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The State of the Map (SotM) conference is the annual, international conference of OpenStreetMap. Organised by the OpenStreetMap Foundation it has been held each year since 2007 (except 2015 and 2023).

There are also many other regional and local conferences named "State of the Map" (such as SotM-Asia, SotM-Africa, SotM-US and others). Please note that these regional SotMs are organised exclusively by local teams, which run their own sponsorship programs and have separate budgets from the OpenStreetMap Foundation. If you want to organise a regional SotM, please check whether you need to apply for a SotM quick licence.

Planning

The international State of the Map team have started to collate a planners guidebook to help with the organisation of OSM events. Take a look at /Planning.

International

The international State of the Map conferences edit
2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · (2015) · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · (2023) · 2024 · 2025 · stateofthemap.org

Next State of the Map

State of the Map 2025 will take place in Manila. Read the bid. Watch the teaser video.


Previous conferences

Year and wiki page Logo Dates Location Attendance Website Group photo
2024 SotM-2024-logo.svg September 6 to 8 Nairobi, Kenya and online ~ 216 participants in Nairobi
+ at least 95 online
https://2024.stateofthemap.org/ SotM2024 participants in Nairobi Photo by SotM-WG CC BY-SA 2.0 photogtapher Arata Media Solutions.jpg
2023 There was no conference in 2023. Read the decision on international State of the Map 2023 and 2024
2022 SOTM 2022 final big.png August 19 to 21 Florence, Italy and online 406

participants (197 online)

https://2022.stateofthemap.org/ SotM2022 participants in Florence - Photo Carlo Prevosti CCBYSA4.0.jpg
2021 Sotm2021-logo-small.png July 9 to 11 online ~ 660 registrations https://2021.stateofthemap.org/
2020 SotM2020-logo.svg July 4 to 5 online https://2020.stateofthemap.org/
2019 SotM 2019 Logo-dark.png September 21 to 23 Heidelberg, Germany ~ 569

registrations

https://2019.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM 2019 Group Photo.jpg
2018 State of the Map 2018 logo.svg July 28 to 30 Milan, Italy ~ 408 http://2018.stateofthemap.org/ State of the Map 2018 Milano day 1 53.jpg
2017 SOTM 2017 logo.svg August 18 to 20 Aizuwakamatsu, Japan ~ 240 http://2017.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM 2017 outdoor group photo.jpg
2016 Winning-logo-sotm16.png September 23 to 25 Brussels, Belgium ~ 400 http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ State Of The Map 2016 group photo.jpg
2015 The 2015 conference was sadly cancelled due to some organisational problems.
2014 Sotm-2014-bueno-aires-logo.png November 7 to 9 Buenos Aires, Argentina
(first time in Latin America)
harrywood dev (pending deploy) SOTM 2014 group photo.jpg
2013 SOTM2013 Birmingham final.svg September 6 to 8
(during "Maptember")
Birmingham, United Kingdom http://2013.stateofthemap.org/ Sotm13 group photo CF.jpg
2012 Sotm-fujisan-logo-300x211.png September 6 to 8 Tokyo, Japan
(first time in Asia)
http://2012.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM12 group 3840.jpg
2011 Sotm denver co.png September 9 to 11
(proceeding FOSS4G)
Denver, United States
(first time in North America and outside Europe)
http://2011.stateofthemap.org/ Sotm11-group.png
2010 Sotm logo xxl.jpg July 9 to 11 Girona, Spain http://2010.stateofthemap.org/ State of the Map 2010 Group Photo.jpg
2009 Sotm logo xxl.jpg July 10 to 12 Amsterdam, Netherlands http://2009.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM09 Group Photo.jpg
2008 Stateofthemap2008.svg July 12 to 13 Limerick, Ireland http://2008.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM08 group photo.jpg
2007 Stateofthemap.png July 14 to 15 Manchester, United Kingdom https://2007.stateofthemap.org/ SOTM 2007 group photo.jpg

See also

Regional/local conferences

These regional/local conferences are not organised by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. They are organised exclusively by local teams, which run their own sponsorship programs and have separate budgets from the Foundation.

State of the Map Europe (SotM-EU)

Sotm-eu Logo
State of the Map Europe conferences edit

2011 Austria2014 Germany2023 Belgium2024 Poland

2024
The fourth European conference was held in Łódź, Poland from 18 to 21 July 2024.
2023
The third European conference was held in Antwerp, Belgium from 10th to 12th November 2023.
2014
2014 EU group photo
The second European conference was in Karlsruhe, DE on 13-15 June 2014.
2011
Since 2011 was the first year that the international State of the Map conference was held outside Europe, the Europeans decided to hold a regional conference for those who are unable to attend the one in the United States. This was held in Vienna, AT on 15-17 July 2011.

State of the Map Baltics

The State of the Map Baltics conferences edit
logo
2020
The second SotM Baltics was held in Riga, Latvia on March 6th 2020.
2013
The first SotM Baltics was held in Tartu, Estonia on 3-4 August 2013.

