cloud-native OSM for Visualization & Analysis | — |
| Sarah Hoffmann | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Sarah Hoffmann | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | Meet the OSMF Working Groups | — |
| Sarah Hoffmann | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | Some Assembly Required | — |
| Séverin Ménard | Les Libres Géographes | Workshop | Hands-on data validation on OSM: best practices and tools | — |
| Séverin Ménard | Les Libres Géographes | Workshop | Hands-on data validation on OSM: best practices and tools | — |
| Séverin Ménard | Les Libres Géographes | Speaker | Download OSM data translated into your language using free software components and standard protocols | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Opening Session | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Pre-recorded Lightning Talks | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Closing Session | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks I | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks III | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks IV | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks II | — |
| Stefan Keller | Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST) | Speaker | Catching OSM Up with External Data with a Workflow and Tools for Conflation and Validation | — |
| Taichi Furuhashi | — | Speaker | The Current State of Collaboration between Digital Twin and OSM | — |
| Taro Matsuzawa | Georepublic | Speaker | How to develop your own style of OpenMapTiles with your favorite editor? | — |
| Taylor Reich | ITDP | Panelist | Sustainable Transport on the Map | — |
| Valeria Rossi | University of Palermo | Speaker | The role of crowd-mapping in post-emergency humanitarian operations | — |
| Walter Mayeku | — | Speaker | Community Capacity Building- Case Study OSM Kenya | — |
| Wangshu Wang | Technical University of Munich | Speaker | Assessing the attribute accuracy and logical consistency of road data in OpenStreetMap | — |
| Wille Marcel | Development Seed | Speaker | Cloud-native OSM for Visualization & Analysis | — |
| Wilson Munyaradzi | OMH-ESA | Speaker | Preparing for disasters with open map data and tools - learning through anticipatory action in Zimbabwe, Liberia and Timor Leste | — |
| Yair Grinberger | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Speaker | What happens when VGI is threatened? A systems perspective analysis of the events behind the introduction of rate limiting in OpenStreetMap | — |
| Yves Emmanuel NIKOYO EMOUGOU | — | Speaker | Strengthening Collaboration between Organizations and Local Communities in West Africa Through the OSMer in Residence Program | — |
| Yvonne Darko | — | Speaker | Photo mapping from my village to Pharmacies and Addresses | — |
| Zacharia Muindi | Map Kibera Trust | Speaker | A Replicable Model for OpenStreetMap Training Programs in High Schools | — |
Sources
- https://2024.stateofthemap.org/
- https://2024.stateofthemap.org/venue/
- https://2024.stateofthemap.org/tickets/
- https://pretix.eu/osmf/SotM2024/
- https://2024.stateofthemap.org/Sponsorship_SotM2024.pdf
- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2024
- https://pretalx.com/sotm2024/schedule/
- https://pretalx.com/state-of-the-map-2024-academic-track/schedule/