June 8–11, 2023
The 11th State of the Map US conference took place at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
The 11th State of the Map US conference was held in Richmond, Virginia, from June 8 to 11, 2023. The event took place at Virginia Commonwealth University and was an opportunity for networking, learning, and socializing. State of the Map US is the biggest and best gathering of OpenStreetMap community members from across the country. Thank you to everyone who participated in 2023.
Talks
Welcome to State of the Map US 2023
This session will introduce the OpenStreetMap US organization and provide an overview of the conference.
Keynote: The Geography of Climate Inequity
Human-caused climate change intensifies weather events such as heat waves and extreme rainfall. As the climate continues to warm from the emission of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil,...
Why do Full Stack Cartographers Love Open Source?
There are lots of great tools and tutorials out there for styling one-off base maps, but how do you build and maintain beautiful, shippable, well-designed map styles that will endure alongside your...
Spatial Equity NYC
Spatial Equity NYC documents inequities in the ways that public space—including streets, sidewalks, and greenspaces—is designed, distributed, and accessed through an interactive, web-based tool. In this session, we would like to demo...
My School Today: Crowdsourcing geospatial data for mapping school locations
SDSN SDGs Today’s initiative, My School Today uses OpenStreetMap map data to share population counts within various travel times from recorded educational facilities in pursuit of SDG 4. My School Today was...
Exploring the OpenStreetMap Contribution Decline in the United States and Beyond
The OpenStreetMap project has been a vital resource for mapping communities and humanitarian organizations. However, in 2022, OSM experienced a significant decline in active data contributions, raising concerns about the project’s sustainability...
Participatory and Open GIS for Action-Oriented International Development: The Case of YouthMappers
Situated in the rich fields of participatory and the OSM ecosystem, this session describes recent work by a joint USAID-West Virginia University program, YouthMappers, to train international university students in participatory and...
How we use OpenStreetMap data for news mapping
OpenStreetMap is a valuable resource when we make maps for news stories. I will share a few examples of maps published at the Washington Post that used OSM data, and hopefully get...
Understanding Movement and Transport Using Telecoms Data with OSM
The Unacast geolocation platform ‘Turbine’ was built to contextualise Telco signal. Turbine enhances raw signals by routing a probabilistic path across the OSM graph, according to weights defined by the underlying signal....
TeachOSM 2.0
This year, TeachOSM celebrates 10 years of introducing educators and students to learning through OpenStreetMap. With a decade of bridging OpenStreetMap and education, we have built on many lessons learned to develop...
OpenStreetMap In Local Government
In order to realize their full potential in a variety of fields, including planning, infrastructure management, community involvement, emergency response, economic development, and many others, local governments can use data from OpenStreetMap...
Visualizing Hospital Accessibility with OpenStreetMap
Creating an interactive map visualization of hospital accessibility using OSM data and other tools in the OSM ecosystem. Build an interactive map displaying the travel time to the nearest hospital. It’s completely...
How to contribute to osm.org
After 2, or maybe 3 years, my major contribution to OpenStreetMap is almost complete. I’d like to show other folks how to make changes to OSM and how to avoid the mistakes...
Inserting OpenStreetMap into Remote Sensing Curricula: Engaging Students in Image Interpretation
Remote sensing students need to learn how to interpret satellite imagery in order to classify objects into data. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? I would like to share a lesson plan on the...
Mapillary Camera Grant Program
OpenStreetMap US and Mapillary are excited to announce a new camera grant program to support street-level imagery collection. This program will provide 360º GoPro Max cameras and mounting equipment to people looking...
Tracking OpenStreetMap History and Quality with the ohsome Stack
The ohsome stack is an innovative software platform that makes the rich history of OpenStreetMap accessible to all. Featuring user-friendly web interfaces and API support, ohsome allows users to analyze and visualize...
Tools, Community and Data: Native mapping in Africa, for Africa
For a continent like Africa, the world is constantly trying to know what is and what is not in its data. Native data has been unavailable for years but that is changing....
Simplifying access to OpenStreetMap data for urban planning
Urban planning can benefit from OpenStreetMap data, but accessing it can be challenging. I will present a new tool that reduces friction by tracking daily-updated city-level OSM data in a git repository....
The OpenHistoricalMap experiment
OpenHistoricalMap has proven to be a big laboratory. The original concept was very simple in conception, but has unearthed a huge number of considerations. Those considerations have resulted in a lot of...
Ecuador: Dangers of the Volcano, North Cayambe
Ecuador is a country with more than forty volcanoes in its territory, several of them active and many with cities and communities around them. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the policies...
