Taking place in Firenze, Italy between the 19th – 21st of August was the State of the Map 2022 in which the #OpenStreeMap community made noise all over social media especially on twitter.
State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. In 2022 the State of the Map conference was a three day hybrid conference taking place in Florence, Italy and online. The conference took place before the FOSS4G 2022 conference, which is also in Firenze on August 22 to 28, 2022 ( a few hours after SOM2022 ends).
It also happens that this was the first hybrid SOM event with the previous two year events (2021 and 2020) being held virtually owing to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in massive lockdowns being imposed on various nations.
The conference rocked Twitter with the hashtag #SotM2022.
Social Media Highlights from the conference
Here are some of the social media buzzes that caught our attention and we could not resist and remain silent.
A presentation by United Nations Mappers on how #OSM is being used for the United Nations in virtual reality applications that support peacekeeping.
Presenting at #SotM2022 how #OpenStreetMap crowdsourced data is being used by the #UN in virtual reality applications to support peacekeeping 🇺🇳@gischatbot pic.twitter.com/4GDj4M7hNh
— UN Mappers (@UN_Mappers) August 21, 2022
How Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) is leveraging on data from #OSM to provide and effective analysis for setting up vaccination sites across countries and regions. This initiative is under the health drive to protect the general population of countries against infections.
I love how @MSF are able to quickly process @openstreetmap data to determine where to setup vaccination sites to maximise vaccination uptake and protect residents.#SotM2022 #MissingMaps pic.twitter.com/OY6E5o2M9R
— Donal Hunt 🇮🇪🇪🇺 (@donalhunt) August 21, 2022
One of the regional Youth Mappers from the Philippines sharing her amazing thoughts during her presentation session at the conference.
One of our vibrant members of @youthmappers, @dfeyeandal Regional Ambassador from Philippines is presenting her amazing thoughts in the State of the Map 2022, Firenze. #SotM2022#YouthMappers pic.twitter.com/QE3DCUYiqb
— Sawan Shariar (@sshariar1991) August 21, 2022
The Humanitarian Open Street Map (HOTOSM) team introduced a new innovative and brilliant project to the table which uses the OSM Galaxy API to:
- download OSM data in real time
- access real time statistics and
- real time validation of OSM data.
Yet another interesting project by @hotosm!
— Emmanuel Jolaiya (@jeafreezy) August 21, 2022
The OSM Galaxy API allows to;
– download real time raw data of #OSM data
– access real-time statistics and
– real-time validation of #OSM data.#gischat #SotM2022 pic.twitter.com/IUcwfLX738
More social media trends from this conference can be accessed here.
Marking the close of the conference, was a closing ovation for the brilliant organizing team which took their time and resources to come up with this event despite the difficult and trending health pandemic times but still made it.
The just ended conference paves way for yet another conference in Firenze, Italy which is the FoSS4G. Find out more about FOSS4G here.
Kumbirai is a GIS & MEAL specialist using geospatial analytics to advance global health and social impact. A certified Data Protection Officer (DPO), an open-data advocate and self-taught software developer, he builds web GIS tools that turn field data into decisions. He lectures in GIS/Remote Sensing and mentors emerging practitioners. Founder of a geospatial startup and nonprofit, he believes, “Real geospatial innovation happens when we empower communities with the right tools and knowledge.” Open to consulting and collaborations.