State of the Map Europe 2025

Jochen Topf

Jochen Topf has been active in the OpenStreetMap community for many years as mapper, software developer and community organizer. He is the maintainer of the Osmium framework, created the taginfo site, an active osm2pgsql developer and has his fingers in many other OSM-related software. In his professional live he works as a software developer and consultant in the OSM and GIS world. Since November 2023 he works part-time for the FOSSGIS e.V., the local chapter for Germany of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.


Sessions

11-14
14:00
30min
What's happening in Germany?
Jochen Topf

The mappers in Germany are busy as ever mapping every trail in the forest, every train signal, and the occasional collapsed bridge. But there is more going on.

Community and Vision
Way
11-15
16:00
30min
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jochen Topf

The OpenStreetMap community has assembled an enourmous database of our world. There are lots of more or less specialized maps out there, each showing some of the data. But there is no map that shows all of the data. How can we discover what is not shown by any map?

Cartography & Outputs
Area