September 6–8, 2019
The 9th State of the Map US conference took place on the banks of the Mississippi River at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Talks
Keynote: Mapping Prejudice
Mapping Prejudice is a research group at the University of Minnesota showing the history of housing discrimination in Minnesota and Minneapolis in particular.
Geochicas and The Streets of Women: An overview into the progress of adding Costa Rica to the map
The Streets of Women is a project developed by the Geochicas community, which is an Iberian-American NGO that promotes women participation in mapping processes on OpenStreetMap. In this talk we are going...
How OpenStreetMap can support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The SDGs are a collection of 17 goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 and are a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.” They...
Collaboration is Key: Engaging communities and governments with Open Cities Africa
In the last decade, we’ve seen an exponential increase in data from satellites, drones, mobile devices, and smart sensors used to understand urban flooding and other hazards in Africa. At the same...
Postcards from the Edge: A Tour of OpenStreetMap Data Analyses + Visualizations
OpenStreetMap data analysis continues to be a popular and well-attended topic at State of the Map conferences. Each year the community builds and presents a new generation of tools that help us...
Are you ready? Bridging the resiliency gap with OpenStreetMap
You may think you know your neighborhood, but does your mental map include how to avoid the nearest construction sites or where you might shelter in place in an emergency? What about...
Supporting Local Groups on openstreetmap.org
Discuss and maybe demo new features on osm.org to support city sized groups of mappers. These features include managing membership, organizing mapping events including RSVPs, sending email newsletters, organizing local campaigns like...
Denver Metro Building Import -- The Slow Road
The OSM Colorado team started in 2016 building project documentation and brokering relationships with government agencies to begin importing building footprints (generated from 3” imagery flown by our Regional Planning partners DRCOG)...
OpenStreetMap powerups: upgrade your mapping toolbox from collection to analysis
Development Seed’s partners collect, validate, store, and analyze geospatial data. That data sometimes fits into the purpose & schema of public OSM, but occasionally that data must remain private, and requires custom...
Addresses 101
What are addresses and why they are so important to OpenStreetMap? This presentation will cover a wide variety of topics related to house number addresses as seen in the United States (with...
Hampton Roads - A Million Buildings Later…
An overview of 10 locality imports of buildings and addresses into OpenStreetMap
A turbo introduction to Overpass
Who? What? When? Where? How many? The Overpass API and Overpass turbo are essential tools for making sense of OpenStreetMap data. Learn how to dash off a quick wizard query, go deep...
Using OpenStreetMap for Affordable Housing
I using QGIS and OSM plus a combination of web mapping application for building a Land Evaluation tool for Affordable Housing collaborating with CHCS, UNC, Greensboro. I believe such open source resources...
Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap
OSM is characterized both by its map as well as the active community of the millions of mappers who produce it. Recently, many large corporations have been hiring editors to contribute to...
Expanding the reach of OpenStreetMap
At State of the Map US 2018 we demonstrated some new projects Esri was undertaking to make OpenStreetMap data more accessible for visualization and analysis. Since then, we’ve maintained our focus on...
Road conflation
Microsoft maps powered by Open data is an ongoing effort to create the best map using data from open sources. The road network on our map is completely generated using OpenStreetMap data....
Teams! Teams! Teams!
In this session I’ll give a quick run-through of building an OAuth2 identity layer on top of the OSM login. I demonstrate OSM teams, an api you can integrate with to read,...
Mapping Rural Communities with the Canadian Red Cross Missing Maps Pilot
When communities experience an emergency, knowing the location of community infrastructure, vulnerable areas, and people will improve disaster planning, response and recovery. Missing Maps is an initiative to build a comprehensive open...
Bringing Validation to Users: Integrating Quality Assurance Checks into Map Editors
There is a need for validation in crowdsourced mapping to ensure that the quality of created data meets the community’s agreed upon standards and best practices. The OpenStreetMap community has created many...
Source=Mapillary
Mapillary provides both street-level imagery as well as map feature point data for use in OpenStreetMap. Using the open source MapillaryJS library and the Mapillary API, several developers have integrated these data...
