Speakers
Jake is a software developer and mapmaker based in Seattle, Washington. He currently works at OpenStreetMap US, supporting MapRoulette, OSMCha, and other community tools. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and mapping trails in OSM.
Alyssa’s background includes supporting volunteers and nonprofit programs from Virginia to California, plus many hours as a volunteer herself. She completed her bachelor’s degree in both Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at William & Mary and loves exploring the beautifully mapped bike and pedestrian infrastructure in her home of Richmond, Virginia.
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YouthMappers is an international network of over 400 university-student-led chapters. They organize, collaborate, and implement mapping activities that respond to actual development needs around the globe and empower youth to change their world by mapping it.
What are people mapping? OSMCha is an advanced (yet easy-to-use) tool to analyze bundles of OpenStreetMap edits, called changesets. Advanced filters, vandalism detection, and on-map visualization help you find and verify the changesets you care about.
MapRoulette breaks up OpenStreetMap work into snack-sized “challenges.” Earn points by fixing validation issues, turning nodes into areas, adding missing tags, and through countless other little tasks that contribute to a healthier map.
The Tileservice makes it easy for developers in the OSM community to create novel maps using OpenStreetMap data, overcoming some of the technical barriers that are typically associated with developing web maps.
Our Tasking Manager allows people to cooperatively map particular areas. Want to map all the trees in a park, all the sidewalks in a city, or all the buildings in a county? Start a project and invite the community to help.
Low-tech and offline, Field Papers lets you take OpenStreetMap anywhere. Create and print an atlas for your area of interest, mark it up in the field, then scan and upload your annotations for mapping next time you’re at a computer.
OpenStreetMap’s native file format is OSM PBF, but this 80GB ‘planet file’ is unwieldy and not supported by all GIS software. Layercake is OSM data extracted into thematic layers (buildings, transportation, etc) and converted to cloud-native file formats that are easy to use with software from DuckDB to QGIS.
TeachOSM provides training, content, and curriculum, for educators of all levels to integrate OpenStreetMap in the classroom, and advocates for OSM in educational settings.
