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

Thu May 8 16:38:06 UTC 2025

Dear colleagues,

This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit extended abstracts for
OSM Science 2025 is fast approaching: May 18, 2025.

OSM Science 2025, the Academic Track of the State of the Map 2025
conference, will take place October 3–5, 2025, in Manila, Philippines (and
online simultaneously). A full day of the conference will be dedicated to
scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap.

We welcome empirical, methodological, conceptual, and
literature-review-based contributions exploring any scientific aspect of
OpenStreetMap.

Submission portal: https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp

Full call for abstracts: https://2025.stateofthemap.org/calls/osm-science/

Please feel free to share this reminder within your networks. We look
forward to your submissions and to seeing you in October.

Best regards,
Anna, Marco, Peter & Yair
The OSM Science 2025 Scientific Committee
academic-sotm at openstreetmap.org

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 23:07 Yair Grinberger <yair.grinberger at mail.huji.ac.il>
wrote:

> 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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