Getting on board: transport fleets capturing Mapillary imagery and our initial journey into OpenStreetMap
We provide 11 million passenger trips every day and operate in more than 150 cities across the US. At Transdev, a leading operator and global integrator of mobility, we are focused on...
State of the US road updates
“Microsoft uses all open data sources and tools to update, add, and improve the motorized road network of the US. This undertaking potentially can look into thousands of open data-sets produced by...
Confessions of a Nervous Geography Student
In college, I studied human geography, mastering the craft of the written word. During junior year, I took my first web mapping course and I froze: What’s a GeoJSON? What’s the difference...
OpenStreetMap Across Grades & Subjects
This session will discuss the implementation and application of OSM in both High School and Middle School Geography/AP Human Geography courses.Q&A
Comparing Bing US Buildings with OpenStreetMap
Comparing continental scale vector datasets can be challenging. Azavea compared the 125 million US building footprints released from Bing with the 28 million building footprints found in OpenStreetMap for the USA. This...
Keeping New York road map perfect
OpenStreetMap is long past its initial data collection state: now what matters is keeping the data fresh and correct. We in Juno use OSM for our ride-sharing services, and we rely on...
OpenStreetMap 🥰 Government Panel
Government agencies are as passionate about excellent quality maps as the OSM community. But how do you join forces to benefit everyone involved? This panel will bring together people representing government agencies...
Evaluating fire evacuation routes using open source maps and data
After tragedy unfolded in Paradise, California last year during the Camp Fire, I was tasked with coming up with a way to evaluate fire evacuation routes in California for a USA Today-California...
10 Years of Map Kibera
Map Kibera began 10 years ago to support young people from the slums of Nairobi to put their community on OpenStreetMap. The map was created quickly; connecting that map to change continues...
Map Quality Measurement 2.0: A Map Quality Collaboration
Map Quality Measurement (MQM) initiative started in 2018 to establish a standard methodology and metric by which to evaluate OSM road quality throughout the United States. The output of MQM is a...
Route Planning for Blind Pedestrians using OpenStreetMap
Millions of people around the world are visually impaired or completely blind . This group audience need to cope with many challenges on a day-to-day basis, some of which are related to...
Indoor Wayfinding with Visual Impairments: OpenStreetMap, BLE Beacons, and Nearby Explorer
Nearby Explorer Online is a GPS app (iOS/Android) designed for people who are blind or visually impaired, originally developed by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). Since 2017, it has...
Keynote: Ingrid Burrington
Author and mapmaker Ingrid Burrington starts with Mars and ends with Smash Mouth in this day two keynote, tying together a series of big ideas along the way: colonialism, capitalism, environmental justice,...
TeachOSM: The New Site
The TeachOSM website’s purpose is to be a central location to empower and support educators at all levels to integrate open source mapping and the OpenStreetMap ecosystem of tools in the classroom....
AI for disaster response mapping: lessons from SpaceNet 4
Re-mapping after natural disasters is critical for assessing damage, optimizing aid distribution, and more. Creating new maps is thus is a central element of any disaster response effort. At present, re-mapping involves...
iD v3
Learn what’s new with iD! Bryan and Quincy share our vision for the future of the iD project. We’ll discuss the challenges, lessons learned, and progress made as we look ahead to...
Spreading the word about the importance of using OpenStreetMapping in the classroom
OpenStreetMap is a superb tool for teaching geography interactively as well as global digital citizenship. It is easy to use, and free of charge, and most of all, it is rewarding for...
MapATI: OpenStreetMap as a tool to help fight against the islands of urban heat
OpenStreetMap is a mapping project that aims to build a free and geographical database of the world. Following the consequences of global warming that the world is facing today through natural disasters,...
MapRoulette: Microtasking for OpenStreetMap
In this talk, Martijn will introduce MapRoulette and show you how you can use this Micro-Tasking tool to help improve OSM! MapRoulette is a website that lets you solve small problems (Tasks)...
How to get College Students engaged with Mapping
Learn how an undergraduate student kickstarted the Tobler Society, a mapping-centric student organization at the University of Chicago. Through its ‘Mapathons’, the Tobler Society has already won YouthMappers’ Most Active New Chapter...
