State of the Map 2025/self-organized sessions
What is a self-organized session?
Besides the main programme of SotM we want to offer space for self-organized sessions. In past years, those sessions were a large success. A lot of topics are well placed in smaller rounds. The only requirement that we have to your topic is that it has to be related to OpenStreetMap.
We use this wiki page for organizing online self-organized sessions; for on-site self-organized session, we will set up a white board at the conference venue to reserve their time slot and room. The only requirements we have is that the participants have a conference ticket which grants them access to the conference platform that we use and that they abide to the SotM Code of Conduct.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask us - please email to [email protected].
Technical requirements
From a technical point of view, an online self organized session is a video conference. You and your participants need a computer with a microphone and ideally a camera. Participants who are attending the conference in Manila are encouraged to bring their own devices (computer or mobile), microphone and headphones to be able to focus and participate in the online self-organized session.
The video conference itself takes place in a web browser using an embedded Digital Samba room within Venueless. If you are the host of such a video conference, please test your equipment beforehand (you can use the free, public Digital Samba instance for this or the workshop rooms in the public Venueless demo).
We currently offer 3 rooms for self-organized sessions - if this is not enough, please get in touch, we should be able to organize more if needed.
Registration of an on-site self-organized sessions (in Manila, Philippines)
We will set up a white board where you can sign up, and reserve your time slot and room at the conference.
Registration of an online self-organized sessions
If you want to hold an online self-organized session, just put it in one of the below tables. The duration doesn't need to be precise, but this helps other session organizers to schedule their session at a time when your session is supposed to be finished. Please use the OsmUser template (using something like {{OsmUser|Your OSM username}}) or OSM wiki user name (using something like [[User:YourOSMWikiUserName|YourOSMWikiUserName]] ([[User talk:YourOSMWikiUserName|talk]]) (which you can automatically do by entering three swung dashes (~~~))) in the organizer column - this provides us a simple way to contact you if needed.
BoFs and more
Friday, 3 October 2025
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Saturday, 4 October 2025
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OUT 2025 02:30 (UTC) 10:30 (UTC+8, Manila Time) --- 03 OUT 2025 23:30 (UTC-3, São Paulo Time) |
weeklyOSM-stats: Analysis of the weeklyOSM profile over the last ten years with PostgreSQL
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem is very vast, making it complicated to investigate user preferences for OSM-related software or topics. The Keynote (in English) will show the development of a study on the publication profile of the weeklyOSM, analyzing the content of the issues published on the last ten years (numbers 272 to 768), since it began to be organized with the OpenStreetMap Blog Collector (OSMBC), created by TheFive. Data was processed with the PostgreSQL and the results show that weeklyOSM offers a variety of information resources and highlights the role of weeklyOSM as a vehicle for information on the OSM ecosystem. The research was conducted by Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto (IVIDES DATA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - editor for the Brazilian Portuguese, and with the collaboration of her weeklyOSM colleagues (on the results validation). The author thanks for all collaboration with this personal project. SOTM 2025 PRESENTATION - PDF (6.19 MB) RESEARCH ABSTRACT - PDF (96.4 kB): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17298633 weeklyOSM homepage weeklyOSM-stats Project on GitHub https://github.com/raqueldeziderio/weeklyOSM-stats --- Dataset 102 selected software Raquel Dezidério Souto. (2025). weeklyOSM - WN272 to WN768 - selected software articles [Data set]. GPL-3.0. Rio de Janeiro: IVIDES DATA, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15263668 weeklyOSM statistics Raquel Dezidério Souto. (2025). weeklyOSM - WN272 to WN768 - statistics files [Data set]. GPL-3.0. Rio de Janeiro: IVIDES DATA, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15263792 102+ Lista dos software mais citados na weeklyOSM Raquel Dezidério Souto, Artur Barcelos Santos Fernandes, Gabrielle Toledo Lima, Myllene Luiza Vieira Lopes, Paloma Moreira Caetano, & Tatiana dos Santos Segadas Vianna. (2025). 102+ LISTA DOS SOFTWARES MAIS CITADOS NA WEEKLYOSM. Rio de Janeiro: IVIDES DATA, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16394057
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Sunday, 5 October 2025
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