(Versión en español)

Dear State of the Map Latam 2025 participant!

Thank you for being part of this collaborative mapping celebration in Medellín, Colombia. Your presence—as an attendee, volunteer, panelist, or workshop facilitator—made something extraordinary possible: strengthening the OpenStreetMap community in Latin America with passion, knowledge, and joy.

We want to share with you some numbers that speak to the impact we’ve achieved together:

3 days of meeting

4 tracks, 22 hours of talks, 33 hours of workshops, 13 hours of panels
1 academic track with 18 presentations published in Zenodo

4 academic talks selected for publication in an academic journal
36 speakers from Colombia + 61 international speakers
1 musical show, 1 drone, and a machete as a souvenir!

2 sponsors (TomTom and Geoapify), 8 allies … who gave great support to make everything possible!

_{^{Photo Summary Day 1}}

Volunteering and organizing
6 committees

33 people in the organization

8 volunteers in local logistics

_{^{Event volunteers, courtesy of the Mayor’s Office of Medellín.}}

Featured Participants
1 member and 1 employee of the OSMF
8 mapping stars from Duitama
30 Youth Mappers from 13 chapters
8 government entities, 3 NGOs, 15 educational institutions
10 minors
And presentation of 2 apps developed in Latin America!

_{^{Photo Summary Day 2}}

Official Registry
187 people on Eventbrite
70 out of 13 Latin American countries
4 countries outside Latin America
113 from Colombia, 23 from Mexico

Other memorable achievements
200 Welcome Kits for all attendees

5 active social media accounts, 4 hashtags
2 side events, 2 GeoBeers

14 post-event scholarships
Impact on the local economy: $2,900 USD in revenue for local businesses
3 local startups with a significant impact
390 lunches. Coffee, and water for everyone

100 event T-shirts, hundreds of stickers

1 snack exchange from all countries present
Thousands of photos… and dozens of new friends!

Did you participate as a speaker, panelist, or workshop facilitator?
We want your slides to live on Wikimedia Commons as an open reference. Upload them here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:State_of_the_Map_Latam_2025_presentations
Or send them to: [email protected] (in PDF, please).

But attendees also participated in various activities, such as a tour of some of the social organizations in Comuna 13, or a Mentimeter to learn how they could describe OpenStreetMap, and these were the results:

Did you take any amazing photos?
Share them in high quality on:

• WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DgQJ0eydzXKBJRr3rJnIjz?mode=ems_copy_t 
• Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d2C4oJLALgXsiKgH7 
• Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:State_of_the_Map_Latam_2025 
  
  
  

_{^{Photo Summary Day 3}}

Follow us and stay connected

• LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/sotm-latam/
• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sotmlatam/
• Mastodon – https://en.osm.town/@osmlatam
• X (Twitter) – https://twitter.com/OSMLatam
• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/osmlatam/
• Telegram – https://t.me/osmlatam
• Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/@OSMLatam where you can relive the sessions!

Thank you for making history with us. See you in 2026 in…!!

With love, the SOTM Latam 2025 team