Conferences / State of the Map
State of the Map 2025
Oct 3–5, 2025 · University of the Philippines Diliman (GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium and parallel-session venue), Quezon City (Metro Manila), Philippines
- Conference
- State of the Map Software engineering
- Dates
- Oct 3, 2025 – Oct 5, 2025
- Venue
- University of the Philippines Diliman (GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium and parallel-session venue)
- Place
- Quezon City (Metro Manila), Philippines
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No organizer headcount found. Prospectus expected 300-400 participants.
- Website
- 2025.stateofthemap.org
- Recorded
- 12 sponsors · 79 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First global SotM in Southeast Asia; hybrid. Sponsorship prospectus PDF is image-only (prices not extracted). Ticket prices captured from pretix after close (on-the-door; community 'original price' shown as GBP 300). 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
Sponsors 12
Gold 1
Community 4
- BNHR · Supporter
- OpenStreetMap Foundation · Supporter
- OSGeo · Supporter
- UP Geomatics Alumni Association · Supporter
Other 1
- University of the Philippines · Venue Host
Speakers and talks 79
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aki Sato | Aoyama Gakuin University | Speaker | ~Translation and Mapathons~ Building Open Mapping Education by Students; A YouthMappers Student Project from Furuhashi Lab, Japan | — |
| ark Arjun | — | Speaker | Local First in a Diverse Democracy: India’s Decentralized Path to Hosting the First Regional SotM | — |
| Arnalie Vicario | — | Speaker | UN Mappers: Building a Community of Mappers to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap | — |
| Arnalie Vicario | — | Workshop | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Language, and Representation in Open Mapping | — |
| Ben Hur Pintor | — | Speaker | Awesome (OSM) Games | — |
| Benedicta Ohene | — | Workshop | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Language, and Representation in Open Mapping | — |
| Benjamin Herfort | HeiGIT | Speaker | Where are we heading? The current state of OpenStreetMap in numbers. | — |
| Benjamin Herfort | HeiGIT | Workshop | ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS | — |
| Bernard Heng | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | The Role of Crowdsourced Damage Assessment in Disaster Response and Recovery | — |
| Brazil Singh | — | Speaker | Making OpenStreetMap More Accessible for New Mappers | — |
| Brazil Singh | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Craig Allan | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Dan Jacobson | — | Speaker | Address and street name grids in the Philippines | — |
| Daniel Kašík | Masaryk University | Speaker | When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Extrinsic Quality Assessment of OSM Using Custom Reference Data | — |
| Daniele Santini | GELLIFY | Speaker | Why and how to visualize OSM data using pmtiles | — |
| Dennis Raylin Chen | — | Speaker | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case | — |
| Dibikshya Shrestha | — | Speaker | Addressing Participation Gaps in Nepal’s OSM Ecosystem: Strategies for Long-Term Community Retention | — |
| Diego Munguía Molina | — | Speaker | Keeping alive OSMTracker | — |
| Dinar Adiatma | — | Workshop | Managing Remote Mapping Projects in the HOT Tasking Manager | — |
| Emanuel Kombe | Open Map Development Tanzania | Speaker | Community-Driven Data: How Local Knowledge is Reshaping Urban Waste Systems | — |
| Esther Judith | African Population and Health Research Center | Speaker | Community Participatory Mapping of Water Sanitation and Hygiene Access for Sustainable Urban Planning. | — |
| Faiza Waziha | University of Dhaka | Speaker | Resilience Starts with a Map: Community-Led OSM Action in Dhaka’s Climate-Vulnerable Settlements | — |
| Feye Andal | UP Resilience Institute | Workshop | Steph-outside: Outdoor Mapping under the bright Sky with KartaView and Mapillary | — |
| Frederik Ramm | Geofabrik | Speaker | Overpass Turbo goes PostGIS | — |
| Geoffrey Kateregga | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | HOT 15-year Anniversary | — |
| Hajar ElOuafi | — | Speaker | Platinum Sponsor Session: From Edits to Impact - TomTom’s Journey with OpenStreetMap Communities | — |
| Héctor Ochoa Ortiz | University of Camerino | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Héctor Ochoa Ortiz | University of Camerino | Speaker | Intelligent Enough? Evaluating Collective Action in HOT Tasking Manager Mapping Projects | — |
| Honey Fombuena | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | From Mappers to Movement Builders: Strengthening Local Leadership through Open Mapping Gurus | — |
| Honey Fombuena | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | The Role of Crowdsourced Damage Assessment in Disaster Response and Recovery | — |
| Ilya Zverev | — | Speaker | OpenStreetMap Awards 2025 | — |
| Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro | Costa Rica Institute of Technology | Speaker | Keeping alive OSMTracker | — |
| Jakob Schnell | — | Workshop | ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS | — |
| James Williams | Birmingham Newman University | Speaker | PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering of OpenStreetMap Points of Interest | — |
| Johanes Petro Machela | Open Map Development Tanzania | Workshop | From Sprawl to Strategy, Leveraging OpenStreetMap for Smarter Urban Growth Analysis a case of Dodoma City | — |
| Julian Psotta | HeiGIT | Workshop | ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS | — |
| Kiran Ahire | TomTom | Speaker | Platinum Sponsor Session: From Edits to Impact - TomTom’s Journey with OpenStreetMap Communities | — |
| Laura Mugeha | Ushahidi | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Laura Mugeha | Ushahidi | Speaker | What Could You Do with 100 Days of Mapping? | — |
| Letwin | — | Workshop | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Language, and Representation in Open Mapping | — |
| Manoj Karingamadathil | Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation | Speaker | World-Map-Explorer – Explore the world with ease | — |
| Maria Simeona | — | Workshop | Cebu Mapathon | — |
| Martin Raifer | OpenStreetMap Foundation | Speaker | Mapping workflows in iD for new, intermediate and advanced mappers | — |
| Maruf Ahmed | — | Speaker | Behaviour-Based Quality Assessment of OpenStreetMap Data in Data Scarce Area Using Unsupervised Machine Learning | — |
| Michael Montani | United Nations | Workshop | Introduction to JOSM and some plugins | — |
| Michael Montani | United Nations | Speaker | UN Mappers: Building a Community of Mappers to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap | — |
| Michael Schultz | — | Speaker | OSMlanduse: A dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 | — |
| Micheal Kaluba | OpenStreetMap Uganda | Speaker | The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons | — |
| Mikko Tamura | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | From Mappers to Movement Builders: Strengthening Local Leadership through Open Mapping Gurus | — |
| Mikko Tamura | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Workshop | Cebu Mapathon | — |
| Minh Nguyễn | — | Speaker | Journey to the Center of the Planet | — |
| Minh Nguyễn | — | Speaker | It’s complicated | — |
| Mohamed Haniffa Fathima Hasna | — | Workshop | Getting Started with QGIS: A Beginner's Guide to Mapping with Open-Source Tools | — |
| Mohamed Haniffa Fathima Hasna | — | Speaker | Mapping for Impact: Introducing Open Mapping to Civil Society in Sri Lanka | — |
| Motti Zohar | — | Speaker | Leveraging OpenStreetMap for hyperlocal geocoding of Twitter data: A spatiotemporal analysis of the 2016 Haifa (Israel) wildfire | — |
| Omran NAJJAR | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | fAIrSwipe | — |
| Paul Pickell | University of Washington | Speaker | Lessons from teaching OpenStreetMap in a masters program | — |
| Peter Mooney | Maynooth University | Speaker | What opinions do LLMs/chatbots have about OpenStreetMap? | — |
| Prativa Thapa | Kathmandu University | Speaker | Women Who Map: My Mission to Build Inclusive Mapping Communities in Nepal | — |
| Quang Huy NGUYEN | — | Speaker | EUthMappers - learning by teaching mapping | — |
| Radim Štampach | — | Speaker | User testing of AI-assisted mapping tool fAIr | — |
| Ramisa Maliha | — | Speaker | Open Mapping for Urban Resilience: A Routing Model to Nearest Safe Spaces in Earthquake-Vulnerable Dhaka | — |
| Ranjith Raj Vasam | — | Workshop | From Maps to Models: Building AI Context Tools for OpenStreetMap | — |
| Roland Olbricht | — | Panelist | OSMF Board AMA | — |
| Séverin Ménard | Les Libres Géographes | Speaker | OSM mapping of building damage - review and prospects after Chido in Mayotte | — |
| Soh Leng | Grab | Speaker | Platinum Sponsor Session: OSM Data for Two-Wheelers and Safety | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks III | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks V | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks II | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks I | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Lightning Talks IV | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | OpenStreetMap Awards 2025 | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Opening | — |
| SotM Working Group | — | Speaker | Closing | — |
| Stefan Keller | — | Speaker | OSM Swiss Style and the new OSM Swiss Base Map | — |
| Subhash Dulla | — | Workshop | From Maps to Models: Building AI Context Tools for OpenStreetMap | — |
| Taichi Furuhashi | — | Speaker | How to Complete Japan’s Building Mapping in One Year? Strategies for Integrating PLATEAU Data into OSM | — |
| Taichi Furuhashi | — | Speaker | Walking Milano: Unveiling the City’s Character Through 360° Street-Level Panorama Imagery. | — |
| Till Frankenbach | HeiGIT | Workshop | ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS | — |