October 5–7, 2018
The 8th State of the Map US conference took place at the Cobo Hall convention center in the Motor City: Detroit, Michigan.
Talks
Detroit: The Best Open Map in the World
The City of Detroit has issued a challenge to the OpenStreetMap US community to make Metro Detroit the best openly mapped region in the world. This session will provide an overview of...
Transportation as a Service: Using OpenStreetMap at Lyft to Improve Your Ride
Lyft is a leader in the hyper-competitive world of ridesharing, providing millions of rides a day across the entire United States. Mapping is a key component to every part of Lyft operations...
Blight to Boom: Collaborating to Map Change
The revival of Detroit has been the photo-journalist’s favorite beat in 2018. OpenStreetMap enables the city councilman, the land bank official, and the homeowner, to go beyond images of blight and recovery...
OpenStreetMap In Every Car… Closer Than You May Think
In this talk, the Telenav Mapping Team will talk about the tens of thousands of hours of mapping they did to improve OpenStreetMap in the United States in the past 5 years,...
Building Abroad Community
There is a prevalent need to establish effective and lasting relationships between members of the OpenStreetMap community. More reliable and complete data is an accomplishable goal for OSM, if communication and standards...
The Road Towards Diversity in OpenStreetMap Still Needs to be Mapped
Geochicas is a young initiative with big challenges. The first gathering was in SOTM Latam Sao Paulo in 2016 and since then, we haven’t stop our efforts to make OSM members aware...
Validation Of The Users, By The Users, For The Users
New techniques, like machine learning, are changing how the OSM community maps, but the need remains to help users become better mappers and to improve data quality. As more groups begin to...
Space to the Power of X
During SOTMUS 2017, DigitalGlobe was finalizing a merger to create a new aerospace company called Maxar: http://www.maxar.com/our-company/meet-maxar. Now, DigitalGlobe has even more to offer to OpenStreetMap and the OSM Community: We have...
POI Data Illuminated
Let’s stop collecting data in the dark! Data coverage statistics are the equivalent of daylight and without them contributors are just stumbling around in the dark. Coverage analysis can help focus data...
OpenStreetMap: All Your (Esri Vector) Base Are Belong To Us
Last year Esri made composite World Imagery available to all OSM editors and proposed a new feature in iD to incorporate content from our own web services. Since then we haven’t rested...
Can We Validate Every Change On OpenStreetMap?
Preventive measures towards vandalism on OpenStreetMap have long been non-existent, and it takes less than a minute to sign up on OSM with an email address and make an edit — accurate...
OpenStreetMap as an AWS Public Dataset and Its Uses
OSM has been a part of the AWS Public Dataset Program for a little over a year and I’ll share examples of how the data can be used in novel ways when...
Bike Lane Mapping
Jake Sigal of Tome talks about bicycle to vehicle vulnerability mapping.
The Machine Mappers Are Coming
Let’s take a look into the future: If maps are increasingly created and interpreted by machines without a human in the loop - does this mean human generated content is becoming obsolete?...
Mapping The Curb
The curb is a becoming one of the most popular assets in the transportation world. With the growth of TNCs and short-distance delivery options its demand is increasing even more. How can...
The State of the iD Editor
iD is an active open source project with a thriving developer community. We are steadily adding new features and making improvements that help both new and experienced mappers contribute to OpenStreetMap. This...
iD Notes: Feature Integration and OpenStreetMap Notes' Future
In this talk, I will discuss the work from my Google Summer of Code 2018 project–integrating notes into the iD editor. I will present my process for adding a feature to iD...
OpenStreetMap at Facebook
Over the past two years a team at Facebook has been using machine learning algorithms to help human mappers edit and validate faster. In addition to sharing how we use OSM in...
Open Cities Africa: Open Data for Disaster Risk Management
In Spring 2018, the Open Data for Resilience team at the World Bank launched the Open Cities Africa program. Currently, eleven African cities are simultaneously working on open data collection projects to...
