Programme

State of the Map 2025 will take place from October 3 - 5, 2025 in Manila. We have created an exciting programme with you—the OpenStreetMap community. For the duration of the conference, we have rooms set aside for breakout sessions that can be booked by groups of mutual interest, or used without prior planning.

The programme below is still in a preliminary state: talks might still be shifted around by the programme committee and some remaining talks as well as the details of the academic track will be added soon.

Friday – October 3

Time (local)	Auditorium	Talks I	Workshops
09:30	Opening SotM Working Group
10:00	HOT 15-year Anniversary Geoffrey Kateregga
10:30	Coffee Break
11:30		Thinking Beyond the Map Ivan Harris Tanyag	ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS Benjamin Herfort, Julian Psotta
12:00		Awesome (OSM) Games Ben Hur Pintor
12:30		Walking Milano: Unveiling the City’s Character Through 360° Street-Level Panorama Imagery. Taichi Furuhashi
13:00	Coffee Break
14:30		Keeping alive OSMTracker Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro, Diego Munguía Molina	Getting Started with QGIS: A Beginner's Guide to Mapping with Open-Source Tools Mohamed Haniffa Fathima Hasna
15:00		Mapping workflows in iD for new, intermediate and advanced mappers Martin Raifer
16:00	Lunch Break
16:30		Addressing Participation Gaps in Nepal’s OSM Ecosystem: Strategies for Long-Term Community Retention Dibikshya Shrestha	From Drones to Data: workshop on high precision imagery, AI powered mapping and field validation Ramya Ragupathy, Honey Fombuena
17:00		Journey to the Center of the Planet Minh Nguyễn
17:30		Where are we heading? The current state of OpenStreetMap in numbers. Benjamin Herfort

Saturday – October 4

Time (local)	Talks I	Talks II	Workshops	Online Workshops
09:30	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case Dennis Raylin Chen	Lessons from teaching OpenStreetMap in a masters program Paul Pickell	From Maps to Models: Building AI Context Tools for OpenStreetMap Subhash Dulla
10:00	The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons Micheal Kaluba	Integrating OpenStreetMap & HOT Tasking Manager into Cartography Curriculum Samson Ngumenawe
10:30	Lightning Talks I SotM Working Group	OpenStreetMap in Higher Education: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Md Atikuzzaman Limon
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Why settle? Make Every Door do what you want Ilya Zverev	Community-Driven Data: How Local Knowledge is Reshaping Urban Waste Systems Emanuel Kombe
12:00	fAIrSwipe Omran NAJJAR	Translating “Open Mapping Towards SDGs”: A YouthMappers Student Project from Furuhashi Lab, Japan Aki Sato
12:30	World-Map-Explorer – Explore the world with ease Manoj Karingamadathil	Making OpenStreetMap More Accessible for New Mappers Brazil Singh
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	It’s complicated Minh Nguyễn	Mapping for Impact: Introducing Open Mapping to Civil Society in Sri Lanka Mohamed Haniffa Fathima Hasna	Beyond the Binary: Gender, Language, and Representation in Open Mapping Benedicta Ohene, Arnalie Vicario, Letwin	Introduction to JOSM and some plugins Michael Montani
15:00	Why and how to visualize OSM data using pmtiles Daniele Santini	Mapping My Way Forward: How OSM and YouthMappers Launched My Career in Geospatial Tech. KASOZI DENIS
15:20		Navigating the World Through OpenStreetMap: The Story of Bayazid Ahmed Bayazid Ahmed
15:30	Lightning Talks II SotM Working Group
15:40		Women Who Map: My Mission to Build Inclusive Mapping Communities in Nepal Prativa Thapa
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Modeling improvements for access to services and economic opportunities for disabled people in Freetown’s informal settlements Osunga Michael Otieno	Local First in a Diverse Democracy: India’s Decentralized Path to Hosting the First Regional SotM ark Arjun	Managing Remote Mapping Projects in the HOT Tasking Manager Dinar Adiatma
17:00	How to Complete Japan’s Building Mapping in One Year? Strategies for Integrating PLATEAU Data into OSM Taichi Furuhashi	SotM LATAM: How different from the global SotM it is? Juan Arellano Valdivia, Catalina Restrepo Martínez
17:30	OSM Swiss Style and the new OSM Swiss Base Map Stefan Keller	Resilience Starts with a Map: Community-Led OSM Action in Dhaka’s Climate-Vulnerable Settlements Faiza Waziha

Sunday – October 5

Time (local)	Auditorium	Talks I	Talks II	Workshops
09:30		Address and street name grids in the Philippines Dan Jacobson	City-Scale Open Community Drone Mapping - A World First in Sierra Leone? Tommy Charles	From Sprawl to Strategy, Leveraging OpenStreetMap for Smarter Urban Growth Analysis a case of Dodoma City Johanes Petro Machela
10:00		UN Mappers: Building a Community of Mappers to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap Arnalie Vicario, Michael Montani	The Role of Crowdsourced Damage Assessment in Disaster Response and Recovery Honey Fombuena, Bernard Heng
10:30		Lightning Talks III SotM Working Group	OSM mapping of building damage - review and prospects after Chido in Mayotte Séverin Ménard
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30		OSM Data for Routing - From Tags to Routing & Mobility Analysis Julian Psotta	From Mappers to Movement Builders: Strengthening Local Leadership through Open Mapping Gurus Mikko Tamura, Honey Fombuena	Steph-outside: Outdoor Mapping under the bright Sky with KartaView and Mapillary Feye Andal
12:00			Mapping Resilience and Empowering Sustainable Development in Sri Lankan Communities through OpenStreetMap Rajendran Keerthana
12:30		What Could You Do with 100 Days of Mapping? Laura Mugeha	Community Participatory Mapping of Water Sanitation and Hygiene Access for Sustainable Urban Planning. Esther Judith
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	OSMF Board AMA Laura Mugeha, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	OpenStreetMap Awards 2025 Ilya Zverev, SotM Working Group
16:30	Closing SotM Working Group