State Of The Map 2010

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.

Tagzania Services is a geolocation focused company with several projects based on maps. The most known is Tagzania.com a pioneer mash-up where you can share your favourite places and create your own maps using different cartography (G. Maps, OSM, Bing, etc.). Tagzania Services has also some projects with OSM: Mapapel, printable quality city maps, or EuskalMapa, a map of the world in Basque language, both based on OpenStreetMap data. Tagzania also sponsored last year’s SotM.

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.

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

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.

We are proud to announce that u-blox decided, like last year, to sponsor the State of the Map 2010 in Girona. U-blox is a leading fabless semiconductor provider of embedded positioning and wireless communication solutions for the consumer, industrial and automotive markets. Their solutions enable people, devices, vehicles and machines to locate their exact position and wirelessly communicate via voice, text or video. With a broad portfolio of GPS modules, chips, and software solutions together with wireless modules and solutions, u-blox is uniquely positioned to enable OEMs to develop innovative solutions quickly and cost-effectively. Headquartered in Switzerland and with global presence in Europe, Asia and the Americas, u-blox employs 200 people. Founded in 1997, u-blox is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. (www.u-blox.com)

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.

The Instituto Geográfico Nacional is also a sponsor of the State of the Map 2010.

The IGN is the main Spanish national mapping agency, within the Ministry of Public Works, responsible for the official topographic maps, orthophotography, historical cartography, and the often overlooked tasks of geodesy and seismography.

More important, though, is the fact that the IGN is in charge of the INSPIRE initiative in Spain. Leading by example, the IGN has been one of the first European agencies to publish geodata through the use of Spatial Data Infrastructures and OGC-compliant services like WMS and WFS. The Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure web portal is a fine example of how to publish sets of geodata in such a way that professional GIS software can use it seamlessly, and nowadays holds hundreds of servers and thousands of data layers. The IGN also encourages and facilitates other Spanish sub-national mapping agencies to publish their geodata within a spatial data infrastructure framework.

Having the IGN as a State of the Map sponsor is a wonderful opportunity for mapping agencies to learn how to publish geodata; for OpenStreetMappers, to know the requirements and wishes of mapping agencies; for companies, to see the breadth of datasets and geospatial services (both OpenStreetMap- and mapping agency-based) they can build their applications upon.

OpenStreetMap and Mapping Agencies may come from different worlds, but share one important goal: we both wish to make the most out of geodata. By coming to the State of the Map, you will learn just that.

We are proud to announce the first sponsor of the State of the Map 2010 in Girona: Ericsson.

Ericsson Labs, provided by Ericsson, is a portal on the web that contains beta enablers and applications, and provides an open environment for sharing information with application developers, technology partners and consumers. Ericsson Labs provides several map APIs that support OpenStreetMap for both mobile and web platforms.

Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in more than 175 countries utilize our network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through our systems. We are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards.

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.

Sponsors are very important to the State of the Map. The organising team will ensure that your contribution is well recognized.

Why sponsor the State of the Map 2010?

The event offers sponsors unmatched opportunities to:

• Establish new relationships with the open geodata movement
• Generate new leads and product ideas
• Increase brand awareness and market reach
• Receive world wide recognition for products and services
• Learn about innovative technologies that drive the open source eco-system

Contact the organising team to receive our sponsorship brochure at sponsors@stateofthemap.org.