USGS maintains an enormous collection of data features in the United states in the Geographic Names Information System. Much of this was imported long ago but GNIS has improved in data quality since then. Further, much of this data is still missing.
What tools do we built to deal with this? How can we leverage other tools in the ecosystem to generate projects from this dataset?
Speaker
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.
Next up in State of the Map US
Previous talkSite mapping in OpenStreetMap for print cartography in Acadia National Park
Using the visitor information handouts at Acadia National Park as a case study, this session will illustrate a cartographic design process that simultaneously builds value for OSM and the the Park Service....
