<p><a href="https://2023.geocamp.es/">Geocamp ES</a> is a non-profit, free-to-attend, and self-financed national event. Organized by the international collective&nbsp;<a href="https://geoinquietos.org/">Geoinquietos</a>, it brings together communities made up of informal groups that meet to talk and learn about earth sciences, open geodata services, free software, and GIS applications, mainly around the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/">OSGeo</a> community (Geospatial Spanish-speaking communities). This year, the conference celebrates its 8th edition and 10 years since the first one in 2013.</p><p>The GeoCamp is an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference">Open Space/Unconference</a>: all participants take an active role in the execution of the event. This organizational format increases one-on-one interaction between attendees (rather than the traditional conference model of one-to-many communication).</p><p>The entire event is divided into several themes discussed in so-called Open Spaces. Here is a quick summary of the discussed topics, sorted thematically how they were discussed in each Open Space:</p><h2>Open Space 1: OSM (OpenStreetMap), Women Street names (Las calles de las Mujeres), participatory Geoportals</h2><p>The initial discussion centered around the project&nbsp;<a href="https://geochicasosm.github.io/lascallesdelasmujeres/">Las calles de las mujeres</a>, with&nbsp;<a href="https://geochicas.org/">GeochicasOSM</a> providing an overview of the project's current status, along with the technical and organizational challenges it faces.</p><p>Their project&nbsp;<a href="https://geochicasosm.github.io/lascallesdelasmujeres/">Las calles de las mujeres</a> is an example of effective communication and building relationships with external collaborators. The project combines&nbsp;<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> data to create a map that visually highlights the historical underrepresentation of women in society.</p><p>During the discussion, a similar project,&nbsp;<a href="http://mappingdiversity.eu/about/">mappingdiversity.eu</a>, was mentioned. It shares a common objective but takes a more contemporary approach by utilizing Wikidata for categorizing women's profiles.</p><h2>Open Space 2: JS and Web GL</h2><p>Currently, map libraries suffer from limitations in doing certain things (or at least doing them in an easy and intuitive way). These libraries need to evolve if they don’t want to be replaced. Will the new star be&nbsp;<a href="https://gitlab.com/IvanSanchez/gleo">GLeo</a>?</p><p>The demand for client-side raster manipulation is rising, with several existing solutions such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.maptiler.com/weather/">MapTiler Weather</a>, GLeo, Mapbox, or Felt.</p><p>For newbies in web map development, it is difficult to select the right JavaScript mapping library: there is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.maptiler.com/sdk-javascript/">MapTiler SDK</a>, MapLibre, Leaflet, OpenLayers, and more.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="btn btn-primary m-o5" href="https://docs.maptiler.com/sdk-js/">GET STARTED WITH MAPTILER SDK JS</a></p><h2>Open Space 3: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and maps</h2><p>The state of AI in geotechnology can be described in general as “experimental”. Better training of “the beast” is necessary to improve the results’ accuracy. There is still a long way to go to generate complex, quality maps with AI.</p><p>However, interesting projects are already underway: for example, extracting geographic data from a narrative and creating a corresponding map.</p><p>At the moment, artificial intelligence is extensively used for data processing, particularly in tasks such as shape and color recognition through pre-training. We can expect the development of specialized AI models designed for specific industries or domains in the future.</p><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/geocamp_es_conference_topics_schedule_3294c9a4d5.webp" alt="Grid of the most voted topics of the conference on post-it"></p><h2>Lunch and island trip</h2><p>During the event, we enjoyed spectacular food in huge quantities and in a luxury space. We even had a cortador de jamón (a ham cutting specialist) and a pulpeiro (a specialist octopus chef).</p><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/geocamp_es_conference_octopus_tapa_3895b97e84.webp" alt="Octopus dish, one of the various tapas served during the conference."></p><p>The visit to the island was very well conducted by a professional guide who must be thanked for his explanations and patience. We visited the entire island and the local museum, where we learned about the island’s history.