Mapping the Intersection of Crime and Public Funds
I am mapping where interpersonal crime (sexual, domestic, intimate partner, and community violence) happens and where community funds are being directed.
osm2pgsql flex backend
osm2pgsql is the standard tool for loading OpenStreetMap data into a database. Its new flex backend allows for more customization in the data loading, generalization, a modern API, and other new features....
YouthMappers in Action: Disaster Response in Turkey and Syria using OSM
A powerful earthquake struck Southern Turkey west of Gaziantep last 6 February 2023 causing widespread damages in Turkey and Syria. With a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) and a magnitude of...
Using OpenStreetMap with the Python OpenPoliceData package
OpenPoliceData is a Python package providing easy access to incident-level open datasets released by police departments including traffic stops, use of force, officer-involved shootings, and complaints data. Mapping this data can be...
Switching to PMTiles
This talk will cover using PMTiles for map-based web apps. I’ll discuss the how, the tradeoffs and the benefits of switching from an existing map stack to a PMTiles based stack for...
Mapping for Impact
In 2021, OpenStreetMap US launched the Mapping for Impact program. Through this program OSM US partners with organizations and agencies focused on civic, social & environmental justice issues in the US to...
Mapping Urban Deprivation: Leveraging Open Geospatial Data and Machine Learning Techniques
Most low-and middle-income countries are experiencing the proliferation of deprived areas within urban spaces. Such areas are prone to climate-related hazards and poverty. This study map deprived areas using open geospatial data...
OpenStreetMap Oscars
In March of 2023, Stamen Design presented the inaugural OpenStreetMap Oscars, a fun and very much not-serious online awards ceremony celebrating the unique, the beautiful, and the strange in the OSM database....
She Maps, We Map; A Sensitization For Feminine Young And Brilliant Minds To Reshape Our World
A brief sensitization on inclusivity in mapping.
MVT Tiles and Autonomous Driving, and other non-UI usage
Map Vector Tiles can be used for more than just drawing maps. We will discuss community and industry-suggested MVT usage, and how we can grow the standard beyond the initial visualization use...
Sketch Map Tool: Participatory mapping in OpenStreetMap and beyond
This workshop presents the Sketch Map Tool, an instrument to extend the family of participatory mapping methods. Paper based maps are created with OpenStreetMap for offline mapping which can be digitized and...
Getting to know the new Rapid v2 Editor
The new Rapid v2 editor allows mappers to edit OpenStreetMap alongside open datasets, making it easier than ever to bring authoritative, public, and AI-derived data into OpenStreetMap. In this hands-on workshop, we...
Funding OpenStreetMap
OSM is proudly volunteer-led and operationally lean, but even the free map of the world needs resources to keep the map going. Join us to hear about the OSMF’s new fundraising guidelines,...
(Travel) time is money! Costing turns, intersections, and ways
Predicting accurate travel times from the OSM road network requires accurate costs for roads and intersections (ways and nodes). Speeds on ways and delays for left-hand turn (for instance) differ by time...
Utilizing OpenStreetMap to discover hidden vulnerabilities to extreme heat
This session will present the process of discovering hidden vulnerabilities to extreme heat in the context of a changing climate. Through the use of health outcome mapping compared to energy assistance, the...
Optimizing the Value of Geospatial Data
Geographic Value (GeoValue) research demonstrates actions data providers can take to optimize the value of their geospatial data offerings. This session will examine those actions and how they can be applied to...
ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps
Ever wanted to chat with OpenStreetMap? In this session, we walk through some of the Earth Genome’s initial explorations of using AI-powered interfaces for working with geospatial data, including OpenStreetMap data. In...
OpenStreetMap as a global educational policy: Learnings from Peru
OSM has become more than just a simple mapping tool. Around it, a community has been built that is concerned about the situation of the map, and therefore, about the situation of...
Reimagining Public Transport: An OSM-based Street Supply Tool
Extracting data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), Street Supply Tool allows users to select arbitrary polygons (cities, towns, etc.), and returns the aggregated values of various road hierarchies. Understanding road network length by type...
Large scale field mapping with OpenStreetMap
This talk covers a new tool called the Field Mapping Tasking Manager, that uses OpenDataKit and OpenStreetMap for large scale humanitarian mapping projects, and how to use OpenDataKit to edit OpenStreetMap data....
Addressing Rural Water Access in Niger through Open Mapping
Rural water Access Niger is a pilot project of West and Northern Africa Hub executed by OSM Niger. This session will consist in the presentation of the vision of the project, the...
