CoMaps at State of the Map 2026

At the end of August, OpenStreetMap's global State of the Map conference took place in Paris. It brought together over 500 participants from around the world for presentations, workshops, and discussions all around open maps and related topics. And this year, CoMaps was represented in person as well, both by some of our contributors and users, all of which had never met in person before!

To celebrate the opportunity, we held a small CoMaps meetup over a shared lunch during the conference. This allowed us to have a space to get to know each other face-to-face instead of having to rely on text and video chats. People discussed feature ideas, how they would love to contribute going forward, and how they make use of CoMaps. In fact, the chats were so lively and encaptivating that we even forgot to take any photos of our get-together!

In addition to informally socialising, two of our contributors – Diego and Bastian – gave a talk about Comaps. Jointly, they outlined the history of the project, how we work together and try to be a good citizen of the OSM world, and about latest work-in-progress. Beyond the recording of the talk, you can also find their slide deck online.

State of the Map was also a great opportunity to exchange with others working on OSM-related projects, learning from each other and exploring how to work more closely together. For example, the folks behind Cartes.app gave a talk about their online maps and, based on what we heard from each other, we now want to explore how to integrate each other's work more closely. To begin with, something we would like to determine is whether in the future users could be able to synchronize their bookmarks/favorites with the web version.

We also used the opportunity of being surrounded by a large audience of OSM and map experts to get feedback on some new beta features that are in development, in particular for displaying indoor maps and including open reviews from Mangrove Reviews. For the former, the feedback was invaluable to further iterate and refine the feature, and the latter has already landed in the regular app release!

Overall, State of a Map was a brilliant experience for us personally and the project.

And we already have some more conferences marked in our calendars in which we are planning to talk about CoMaps:

• Akademy-es, scheduled 23-25th October in Madrid.

• State of the Map Latin America, which will happen October 27-29th in Mexico City.

• State of the Map España, taking place November 6-7th also in Madrid.

We hope to see some of you there – and if you're a user or contributor and would like to present CoMaps at events: Get in touch and we can help!