Overview

State of the Map 2016 is taking place from September 23rd to 25th 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. Meet us at Building Q, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

You may also be interested in the humanitarian mapping events immediatly prior to State of the Map, and the developers hack event immediatly after. Here is the outline of the events in Brussels:

Thursday, September 22nd: HOT Summit at the BTC Conference Center and FOSS4G Belgium at Brussels Environment and Energy Agency, followed by a Missing Maps evening mapathon. In the evening, State of the Map attendees are welcome to informally gather at pubs on Rue Saint-Boniface.
Friday, September 23rd: Join us for day one of State of the Map. Details of the talks are below, with additional space available for informal Birds of a Feather meetings.
Saturday, September 24th: We move to day two of State of the Map. Our scheduled program of talks is below, and Birds of a Feather sessions are possible. In the evening join us at Brussels Event Brewery for free food and drink (7-11pm).
Sunday, September 25th: The third and final day of State of the Map will focus on workshops and sharing knowledge. Together we'll discover the next great thing in mapping and hacking but please be kind to our network (bandwidth currently unconfirmed).
Monday, September 26th: Stay on after State of the Map for a dedicated hack day courtesy of OpenStreetMap Belgium and OSGeo BE communities, sponsored by Bruxelles Environnement and Innoviris.

Our program

We've got an amazing program of talks and workshops lined up for you. The difficult bit is deciding which track to go to. All the info on the talks is provided below.

Friday

8:00am Registration / Coffee / Tea

9:00am Opening Session (watch) VUB Building Q

9:30am Keynote Ambassador Allan Mustard (watch) VUB Building Q

10:00am

Auditorium A 30min OpenStreetMap Analytics Cristiano Giovando, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Auditorium C 30min OpenSolarMap: Crowdsourcing and machine learning to classify roofs Michel Blancard, Etalab

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-6.md

10:30am

Auditorium A 30min Nicaragua's new crowd-sourced bus map: Lessons learnt Eduardo Augusto Mayorga, Felix Delattre, MapaNica

Auditorium C 30min A love-letter to OSM: Greetings from Brussels Pieter Brusselman, Trage Wegen vzw

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-15.md

11:00am Coffee / Tea

11:30am

Auditorium A 30min Energise your community with focused projects Brian Prangle, Mappa Mercia

Auditorium C 30min OSM goes indoors: Why SNCF Transilien mapped 388 train stations with OpenStreetMap Cynthia Gutton, SNCF Transilien

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-8.md

12:00pm

Auditorium A 30min Investing in OSM communities to build resilience Vivien Deparday, World Bank - Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

Auditorium C 30min OSM goes indoors: Usages, tools and prospects Antoine Riche, Adrien Pavie, Carto'Cité

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-9.md

12:30pm

Auditorium A 30min Vector tiles from OpenStreetMap Lukas Martinelli

Auditorium C 30min Open imagery matters: Remote mapping with OpenAerialMap Daniel da Silva, Development Seed

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-10.md

1:00pm Lunch

1:50pm Group Photo

2:10pm

Auditorium A 30min A map of OpenStreetMap Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap Foundation

Auditorium C 30min State of OSRM Johan Uhle, Mapbox

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-11.md

2:40pm

Auditorium A 30min WeeklyOSM: Why, how, what, where and where we go Manfred Reiter, Laura Barroso, weeklyOSM

Auditorium C 30min Converting a regular carto project to vector tiles: OSM-carto case study Rory McCann, Geofabrik

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-12.md

3:10pm

Auditorium A 30min Is she a part of your community? Srravya C, Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu

Auditorium C 30min SQL all the things: Exposing OSM data services to PostgreSQL users Jorge Sanz, CARTO

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-13.md

3:40pm Coffee / Tea

4:10pm

Auditorium A 30min Lightning Talks Multiple speakers

Auditorium C 30min Gardening OSM data with Overpass API Roland Olbricht

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-14.md

4:40pm

Auditorium A 30min Lightning Talks Multiple speakers

Auditorium C 30min Tiles under heavy artillery: Serving one billion maps per month Loic Ortola, Jawg

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-16.md

5:10pm

Auditorium A 30min State of the licence Simon Poole, OSMF

Auditorium C 30min A stroll through the hidden corners of Taginfo Jochen Topf

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-18.md

5:40pm End

Saturday

8:30am Registration / Coffee / Tea

9:30am

Auditorium A 30min Trending Places on OpenStreetMap Stefan Keller, Geometa Lab at HSR, Univ. of Applied Sciences Rapperswil

Auditorium C 30min The World We Want: OpenStreetMap and the Sustainable Development Goals Tyler Radford, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-19.md

10:00am

Auditorium A 30min Using big data to help us improve the map Beata Jancso, Telenav

Auditorium C 30min Building large-scale crowdsourcing communities with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Martin Dittus, ICRI Cities, UCL

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-20.md

10:30am

Auditorium A 30min Tracking OpenStreetMap changes: Merging changeset and metadata together for improved change tracking Dylan Moriarty, Development Seed

Auditorium C 30min State of West Africa Mohamet Lamine N'Diaye, Dibloni Innocent Soungalo, OpenStreetMap Senegal & Association OpenStreetMap Burkina Faso

