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State of the Map 2026

Aug 28–30, 2026 · Cité Descartes campus (IGN, Géodata Paris, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Université Gustave Eiffel), Champs-sur-Marne, IDF, France

Conference
State of the Map Software engineering
Dates
Aug 28, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026
Venue
Cité Descartes campus (IGN, Géodata Paris, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Université Gustave Eiffel)
Place
Champs-sur-Marne, IDF, France
Format
Hybrid
Status
Past
Attendance
535
OSM wiki statistics: '535 on-site attendees + 185 online', 45 countries, 133 talks. Prospectus expected 550-650.
Website
2026.stateofthemap.org
Recorded
28 sponsors · 176 speaker appearances
Notes
Hybrid (Paris + online). Pretix displays prices with a GBP symbol (OSMF shop) though VAT is French; recorded as printed. Recordings on peertube.openstreetmap.fr. 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

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Venueless (online only)£10—pretix.eu
Social Event Family Plus£40—pretix.eu
Paris Ticket - Community£160—incl. 10% French VAT; currency symbol as shown by pretixpretix.eu
Paris Ticket - Regular£330—incl. 10% French VATpretix.eu
Paris Ticket - Supporter (Supporter-level sponsorship)£440—pretix.eu

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
Supporter€500—2026.stateofthemap.org
Bronze€2,000—2026.stateofthemap.org
Silver€7,500—2026.stateofthemap.org
Gold€15,000—2026.stateofthemap.org
Platinum€25,000—2026.stateofthemap.org

Sponsors 28

Speakers and talks 176

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Adrien Pavie—SpeakerState of Panoramax—
Alessandro SarrettaItalian National Research Council (CNR)SpeakerTowards an OpenStreetMap-based open database of transversal torrent control structures in the Alpine arc—
Alex Bourreau—SpeakerLightning Talks I - Gathering prices of the world: Open Prices, between OSM and Open Food Facts—
Alyssa CastronuovoOpenStreetMap USSpeaker50 States (and at Least as Many Mappers): Community Building in the US Over the Last Decade—
Amanda McCannGeofabrikSpeakerHere be Rainbows: LGBTQ mapping in OSM—
Amine ChebilUniversité Gustave EiffelSpeakerOSM contribution analysis in war time—
Andres GarchitorenaFrench National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)SpeakerMapping and using OpenStreetMap to Improve Geographic Access to Healthcare in Rural Madagascar—
Andrew Hain—SpeakerLightning Talks I - Using an import as a QA tool to identify misaligned buildings—
Andy AllanThunderforestSpeakerClient-Side Transport Maps on OpenStreetMap.org—
Antoine RicheCarto’CitéSpeakerHow Carto’Cité maintains OSM data for 436 train stations efficiently using PostGIS and QGIS—
Bart Louwers—SpeakerLightning Talks IV - Being a MapLibre maintainer in the age of LLMs—
Bart Louwers—WorkshopFrom Bits to Pixels: Introduction to Map Making with OSM Data and MapLibre—
Bas Bussink—SpeakerPanoramax Netherlands—
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras—SpeakerCoMaps - How to make a community-based map & navigation app based on OpenStreetMap—
Benjamin Demonet—SpeakerOpenStreetMap on Board: How We Fit Europe into 300 High-Speed Trains—
Benjamin HerfortHeiGITSpeakerMilan to Paris via Dundee: ohsome 2.0 has arrived!—
Bruno BéguinMontpellier MétropoleSpeakerReviewing OSM Changes Before Integration: Introducing LeBonTag—
Camille BernardGrenoble INPSpeakerDetection and Semantic Annotation of Changes in OpenStreetMap Data—
CapitaineMoustache—SpeakerWonders of OSM—
CarlaTechnical University of MunichSpeakerTowards a Real-Time Monitoring System for the Road Network Based on OpenStreetMap and Remote Sensing Data: OSM Road Monitor—
