fAIr makes humanitarian mapping faster and amplifies the work mappers do (not replacing human involvement). Kshitij Raj Sharma and Emmanuel Jolaiya told #sotmeu25 all about the tool and the features added in the last year.
Is this good for #OpenStreetMap and #MissingMaps? Have you used it?
The recording can be watched here
https://2025.stateofthemap.eu/session.html#EZ8RJ3
When there was a sudden empty slot in our #sotmeu25 schedule, Topi Tjukanov stepped forward and talked about the #30DayMapChallenge that happens each November.
That's our final #sotmeu25 newsletter sent out: https://mailchi.mp/1977d023d10f/sotm-europe-call-for-proposals-12934117
There's links to conference photos & recordings for the sessions. We'll still post here for a bit, and repost/boost highlights from the community. What session recordings have you been enjoying, and how far have those stickers travelled? Let us know!
Here's my blog post (report) about #sotmeu25 which happened last November.
https://www.livingwithdragons.com/2026/01/sotm-europe-2025-my-review
Finally got around to watch the great #SotMEU25 talk by @Firefishy about how hard it can be to do @osm_tech work. Thanks to scrapers and people using expensive OSM API calls to check if their own software is online.
The stupid things OpenStreetMap ops team have to deal with:
"Some lovely company thought the best way to check if this app is online is to do a very expensive query against OpenStreetMap... every 3 seconds... with hundreds of instances of this app" https://youtu.be/qhie14YKa-w?si=9_jsShC_IeJQFKWP&t=565
Great SOTMEU talk by @Firefishy
We have begun posting recordings of the sessions to our YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHUya1h6lmI67iQ91YieDJNnIW2HUG844
Other recordings are still being edited by the production company, so subscribe if you want to now when other videos are out.
Post a link to your favourite #sotmeu25 video or the session you delivered - sorry we can't post them all ourselves. There's loads of great #OpenStreetMap topics in the sessions.
We havent had a London pub meet-up in a while. I probably couldve organised something, but got waylaid by Dundee, and preparing a talk for Dundee, and recovering from all the excitement of Dundee. But of course we need to squeeze a pub meet-up before Christmas
The conference is more than just the talks. We had a videographer try to capture some of the atmosphere and extra #OpenStreetMap interactions. If you didn't go to #sotmeu25 here's a very brief taste of what you missed.
State of the Map Europe 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtzPxR63NY
State of the Map Europe
Gregory Marler
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Harry Wood