State of the CZ+SK (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

2017
The first State of the Map CZ+SK 2017 was held in Brno, Czech Republic on 4 November 2017.

State of the Map Southeast Europe

2019
The first State of the Map Southeast Europe took place on 25→27 October 2019 July in Prizren, Kosovo. https://sotmsee.org/


State of the Map France (SotM-FR)

France
The State of the Map France conferences edit
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
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2024
The tenth conference was held in Lyon from 28 to 30 June 2024.
2023
The ninth conference was held in Marseille from 9 to 11 June 2023.
2022
The ninth conference was held in Nantes from 10 to 12 June 2022.
2021
The eighth conference was a small conference online from 7 to 11 June 2021.
2019
The seventh conference was held in Montpellier from 13 to 16 June 2019.
2018
The sixth conference was held in Bordeaux from 1 to 3 June 2018.
State of the Map France 2017 logo.png
2017
The fifth conference was held in Avignon on 2 to 4 June 2017.
2016
The fourth conference was held in Clermont-Ferrand on 20 to 22 May 2016.
2015
The third conference was held in Brest on 29 to 31 May 2015.
2014
The second conference was held in Paris on 4 to 6 April 2014.
2013
The first conference was held in Lyon on 23 and 24 February 2013.

State of the Map Polska (SotM-PL)

2018
State of the Map Poland 2018 took place in Poznań on 13-14 April 2018.

State of the Map Scotland

2015
After a break in 2014, the forth SotM Scotland was held in Edinburgh from October 2 to 3. The third day, consisting of a map maker day and tutorials for those new to Openstreetmap, is yet to be confirmed.
2013
The third SotM Scotland was held in Edinburgh on 11-12 October 2013. Followed by a hack day on 13 October.
2012
The second SotM Scotland was held in Edinburgh on 19-20 October 2012.
2011
The Scots held their first SotM local conference in Glasgow on 26-27 August 2011.

State of the Map Spain

2015
SotM CAT was held in Barceloneta, Catalonia on 3 October 2015.

State of the Map Suomi (Finland)

2020

SotM Suomi 2020 was organised on saturday Sep 26th 2020 in Helsinki.

FOSSGIS (German-speaking countries)

The German speakers conference about OSM, taking place in Austria, Germany or Switzerland.

FOSSGIS
The FOSSGIS conferences edit
2008 Germany · 2009 Germany · 2010 Germany · 2011 Germany · 2012 Germany · 2013 Switzerland · 2014 Germany · 2015 Germany · 2016 Austria · 2017 Germany · 2018 Germany · 2019 Germany · 2020 Germany · 2021 Switzerland 2022 Germany · 2023 Germany · 2024 Germany · 2025 Germany

OSMit (Italy)

Italy
The OSMit conferences in Italy edit
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (2015) 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 (2022) 2023

The Italian conference about OSM.

(2022)
The conference was not organized in 2022 as Italy hosted State of the Map 2022 in Firenze.
2021 - FOSS4G-IT
The twelfth conference was held online, as part of FOSS4G-IT 2021, on 19-21 September.
2020
The eleventh conference was held in Turin, on 22 February.
2019 - FOSS4G-IT
The tenth conference was held in Padova, on 20-24 February.
2018 - FOSS4G-IT
The ninth conference was held in Roma on 19-22 February, in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia and FOSS4G-IT.
2017 - FOSS4G-IT
The eighth conference was held in Genova, in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia and FOSS4G-IT.
2016
The seventh conference was held in Milano, in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia.
(2015)
The conference was initially scheduled in Siena, but the event was cancelled.
2014
The sixth conference was held in Matera, in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia.
2013
The fifth conference was held in Rovereto, in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia.
2012
The fourth conference was held in Torino, in cooperation with Associazione per l'Informazione Geografica Libera GFOSS.it, Regione Piemonte, Università di Torino and CSI Piemonte
2011
The third conference was held in Padova, in cooperation with Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Cartografia, Fotogrammetria, Telerilevamento e SIT (CIRGEO) at the University of Padova
2010
The second conference was held in Genova, in cooperation with Laboratorio di Geodesia, Geomatica e GIS del Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Costruzioni, dell'Ambiente e del Territorio (DICAT) della Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Genova. [1]
2009
The first Italian conference was held in Trento, in cooperation with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). [2]

State of the Map Africa

The State of the Map Africa conferences edit

2015 Burkina Faso · 2015 Togo · 2017 Uganda · 2019 Ivory Coast 2021 Kenya 2023 Camerron

Sotmafrica5.png
2017
The second State of the Map Africa took place on 8-10 July in Kampala, Uganda. http://sotmafrica.org/
2015
The first State of the Map Africa took place on 21 November in Lomé, Togo.

State of the Map Cameroon

State of the Map Cameroun 2017.png
2017
The first State of the Map Cameroon took place on 1–3 December in Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon. http://geomatique237.xyz/

State of the Map Tanzania

2017
The first State of the Map Tanzania took place on 8–10 December in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. https://stateofthemaptanzania.wordpress.com/

2023

The second State of the Map Tanzania will take place on 20-22 January 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. https://stateofthemaptanzania.org/

State of the Map Nigeria

2023
The first State of the Map Nigeria was held in Port Harcourt in 2022.

State of the Map U.S.

