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The Call for Papers for the FOSSGIS 2019 Conference, which is taking place in Dresden from 13.03.2019 to 16.03.2019, has been extended to 13.11.2018.

So anyone who needs a few more days to write their paper now has them.

The organisers have come up with something special for the next Vienna GeoMeetup on Thursday 15 November 2019: Professor Herbert Edelsbrunner, a leading scientist in the field of computational geometry, will be a guest.

This is the link to the event with further details - please note that due to the venue at the TU Vienna, there is a limited number of participants!

December is approaching and the Christmas map needs correct data! The Xmas map shows Christmas markets, Christmas trees, Christmas tree sales points and other Christmas events with local references.

The data itself all comes from the OpenStreetMap database and can be entered there with the tags described on the XMAS-Map wiki page.

An OSM-related geospatial event has been set up in Salzburg: Maptime Salzburg will be holding its first meeting on 13 November 2018! The following is the original text from the mailing list announcement:

Hello everyone, Last month we founded the ‘Maptime Salzburg’ meetup. This monthly meeting is intended to offer anyone interested in geospatial topics the opportunity to exchange ideas on topics such as geoinformatics, remote sensing, geodata or programming. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 7 p.m. at Trumerei in Salzburg. As an additional activity, we want to map together for an hour at 6 p.m. The idea is to use the StreetComplete app to introduce beginners to OSM. Information about our past and future meetings can be found on our website: http://maptime.io/salzburg/ We also have an open mailing list for exchanging ideas: https://lists.fossgis.de/mailman/listinfo/maptime-salzburg

On 9 November 2018, the OpenMinds Award will be presented at the Palais Wertheim. This award honours special open-source projects in the areas of:

• Open Source Software

• Open Hardware

• Open Data

• Open Talent

• Open CMS

The Open Source Ball 2018 will follow.

More details about both events can be found at https://www.openminds.at.

(the short link to the OSM mailing list in forum style: https://www.openstreetmap.at/talk )

The oldest form of communication in OpenStreetMap is the mailing list. Put simply, mailing lists are email distribution lists that forward an email they receive to all others who have also subscribed to the mailing list. This means that everyone on the mailing list receives all emails addressed to that mailing list. This allows discussions to be held and each subscriber to the mailing list receives all messages as emails and can store them personally if desired.

On Wednesday, 17 October 2018, OpenStreetMap enthusiasts will meet again at Wieden Bräu in Vienna! A table has been reserved at Wieden Bräu, Waaggasse 5, from 18:30 under OpenStreetMap.

More information and (optional) registration of attendance at: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wien/Stammtisch

Topics that are currently on the wish list for the regulars’ table are:

• ViennaGeoMeetup
• OSM-AT merchandise order
• OSM-AT server VM for member use

This year marks the third anniversary of the OSM Awards, which honour particularly dedicated mappers and activists. Voting will continue until 26 July and the awards will be presented at the StateOfTheMap 2018 conference in Milan.

Every mapper can already vote at http://awards.osmz.ru!

Michael Reichert writes about this in his email on the talk-at mailing list:

Hello,

this year marks the third edition of the OSM Awards, which will be presented at State of the Map in Milan. The final round of voting began on 1 July and will continue until Friday, 26 July. Please take part and vote! Every mapper is entitled to vote. You can register and then cast your vote at http://awards.osmz.ru/. You can vote for as many candidates as you like in each category, but only for one candidate in each category (no cumulating). The candidate who has collected the most votes wins in each category. You can change your vote until the end of the voting process.

This was the third day!

The big rush is over, but we were still able to advise some visitors on OpenStreetMap and FOSSGIS. It was interesting to hear about all the places where open-source GIS software is already in use, without the respective organisations making a big deal about it. ;-)

[caption id=“attachment_608” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] Interesting talks with visitors[/caption]

At around noon, most of the other exhibitors were already starting to pack up their exhibition stands. We needed a little longer because there were still questions from visitors.

It won’t be long now before AGIT opens its doors!

We have something new planned for this year: I (ScubbX) will be taking my projector, which I bought second hand and which has been sitting in my cupboard unused ever since, to AGIT and putting it to use. After the accident with my TV last year, I’ve become a bit more cautious about bringing equipment into the house…

[caption id=“attachment_555” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] The self-designed screen mounting system[/caption]