Using addresses in Africa, Plus Codes and buildings
Emmor Nile is a GISCorps volunteer supporting the Tanzania Development Trust in the continuing effort to map Tanzania to enable aid efforts through the use of an adequate OSM base map. The...
Discover Rural America
The press calls it the “Forgotten America” because of a shortage of everything from doctors to jobs. In 2006 OpenStreetMap imported TIGER roads from the Census Bureau. That single import changed the...
Historical Change Mapping Using OpenStreetMap as a Platform
OpenStreetMap has proven to be a great mapping platform, but it’s main goal has always been to create the most recent accurate map. While features are tagged with some date information, there...
Inclusive Pedestrian Mapping: OpenSidewalks, AccessMap, and Accessibility
Safely and predictably navigating pedestrian spaces presents an informational challenge for all kinds of users - whether an area is steep, has sidewalks of a certain width, or raised curbs can make...
OpenStreetMap vs. Blockchain to Tell the Historical Mapping Story
Services, applications and tools continue to be developed that map archival data to tell the history of people and places. Some US (and US-adjacent) examples: the trio of OldSF / OldNYC /...
The OpenStreetMap US Camera Lending Program
OpenStreetCam is a free and open platform for crowdsourced street-level images, created by Telenav in 2016 to help improve OpenStreetMap. Two years in, there are over 150 million images covering well over...
SharedStreets: Making Streets Interoperable
Cities face major challenges managing the proliferation of new transportation technologies and services competing for street space. Each new service brings with it new kinds of data and, often a new representation...
Keynote: Neema Meremo
Neema Meremo holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management from Moi University. Passionate about human rights, especially girls’ rights with a history of working with NGOs that work to eradicate...
Filling in the Gaps with the Mapillary API
The Mapillary API can be used to retrieve point and line data, indicating relative or precise locations of map features. Mapillary computer vision derived over 100 types of real world objects from...
OpenStreetMap in World Bank Operations: Analyzing Green Space in Tbilisi, Georgia
The World Bank is increasingly using OSM in its spatial analysis to support operational decision making. A great example is a recent dialogue the World Bank has had with the municipal government...
OpenStreetCam Is Now An Open Machine Learning Platform for OpenStreetMap
In this talk, Telenav’s lead AI engineer Adrian will take you on a road trip. The starting point is 150 million OpenStreetCam images contributed by mappers and drivers across the globe. On...
OpenStreetMap for Disaster Management: City Wide Mapping Project (Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang)
This project aimed is to collect OpenStreetMap (OSM) data for the 3 big Indonesian cities. They are Surabaya, Jakarta and Semarang. The data will be used for disaster management system. Moreover, the...
MapRules: Custom Tagging Presets & Validation Rules
Answering the question, What should I tag this feature?, is one of the most important and at times irreconcilable problems faced by OSM mappers. Whether it manifests through the ‘building=yes’ phenomenon, colorful...
Connecting Educators to OpenStreetMap Community Members & Vice Versa: A Discussion (Part 1)
Hear from educators integrating OSM contribution into their classroom, TeachOSM contributors and other community members working with educators. With the common goal of growing the community at an earlier age, suggestions and...
United States Destination Tags
Interstate highways are the highest classification of road data within OSM in the United States. Confidence in the accuracy of this data is critical to a functional map. In March 2018, Kaart...
Connecting Educators to OpenStreetMap Community Members & Vice Versa: A Discussion (Part 2)
Hear from educators integrating OSM contribution into their classroom, TeachOSM contributors and other community members working with educators. With the common goal of growing the community at an earlier age, suggestions and...
Microgrants to OpenStreetMap Communities: What Worked, What Didn't
In 2017, HOT launched a small grants program called “Microgrants” with the goal of supporting small scale, big impact projects conceived and carried out by OSM communities. In 2018, we distributed a...
