I’m on my way to the 4th Annual State of the Map International OpenStreetMap Conference in Girona, Spain. It will be great to catch up with friends and colleagues on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team who have deployed to Haiti twice since my trip there in March with Nicolas, and to discuss next steps and ways to continue supporting the Haitian OSM community.

If you are interested in learning more about OpenStreetMaps’s potential for humanitarian operations, Nicolas Chavent and I will be sharing specifics about our recent experiences using OSM in Haiti on Sunday at 3:30 pm. We´ll discuss the role of OSM in the response to the January 12th earthquake, the work we conducted with civil society groups in Cite Soleil around participatory mapping in slums, and partnering with the Haitian government to help reinforce the national mapping infrastructure.

I will also be speaking on the “Cocktails on the Titanic” panel on Friday at 6:00 pm discussing new business models involving OpenStreetMap and open data and listening to community members present their ideas in lightning talks.

If you can’t make the conference this year, I will be tweeting from both @rsoden and @MapBox.