The best of both worlds: designing an international American map
At first blush, OpenStreetMap Americana is a nostalgic map design that harkens back to the midcentury American road atlas. At the same time, it is also a modern application that adopts best...
Building a Sustainable OpenStreetMap Community in the Eastern Caribbean: Life after OpenCities
St. Lucia updates its topographic maps t every 10 years. Since the official maps are updated so infrequently, our initiative proposed OSM as the tool for ensuring that maps are updated more...
Bridging the digital divide in Education; Leveraging TeachOSM
The OpenStreetMap in Schools program looks at introducing OpenStreetMap and open mapping techniques in schools to bolster the learning of geography while increasing the uptake of STEM education in schools. Through the...
Authoritative Crowdsourcing with Public Domain Map
Crowdsourced mapping is a powerful too, but what if OpenStreetMap doesn’t quite fit your use-case? OpenStreetMap US presents Public Domain Map: a bridge database that allows government entities and other trusted partners...
Mapping the turn of the Century with OpenHistoricalMap and oldinsurancemaps.net
oldinsurancemaps.net has just made it very easy to set up tile maps of 19th century Sanborn Insurance maps and edit them in OpenHistoricalMap. This session will talk about how the two projects...
A New Home for Field Papers
For the past 11 years, Field Papers has been a favorite tool for the OpenStreetMap community, and for many, it was the entry point for participatory mapping. Since its development, Field Papers...
Simplifying OpenStreetMap Data: Reducing Multi-Lane Streets to Single Lanes
OpenStreetMap (OSM) provides detailed vector data representation of street networks worldwide, yet its level of detail can be challenging for some applications. Our research focuses on simplifying multi-lane streets into single lanes...
A comparative study on key OpenStreetMap tags needed for a well-functioning automotive navigation
The presentation is about the key OSM tags needed for a well-functioning automotive navigation. A comparative study was carried out during the implementation of OSM at NNG, examining the current functionality of...
Mapping for Equity: An Intro to BetaNYC's Civic Innovation Fellows' Community Project
Learn how BetaNYC’s Innovation Fellows, undergraduate students from different academic backgrounds have created a comprehensive public space data playbook that empowers community organizations & individuals to collect, verify, and analyze public realm...
External data and Importing in the United States
A short talk on the topic of geospatial data available from government sources across the United States, and what importing looks like on OpenStreetMap in 2023.
Putting the AR puzzle together with OpenStreetMap
AR maps are coming. As with self-driving cars, the question is when, not if. The challenges are significant, but the pieces of the puzzle are there and many companies have started putting...
Analyzing and broadcasting accessibility with Open Street Map
In 2022 the LYRASIS library awarded me a grant to study LIDAR as it relates to reviewing spaces for blind, low-vision, and wheelchair users. We learned some valuable lessons, succeeded and failed...
Landsat data types, usage and access in conjunction with OpenStreetMap data
Learn more about the different types and applications of Landsat data and the unique advantages they provide to researchers, scientists, and other users. Also covered are the ways to access Landsat data...
How to Use Data for Effective Community Communication
There are hundreds of communication channels inside the OSM community. But, the dispersion of conversations can impede understanding and collaboration between OSM users. We will demo a data store containing the number...
Mapping Old Richmond with OldInsuranceMaps & OpenHistoricalMap
Let’s leave Richmond better than we found it by putting this city’s long history on OpenHistoricalMap. Whether you’re into mapping buildings, railroads, businesses, or something else, let’s see how much progress we...
Mapping a Path to Digital Democracy: A Federal Perspective
OpenStreetMap has become a platform for empowering communities and supporting data driven decision making. This panel will explore how both OSM and US federal programs can develop new and better data, increase...
Enabling Dynamic Borders Using OpenStreetMap Data
OpenStreetMap generally follows a control on the ground rule for mapping country borders. However, downstream maps often require showing different border configurations to their audiences. In the past, this typically necessitated map...
From Swipes to Solutions: Exploring the Impact of MapSwipe on Humanitarian Response
Come explore the impact of MapSwipe on the efficient and effective use of geospatial data in humanitarian work. The open-source MapSwipe mobile app is a community-led and volunteer-driven project that lets users...
The state of OSMCha
OSMCha is one of the main validation tools for OSM. It was created as an open-source software project in the spare time of a single developer. Then Mapbox supported its development and...
RASED: A Scalable Dashboard for Monitoring Road Network Updates in OSM
We present RASED; a scalable dashboard that enables users to interactively monitor and analyze the evolution and changes of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) road network. This tool allows map analysts, urban and transportations...
