Keynote: Who cares about Community? Or: Why data and tools for maps should be Free

Geodata and GI-Software offer great economic potential, not only for those who develop solutions, but also for the society that benefits from these solutions. The base for Free Data and Software is the community that forms around it. Many examples show how lively communities send signals, which in turn ensure growth and a further heterogenization of the community itself and evokes impulses for the perception and use and thus makes those, who still hold hands over data or code contemplative.

55 min

Main Room

Till Adams

Till is one of the founders of the German language FOSSGIS conference series and joined his first OSGeo Conference in Minneapolis in 2005 before it was even called FOSS4G. Till also put a lot of effort into building the local and regional community and helped form FOSSGIS e.V., the legal body of the German language […]

Turn right after the red house? How open data and OSM changes directions in Kosovo

Kosovo recently gave itself street names and addresses. A look at how OpenStreetMap helps driving their usage, at how the community received and processed open data, and at what's next.

25

Main Room

Guillaume Rischard

Guillaume is a data consultant and open data advocate from Luxembourg. He’s been actively mapping all over the world since 2011. He was instrumental in getting some of Kosovo’s geographical information released for OpenStreetMap, and helped make the data useable by mappers. He is one of the creators of the Luxembourg open data portal, and […]

Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap ?

Almost everyone use nowadays maps on a daily basis ; it could be with an app on your phone or online. Most of the people use Google Maps (or other solutions from big companies) but I'll (try to) convince you that it's easy to use OpenStreetMap but also why OpenStreetMap is a better option when it comes to maps, not only for your website but also for your daily life (app of your phone, navigation, ...).

25

Main Room

Jonathan Beliën

Jonathan is a developer with a 15+ years of experience in web development and GIS (Geographic Information System). He supports the open-source movement by now using, developing and promoting open-source solutions and open-data in the company he works for, to his customers (private and governmental) but also more widely by joining the board of OpenStreetMap […]

Crowd-sourced open geographic data for humanitarian action

The OpenStreetMap project is the largest database of freely usable geoinformation. The project has allowed over a million people to jointly create a worldwide digital map. It can also be used to map particularly vulnerable places and the data is extensively used by aid organisations and government agencies. This talk gives an insight about how humanitarian organizations use OpenStreetMap for the good.

25

Main Room

Felix Delattre

Felix Delattre is an information technologist, software architect and development project manager with a passion for geographic information science. His focus is on innovation through participation, open data and free technologies. He works as a Technical Projects Manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Usage of geospatial technology in the Municipality of Tirana

This talk will present methods used to implement municipal data and GIS components used for the creation of GIS system. The different layers used and the technical challenges we faced.

25

Main Room

Genc Salja

Phd.Cand.Eng. Genc SALJA: Born in Shkodra, 1989. Lives in Tirana. Completed studies in Geodetic Engineering in 2012. He started PhD studies in 2014. His work experience includes: Geodetic engineer in the private sector, GIS Expert for an EU Project, Freelancer for TomTom; Guest Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Tirana; Specialist in the GIS Sector […]

OpenStreetMap good practices

25

Main Room

Sidorela Uku

Sidorela has studied Computer Engineering. She is a open source user and advocate and also contributes to various FOSS projects like OpenStreetMap, LibreOffice and Wikimedia. She is a board member of Open Labs Hackerspace, a community promoting the idea of free open source technologies, online privacy and open data in Tirana, Albania. Also co-organizer of […]

Workshop: Interactive web maps in the cloud with HERE XYZ

Learn how HERE XYZ can help with storage and management of geo data, introducing techniques and tools for interactive filtering and visualization.

90

Workshop Room

Octavian Borcan

Octavian is Sr. Data Acquisition&Community Lead at HERE Technologies, Bucharest office (Romania), a digital mapping company, setting a new course for location technology. He has a strong background in the GIS&IT field, working on multiple projects at regional and international level. Interested in promoting GIS, open data sources/software and technologies.

Lunch

90

Foyer

OpenStreetMapS

As we are told, OpenStreetMap is a single global map of the world, editable by anyone and usable anywhere. Mapper in Tanzania has as much say as a mapper in Germany. Cycleways in Philippines can be rendered the same as cycleways in UK. One map to rule them all. Turns out, not so much. Being that big, OSM is not the same for different countries. We have not one, but a hundred slightly varying maps: here you have different road classification, there you don't use landuse=forest. Communities are split by languages and territories. Users mapping with JOSM sometimes mock iD users, and vice versa. You cannot build a map of, say, major roads without understanding specifics of every country on the map. Let's see how mapping rules and communities differ across the world, and what would you need for your map-based service to be viable globally.

25

Main Room

Ilya Zverev

Ilya has been deeply interested in OpenStreetMap since 2010. He tried everything: mapped a lot, proposed tagging schemas, edited a blog and a telegram channel, made two podcasts, organized mapping parties and conferences, wrote JOSM plugins, API tools, editors, geocoders, and various maps. He briefly served on the OSMF Board, made the OSM Awards, and […]

Workshop: Cartography

I will teach how to use blender to create astonishing shaded relief maps.

55

Workshop Room

Amanti Lulo

Amanti is the founder of the local chapter of Maptime in Tirana and has a passion for contributing to OpenStreetMap, mainly by adding data that no one knows they need… yet.

How OpenStreetMap and Municipality can benefit each other

During this session Angjelina will talk how municipalities and OSM can benefit each other. The main goal of this talk will be on one hand to explain how municipalities can use data they get from OpenStreetMap for their internal institutional needs or to build citizen-centric services, and on the other hand to explain how (and why) municipalities should contribute in improvement of OSM.

25

Main Room

Angjelina Dervishaj

Angjelina has a degree in Geoinformatics. She is an OSM contributor spending a lot of time to improve the local maps. Currently working for the city of Tirana as an IT specialist. The first research paper she has worked on was “Some Mapping Specifications in the Mining Region of Krasta” which was first introduced in […]

Stepping into Open Source: One Year on iD

At this time last year Quincy Morgan was working at Esri while independently contributing code to iD, the opensource JavaScript editor for OpenStreetMap. A few months later he accepted a full-time position working on the project. In this talk Quincy will present insights from his first year with iD: the process of transitioning from a volunteer to a paid maintainer, the unique challenges of opensource development, strategies for having an effective voice in the community, and the joy of working on your passion.

25

Main Room

Quincy Morgan

Quincy co-maintains the iD Editor for OpenStreetMap. After earning a degree in Geography, releasing his own Swift apps, and working briefly at Esri, he was lucky enough to turn his iD contributions into a full-time paid position in open source. He’s currently traveling while working on UI enhancements for iD aimed at making mapping even […]

Earthquakes and OpenStreetMap

Earthquakes are threatening a large number of regions worldwide with an increasing risk due to urbanization and industrialization. For resilience and mitigation measures it is necessary to understand this risk to society and their assets. We present the main pillars of earthquake hazard models describing the physical shaking of earthquakes and the OpenStreetMap-based exposure model translating the local shaking into probabilistic loss and risk assessments expressed as effects on buildings and people.

25

Main Room

Danijel Schorlemmer

Danijel Schorlemmer is a seismologist working at the German Research Centre for Geosciences. His main research interests are the statistics of earthquakes and earthquake hazard and risk. In the framework of several EU-funded research projects, he is working on classifying every building in Europe in terms of its earthquake vulnerability, reconstruction value, and the number […]

Dinner

20:30

Mess Hall