</p><h2>Plenary talk by Carmen Torrecillas</h2><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/geocamp_es_conference_civio_plenary_talk_7abbeb865d.webp" alt="geocamp-es-conference-civio-plenary-talk.webp"></p><p>Once again,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-torrecillas/">Carmen</a>, an outsider, breaks our minds and shows us how to make incredible maps and visualizations. It is perfect for a plenary session at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jornadassiglibre.org/">Girona Free SIG Conference</a> or any other event.</p><p><a href="https://civio.es/">Civio</a> is doing a great job of transparency and surveillance of public powers. So don't hesitate and help them keep changing the rules.&nbsp;<a href="https://civio.es/socios/">Join Civio</a>!</p><h2>Open Space 5: Communities</h2><p>There was a shared concern as there would be nobody to take our place. We are failing to engage with the younger generations. Where do they move? Don't we know how to motivate them? If anyone has any clues, please let me know.</p><p>We also analyzed our shortcomings: there was no geo event since the pandemic (until this Geocamp), or it has not been very fruitful, we are not in contact with the universities, etc.</p><p>The experience in Barcelona with Geoinquiets and Geomob is that there are neither young people nor women. The attendee profile has evolved over time, now including more 'geomatics' outsiders who consume geospatial data and perform geospatial operations. However, the majority of them do not repeat attendance.</p><p>The QGIS Spain Association also demands a generational change that is necessary for the community and the projects to continue. Maintaining communities, associations, foundations, and organizations that generally support the development of free tools is essential for their existence.</p><p>The channels we use for sharing information about events are not the channels consumed by the people we are targeting. But what are the platforms where we can talk to them?</p><h2>Open Space 6: OGC and Blockchain Standards</h2><p>The discussion revolved around the significance of setting OGC standards to ensure uniform development in maps and cartographic tools. It was also discussed that the long discussions before reaching consensus causes delays in implementation.&nbsp;</p><p>The standard voting process has been corrected to prevent any private company from being able to manipulate it to obtain a majority of votes and make unilateral decisions.</p><h2>Snacks and breaks</h2><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/geocamp_es_conference_lunch_break_0797997823.webp" alt="GeoCamp ES attendees talking during lunch break"></p><p>The best things at conferences often happen outside of the main talks (pre-event, during breaks, and post-event).</p><p>Breaks are the best time for strengthening existing relationships and making new friends. People talk about various topics like manipulating a pixel on the GPU, monitoring cetaceans, cooperatives, Joomla (yes, it's still alive), but also non-GIS things like mountaineering, etc.</p><p>Having enough space and time between session to eat, drink, chat, and laugh is what makes this event really engaging.</p><h2>Conclusion: amazing event and what comes next</h2><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/geocamp_es_conference_conclusions_9f291703e2.webp" alt="Event organization team returning by boat from the island at the end of the event."></p><p>The Open Space format worked very well! Having people divided into even smaller groups might be even better for bigger participation, however, it worked pretty well even in groups of 20 people.&nbsp;</p><p>We really benefitted from pre-planning a series of topics to be discussed in the ‘open spaces’. Sending out forms to the attendees before the conference meant that we spent more time discussing them.&nbsp;</p><p>Well, that's Geocamp ES: create community, learn new things, and take home a hangover of knowledge and ideas. It was very gratifying to meet old friends and new people who did not know what Geocamp was and who found themselves with a truly amazing experience. They have been able to share knowledge in a participatory and relaxed environment, which really helps connect experienced people with beginners.</p><p>Once again, thanks to the organization. It's going to be hard to beat.</p><p>Where and when is the next one? There are already some proposals (Pamplona, A Coruña, ...), but we need to wait until next year to enjoy a meeting as special as this one.</p>