Using MapSwipe for Heat Resilience of Mobile and Manufactured Home Communities
Heat-related morbidity and mortality in manufactured and mobile home communities (MMHC) is a public health concern. To address the heat exposure and sensitivity of MMHC residents, high resolution and context-specific data are...
Building OpenStreetMap Validation Processes in the Open
Seven years ago, I gave a talk entitled “Validating the Map” at SOTM-US, which discussed the increasing interest in validation & QA tools. Fast forward to today. Where are we going with...
A review of Mapillary Traffic Sign Data Quality and OpenStreetMap Coverage
Traffic signs are a key feature for navigating and managing traffic safely, affecting all of us on a daily basis. However, traffic sign datasets are lacking on open government data portals as...
Mapping sidewalks and street furniture with artificial intelligence and computer vision
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision have enabled detailed mapping of urban spaces at scale using street-level imagery data. In this talk, we present an end-to-end process of mapping...
How does the YouthMappers Validation Hub build maps and mappers?
Since 2019, the YouthMappers Validation Hub, staffed by experienced student mappers, has provided OSM data quality support to the YouthMappers network. In this session, we share an overview of the Hub’s activities...
Have you checked your vector tiles lately? Techniques for cartography-driven tile engineering
Vector tiles have become the primary method for dissemination of OpenStreetMap data. The performance of a vector tile-based map largely depends on the size and complexity of individual tiles and the features...
OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative
Hear about the work of the OSM US Trails Working Group and the plans for the Trails Stewardship Initiative. Round table will be held later in the day.
HOT Tasking Manager: The Road Ahead
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international organization committed to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. HOT Tasking Manager is designed and built for HOT’s collaborative mapping process in OpenStreetMap.The...
MapLibre Native: Status and Future
MapLibre is the organization that picked up support for the open source fork of MapboxGL. It is the steward of two major versions of the toolkit, one for web and one for...
(Almost) 100 years of trail mapping: The story of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Attendees will learn about the work of the all-volunteer Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) GIS Committee. The trail map program began in the early 20th century as a paper and pencil survey...
OSM Teams 2.0: Organized Editing & Community Management
Mapping in OSM is rooted in community. We have been working closely with YouthMappers over the past year to help them organize diverse groups of mappers around the world. With this collaboration,...
OpenStreetMap Trail compatibility with Government Trail Data: A Case Study in Washington State
The US OSM community and working groups have encountered issues distinguishing social and official trails in OSM and they have outlined a trail tagging schema to identify official trails. A pilot study...
Adding Open Data to Rapid through Esri
Outside OpenStreetMap, there are many other providers of open-source datasets, such as cities, countries, and NGOs. Since 2020, the Meta Maps team have taken these datasets that have compatible licenses, conflated them...
Cartography Protips: Creating Basemaps for Amazon Location Service
Last year, Amazon Location Service brought on Stamen Design as a partner to help develop and launch new map styles as part of their Open Data Maps collection. Together they produced four...
Recreational Land Use and Liability
An overview of recreational land use paradigms focusing on trail access and potential conflicts, including liability issues and statutory frameworks, that provide insights for trail development and management opportunities.
Overture and OpenStreetMap: Expanding Open Map Data
Since the Overture Maps Foundation was announced in December, there has been interest about what it is, its plans, and whether it is a complement or a competitor to OpenStreetMap. At the...
Graph Covering with OSM streets
Or how I planned for teachers to parade around town to see their students during the pandemic. The challenge was to write an app in Rust that builds the shortest route, a...
Query the Earth
How many different ways can a specific feature be represented in OSM? What if I wanted to style all similar features consistently? The Earth Table enables just this. Dividing all of OSM...
OpenLR pitfalls and strategies to avoid them
OpenLR has become a popular format by which network data is delivered, often utilizing the OSM road network as a reference basemap. However, OpenLR segments need to be created with the end...
Spatial Mapping in python with GeoPandas and OpenStreetMap
For python users, mapping spatial data is made a lot easier by the GeoPandas library. However, it does have some limitations. By including basemaps (such as OSM) when mapping your data, users...
MapLibre: a perfect map vis - are we there yet?
MapLibre - from bits to pixels and beyond - the community managed project that continues to develop technology for map visualization and interactions.
Assisted Road Surface Tagging using Machine Learning
I have developed a machine learning architecture that suggests missing road surface tags from overhead imagery. It is currently implemented using USGS NAIP imagery which has coverage for the US. The goal...
