State of the Map LatAm 2026

Between 27-29 of October, members of the Latin American OpenStreetMap community came together in Mexico City for the year’s State of the Map conference for the region. Participants from across the continent (and further afield) came together for talks, workshops, and discussion rounds. The event kicked off with an opening ceremony. And as the conference took place around the day of the dead, a good number of participants engaged in festivities and customs around that too. One of the threads that wove through the whole program was critical and participatory mapping, done together with local communities and how such work can be used for political action. Another was how to strengthen the network across Latin America. I wrote a piece about the conferences connection to critical cartography and power in maps for the German-language magazine Amerika21 as well. The full set of images from the three days is below.

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