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The Austrian OpenStreetMap community is pleased to invite you to contribute to the first European State of the Map Conference (SotM-Europe) of the OpenStreetMap project, held 15^th - 17^th July in Vienna, Austria. After 4 successful and well-organised International State of the Map conferences, we are proud to offer an additional European edition of this well-received event.

Participants and focus

The conference addresses OSM mappers and community activists, open source developers, researchers from universities and academic institutions, designers and cartographers, as well as GIS professionals from private and public institutions. The conference will offer a common ground to people from various backgrounds and disciplines where they can meet and exchange knowledge, experiences, plans and ideas on the development, use and improvements of OSM. Focus will be on OSM-community issues in Europe. As the SotM-Europe will take place at the Vienna University of Technology, we would like to establish an additional focus on research with a relation to OpenStreetMap.

Themes

We invite you to contribute to the following themes of SotM-Europe:

• Mapping: The heart of the conference will be "maps maps maps" - share your insights on mapping, data, tagging, the state of the map in your country, etc...
• TechTalks: Share your knowledge and ideas on development, rendering and infrastructure.
• Powered by OpenStreetMap: You developed an exciting project / business idea based on OpenStreetMap? Tell us about your experiences!
• Convergence: We especially invite speakers to explore the scope of the open geo data world vs. the world of proprietary and authoritive data and software.
• Research: You are a researcher working with OpenStreetMap data, investigating the societal impacts of OSM or studying motivational factors? Share your findings with the OSM community!
• Other: You have an exciting idea that doesn't fit any the above themes? Tell us anyways :)

Session formats

• Talks
  • Comprehensive talks, 45min
  • Short talks, 20min
  • Lightning talks: Short talks of 5 to 10 minutes. They will be organised in a more informal way on the Wiki and don't obey to the deadlines.
• Posters
• (Panel) Discussions

Proceedings

All presenters have the option to submit a full paper for publication in electronic proceedings (especially recommended for researchers). Please let us know in the comment, if you are interested in this option.

Important dates

• Sunday, 20^th March 2011: Extended deadline of Call for Papers
• April 2011: Info on Acceptance
• May 2011: Preliminary Conference Programme
• Monday, 13^th June 2011: Deadline for full paper submission (optional)

Preliminary Schedule

The programme will start on Friday, 15^th July at about 1pm and end on Sunday, 17^th July at about 1pm. Friday and Saturday morning will focus on research and business, the rest of the time will be more community-related.

The main conference language is English.

The conference is organised by OpenStreetMap Austria in cooperation with the Research Group Cartography of the Vienna University of Technology.

You are now ready to submit your abstract? Go to the Submission form. We are very much looking foward to your contribution!

For questions please contact info@sotm-eu.org.