OpenStreetMap US

Many major cities across the United States have no data about presence of sidewalks, in various districts like downtowns, industrial areas, parks, residential zones, and more. In this workshop, we will take a look at the density of Overture Places as an indicator of where busy areas in cities are located–where people visit these places for work, shopping, recreation, and more. Let’s enable pedestrians by mapping these busy areas!

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Speakers

Kurt Schellhase

Kurt Schellhase is a Software Engineer at Meta, based in Seattle, Washington. He has worked with Meta the past 4 years on their map team, with a focus on open data, lidar processing, map conflation, ML predictions, and distributed systems.

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