Carlos CámaraUniversity of WashingtonSpeakerWhose Knowledge Counts? Analysing Diversity and Exclusion in OpenStreetMap's Tagging Proposals Process—
Céline DURUPTSNCFSpeakerSneaking in OSM data into a big old company—
Charlotte Liebel—SpeakerInter-Faceing the Critique – A Socio-technical Perspective on Humanitarian Mapping with the HOT TM—
Chengzhi RaoGFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesSpeakerReconstructing A High-detailed Lane-Level Road Network Model from OpenStreetMap: A Connectivity-Driven Approach—
Christian KlinkhardtKITSpeakerOpenStreetMap for Travel Demand Modeling: An Open Approach to Derive Attractiveness for Destination Choice Models—
Christian QuestOpenStreetMap FranceSpeakerPanoramax Foundation—
Christian QuestOpenStreetMap FranceSpeakerState of Panoramax—
Christoph Hormann—SpeakerDo maps have a future in OpenStreetMap?—
Coralie Le Bian—WorkshopCarto'Mission: Bringing Participatory Mapping Off-Screen Through Cooperative Play—
dadavid—SpeakerEmergency Services using OpenStreetMap in Germany—
Daniel ScheponXSpeakerMaking maps with Ultra—
Daniel Schep—SpeakerLightning Talks II - OSM.kids—
Daphné LercierMakina CorpusSpeakerLost in hospital? OpenStreetMap to the rescue—
Delphine Montagne—WorkshopLet's create links between OSM and Wikipedia!—
Deniz Karagulle—SpeakerLightning Talks II - More open, more connected - OSM across ArcGIS & OSM editors—
Dennis Luxen—SpeakerOSRM is Back: Revitalizing the OSM-Native Routing Engine—
Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro—SpeakerUN Mappers: Building Local Capacities and Communities to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap—
Diego Miguel Lozano—SpeakerCoMaps - How to make a community-based map & navigation app based on OpenStreetMap—
DigitaleoDigitaleoSpeakerPublishing 14,000 Businesses to OpenStreetMap: How Community Feedback Reshaped Our Publisher—
Edward Betts—SpeakerLightning Talks IV - OSM - Wikidata linking update—
Eliya LevinHebrew University of JerusalemSpeakerAssessing Data Completeness in OpenStreetMap using the Geometrical and Temporal Properties of Mapping Patterns—
Emmanuel CastroCapgeminiSpeakerOpenCollabMap—
Emmanuel Jolaiya—SpeakerUseOSM: Promoting OpenStreetMap Data Usage and Impact Through an Open and Accessible Web Platform—
Enock Seth Nyamador—Speaker1000 ways to kill OpenStreetMap in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa—
Enock Seth Nyamador—WorkshopAwesome JOSM: tips that beat every Desktop GIS and AI—
Erica 'spughetti' TempTomTomSpeakerHere be Rainbows: LGBTQ mapping in OSM—
eskerda—SpeakerLightning Talks V - Exploring bike share time series availability data with DuckDB—
Federica GaspariPolitecnico di MilanoSpeakerStreetMeasure - A low cost open source framework using monocular depth estimation supporting OSM measurement tags from 360 streetview photos, the case of SP6—
Felix GündlingTechnical University of DarmstadtSpeakerMOTIS (open source routing engine)—
Florian Lainez—SpeakerMaking a living on OSM by nurturing the commons : inside the French Federation of OSM professionals—
Florian Lainez—SpeakerOne region. 40,000 bus stops. An OSM map at every one.—
François Lacombe—SpeakerThe Power of quality in OpenStreetMap—
Frank ElsingaTechnical University of MunichSpeakerMapLibre - from data to rendering, in one status update—
Frank ElsingaTechnical University of MunichSpeakerUpgrading the OSM Front Page—
Frédéric RodrigoTeritorioSpeakerClearance: Quality Proxy for OSM Replication. The Roadmap up to v1.0—
gabrielwilkes—SpeakerOpenStreetMap for Travel Demand Modeling: An Open Approach to Derive Attractiveness for Destination Choice Models—
Gaurav Baral—SpeakerOSMSG : OpenStreetMap User Group Hashtag Stats—