Building AI-Assisted Mapping Tools: Progress And Lessons Learned
The use of AI to analyze Earth observation imagery is growing, but there remain some difficult questions about how this trend will affect OpenStreetMap and its users. At Development Seed, our aim...
Climate Change Impact Assessments with OpenStreetMap
Changing climate, sea level rise, and adaptations are some of the biggest problems the planet may face in the coming years. Understanding the effects of these problems on settlements, structures, and infrastructure...
Analytic Support for Contributors: Defining Levels of Automation for Machine Learning Applied to Crowdsourced Mapping
Significant advances in machine learning techniques for image classification, object detection and image segmentation have profound implications for crowdsourced mapping applications. Recent open source initiatives such as SpaceNet have strived to direct...
Mapping Accuracy in OpenStreetMap: Dealing with the Volunteer Mapper’s Motivation and Quality Data Contribution
Mobilization of volunteer mappers is a serious task that requires interpersonal skill and motivation. And when these volunteer mappers are mobilized, another issue to deal with is effective trainings to ensure the...
Semi-Automated Map Editing
Tracing roads by hand is slow, and automation has the potential to greatly accelerate the process of mapping roads. That said, although there has been two decades of research in automatic map...
When Seeing Isn’t Solving: Data Lessons From Detroit’s Never-Ending Tax Foreclosure Crisis
What happens when you map a major problem and…nothing much happens? Can map makers and data nerds become change makers? Loveland Technologies started mapping tax foreclosed properties in Detroit and Wayne County...
Why Geocoding is Hard and How You and OpenStreetMap Can Help
Steve Coast recently called geocoding one of the last unsolved technical problems of OSM. While it’s true there’s always more work to do, real progress has also been made, and our community...
Visualize Change: Animate your mapping
In late July 2018 HOT will launch our “Visualize Change” tool which enables mappers, mapathon organizers, mapping project managers and anyone else to create quick and easy visualizations of their progress as...
The Planet is Very Large
Since its inception, OpenStreetMap has been tremendously successful in growing its database of the entire world. With that success, however, comes the technical hurdles of working with all that data, commonly known...
OpenStreetMap Counts: meaningful metrics for local mapping communities
How do we know if we are succeeding in building a comprehensive map? Several tools track OpenStreetMap’s growth in raw terms, but they lack important context for evaluating the project’s coverage. Based...
Offline Maps for Mobile: Making Maps That Are Mobile First
“ePi Maps are designed with mobile in mind from the beginning. “Mobile First” means that all map data is embedded in the app and the customer’s experience is great once they download...
The American Geographical Society and OpenStreetMap
This talk will focus on building links between AGS and OSM using education as a vehicle. AGS has been a strong supporter of TeachOSM, and a lightning talk would signal AGS support...
Small footprint vector maps for "Internet In a Box"
I have been working with “internet in a box” volunteers for about 5 years. We recently used openlayers, and openmaptiles.com to reduce by a factor of 10 the size of our offline...
The Map Quality Measurement Initiative: A heat-map approach to visualize gaps in map quality
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data quality is a concern when compared to propriety data. Inspired by other OSM projects, the Map Quality Measurement initiative intends to visualize map quality with a heat-map approach by...
Map Matching When the Map is Wrong
Map matching is a key part of many GIS applications, linking observed GPS traces to road networks via a map, and allowing inference both of more accurate trajectories and of properties of...
Urchn Tells You Where Cities Change, and Where OpenStreetMap is Out-of-date
Urchn is like your friend who’s lived in the city forever. It’s a tool that uses persistent change monitoring to tell us where cities are changing, and where OSM is out of...
Maps For All Maneuvers
Accurate maps are a core component in transportation networks. Maps contain detailed information about road segments: geometry, directionality, turn restrictions, and traffic regulations. With millions of ride miles logged daily, these maps...
Kaart's Quality Checks to Improve Road Data and Routing
The quality of road data throughout the world can vary greatly based on the region and the number of active mappers in the community. In an effort to improve the overall quality...
