State Of The Map 2010

There is more to Girona then just going to State of the Map. Ivan of OpenStreetMap Spain is telling a bit what you can do while you’re in Girona. He’s also throwing in a weather forecast. This may come in handy when you’re going to pack your suitcase….

We are happy to welcome Ulmon Solutions to the community and are pleased to announce, that Ulmon Solutions will participate as a sponsor in Girona.

Ulmon Solutions is focussed on delivering location-aware travel and navigation apps, based on openstreetmap and wikipedia data.

Their “2Go” Maps and Guides Apps have been very well received by users. Ulmon Solution has announced several innovations in the pipeline for this year. So we are looking forward to exciting discussions and networking with their representatives in Girona.

Recently several guys from the organizing committee has visited the city of Girona and the venue. They also taken lots of pictures and made several videos. In the coming days you can find a selection of these images on this website. Starting with a short impression of the city and the venue.

The Knight Foundation has given away over $20 million towards news innovation through the Knight News Challenge, a five-year $25 million initiative to build the next-generation infrastructure to inform and engage communities.

In the last few years, mapping has become an increasingly important element among our winners. Five of the 12 projects which won grants in 2010 involved mapping in some form: TileMill by DevelopmentSeed of Washington DC; CitySeed by Arizona State University’s New Media Innovation Lab in Phoenix; CityTracking by Stamen Design out of San Francisco; GoMap Riga by two Latvians; and LocalWiki by the founders of Davis Wiki of Davis, California. In addition, a 2009 grantee, Ushahidi also made its reputation through crowd-sourced crisis mapping.

The News Challenge is interested in all layers of the map stack, including data gathering, tile rendering, and interactive consumer-facing applications.

The requirements to enter the Knight News Challenge are three-fold: innovation, involving news and information, and having a local geographic angle. In general, the reviewers look favorably upon projects that can be considered catalytic — whether as a proof-of-concept, creating open-source infrastructure tools that can be leveraged by others, or taking an existing project with traction that can be brought to scale. It is generally a strength if an applicant has an existing history with open source projects or has an existing beta product. The News Challenge requires any code and intellectual property funded by the foundation to be released open source or under Creative Commons by the end of the grant.

Jennifer 8. Lee, the lead Knight News Challenge reviewer, will be available at the State of The Map conference in Girona, Spain to explain how to craft an effective proposal and to field questions.

Last year the contest received over 2,300 proposals. The initial application is a simple set of questions, designed to help lead people who have never gone through a grant process before. As you proceed through the rounds, the questions get more detailed.

The next deadline will be in fall 2010. Please visit newschallenge.org for more information.

Want to be sotm-famous? Are you hungry for status at this year’s conference? Then get your creative juices percolating! The design for our 2010 T-shirts is open and you could be our ‘it’ genius.

Follow these simple guidelines:

1. Talk to the face: design for the front of the shirt. Something within 10″ x 6″ or A5 size is a good working space.
2. You can be Picasso, Dali or Andy Warhol, but try to keep it to four colours.
3. Quite possibly we’re a soccer fan club with a mapping problem, even so: T-shirt must tell us why we were in Girona, Spain on July 9-11, 2010… in case we had too many beers at the social.
4. Please submit works by Friday June 4th midnight to team@stateofthemap.org, in the highest resolution possible. JPEG or TIFF format preferred.

Your reward? 2 minutes of fame at SOTM and a ‘surprise’ gift.

Good luck!

CloudMade, which won ‘Best Emerging Startup‘ at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, returns as our Diamond sponsor of the State of the Map. Within the community CloudMade is well known thanks to the important work of its founders Steve Coast and Nick Black.

CloudMade is a platform and tools company serving consumers, mappers, developers and advertisers around the world. Its user-friendly mapping applications: Mapzen web editor, together with Mapzen POI Collector, for iPhone, significantly reduce the complexity of editing and adding Points of Interest (POIs) to OpenStreetMap.

Thousands of mobile and web developers use CloudMade’s free tools every day to create innovative, geo-enabled products. Its mapping platform powers several market leading location and map based applications from prominent developers. For more information about developing with CloudMade visit http://bit.ly/aN7WSs

We welcome Nutiteq as sponsor of the State of the Map in Girona. Nutiteq is a mobile software development company in the niche of open mobile mapping solutions. They create apps and provide a mobile mapping SDK to location-based service providers, mobile operators and mobile developers all over the world, with millions of end-users. Nutiteq has used OpenStreetMap as one of the main map data sources.

Also interested in sponsoring the State of the Map 2010? Contact the organising team for more information at sponsors@stateofthemap.org.

As long standing members of the OSM community, we are pleased to welcome ITO World as returning sponsors. ITO provide transport intelligence, visualisation and online data management services to the transport sector.

ITO operate automated data quality checks for all of the UK’s transport schedules, improving the data that powers the country’s journey planners. Working with the Department for Transport and Traveline, they are developing intelligence and analytics tools for transport professionals, and information products for travellers using an advanced multi-modal model.

Within the community ITO is well known thanks to their outstanding “A Year of Edits” video, and more recently the “Airspace Rebooted” visualisation.

They also provide the free OSM Mapper, that allows contributors to monitor changes to OSM data over a defined area and analyse the content.

We are proud to announce that CurlyBrackets decided, like last year, to sponsor the State of the Map 2010 in Girona. CurlyBrackets is creator of OffMaps, Trails, Ubique. All apps use OpenStreetMap in some way.

OffMaps lets you use OSM offline and search a browsable map.
Trails lets you record your outdoor adventures, export it via GPX/KML and even lets you import tracks by others from variety of sources. Trails is used by some OSM mappers to record tracks for their next editing session.
Ubique is an augmented reality app that combines a transparent map disc with information around you.

Also interested in sponsoring the State of the Map 2010? Contact the organising team for more information and to receive our sponsorship brochure at sponsors@stateofthemap.org.

We are proud to announce that 1Spatial is sponsor of the State of the Map 2010 in Girona. 1Spatial Group Ltd is a privately owned company, originally established as Laser-Scan in 1969 as a spin out from a Cambridge University research group. The company was renamed in 2006 to 1Spatial and has seen significant growth over the past 40 years and now has regional offices in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Hampshire and Australia with its head office still in Cambridge.

As an industry-leading provider of geospatial data supply chain solutions, 1Spatial works with organisations throughout the world to unlock the real value of their investments in geospatial data. Every day we demonstrate and deliver the maximum return on investment for our customers. We help them to improve their productivity, profitability and time to market through reuse of their existing data. We empower organisations by integrating geospatial data into business processes and guaranteeing data quality. We make use of open source FDO/GDAL/WFS and GML viewers wherever possible.

1Spatial provides complete solutions to collect, audit, manage, modify and reuse geospatial data that can be implemented in the public sector, national mapping agencies, transport and logistics, utilities, and environmental sciences sectors. We offer a range of tools, from our flagship spatial processing engine Radius Studio through to the simple but effective open source Oracle spatial data checker Radius Check, as well as consultancy, training and support services. In addition, as one of only a handful of Oracle Certified Platinum Partners in the geospatial domain.

Also interested in sponsoring the State of the Map 2010? Contact the organising team for more information and to receive our sponsorship brochure at sponsors@stateofthemap.org.