State Of The Map 2010

Nestoria has sponsored all the State of the Map editions, SotM Manchester, Limerick, Amsterdam and now Girona! Nestoria is a property search engine that offers services for Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, and Australia. Their service is used by over 1,500,000 visitors a month (according to comScore). Their experimental playground, Lokku Labs, innovates with projects like Where Can I Live and a full text search engine, Gartoo.

They will launch Nestoria in France in the very early days of July, so they will be particularly relaxed in Girona. They are always looking for smart people interested in geo topics. Please visit their jobs section at http://www.lokku.com/jobs

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is excited to announce that, like last year, the full travel and accomodations costs for 15 mappers to attend State of the Map 2010,  will be provided.

We are looking for people from places where costs would prohibit attendance, especially developing countries and places that are “interesting” geopolitically. The scholarships will provide an opportunity for these leaders of nascent OSM communities to network, learn, and find the inspirations and support to take OSM to the next level.

Read more about this on the Scholarship page.

We are proud to announce that LOGIBALL is our first Platinum sponsor!
Following SotM 2009 in Amsterdam, LOGIBALL decided to sponsor the State of the Map 2010 in Girona. Interested in sponsoring the State of the Map 2010? Contact the organising team for more information sponsors@stateofthemap.org.

About LOGIBALL
Navigation data is becoming increasingly important in many areas of business. It is not surprising that it is indeed the success factor for improving business processes – world-wide – in almost every industry; automotive, telecommunications, IT, service providers, utilities, logistics and retail as well as research and development.

Since 2000, LOGIBALL has been developing customized navigation solutions and offers a broad range of services both nationally and internationally. This is what we call “engineering the world’s navigation maps”. LOGIBALL’s engineering know-how allows for individually customizing each and every digital navigation map according to the specific field of business or consumer interest.

LOGIBALL takes even one step further. With our own developed software: the Global Navigation Data (GND) SUITE, we provide our clients with the flexibility of having the perfect tool for processing navigation data. This way, our clients can manage, quality assure, convert, etc. their own volume of navigation data themselves, however they want, whenever they want.

LOGIBALL solutions are found in the products of prominent automobile and telecommunications enterprises, in large utility companies as well as in the retail and logistics sectors.

In the two weeks before State of the Map, the SIGTE (Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centre) will hold the GIS OPEN SOURCE Summer School at their facilities in the Girona University. This Summer School is jointly organized by 4 European universities, and aims to provide GIS training to postgraduate and doctorate students.

OpenStreetMap will fit into the Summer School in two ways: On one hand, the OpenStreetMap community will be teaching basic OSM skills during the Summer Scholars, confirming that OSM is part of a solid GIS curriculum.

On the other hand, SIGTE has kindly offered one of the University of Girona computer labs for holding OSM workshops and tutorials alongside the Summer School. To be precise, OSM workshops will be held from the 5th to the 9th of july if all slots are filled up.

SIGTE computer labs (photo courtesy @jsgisdev)

No matter if you’re a GIS newbie or an OSM hardcore enthusiast, the summer school is the perfect opportunity to either learn how to use a wide array of open source GIS software, or hone your OSM hacking skills. The SIGTE facilities will count with the expertise, the technologies, and the equipment to make these two tracks a remarkable learning opportunity.

If you are an OpenStreetMap developer, we need your help for the OSM workshops! If you want to discuss new cool OSM technologies, hold a purely technical panel, or teach during the Summer School, fill in the Call for Papers form and select “Summerschool” as theme of your paper.

If you want to attend the workshop, you need to wait just a little bit longer. When the schedule of the workshops is finished, we’ll start with the registration. If you have already registered for SotM you’ll get an email when the registration for the workshops is starting. Due to the size of the computer lab, there will only be 25 tickets per workshop.

This year two major Geo conferences (SotM and FOSS4G) will be held in Spain. State of the Map in Girona and FOSS4G in nearby Barcelona.
Given that the two conferences are held in close proximity, both organising teams are of the opinion that people attending both should have a perk!
Therefore, we are proud to announce a discount to people who sign up for both events!

Forget about complicated options for different combos. This mix ticket discount will allow people attending one conference to enjoy a discount on the other. To put it in another way: if you register for the FOSS4G, you get a discount for SotM10. If you are hesitant to go to the FOSS4G but have already registered for SotM10, you’ll have the early bird price no matter how late you sign up.

Already signed up for FOSS4G? No worries. Those who have already registered for the FOSS4G, will be sent an e-mail detailing how to apply for a SotM ticket with 10% discount.

To get the best deal, register with FOSS4G first; while their early bird is still available. You’ll then get a discount-voucher with which you can get 10% discount on SotM tickets.

If you’re into geo, Spain is definitely the place to be this year!