Main article: State of the Map U.S.

State of the Map LatAm

State of the Map - Latam edit
2015 Chile · 2016 Brazil · 2017 Peru · 2018 Argentina · 2019 Paraguay · 2024 Brazil
2019
The fifth Latino-American conference was held in Encarnación, Paraguay on November 14-16th November 2019.
2018
The fourth Latino-American conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 24-25 September 2018.
2017
The third Latino-American conference was held in Lima, Peru from 29 November 2017 to 2 December 2017.
2016
The second Latino-American conference was held in São Paulo, Brazil on 25-27 November 2016.
2015
The first Latino-American conference was held in Santiago, Chile on 4-6 September 2015.

State of the Map Argentina

The State of the Map Argentina conferences edit
2019
SotM Argentina 2019 will be held in Santa Fe, 12th October.
2017
SotM Argentina 2017 + FOSS4G was held in Buenos Aires on 23 October 2017.

State of the Map Asia (SotM Asia)

The State of the Map Asia conferences edit



State of the Map Asia was born after the success of the international SotM conference 2012 in Tokyo. The conference is organised by local OpenStreetMap communities and focuses on themes and contents that are current to the region.

SotM Asia Logo 2024.png
2024
Eighth Asian conference will happen in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on September, 2024.
2023
Seventh Asian conference happened in Thailand, on 15-18 November 2023.
2022
Sixth Asian conference happened in Philippines, on 21-23 November 2022.
SotM Asia 2019 Logo.png
2019
Fifth Asian conference happened in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 1-2 November 2019.
Sotm-asia-2018.jpg
2018
The fourth Asian conference will take place in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, on 17-18 November 2018.
SOTM-Asia-2017-Logo-Proposal-Paras-Shrestha-03.png
2017
The third Asian conference took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 23-24 September 2017.
Sotm-asia-2016-logo.png
2016
The second Asian conference happened in the heart of Manila, Philippines on 1-2 October 2016. Organized by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community, in cooperation with Visions Asia of Japan.
2015
The first official SotM Asia in Jakarta, Indonesia.

State of the Map Bangladesh (SotM Bangladesh)

Year Title Theme Logo Dates Location Website Group photo
2024 SotM Bangladesh 2024 Navigating Towards a Smart Bangladesh SotM Bangladesh Logo 01.png September, 2024 Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh https://2024.sotmbd.org/ Towards a smart Bangladesh powered by the science of where (3).png



State of the Map Japan

Japan
The State of the Map Japan conferences edit
2017
There was no national conference in 2017 since the international State Of The Map took place that year in Japan.
2016
The third conference was held on 6 August in Akabane, Tokyo. https://stateofthemap.jp/2016/
2015
The second conference was held on 31 October in Hamamastu, Shizuoka. https://stateofthemap.jp/2015/
2014
The first State of the Map Japan took place on 13 December in Tokyo. https://stateofthemap.jp/2014/
2012
There was no national conference in 2012 since the international State Of The Map took place that year in Japan.

State of the Map Myanmar

2018
The first State of the Map Myanmar took place on 12 January in Mandalay. https://www.facebook.com/SotMMyanmar/

State of the Map Philippines

2019
A "State of the Map: Philippines" track is included in the 2019 Pista ng Mapa conference program.
2013
The first State of the Map Philippines took place on 14–15 December in Quezon City.

State of the Map Taiwan

2015
The first State of the Map Taiwan took place on 18 September in Taipei.

State of the Map Oceania

State of the Map Oceania conferences · osgeo-oceania.org edit
2018 Australia· 2019 New Zealand · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 Fiji · 2023 New Zealand · 2024 Australia·

State of the Map conferences in Oceania have so far taken place as joint FOSS4G and State of the Map events organised by OSGeo Oceania, a "volunteer organisation devoted to growing and enabling the OpenStreetMap and Open Source Geospatial communities in Oceania and the surrounding nations."

2024
The seventh conference will be held on November 5-8 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
2023
The sixth conference was held on October 16-20 in Auckland, New Zealand.
2022
The fifth conference was held on November 28-December 2 in Suva, Fiji as a combination of the Pacific Islands GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference, and the FOSS4G State of the Map Oceania conference. There was also a local FOSS4G AKL Meetup 2022 event in Auckland, New Zealand.
2021
The fourth conference was held on November 12–13 in Apia, Samoa; Auckland, New Zealand; Canberra, Australia; Hobart, Tasmania; Melbourne, Australia; Perth, Australia; Suva, Fiji; Tarawa, Kiribati; and Wellington, New Zealand.
2020
The third conference was held on November 20. Was planned to be an in-person event in Suva, Fiji, but due to the pandemic it turned to a regional-hub model.
2019
The second conference was held on November 12–15 in Wellington, New Zealand.
2018
The first FOSS4G State of the Map Oceania took place on November 20–23 in Melbourne, Australia.