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Proceedings of the Academic Track at State of the Map 2020 - Online (originally planned in Cape Town, South Africa), July 4-6, 2020. Editors Marco Minghini – European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy Serena Coetzee, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria Levente Juhász – GIS Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States A. Yair Grinberger – Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Peter Mooney – Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland Godwin Yeboah – Institute for Global Sustainable Development, School of Cross-faculty Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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State of the Map featured a full day of academic talks. Building upon the motto of SotM 2019 in "Bridging the Map" the Academic Track session was aimed to provide the bridge to join together the experience, understanding, ideas, concepts and skills from different groups of researchers, academics and scientists from around the world. In particular, the Academic Track session was meant to build this bridge that connects members of the OpenStreetMap community and the academic community by providing an open passage for exchange of ideas, communication and opportunities for increased collaboration. These proceedings include 14 abstracts accepted as oral presentations and 6 abstracts presented as posters. Contributions were received from different academic fields, for example geography, remote sensing, computer and information sciences, geomatics, GIScience, the humanities and social sciences, and even from industry actors. We are particularly delighted to have included abstracts from both experienced researchers and students. Overall, it is our hope that these proceedings accurately showcase the ongoing innovation and maturity of scientific investigations and research into OpenStreetMap, showing how it as a research object converges multiple research areas together. Our aim is to show how the sum total of investigations of issues like Volunteered Geographic Information, geo-information, and geo-digital processes and representation shed light on the relations between crowds, real-world applications, technological developments, and scientific research. Document type: Book