edit: the Maker Faire has been canceled due to the uncertain planning situation for 2020! edit: the Maker Faire has been postponed to October 3-4, 2020!
The Austrian OpenStreetMap Association is promoting the OpenStreetMap project at the Maker Faire Vienna for the second time this year! This will take place on May 16 and 17, 2020 (FR & SA).
We are already looking forward to this exciting fair in the great location of MetaStadt.
edit: the GeoMeetup has been postponed to a later date!
The date has been set: the 7th GeoMeetup Vienna will take place on April 28, 2020! From 6:00 pm, the geospatial community will meet at the Donau City Treff to discuss GIS and geospatial topics.
There will be two short talks, the first by Anita Graser about analyzing movement data with MovingPandas and the second by Stephan Bösch-Plepelits about WikiData.
UPDATE: The BOKU team has informed participants today that the mapathon unfortunately has to be cancelled due to unforeseen difficulties.
BOKU and Médecins Sans Frontières are organising another mapathon on Monday, 16 December 2019, starting at 6 p.m. at TÜWI at BOKU.
At a mapathon, mappers meet and map a task from a HOT project to support people and, above all, the aid organisations working there after disasters. The mappers meet at one location and bring their laptops and mice. The organiser provides electricity, food and drinks.
On 9 December 2019, the next Vienna Geo Meetup will take place at Donau City Treff, Arbeiterstrandbadstraße 128, Vienna!
It starts at 6:00 p.m., and the talks begin at 6:30 p.m.:
// wolfgang jörg reports on the vector product of basemap.at // robert kaiser reports on his visit to the sotm 2019 in Heidelberg // andreas voit reports on the Mapathon of Médecins Sans Frontières and gives an excerpt from the current OSM Weekly Note
On Wednesday 29 October 2019, the 5th Vienna GeoMeetup will take place from 6:00 PM.
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/ViennaGeo/events/265308188/
The Vienna geo-community will meet again at the beautifully situated ‘Donau City Treff’ at ‘Arbeiterstrandbadstraße 128’ in Vienna.
(edit scubbx): The topic this time is Vector Tiles! The following is an excerpt from the programme:
// markus mayr introduces technology and standards // Franz Gusenbauer reports on his practical experiences and // Jürgen Hahn explains the presentation on the web with postgis + tegola as well as with mbtiles + tileserver-gl
On Thursday, 17 October 2019, there will be another OSM meet-up at Wieden Bräu in Vienna! It starts at 6:30 pm. Details can be found on the associated wiki page.
Perhaps there is a report about the Mapathon on the previous Monday in addition to a SotM 2019 review?
BOKU and Doctors Without Borders are organising their second joint mapathon at BOKU on Monday 14 October 2019 from 5 p.m. at TÜWI.
At a mapathon, mappers meet and map a task from a HOT project to support people and, above all, the aid organisations working there after disasters. The mappers meet in one place and bring their laptops and mice. The organiser provides electricity, food and drinks.
If you want to participate, please register at entwicklung@oehboku.at so that the organisers can estimate how many participants to expect.
OSM stand on day 2 – before the crowds of visitors
On day 2 of the Maker Faire Vienna 2019, the stream of visitors did not abate. Numerous visitors came again who wanted to find out more about OpenstreetMap.
Many of them came into contact with the map for the first time, while others already use it regularly in their private or professional lives. Another group of people actively contributes to the map, were happy to see us and thanked us for the map and the opportunities it has given them. Since we don’t maintain the map, we are happy to pass on our thanks to the OSM community! One of the key messages of our information was that OSM is a community project and only works through the work of each individual.
On Thursday, 23 May 2019, 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
As announced in the previous blog post, the OSM.AT association will be represented at the Maker Faire Vienna 2019 with a stand.
The stand was already set up on the Friday before the Maker Faire.
Final touches to the stand
We were given a smaller stand than we are used to at other trade fairs, but with a few adjustments we were able to set up most of the trade fair material. We worked late into the night to get everything ready for the next day.