Denver Metro Buildings Import - Couldn't do it Without Community!
The OSM Colorado team started in 2016 building project documentation and brokering relationships with government agencies to begin importing building footprints (generated from 3” imagery flown by our Regional Planning partners DRCOG)...
ODbL License Compatibility
Have you wondered if a certain dataset can be used for OSM? What does it mean for a license to be “compatible” with OSM and ODbL? This talk will give pointers on...
Machines and Mappers - How AI and tooling can assist with OpenStreetMap Data Integrity.
Last year we shared how Facebook has been using machine learning algorithms to help human mappers edit and validate geometry faster. This year our focus is on sharing more about our efforts...
Fixing OpenStreetMap with Government Imagery
Imagery from US transportation agencies is progressively flowing into Mapillary, offering a new form of government open data for organizations such as Kaart to integrate into map editing workflows. Alongside individual, community,...
Gamifying POI Data Collection
With the help of a diverse community of extremely motivated locals, we’ve collected high-quality POI data across NYC, Austin, LA, and counting. We’ve experimented with financial incentives, intrinsic rewards, and feedback mechanisms...
How much is enough?: A deep dive on training data requirements for mapping with deep learning
Deep learning algorithms offer the potential to rapidly extract foundational mapping information directly from satellite imagery. Such algorithms can map regions of interest far faster than human labelers (making them especially valuable...
Let’s Get Work Zones on the Map
Up-to-date information about dynamic roadway conditions can help drivers navigate more safely and efficiently. Currently, work zones present one of the highest-risk environments for both drivers and on-the-ground workers. In 2018, 30...
OpenStreetMap + Wikidata + Metadata + …
Meaningful knowledge from multiple data sources - presenting Sophox - a way to query and merge OSM data with the metadata documentation from OSM wiki, federated queries into Wikidata and any other...
Machine Learning Model Democratization with OpenStreetMap Data
How can we democratize the development of geospatial machine learning models, lower the barrier to entry for students and practitioners in this space, and obliterate the ‘practice’ of geospatial platform commercialization? Leveraging...
Mapping Brands with the Name Suggestion Index
The Name Suggestion Index is a collection of over 4000 branded businesses that volunteers have identified in OpenStreetMap and matched to Wikidata IDs. Learn how we built this project, and how it...
Visualize large data sets with Elasticsearch and Kibana
Come learn how Elastic uses administrative boundaries curated from OSM and Wikidata to visualize large data sets with Elasticsearch and Kibana
Get Your Colleagues Mapping: How to run a corporate mapathon
In this session, we will describe how we successfully executed a mapathon across multiple office locations with employees of all backgrounds. Highlights will include how we selected our task, getting C-Suite buy...
The Geometry of Mobility: Curb Management and OpenStreetMap
The curb is the crucial link between maps and mobility–getting from point A to point B requires knowing where parking, disability access, drop-off zones, or share lanes are located. Managing the use...
Measuring National Low-Stress Bicycle Accessibility with OpenStreetMap
The growth of bicycling and bicycle network facilities in the United States warrants assessment of whether bicycle networks give populations safe access to valuable destinations—that is, a bicycle network must be sufficiently...
Road Work Ahead
Cities open and close parts of their road network on a daily basis to keep their cities moving. Today, it is difficult to easily produce and consume closure data across city governments,...
Buildings! Buildings! More Buildings, This time in Canada!
Machine Learning at scale can be a great way of extracting information from satellite imagery. Microsoft open maps team at BING, BING Maps would like to share the journey and experiences as...
Tracking Down SEO Contributers
Search Engine Optimization is a big business and a common tactic of improving the ranking of their clients is to get links to their client’s websites in as many places as possible....
Kerb your enthusiasm
Curb management has become a hot issue in cities as street users compete over limited space to park cars, hail a ride, deliver packages, and drop off scooters. At SharedStreets, we’ve worked...
The approach to building better bike maps in Canada
In 2017 Bike Ottawa started a project to create better bike maps in Canada’s National Capital region. This presentation will go through the approach taken, the results so far, some of the...
