State Of The Map 2010

Spot Image is a provider of added-value satellite imagery and geospatial services. Starting as the commercial operator of the SPOT satellites, Spot Image is now a supplier of imagery from a range of other optical and radar Earth-imaging satellites.

Spot Image supports the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters (http://www.disasterscharter.org/) by its capacity and daily revisit capability to acquire imagery of any point on Earth. In addition, the rich global archive of SPOT imagery compiled since 1986, now containing nearly 20 million images, provides pre-disaster images of a region of interest for comparative analysis and damage assessment. Spot Image also participate in SAFER (Services and Applications For Emergency Response : http://www.emergencyresponse.eu/ ) which is a large European project funded in the frame of the GMES initiative (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security).

When the case of global warming was so widely made in 2006, Spot Image could not do but decide to engage in action to tackle it: no other industry is better placed than Earth Observation to support projects and action fighting Climate Change. Planet Action (http://www.planet-action.org/) was launched in 2007 by Spot Image, leading supplier of satellite imagery and geo-information, joined by ESRI, leading GIS technologies provider as co-founder. Planet Action objectives are to support local projects acting on Climate Change-related issues by providing geographic information and technology to NGOs, universities, research centers…

The long awaited agenda for State of the Map 2010 is now available!

The successful Pro Users’ Day  will also kick off  the first day of State of the Map in Girona. Like SOTM 2009 in Amsterdam, it will primarily focus on emerging professional users of OpenStreetMap.  We have seen a huge increase in the professional adoption of OpenStreetMap.  The State of the Map will feature presentations from Skobbler, 1 Spatial Nutiteq and CloudMade – some of the most innovative companies who are pioneering the commercial use of OpenStreetMap data.

Saturday and Sunday will be more OSM community oriented. Saturday launches the 4th Annual SOTM conference we all know and love and it’s all about our community. The day is split into two tracks, featuring Community, Technical, Quality and Validation and back by popular demand, the OSI Scholarship Lightning talks!

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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

ESRI in one of the major Geographic Information Systems vendors for Desktop, Server GIS, Mobile, Web and now Cloud. ESRI is well-known among most GIS professionals. Earlier this year, ESRI surprised the OpenStreetMap community with OSM support in some of their products, including the recently launched www.arcgis.com.

Contribute your Data and Share, Discover and Leverage other Worldwide Maps
and Apps in the Geospatial Community Cloud, hosted by ESRI at www.arcgis.com.