OpenStreetMap US

What if we posted one unmapped town a day on Mastodon? This presentation explains the genesis of SmallTownBot, recaps the conversations driven by it, and presents data about mapping progress in the past year.

https://en.osm.town/@SmallTownUSA

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Matthew Whilden

Matt is a hobbyist mapper from Redmond, Washington. He is currently obsessed with building tooling and practices to get public domain datasets into OSM. His projects include the GNIS National File and the National Address Database.

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