Geoffrey Kateregga—WorkshopLocal Chapters & Communities Congress—
Gerben van den Broeke—SpeakerLightning Talks I - NLnet Foundation funding—
Giacomo AlessandroniWikimedia ItaliaSpeakerAdopt Your Town—
Grant SlaterOpenStreetMap FoundationSpeakerRunning OpenStreetMap.org in the Age of AI—
Guillaume TouyaIGNSpeakerCartAGen, an innovative tool to generalise OSM data—
Gwenaëlle ChalmUniversité de Bretagne OccidentaleSpeaker"Tous EGO" University mapping project for accessibility—
Hannah BoettcherFriedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-NürnbergSpeakerConsumed at Scale: AI-Driven Extraction and the Political Economy of OpenStreetMap—
Héctor Ochoa OrtizUniversity of CamerinoPanelistOSMF Board AMA—
Helga TauscherHTW BerlinSpeakerIndoor Mapping Potential in OpenStreetMap: Estimating the Amount of Publicly Accessible Indoor Spaces Across European Cities—
Ilya Zverev—SpeakerLightning Talks III - Mapping cycleways according to ECF—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerLightning Talks IV - BreadNear.me—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerLightning Talks II - Mapping Historical Photos with Yesterdays—
Jake LowOpenStreetMap USSpeakerSourdough and Layercake: removing technical barriers to using OSM data for cartography and analysis—
Jakub ZmrzlikMapy.comSpeakerWhen Maps Mislead: Lessons from Outdoor Navigation with OpenStreetMap—
Jean-Louis ZIMMERMANNVaucluse Departmental CouncilSpeakerStructuring road information in open data: a nested Wikidata – OSM – BD TOPO (IGN) architecture co-produced by territorial authorities—
Jens Flemming—SpeakerPublic transport stop analysis for OSM and Welzl's algorithm on the sphere—
Julien CoupeyVersoSpeakerMoving around with OpenStreetMap—
Konstantin Krömer—SpeakerNational Mapping and Cadastral agencies (NMCAs) and their relationship with OSM: the example of the German BKG—
Kshitij Raj Sharma—SpeakerOSMSG : OpenStreetMap User Group Hashtag Stats—
Laura Mugeha—PanelistOSMF Board AMA—
Laura Mugeha—SpeakerUN Mappers: Building Local Capacities and Communities to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap—
Laura Mugeha—WorkshopLocal Chapters & Communities Congress—
Lonny Loquesol—SpeakerLost in hospital? OpenStreetMap to the rescue—
Louis LaurianCNRSSpeakerFrom OpenStreetMap APIs to Insightful Data Analysis: Extraction, Analysis, and Mapping with R—
Lucia Mabel van der Heijden—SpeakerMapping Informal Settlements with OpenStreetMap Data: Integrating Urban Morphology and Topology for Slum Detection—
Luna—SpeakerLightning Talks IV - "Milk types" proposal—
Maël THOMAS-QUILLÉVÉRÉ—SpeakerCartes.app is now international—
Maggie CawleyOpenStreetMap USSpeaker50 States (and at Least as Many Mappers): Community Building in the US Over the Last Decade—
Maggie CawleyOpenStreetMap USWorkshopLocal Chapters & Communities Congress—
Malek RihaniGéodata ParisSpeakerOSM contribution analysis in war time—
Manfred A. Reiter et al.—SpeakerLightning Talks II - weeklyOSM - What's new?—
Marie-Stella Nyarko—SpeakerLightning Talks III - Mapping datacenters as a community with OpenStreetMap—
Marina PetkovaDynartioSpeakerThe Power of quality in OpenStreetMap—
Marina PetkovaDynartioSpeakerMaking a living on OSM by nurturing the commons : inside the French Federation of OSM professionals—
Marion PorcherieFrench School of Public Health (EHESP)SpeakerMyGreenSpace : Relying on Open Data to Characterize the Health Potential of Urban Green Spaces—
Martijn van Exel—SpeakerAnnouncing MapRoulette 4!—
Martin—SpeakerGeoDesk: The OpenStreetMap toolkit that's fast, easy and fun—
Martin RaiferOpenStreetMap FoundationSpeakeriD - what's new & where are we heading?—
Martin RaiferOpenStreetMap FoundationWorkshopOSM Mapping 101—
