I plan to participate in State of the Map 2026 next week.

So, in preparation for it, I read the programme page on the SOTM 2026 website and manually picked out all the topics that I’m interested in.

I plan to use the list below as a guide to help me navigate the programme and decide which events I should attend.

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Friday, Aug 28 :
* 14.30 : Guadeloupe - Opening - SotM Working Group
* 14.50 : Guadeloupe - State of Panoramax (Christian Quest, Adrien Pavie)
* 16.15 : Martinique - Sneaking in OSM data into a big old company (Céline DURUPT, Tristram Gräbener)
* 16.50 : Guadeloupe - Perspectives on editors  (Pieter Vander Vennet) | La Réunion -  The democratic stakes of mapmaking: a cross-community panel (Matthieu Chatry)
* 17.25 : Guadeloupe - Update on attribution enforcement for users of OpenStreetMap servers (Mateusz Konieczny)
* 19.30 : Guadeloupe - Emergency Services using OpenStreetMap in Germany (dadavid)
* 20.05 : Martinique - Publishing 14,000 Businesses to OpenStreetMap: How Community Feedback Reshaped Our Publisher (🇫🇷) (Digitaleo)
* 20.40 : Guadeloupe - Do maps have a future in OpenStreetMap? (Christoph Hormann) | La Réunion - OSMPID: A Persistent ID Specification and an Object Identity Service (Stefan Keller)
* 21.45 : Guadeloupe - Client-Side Transport Maps on OpenStreetMap.org (Andy Allan)  | La Réunion - Mapterhorn Terrain and Imagery (Oliver Wipfli)
* 22.20 : Guadeloupe - Sourdough and Layercake: removing technical barriers to using OSM data for cartography and analysis (Jake Low) | Martinique - Lightning Talks I (SotM Working Group)
* 22.55 : Guadeloupe - MapLibre - from data to rendering, in one status update (Yuri Astrakhan, Frank Elsinga) | La Réunion - State of OpenHistoricalMap: mapping the world's history, openly (Ruben Lopez Mendoza, Minh Nguyễn)

Saturday, Aug 29
* 14.30 : Martinique - OSM Science 2026: Introduction (Yair Grinberger)
* 16.15 : Corse - Centipede-RTK with RTKBase and Millipede: centimeter-level GNSS positioning (Pierre Beyssac)
* 16.50 : Martinique - Reconstructing A High-detailed Lane-Level Road Network Model from OpenStreetMap: A Connectivity-Driven Approach (Chengzhi Rao) | Corse - How OSM inspire CEN standards for cycling infrastructure (Tu-Tho Thai)
* 17.25 : Corse - Making a living on OSM by nurturing the commons : inside the French Federation of OSM professionals (Marina Petkova, Florian Lainez)
* 19.30 : Guadeloupe - Construction ahead (Minh Nguyễn, Pablo Brasero, Ruben Lopez Mendoza) | La Réunion - Why do you contribute to OSM? (Michael Montani) | Corse - Lightning Talks II | 
* 20.05 : Guadeloupe - Upgrading the OSM Front Page (Frank Elsinga) | Martinique - Inter-Faceing the Critique – A Socio-technical Perspective on Humanitarian Mapping with the HOT TM (Charlotte Liebel)
* 20.40 :  Guadeloupe - Running OpenStreetMap.org in the Age of AI (Grant Slater) | Corse - When Maps Mislead: Lessons from Outdoor Navigation with OpenStreetMap (Jakub Zmrzlik)
* 21.45 : Guadeloupe - Clearance: Quality Proxy for OSM Replication. The Roadmap up to v1.0  (Frédéric Rodrigo) | Corse - How OpenStreetMap became the backbone of France's National Cycling Database (Samuel Deschamps-Berger)
* 22.20 : Guadeloupe - Adopt Your Town (Giacomo Alessandroni) | Martinique - Consumed at Scale: AI-Driven Extraction and the Political Economy of OpenStreetMap (Hannah Boettcher) | Corse - Lightning Talks III 
* 22.55 : Guadeloupe - The Power of quality in OpenStreetMap (François Lacombe, Marina Petkova, Tobias Augspurger) | La Réunion - Search and find what you are looking for (Sarah Hoffmann) | Corse - A new stack for OpenStreetMap vector tiles (Matt White)

Sunday, Aug 30
* 14.30 : Guadeloupe - Panoramax Netherlands (Bas Bussink) | La Réunion - Where are my ways? (Michael Reichert) | Martinique - Corporate Editing and Collective Intelligence in OpenStreetMap: A Long-Term Analysis of Southeast Asian Case Studies (Yair Grinberger)
* 15.05 : Guadeloupe - 50 States (and at Least as Many Mappers): Community Building in the US Over the Last Decade (Alyssa Castronuovo, Maggie Cawley)
* 16.15 : La Réunion - Lightning Talks IV 
* 16.50 : Guadeloupe - Making world spinning faster - How we sped up Valhalla graph creation in 3 times (Stefan Kizim) | La Réunion - UN Mappers: Building Local Capacities and Communities to Support Peace with OpenStreetMap (Laura Mugeha, Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro)
* 17.30 : Martinique - OSM contribution analysis in war time (Amine Chebil, Raphaël Bres, Malek Rihani)
* 17.35 : Guadeloupe - Handling Temporary Closures in OpenStreetMap (Matteo) | La Réunion - Milan to Paris via Dundee: ohsome 2.0 has arrived! (Benjamin Herfort) | Martinique - Revealing past railway networks from OSM data (Robert Jeansoulin, Philippe Gambette)
* 19.30 : Guadeloupe - OSMF Board AMA (Laura Mugeha, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz) | Martinique - Making maps with Ultra (Daniel Schep)
* 20.05 : La Réunion - 1000 ways to kill OpenStreetMap in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa (Enock Seth Nyamador) | Martinique - Lightning Talks V
* 20.40 : Guadeloupe - Wonders of OSM (CapitaineMoustache)  | La Réunion - OSMSG : OpenStreetMap User Group Hashtag Stats (Kshitij Raj Sharma, Gaurav Baral, Niruta Neupane)
* 21.45 : Guadeloupe - Closing

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