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-21.md

11:00am Coffee / Tea

11:30am

Auditorium A 30min Camp-mapping in Greece Henk Hoff, Red Cross (international)

Auditorium C 30min MapContrib: Thematic OpenStreetMap contribution Guillaume Amat

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-22.md

12:00pm

Auditorium A 30min OpenSchoolsKenya Zacharia Muindi, Map Kibera Trust

Auditorium C 30min The minimalist OSM Building Editor Jan Marsch, OSM Buildings

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-23.md

12:30pm

Auditorium A 30min Mapping Ireland's 61,000 administrative boundaries Rory McCann, OpenStreetMap Ireland

Auditorium C 30min Portable OSM: Into the disconnected wilds Emily Eros, American Red Cross

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-24.md

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm

Auditorium A 30min Watching for vandalism Sajjad Anwar, Mapbox

Auditorium C 30min TeachOSM: Harnessing the power of OpenStreetMap for geography education Maggie Cawley, Boomerang Geospatial

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-25.md

2:30pm

Auditorium A 30min Trace from Space: International version Kevin Bullock, DigitalGlobe

Auditorium C 30min Map it forward: Incorporating OSM into the universities curriculum Vasanthi Hargyono, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (Indonesia)

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-26.md

3:00pm

Auditorium A 30min OpenStreetMap US: The real McCoy Drishtie Patel, Alyssa Wright, Ian Dees, Alex Barth, Martijn van Exel, OpenStreetMap US

Auditorium C 30min OpenStreetMap for educational purposes Louis-Julien de la Bouëre, Tiriad

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-27.md

3:30pm Coffee / Tea

4:00pm

Auditorium A 30min Empowering women through OpenStreetMap in Mali Astou Nathalie Sidibe, OpenStreetMap Mali

Auditorium C 30min What, where... when! Let's add another dimension with OpenEventDatabase Christian Quest, OpenStreetMap France

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-28.md

4:30pm

Auditorium A 30min Building a digital humanitarian society in Pakistan: A perspective Usman Latif, DigitalHumanitarians.pk

Auditorium C 30min OSM for traffic simulation Michael Zilske, Technische Universität Berlin

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-7.md

5:00pm

Auditorium A 30min Comparing OSM data and Brussels local government data Marc Ducobu, Champs-Libres

Auditorium C 30min Railways at OpenStreetMap Michael Reichert, OpenRailwayMap

Building D/Room 1+2 30min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-17.md

5:30pm End

Sunday

9:00am Coffee / Tea

10:00am

Room QA 75min 500 people OpenStreetMap Awards & State of the Local Map Ilya Zverev, OpenStreetMap Foundation

Room QC 75min 300 people OpenStreetView for mappers Alex Ilisei, Martijn van Exel, Telenav

Foyer + Building D/Room 3 75min 75 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-2.md

Nelson Mandela 75min 50 people Free and Open Space! 0200-01-03-free-space-1.md

Building D/Room 1 75min 30 people Learn to map: Making mapping fun Miriam Gonzalez, OpenStreetMap Mexico & Telenav

Building D/Room 2 75min 30 people Rendering your own maps workshop Paul Norman

11:15am Break

11:45am

Room QA 75min 500 people Staying on the right side: Best practices in editing Simon Poole, Frederik Ramm, Ethan Nelson, OpenStreetMap Foundation

Room QC 75min 300 people Learn to create your own challenges in MapRoulette using Overpass Martijn van Exel, MapRoulette

Foyer + Building D/Room 3 75min 75 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-3.md

Nelson Mandela 75min 50 people Free and Open Space! 0200-01-03-free-space-2.md

Building D/Room 1 75min 30 people Improving the canvas for participatory mapping in Tanzania Egle Marija Ramanauskaite, Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map

Building D/Room 2 75min 30 people Area Workshop Jochen Topf

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm

Room QA 75min 500 people Station Indoor routing and mapping in practice with OpenStationMap Roland Olbricht, Roland Wagner, MENTZ GmbH and Akaparis GmbH

Room QC 75min 300 people The state of public transport routing Pieter Colpaert, Open Knowledge International

Foyer 75min 75 people Local Chapters congress Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap Foundation

Nelson Mandela 75min 50 people Free and Open Space! 0200-01-03-free-space-3.md

Building D/Room 1 75min 30 people Mastering uMap Yohan Boniface

Building D/Room 2 + Room 3 75min 30 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-5.md

3:15pm Break

3:45pm

Room QA 75min 500 people Making OpenStreetMap navigation ready Ramya Ragupathy, Mapbox

Room QC 75min 300 people Create your own tile server with TileStache Thomas Gratier, Ouvre-Boite 44 - WebGeoDataVore

Foyer + Building D/Room 3 75min 75 + 30 people Birds of a feather 0200-01-03-birds-of-a-feather-4.md

Nelson Mandela 75min 50 people Free and Open Space! 0200-01-03-free-space-4.md

Building D/Room 1 75min 30 people Osmose-QA: Fix issues and understand the tool Frédéric Rodrigo

Building D/Room 2 75min 30 people weeklyOSM in my language for my community Manfred A. Reiter, weeklyOSM

5:00pm Closing session VUB Building Q.A

5:30pm End