This document contains summaries of various presentations at the State of the Map conference in 2008. Presentations discussed using crowdsourced map data, comparing OpenStreetMap to other mapping projects, the state of mapping in different regions like Italy and India, and tools for editing and rendering map data like OpenRouteService and Marble virtual globe. Legal and organizational issues were also covered, like the formation of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and Google's MapMaker program.

1. State of the Map Review

2. Robert Barr The Megagalactic Super Visible Streetsign Company

3. Steve Chilton So I have all this data http://www.slideshare.net/steve8/so-i-have-all-this-data-515251

4. John McKerrell Using Crowdsourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API

5. Simone Cortesi The State of Italy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ

6. Dair Grant Open Street Map vs the World http://www.slideshare.net/dair/openstreetmap-vs-the-world

7. Peter Miller (ITO) All Present and Correct http://www.itoworld.com/

8. Shaun McDonald London Mapping Marathon http://www.slideshare.net/smsm1986/london-mapping-marathon-lightening-talk-at-sotm2008

9. BojanSobocan (AND) Only remaining independent mapping data supplier, apart from OSM Donated data to OSM in 2007 to get an idea of how a mapping community works. Launched Map 2.0 to try to build their own community

10. JaniPatokallio - Wikitravel Launched in 2003, travel guides as wiki Printed on-demand from current data In 2003 OSM didn’t exist – first map was Montreal, just a bunch of gray lines Now using OSM maps. Custom rendering, wikitravelPOIs are entered into OSM and matched by names.

11. JaniPatokallio - Wikitravel Montreal

12. JaniPatokallio - Wikitravel Helsinki

13. Alexander Zipf OpenRouteService.org

14. Mike Collinson – OSM Foundation Open Street Map does not exist Not a formal entity No-one to give money or call (except Steve Coast) Open Street Map Foundation exists Manages data license Organises SOTM Funding operations, admin stuff Does not control OSM

15. Steve Coast - Keynote SOTM Comments – Organisation& Sponsors OSM is growing [image] US coverage “100%” but buggy due to Tiger Edit wars – Northern Cyprus API 0.6 – More versioning support New license almost ready Cloudmade – APIs, Custom tiles, Isle of Man

16. Ed Parsons (Google) - MapMaker Google (like Multimap) gets data from many providers. MapMaker was created to allow them to collect data where data was not available. All aerial imagery is licensed, not owned, derivation rights can’t be shared with OSM. Restrictive License – Future proofing

17. TorstenRahn Marble A Free Software Virtual Globe [demo]

18. MikelMaron Freemap India 2008 http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron/freemapindia-2008-part-1 http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron/freemapindia-2008-part-2