[OSM-Science] OSM Science 2025 - Call for Abstracts

Tue Apr 1 20:07:21 UTC 2025

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the 2025 of OSM Science (i.e. the Academic
Track at State of the Map) will be held as part of the State of the Map
2025 conference [1], taking place on October 3-5 in Manilla (Philippines)
and online simultaneously. A full day of sessions will be dedicated to
scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past
editions [2-8]).

The Call for Abstracts is now open - see the full call at the end of this
email. The submission deadline is 18 May 2025. Authors are invited to
submit extended abstract using the OSM Science 2024 Pretalx submission
system [9]. Questions directed to the Scientific Committee should be sent
to academic-sotm at openstreetmap.org.

Please feel free to distribute the call within your networks. We hope to
see you and learn about your research in person or online.

Best regards,
Anna, Marco, Peter & Yair, aka the OSM Science 2025 Scientific Committee

====== OSM Science 2025: Call for Abstracts =======
OSM Science 2025 (also known as the Academic Track of State of the Map) is
an annual international meeting focused on the scientific study of
OpenStreetMap (OSM). The 8th edition of OSM Science will be part of the
State of the Map 2025 conference [1], taking place on October 3-5 in Manila
(Philippines), where a full day of sessions will be dedicated to scientific
research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past editions [2-8]). The goal
of OSM Science 2025 is to showcase the research and innovation of
scientific investigations into OpenStreetMap, while at the same time
providing a bridge to connect members of the OpenStreetMap community and
the scientific community through an open platform to exchange ideas and
opportunities for increased collaboration. We expect empirical,
methodological, conceptual, or literature-review-based contributions
addressing any scientific aspect related to OpenStreetMap, in particular,
but not limited to: data collection, integration and quality analysis in
OpenStreetMap; contribution patterns and the human/social dimensions of the
project; integration of Artificial Intelligence techniques and other
applications in which OpenStreetMap plays a central role. The contribution
of OpenStreetMap data to domain-specific and/or policy-relevant studies is
also welcome.

* Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts using the OSM Science 2025
Pretalx submission system [9]. Deadline for submission is 18 May 2025.

Abstracts should be between 800 and 1200 words.

Abstracts must be scientifically rigorous, and the content should be
logically structured as follows (without the need to include subsections):
introduction/background, where the problem addressed is introduced; main
aim or purpose of the study; brief description of the methodology and
findings achieved; final discussion highlighting the scientific
contribution of the study and its practical benefits/implications.
Contributions describing applications or usage of OSM data with no
scientific novelty/innovation will be rejected.

In the evaluation of proposals, the scientific committee will pay
particular attention to the reproducibility of the research (where this is
applicable). Reproducibility is ensured when the research makes all
artifacts (input data, computational steps, methods and code) openly
available to obtain consistent results. When available, the code shall be
released under an open source license. Additionally, precedence shall be
given to authors who intend tol present physically at the conference.

Abstracts are to be submitted online in plain-text format. You have the
possibility to submit up to 3 figures that will accompany your submission,
demonstrating the results already produced by the research. This is
optional and not mandatory. Figures should be added only whether/when
necessary and must be clear and legible. All figures must be referenced in
the text and clearly numbered according to the order in which they appear
in the text.

Abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific committee and external
reviewers, when needed. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to
deliver an oral presentation or a lightning talk during the OSM Science
2025 sessions at the conference, or to present a poster (in case a poster
session will be organised). Building on top of the successful proceedings
of previous editions of the Academic Track [10-14], authors of the selected
submissions will be required to submit extended abstracts (up to four pages
in length and including a maximum of one figure). These extended abstracts
will be published in the OSM Science 2025 Conference Proceedings, each with
a distinct Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in Zenodo, an open access online
repository.
The 2019 and 2020 Academic Track resulted in a special issue of the ISPRS
International Journal of Geo-Information [15].

Similarly and upon interest from the authors of the abstracts, the
scientific committee may seek to further disseminate the contributions to
this conference by investigating the organization of a special issue in a
relevant, open access, scientific journal. In such a case, authors of the
selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper to this special
issue. Successful submissions may benefit from partial or full waiver of
publication fees.

[1] https://2025.stateofthemap.org/
[2] https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/
[3] https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/
[4] https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/
[5] https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[6] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[7] https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/
[8] https://2024.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[9] https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp
[10] https://zenodo.org/record/3405431#.ZDug5HZBy3A
[11] https://zenodo.org/record/3928675#.ZDugy3ZBy3A
[12] https://zenodo.org/record/5116434#.ZDuhA3ZBy3A
[13] https://zenodo.org/record/7004791#.ZDuhJHZBy3A
[14] https://zenodo.org/records/10443403
[15] https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap
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