1. State of Germany State of the Map Conference Limerick, 12/13 July 2008

2. Krautsourcing Geodata or: What are the Germans doing? Jochen Topf

5. Community ● talk-de - 9500 Postings in 2008 (talk only 6300) ● More than a dozen local mailing lists ● Several web forums ● German IRC Channel #osm-de ● 13 local groups (most with monthly meetings) ● 3 mapping parties in 2008 so far

6. Berlin Dresden Nürnberg/ Fürth/ Erlangen Osnabrück Mittel-hessen Aschaffen- burg Karlsruhe Hannover Hamburg Braunschweig Murrhardt Würzburg München

7. Berlin start of 2007

11. Over 14 000 flyers distributed...

12. Events ● 24C3, Berlin (talk) ● Chemnitzer Linuxtage (talk, booth) ● Linux Infotag Augsburg (talk, booth) ● FOSSGIS, Freiburg (3 talks, booth, workshop) ● OpenSourceExpo, Karlsruhe (booth) ● LinuxTag, Berlin (talk, booth) ● Several local events...

14. Printed Map of Freiburg for FOSSGIS

20. OSM Summer Mapping 2008 wettbewerb.openstreetmap.de Photos from Wikipedia

21. Import of municipal data

22. Full addresses with house numbers „Karlsruhe model“

25. Heise News (online) SPIEGEL (online) SPIEGEL (print) RTL (TV)

27. OSM in the German press ● WDR (online/local public TV) ● Heise News (online) ● DER SPIEGEL (print/online) ● Bild.de (online) ● DIE WELT (print/online) ● heute.de (online) ● RTL (private TV) ● Many more...

28. there are lies, damned lies, and statistics

29. German Community ● 45 000 Accounts in OSM database ● 14 000 unique user names in planet file ● 5 000 with at least one change in Germany ● 3 000 in the last month (world=6 000) ● 800 with more then 100 changes

30. Official statistics from German Federal Statistics Office (Statistisches Bundesamt), Date: 2007-01-01, OSM data from July 2007. Motorway Trunk Primary Secondary Tertiary Autobahnen Bundesstraßen Landesstraßen Kreisstraßen

31. Road km (OSM / Total)

32. More statistics... All data for Germany only. Total: Official statistics from German Federal Statistics Office (Statistisches Bundesamt), Date: 2007-01-01. OSM data from July 2007. Total number of named streets from phone book CD.

33. So why are the Germans so industrious? ● Maybe it only seems that way, because there are more of us? ● Maybe because there is a large preexisting base of Open Source people? ● Maybe more people can afford GPS units? ● Maybe we are getting up earlier? ● Or....

34. Train tomorrow Limerick 9:55 -> Dublin 12:25 Seats C1-C4

35. Jochen Topf THE END Maps are Copyright 2008 OpenStreetMap Contributors and available under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licemnse (CC-BY-SA)