Mateusz Konieczny—WorkshopStreetComplete walk—
Mateusz Konieczny—SpeakeriD tagging schema - feedback—
Mateusz Konieczny—SpeakeriD Tagging Schema - Lets improve them—
Mateusz Konieczny—SpeakerUpdate on attribution enforcement for users of OpenStreetMap servers—
Mathieu AmbrosyGeonovSpeakerReviewing OSM Changes Before Integration: Introducing LeBonTag—
Matt WhiteEuropean Center for Quantum SciencesSpeakerA new stack for OpenStreetMap vector tiles—
Matthieu ChatryIGNPanelistThe democratic stakes of mapmaking: a cross-community panel—
Matthieu ChatryIGNSpeakerThe Republic of Maps : Together, let's unlock the power of maps to build democracy—
Maurine OyugiBricon ConsultingSpeakerPutting Childcare on the Map: Supporting Parents in Nairobi Through OpenStreetMap—
Michael Auer—WorkshopIntroduction to OSM Analytics with ohsome—
Michael MontaniEuropean CommissionWorkshopLocal Chapters & Communities Congress—
Michael MontaniEuropean CommissionPanelistWhy do you contribute to OSM?—
Michael Reichert—SpeakerWhere are my ways?—
Michael Reichert—SpeakerLightning Talks V - Nik5 - a C++ port of Nik4—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerHistorical mapping—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerState of OpenHistoricalMap: mapping the world's history, openly—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerConstruction ahead—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerOSM Core Software Office Hours—
Niruta Neupane—SpeakerOSMSG : OpenStreetMap User Group Hashtag Stats—
Nomin EnkhtamirUniversity of WashingtonSpeakerIndoor Mapping Potential in OpenStreetMap: Estimating the Amount of Publicly Accessible Indoor Spaces Across European Cities—
Oliver Wipfli—SpeakerMapterhorn Terrain and Imagery—
Pablo Brasero—SpeakerConstruction ahead—
Patrik BrigantMédecins Sans FrontièresWorkshopLet's create your own JOSM paint style!—
Paul Bourcier—SpeakerCartAGen, an innovative tool to generalise OSM data—
paul goullencourt—SpeakerStyle-as-Code: Moving Beyond "Off-the-Shelf" to Unlock the Full Richness of OSM Data—
Pawel Masarczyk—SpeakerText with a purpose - building the image of the world for blind users through structured and complete POI data—
Paweł StruśUniversity of the National Education Commission in KrakówSpeakerMapping the City in the Rhythm of Colours and Sounds: OpenStreetMap as a Basis for Multisensory Civic Cartography—
PedroPinheiroLIGSpeakerDetection and Semantic Annotation of Changes in OpenStreetMap Data—
Peregrina BlumhoffFederal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)SpeakerNational Mapping and Cadastral agencies (NMCAs) and their relationship with OSM: the example of the German BKG—
Philippe GambetteUniversité Gustave EiffelSpeakerRevealing past railway networks from OSM data—
Pierre Beyssac—SpeakerCentipede-RTK with RTKBase and Millipede: centimeter-level GNSS positioning—
Pierre-Leo BourbonnaisPolytechnique MontréalSpeakerFrom centroid to entrance: a global assessment of POI access locations for accessibility—
Pierre-Olivier MazagolJean Monnet UniversitySpeakerGlobal Mining Activity in OpenStreetMap: Methodological Challenges and Data Quality Analysis—
Pierre-Yves RolloIGNSpeakerA Swiss Army knife for geographical data voxelization—
Pieter Vander Vennet—SpeakerPerspectives on editors—
pyrog & SC—SpeakerIssues in mapping outdoors—
Quang Huy NGUYEN—SpeakerStreetMeasure - A low cost open source framework using monocular depth estimation supporting OSM measurement tags from 360 streetview photos, the case of SP6—
Rafael Szeliga—SpeakerOpenStreetMap Data for Spatial Regression Modeling of Urban Operating Speed—
Rafael TroiloHeiGITWorkshopIntroduction to OSM Analytics with ohsome—
