OpenStreetMap Moldova project details from State Of The Map 2009 conference in Amsterdam. The summary includes: 1) The Moldova project began in 2008 with the first GPS data uploaded and a core team established to map Chisinau city center. 2) As of May 2009, 48 users had contributed to the Moldova map and OpenMoldovaMap was released using OSM data. 3) The project has academic support from the Technical University of Moldova including the rector and geodesy department, with students involved in mapping projects.

1. OpenStreetMap
Moldova project
State Of The Map 2009
Amsterdam, NL
http://www.stateofthemap.org/

3. History
21 Feb 2008: First gpx uploaded
Summer 2008: build core team. Chisinau map, city center
21th Oct, 2008: OSM talk @ "Free software day" at Technical University of M.
02 May 2009: OSM talk @ "Ubuntu 9.04 Release Party" Chisinau
12 May 2009: OpenMoldovaMap (maps.utm.md) released

4. list of people involved
cat moldova.osm | grep user=* | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | wc -
l user="alex-map" user="Michael user="Thomas
user="AlexMarley" user="miskellaneous" user="ulfl"
user="ALIK" user="neufeind" user="Victor
user="alunake" user="nickosm" user="Vlad
user="amillar" user="wowek"
user="osm-ukraine" user="X6Md"
user="anbr" user="PA94"
user="Andrei user="xybot"
user="Philip user="zserghei"
user="andrei59"
user="Baruch" user="Randbewohner"
user="BioMD" user="ro-bot"
user="BlackOnyx" user="Ruslanti" total: 48users
user="blindvic" user="Serghei
user="Bortian" user="Serpens"
user="cagric" user="sorein"
user="catwalk009" user="speedhajker"
user="Ciprian" user="Staiger"
user="Claudius user="Stefan
user="dekarl" user="stoecker"
user="dmgroom" user="studerap"
user="DonVit"
user="sweetheart_johny"
user="TEL0000"

5. Academic contacts
* Technical University of Moldova
we have support from:
Ion Bostan: The rector of TUM, Academician, DSc, Associate Professor
Vasile Grama: chief of the Department of Geodesy, Cadastre and
Geotechnics
Iacovlev Andrei: Assistant lector of Geodesy, Cadastre and Geotechnics
Students involved from:
Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics
Faculty of Cadastre, Geodesy and Constructions

6. Academic contacts
2 Bachelor's degree final projects @ Faculty of Computers,
Informatics and Microelectronics
– Modelisation procedurale d'architecture urbaine pour les systemes
geo-informationnelles et realite virtuelle.
– xxx (still wating for project name :) some think about routing
using OSM data )

7. OpenMoldovaMap
http://maps.utm.md

8. OpenMoldovaMap

9. thank you
questions?