From A to B and Beyond: Discovering the Potential of openrouteservice
Openrouteservice is a versatile platform for routing and optimization based on the OpenStreetMap database. In this lightning talk, we will guide you through the core functions and services of openrouteservice, demonstrating how...
iSeaTree : Quantifying & Tracking Urban Forestry Benefits as an Open Data Community
Urban forests are widely recognized as an important resource for healthy cities. However, their management and conservation is complicated by a lack of data and monitoring. In 2018, the USFS noted that...
Data slices and variable jumps: Extend your web-map functionality with a few lines of code
Tools like Folium and Kepler make it easy to generate basic web maps, but those tools have limitations: it’s hard to switch between data slices or variables, within a single map. Those...
Improving OpenStreetMap Data Quality - Me & You
Collaborative efforts to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data.
Simple OpenStreetMap Dark Mode
Contrast in digital cartography can greatly impact user experience and even affect interactions or perception. While there are paid/registration required providers or customized self hosted tile solutions to achieve this, sometimes a...
Using OpenStreetMap to create training data
Need to create training data for machine learning models? Why not use OpenStreetMap as a starting point? Use ohsome2label to query OSM features, download satellite images, and annotate with labels. Pair with...
Rapid v2 - A new WebGL editor for OpenStreetMap
Meet the the new open source Rapid editor for OpenStreetMap! Rapid allows mappers to edit OpenStreetMap alongside open datasets, making it easier than ever to bring authoritative, public, and AI-derived data into...
Making iD Fit for Mapping in Your Region
The world is not a uniform place. OpenStreetMap manages to model it well despite all of the subtleties, intricacies and local characteristics found in different regions and countries. This is mostly thanks...
Using OpenDataKit with OpenStreetMap
This workshop cover how to use ODK Collect and convert the data into OpenStreetMap. As ODK Collect is heavily used for humanitarian data collection and disaster response, it’s data format is normally...
OsmAnd app for mappers
A look at OsmAnd’s tools and features for cartographers, plus recent features the OsmAnd team provides for OpenStreetMap users.
Building heights: From open USGS lidar to open Overture maps
In the US, less than 20% of OpenStreetMap (OSM) buildings have a height tag (less than 10% globally). Providing buildings with height tags helps several use cases including 3D map visualization. The...
Turbocharging Local Historical Societies with OpenHistoricalMap
Odds are, your local community has at least one, if not several historical societies, and OHM has all the tools to help them get off the ground with building old maps of...
An Infinite Map: The Protomaps Vector Basemap based on OpenStreetMap
The Protomaps basemap is the first open source end-to-end tiled vector cartographic product that is trivially self-hostable. It’s simple to deploy anything from a small city tileset to the entire planet. This...
Mapping Chinese-Financed Development Projects Around the World Using OpenStreetMap
AidData maintains the most comprehensive dataset on Chinese-financed development projects, tracking 13,427 projects between 2000 and 2017 worth $843 billion across 165 countries. For many of these projects we include geospatial features...
Towards automated mapping of pedestrian path networks at scale
The process of manually mapping pedestrian path networks for OpenStreetMap is difficult due to the large amount of data required and the potential for error. We developed a tool leveraging and integrating...
OpenHistoricalMap: Doing History
History is harder than it looks. While there may be one true set of facts, almost immediately after an event, facts start getting lost or confused. Research is harder than just looking...
The interplay between mapping and understanding pedestrian access through an equity lens
Instructions for mapping OpenStreetMap often describe discrete elements; if you know the tags you can begin mapping useful and interpretable data. Pedestrian networks, in contrast, must be mapped holistically and for interpretation...
Mapping ancestral communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Morona Santiago Province
The Amazon is the largest jungle on the planet. It is also the ancestral home of hundreds of indigenous communities. The Amazon area of Ecuador covers 48% of the national territory. One...
News
A look back on State of the Map US 2023!
Thank you to everyone who made State of the Map US 2023 a fun, engaging, and meaningful conference! From our generous sponsors, to the many knowledgeable speakers and helpful volunteers, you helped...
Apply now for a scholarship to State of the Map US 2023!
Applications are now open for State of the Map US scholarships! Once again, we’re looking to bring in our largest cohort yet, from a diversity of communities, professions, geographies and associations. OpenStreetMap...
Call for proposals now open for State of the Map US 2023!
You’re invited to propose a session for the annual State of the Map US 2023 conference being held in Richmond, Virginia from June 8 to 11, 2023. State of the Map US...