GeoCamp ES is a non-profit, free-to-attend, and self-financed national conference of the international collective Geoinquietos. To talk and learn about earth sciences, open geodata services, free software, and GIS applications, especially around the OSGeo community.

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<p>The annual State of the Map conference organized by the OpenStreetMap community is the biggest mapping conference in the world! The event lets individuals, communities, and companies gather to discuss current issues and future plans, or to meet and make new friends.</p><p>MapTiler regularly participates in this event because it is one of the biggest consumers of the open data produced by the community. It is also present as a contributor to many open-source projects, mainly the free vector tiles generating toolset OpenMapTiles.</p><h2>Focus on open data and software</h2><p>Throughout the entire conference, many topics were touched on to improve the current situation. There were various points of view and issues; some talks were purely technical, and others were about the community around the project. However, the goal was the same: a strong drive to improve global open map data.</p><p>Our talk was about the new open map style. It was developed as the default style for the OpenMapTiles project and was heavily inspired by the OSM Carto style but re-done for vector tiles using the OpenMapTiles schema. See the entire talk below.</p><figure class="media"><div data-oembed-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxNHFUmNEs"><div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9uxNHFUmNEs" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div></figure><p>If you want to use the OSM OpenMapTiles style, you can read more about it or start using it with the free account on MapTiler Cloud.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="btn btn-primary m-o5" href="/maps/openstreetmap/">Read more</a> <a class="btn btn-lighter m-o5" href="https://cloud.maptiler.com/maps/openstreetmap/">Start using for free</a></p><p><img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg" alt="2022-08-22-sotm-2.jpg" srcset="https://media.maptiler.com/img/xsmall_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 125w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/thumbnail_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 245w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/small_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 450w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/medium_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 750w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/large_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 1000w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/xlarge_2022_08_22_sotm_2_7f42fe0f2e.jpg 1250w," sizes="100vw" width="1250px"></p><p><br>&nbsp;</p>

MapTiler visited one of the biggest mapping conferences in the world, State of the Map 2022. Our talk focused on a new open map style that is becoming part of the open-source OpenMapTiles project.

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<p>OpenStreetMap’s familiar styling is now available for developers to adapt and use with vector basemaps.</p><h2>OpenStreetMap made with Vector Tiles</h2><p>Get the cartography users recognize with all the benefits of vector tiles:</p><ul><li>Rotate, tilt and zoom your maps while keeping pin-sharp vector graphics.&nbsp;</li><li>Edit colors and content quickly and easily.</li><li>Regularly updated maps with all the features on display.</li></ul><figure class="media"><div data-oembed-url="https://player.vimeo.com/video/705690272?h=628ee33c44&amp;autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;background=1"><div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/705690272?background=1" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div></figure><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="btn btn-primary m-o5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cloud.maptiler.com/maps/openstreetmap/">GET STARTED</a></p><h2>OSM Carto: OpenStreetMap’s familiar style</h2><p>Show all the features in OpenStreetMap with a style that doesn’t leave anything out! Initially designed by and for the mapping community, the OSM Carto style gives a complete view of what OpenStreetMap contains, from country boundaries down to the local coffee shop.</p><p>We are excited to introduce this style made for vector tiles, with a crisp display at every scale and faster performance. Colors, icons, and patterns are consistent across zoom levels, enhancing the user experience.<img src="https://media.maptiler.com/img/2022_05_05_openstreetmap_vector_basemaps_2_e4d3f2fcdb.jpg" alt="2022-05-05-openstreetmap-vector-basemaps-2.jpg" srcset="https://media.maptiler.com/img/thumbnail_2022_05_05_openstreetmap_vector_basemaps_2_e4d3f2fcdb.jpg 245w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/small_2022_05_05_openstreetmap_vector_basemaps_2_e4d3f2fcdb.jpg 500w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/medium_2022_05_05_openstreetmap_vector_basemaps_2_e4d3f2fcdb.jpg 750w,https://media.maptiler.com/img/large_2022_05_05_openstreetmap_vector_basemaps_2_e4d3f2fcdb.jpg 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="1000px">Using the map in your project is straightforward, find it in your <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cloud.maptiler.com/maps/openstreetmap/">MapTiler Cloud account</a>. Customizing the style can be done in the Advanced Editor; with a few clicks, you have control over the content of your map.</p><h2>OpenSource Cartography</h2><p>The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://openmaptiles.org/">OpenMapTiles</a> project from MapTiler will also benefit from the OSM vector style. We plan to include it with the upcoming OpenMapTiles release to the community as the reference style that demonstrates all the content available in vector tiles; stay tuned!</p>

OpenStreetMap’s familiar styling is now available for developers to adapt and use with vector basemaps.

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Open-source maps made for self-hosting. Free OpenStreetMap vector tiles for everybody.

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JavaScript library for displaying vector maps using WebGL.

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Petra Duriancikova: Cartographic design for vector tiles: Best practices and open-source recipes for beautiful maps

Vector & raster basemaps in QGIS from MapTiler Cloud. Add customized OpenStreetMap, terrain, and satellite layers with a few clicks..

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Tomas Pohanka: OpenMapTiles - vector tiles from OpenStreetMap & Natural Earth Data

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