You don't know OpenStreetMap
The open map has a very simple data model. It has a list of tags. It has many tutorials. After a year or five of participating in our project you might get...
Making sure your work is understood by others
OSM has tens of thousands of unique keys, and uncountable number of “known” values (like those for type, denomination, …). This lightning talk will show how to make sure all these tags...
OpenStreetMap US Plenary
Join the OpenStreetMap US Board and Executive Director in a conversation about the current state of the States and a look towards the future of the organization. Bring your questions and ideas...
OpenStreetMap Water: How well are Minnesota’s water features mapped?
Water-related features are an often-overlooked part of the OpenStreetMap model. These features help create the natural context for the map and add important reference information. In Minnesota, a large proportion of these...
Update on OpenHistoricalMap: Using the OpenStreetMap stack live with vector tiles
We’ve finally gotten around to updating OHM with a variety of enhancements. This sessions will cover both (a) the tech upgrades & tradeoffs we’ve made to support a time slider and other...
From The Inside Out: Building a City Vacancy Portal
The City of Saint Louis has a wealth of data concerning vacant properties. Unfortunately, like many cities, it also has a data management problem. Data regarding vacant parcels is fractured, spread across...
Simplifying OpenStreetMap data conflation with Hootenanny
OpenStreetMap is a rich geospatial data source. Its history of large data imports and application in many GIS fields motivate the need for tools that simplify the difficult and time-consuming task of...
How Map Matching Failures can be used for Map Making
Given a sequence of possibly sparse and noisy GPS traces and a map of the road network, map matching algorithms can infer the most accurate trajectory on the road network. However, if...
OpenStreetMap for Location Data Privacy
Location data that maps our movements is increasingly ubiquitous and increasingly open. This data has important benefits to society and our planet, but also carries risks that need to be carefully mitigated...
The Power of Satellite Imagery in Disaster Response
Maxar’s Open Data Program provides satellite imagery, building footprints and weather data in response to sudden onset major crisis events around the world. These data sets are provided free in order to...
“Keepin' it fresh (and good)!” - Continuous Ingestion of OpenStreetMap Data at Facebook
Building forward from our work on Mobius Logical Changesets (presented last year at SotM US 2018), we have created an automated ingestion and integrity framework for OSM data that allows us to...
The serverless map stack lives
The world of serverless technology is rapidly expanding. With the recent release of AWS Aurora Serverless for Postgres let’s find out if it’s now possible to build an entirely serverless map stack....
OpenStreetMap Express - a spatial file format for the planet
OpenStreetMap is unique since anyone can edit the map - but it’s hard to get quick access to updated data. PBF download services for the planet or extracts update daily or weekly....
Capturing the flow of tags - Chameleon
OpenStreetMap is a platform designed and built for its community, everyone has the ability to propose data structures, update map data, and add new information into the dynamic database. With OpenStreetMap having...
Travel Mapping and METAL: Maps and Map Data for Fun and Computer Science Education
The Travel Mapping project uses data derived from OSM and other sources to allow travel enthusiasts to track their cumulative travels on major highways. The Map-Based Educational Tools for Algorithm Learning (METAL)...
News
See all postsMy State of the Map US 2019 Experience
This a guest blog post featuring OpenStreetMap community member Tina Nanda’s experience at the State of the Map US 2019 in Minneapolis, MN. Tina is a geographer and the author of Urban...
State of the Map US 2019 Recap
This a guest blog post featuring OpenStreetMap community member Austin Bell’s experience at the State of the Map US 2019 in Minneapolis, MN. Do you have a story to tell? OpenStreetMap US...
Time to get hyped for SOTMUS 2019
Ya’ll. We are getting so close State of the Map US 2019. Early September in Minneapolis is a beautiful time of year…….to sit indoors and listen to some awesome talks from the...
Hey! You Should Talk At SOTMUS!
We’re about 100 days from State of the Map US 2019, and we’re looking forward to all the great talks being submitted by everyone. If you’re on the fence about submitting a...
Apply for a Scholarship to State of the Map US!
Applications are now open for State of the Map US scholarships! We’re extremely excited to be headed back to the Midwest for State of the Map US 2019! The OpenStreetMap US community...
