Programme

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

Friday – October 3

Time (local)	Apo	Mayon	Pulag	Guiting-guiting	Online Workshops	Kanlaon
09:30	Opening SotM Working Group
10:30	HOT 15-year Anniversary Geoffrey Kateregga
11:00	Coffee Break
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	PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering of OpenStreetMap Points of Interest 🎓 📼 James Williams
12:35			Leveraging OpenStreetMap for hyperlocal geocoding of Twitter data: A spatiotemporal analysis of the 2016 Haifa (Israel) wildfire 🎓 📼 Motti Zohar
12:40			OSMlanduse: A dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 🎓 📼 Michael Schultz
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	Birds of Feather/BoF Apo I	Keeping alive OSMTracker Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro, Diego Munguía Molina	When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Extrinsic Quality Assessment of OSM Using Custom Reference Data 🎓 Daniel Kašík	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	User testing of AI-assisted mapping tool fAIr 🎓 Radim Štampach			Spatial BigQuery
15:30			Intelligent Enough? Evaluating Collective Action in HOT Tasking Manager Mapping Projects 🎓 Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Birds of Feather/BoF Apo II	Lightning Talks I SotM Working Group	EUthMappers - learning by teaching mapping 🎓 📼 Quang Huy NGUYEN	Cebu Mapathon Mikko Tamura, Maria Simeona	ORS-Tools - Beginner-friendly Mobility Analysis with OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice in QGIS Benjamin Herfort, Julian Psotta, Jakob Schnell, Till Frankenbach
16:35			Behaviour-Based Quality Assessment of OpenStreetMap Data in Data Scarce Area Using Unsupervised Machine Learning 🎓 📼 Maruf Ahmed
16:40			Open Mapping for Urban Resilience: A Routing Model to Nearest Safe Spaces in Earthquake-Vulnerable Dhaka 🎓 📼 Ramisa Maliha
16:45			What opinions do LLMs/chatbots have about OpenStreetMap? 🎓 📼 Peter Mooney
17:00		Resilience Starts with a Map: Community-Led OSM Action in Dhaka’s Climate-Vulnerable Settlements 📼 Faiza Waziha	Platinum Sponsor Session: OSM Data for Two-Wheelers and Safety Soh Leng
17:20		Addressing Participation Gaps in Nepal’s OSM Ecosystem: Strategies for Long-Term Community Retention 📼 Dibikshya Shrestha	Platinum Sponsor Session: From Edits to Impact - TomTom’s Journey with OpenStreetMap Communities Kiran Ahire, Hajar ElOuafi
18:00	Welcome Party at GT Toyota Auditorium

Saturday – October 4

Time (local)	Mayon	Pulag	Guiting-guiting	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, Ranjith Raj Vasam
10:00	The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons Micheal Kaluba
10:30	Lightning Talks II SotM Working Group
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	How to Complete Japan’s Building Mapping in One Year? Strategies for Integrating PLATEAU Data into OSM Taichi Furuhashi	Community-Driven Data: How Local Knowledge is Reshaping Urban Waste Systems Emanuel Kombe	Managing Remote Mapping Projects in the HOT Tasking Manager Dinar Adiatma
12:00	fAIrSwipe Omran NAJJAR	~Translation and Mapathons~ Building Open Mapping Education by Students; 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 and Group Photo
14:30	Journey to the Center of the Planet 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	Overpass Turbo goes PostGIS Frederik Ramm	Women Who Map: My Mission to Build Inclusive Mapping Communities in Nepal Prativa Thapa
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Lightning Talks III SotM Working Group	Where are we heading? The current state of OpenStreetMap in numbers. 📼 Benjamin Herfort
16:30	Local First in a Diverse Democracy: India’s Decentralized Path to Hosting the First Regional SotM ark Arjun	OSM Swiss Style and the new OSM Swiss Base Map 📼 Stefan Keller
18:00	Main Socials at Hype Club, Quezon City

Sunday – October 5

Time (local)	Apo	Mayon	Pulag	Guiting-guiting	Kanlaon
09:30		Address and street name grids in the Philippines Dan Jacobson		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 IV SotM Working Group	OSM mapping of building damage - review and prospects after Chido in Mayotte 📼 Séverin Ménard
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30		It’s complicated Minh Nguyễn	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		Why and how to visualize OSM data using pmtiles Daniele Santini	Lightning Talks V SotM Working Group
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		Hot staff & voting members meetup
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	OSMF Board AMA Brazil Singh, Laura Mugeha, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Roland Olbricht, Craig Allan
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	OpenStreetMap Awards 2025 Ilya Zverev, SotM Working Group
16:30	Closing SotM Working Group

Self organized sessions

Besides the main programme of SotM we offer space for self-organized sessions for discussions about topics that well placed in smaller rounds. The only requirement that we have to your topic is that it has to be related to OpenStreetMap. For on-site self-organized sessions, we will set up a white board at the conference venue to reserve a 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 conference's Code of Conduct.

If you're attending State of the Map 2025 online and would like to organize a session? You can sign up your self-organized session via the wiki! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2025/self-organized_sessions