Raphaël Bournhonesque—SpeakerLightning Talks III - Enriching OSM with POI's websites—
Raphaël BresUniversité Grenoble AlpesSpeakerOSM contribution analysis in war time—
Raphael VolzHochschule PforzheimSpeakerOpenStreetMap for Intelligent Speed-Limit Assistance (ISA): The YouSpeed.de Study—
Richard Fairhurst—SpeakerLightning Talks V - Cartography with tilemaker—
Robert JeansoulinCNRSSpeakerRevealing past railway networks from OSM data—
Robert Whittaker—SpeakerLightning Talks V - Linear maps for shopping streets—
Robin DurnerTU DarmstadtSpeakerMOTIS (open source routing engine)—
Roland OlbrichtOpenStreetMap FoundationWorkshopFuture of the OpenStreetMap Foundation—
Ruben Lopez Mendoza—SpeakerConstruction ahead—
Ruben Lopez Mendoza—SpeakerState of OpenHistoricalMap: mapping the world's history, openly—
Samuel Deschamps-BergerGeoveloSpeakerHow OpenStreetMap became the backbone of France's National Cycling Database—
Sarah Hoffmann—SpeakerLightning Talks I - Photon - for POI search—
Sarah Hoffmann—SpeakerSearch and find what you are looking for—
Sergio LukeT-KartorSpeakerOne region. 40,000 bus stops. An OSM map at every one.—
Séverin MénardLes Libres GéographesSpeakerOSM Skeleton: Completing the Backbone of OSM Data—
Séverin Ménard—SpeakerLightning Talks IV - Mapping agricultural cooperatives in Africa with MapComplete and Panoramax—
SK53—SpeakerLightning Talks V - Investigating Hospitality—
SotM Working Group—SpeakerOpening—
SotM Working Group—SpeakerClosing—
StC—SpeakerCreating maps for the outdoors community in France: successes and challenges—
Stefan KellerEastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)SpeakerOSMPID: A Persistent ID Specification and an Object Identity Service—
Stefan KizimRivianSpeakerMaking world spinning faster - How we sped up Valhalla graph creation in 3 times—
Stéphane Péneau—WorkshopExperience centimeter accuracy surveying with the open network Centipede-RTK—
Théo SZANTOUniversité Gustave EiffelSpeakerA Swiss Army knife for geographical data voxelization—
Thomas Gratier—SpeakerLightning Talks III - Geoparquet for OSM—
Tobias Augspurger—SpeakerThe Power of quality in OpenStreetMap—
Tobias Knerr—SpeakerOSM2World: 3D models from OpenStreetMap data—
Tristram Gräbener—SpeakerSneaking in OSM data into a big old company—
Tu-Tho Thai—SpeakerHow OSM inspire CEN standards for cycling infrastructure—
Vanessa Bolognani—SpeakerAssessing the Intrinsic Data Quality of OpenStreetMap for National-Scale Cycling Network Analysis—
Victor AdemoyeroUniversity of SalzburgSpeakerUseOSM: Promoting OpenStreetMap Data Usage and Impact Through an Open and Accessible Web Platform—
Vincent PicavetOslandiaSpeakerImmersing Panoramax in the 3D world—
Vitor GeorgeDevelopment SeedSpeakerOSM for Cities: Breaking the data waste cycle—
Volker Krause—SpeakerTransitous - Free and Open Public transport routing—
Yair GrinbergerHebrew University of JerusalemSpeakerOSM Science 2026: Introduction—
Yair GrinbergerHebrew University of JerusalemSpeakerCorporate Editing and Collective Intelligence in OpenStreetMap: A Long-Term Analysis of Southeast Asian Case Studies—
Yannick BrosseauPolytechnique MontréalSpeakerFrom centroid to entrance: a global assessment of POI access locations for accessibility—
Yousif Amanuel—SpeakerLightning Talks II - TerrainK: Create art using OSM data—
Yousif AmanuelLeibniz University HannoverSpeakerTerraink: Lowering Barriers to OpenStreetMap Data Consumption - A Usage Study of an Open-Source Web Application—
Yuri AstrakhanRivian Volkswagen TechWorkshopFrom Bits to Pixels: Introduction to Map Making with OSM Data and MapLibre—
Yuri AstrakhanRivian Volkswagen TechSpeakerMapLibre - from data to rendering, in one status update—

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