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Tagzania sponsors State of the Map 2010
May 11th
Tagzania Services will be sponsoring this year’s State of the Map, the annual OpenStreetMap international conference, in Girona, on July 9th, 10th and 11th. We also sponsored last year’s edition in Amsterdam.
Tagzania Services has several projects using OpenStreetMap, such as Mapapel, printable quality city maps, or EuskalMapa, a map of the world in Basque language.
Our commitment to promote OSM is clear; since September we’ve organized more than twenty mapping parties, talks and events. This effort, and the liberation of geographical public data by the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council and the Basque Government, has had direct effect on the quality of the map in the Basque Country.
What’s after the State of the Map 2009?
Jul 14th
State of the Map 2009 is over. Congratulations to the OSMF for organizing such an event with good speakers. It has been a pleasure for us sponsoring this year’s SOTM09.
There were many interesting talks, I’ve chosen my favourite ones for the Video nominations.
- Making Money with OSM – Frederik Ramm (Geofabrik): OpenStreetMap needs companies around it earning money, that will get the project more powerful for competing with other maps.
- How People Search for Locations – Ed Freyfogle (Nestoria): it was an interesting approach from the users’ points of view. OSM must think more in the map users (not just mappers).
- Open Paper Maps – Mike Migurski (Stamen). Walking Papers is a nice project for helping mappers to improve OSM data.
- Free and Open Palestine – Mikel Maron. Mikel and his collegues have done a brilliant work mapping Palestine. Hope he goes on doing it in other countries.
“State of …” talks were also interesting, specially Egypt, Cuba and Japan.
- Egypt: It’s amazing seeing how their map has changed in just one year with just a few volunteers.
- Cuba: How can they map without GPS devices or good satellite images?
- Japan: He was a funny guy. He walked about 24 km for mapping a shrine!
We’re really positive about our first SOTM, our talk in the Geomob session (thanks to Christopher Osborne!) and the sponsoring (it was nice seeing the Tagzania logo near Cloudmade’s or Ito’s). We got some interesting feedback about Mapapel and we’ll keep on working on it improving the website and adding some new city maps. We’re also thinking about how can we improve OpenStreetMaps presence in Tagzania.com
See you next year!
State of the Map 2009 and more
Jul 10th
These are the slides we’re showing in the State of the Map 2009:
There are other things we haven’t shown you, like the Tagzania app for Android we’ll publish soon. Have a look at the demo below:
