Fellow Nestorographers,
I'm delighted to announce to you that Nestoria will be a Bronze sponsor of this year's
State of the Map conference to be held from July 10th-12th in Amsterdam. SOTM is the annual
OpenStreetMap gathering, and I'm very proud to say this will be the third year in a row we'll be able to sponsor this great event. If you have even a passing interest in online cartography I recommend you attend and witness firsthand the passion and innovation of the global community behind OpenStreetMap.
Last year's event in Limerick was excellent. OSM has grown rapidly since then (
the 100,000 registered contributors milestone was just passed - up from 35,000 a year ago), and this year's conference will no doubt reflect that with a diverse line-up of interesting talks delivered by speakers from around the world.
Sponsoring SOTM09 continues our long-standing tradition of supporting OSM. Over a year ago we launched our
parallel version of Nestoria using OSM maps, as a way to showcase the amazing progress of the volunteers in both coverage and comprehensiveness. Please check it out in places like London, or on
our German site in Berlin. I have no doubt you'll be impressed. Thanks to the hard work of the volunteers and (increasingly) data and financial donations from forward thinking organisations, OpenStreetMap is at the cutting edge of cartography.
Interesting for us as a business is that the first day of this year's conference will focus on
the emerging commercial use of OpenStreetMap. More and more businesses, investors, and governmental bodies are seeing the potential of the crowd-sourced geo movement. We're starting to see interesting commercial applications, a trend I had the chance to
comment on over at TechCrunch UK a few months ago. Hopefully we'll have some news of our own to announce in this respect before the conference.
Many thanks to the organisers for putting together what is certain to be a stimulating and enjoyable gathering, and for giving us the chance to be associated with the innovation around OSM. We hope to see all of you there.
On final note, if you're interested in learning more about OpenStreetMap you may be interested in our past interviews with
Andy Allan,
Muki Haklay, or OSM founder
Steve Coast.
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