OpenStreetMap in UrbanFootprint: Combining walk network with transit schedule data for non-auto-based accessibility measures
We discuss how UrbanFootprint utilizes open source tools to intake transit schedule data by converting it to a directed network graph and then tethering it to OSM walk network data on-the-fly in...
Applying Big Data Tools and Techniques to OpenStreetMap with OSMesa
OSM contains an enormous amount of data, even more when one considers the historical footprint produced by 14 years of editing. As a community, we’ve generally addressed the problem of surfacing it...
OpenStreetMap and Land Use Planning: City-Scale Scenario Development for the Future of Cities
Land use and transportation planning are key drivers in the livability and sustainability of cities of the future. UrbanFootprint helps city planners explore broad questions like “Where will the next 25,000 residents...
OSMnx: Visualization and Analysis of OpenStreetMap Networks in Python
Street networks underlie city circulation and human dynamics, but it has historically been challenging for urban researchers to acquire and consistently analyze high-quality street network data. OpenStreetMap shifts this paradigm with its...
Pic4Review: Mapping with Street-level Imagery
Pic4Review is an open source tool that relies on user-contributed street-level imagery from sources such as Mapillary and OpenStreetCam to verify, enhance, and create OpenStreetMap data. Users can create or join various...
Generate real 3D worlds for automotive simulation & training in 20 minutes or less
Goal: Introduce new cartographers and advanced users alike to Mapbox’s 3D city and terrain generation tools using the Maps for Unity SDK. Summary: See how you can instantly generate and customize real...
Crowdsourced Place Verification and Decentralized Governance
The FOAM Map is an Open Source map with a multi-step verification process for added places. With secure blockchain-based rewards and safety deposits, the FOAM Map crowdsources the prevention of fraud and...
The Crucial Role Mapping Systems Play in the Future of Autonomous vehicles
The key to understanding the importance of digital maps in the context of autonomous cars is learning how autonomous vehicles perceive the road and how they need to react to it in...
Measuring Transit Data Coverage
As an aggregator of transit information for a certain region or for the entire world, how do you measure successful coverage of this data? Do we just count the number of stops?...
Breaking Down Silos: OpenStreetMap and Esri side by side
OpenStreetMap has long been a great source of global geospatial data, but it has frequently been a challenge to mash up and analyze OSM data using Esri technology. This talk will highlight...
Laos Road Data Collection Goes Open Source
The Laos Department of Transport does not have a complete map of its national road network, beyond national and provincial-level roads, or a modern system for road condition monitoring. The World Bank...
So where does all that HOT OpenStreetMap data go?
The 2017 US hurricane season was unprecedented. US mappers responded in amazing ways, doing a building import in Florida, helping HOT effectively map all the Caribbean islands, and the biggest success mapping...
Geoq: (yet another) GIS command line tool
Horace Williams of Factual introduces and demos Geoq: a command line tool for ad-hoc manipulation and inspection of piles of textual GIS data.
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See all postsDaniela visits State of the Map US 2018
This a guest blog post by OpenStreetMap US community member Daniela (Dani) Waltersdorfer (@DWaltersdorfer). She has attended four SOTMUS events, with her first being State of the Map US in New York...
State of the Map US 2018 by the Numbers
Another State of the Map US Conference is in the books! Last weekend over 350 mapping enthusiasts gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the 8th annual State of the Map US conference. The...
Call for local community lightning talks, and more workshops, at State of the Map US
We are so excited about our program – but something is missing and that may be you. Our stage will showcase all the incredible work in local OpenStreetMap communities across the country...
Detroit Mapping Challenge
The City of Detroit and State of the Map US are issuing a challenge to the OpenStreetMap US community to make the Detroit region the best openly mapped region in the world....
Apply for a Scholarship to State of the Map US!
Applications are now open for State of the Map US scholarships! OpenStreetMap contributors and enthusiasts will be gathering in Detroit October 5-7 for the annual State of the Map US conference. Want...
