Conferences & Events

Recorded Talks

Learn from community members

OpenStreetMap US events feature talks from community members with specialized knowledge on a staggering range of topics. Recorded talks are a great way to learn OSM for beginners and experts alike.

new to OpenStreetMap

Putting your community on the map: Digitizing local natural and cultural resources with OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap and Open Data, the future of public realm data & data literacy

OpenStreetMap Tagging: A Crash Course

A Concise Introduction to the OpenStreetMap Project

OpenStreetMap = Data + Community

You don't know OpenStreetMap

keynotes

Keynote – A View from the Board President's Chair: It's about Community!

Keynote: The Geography of Climate Inequity

Keynote: The Case for Sister Projects

Keynote: Ingrid Burrington

Keynote: Mapping Prejudice

buildings

Rapidly mapping the sprawl: How to use municipal GIS data and MapWithAI to import high-quality building footprints

Feasability of RapiD to complete buildings in Colorado

The Built Environment: USA Structures

Buildings! Buildings! More Buildings, This time in Canada!

Denver Metro Buildings Import - Couldn't do it Without Community!

Comparing Bing US Buildings with OpenStreetMap

Hampton Roads - A Million Buildings Later…

Denver Metro Building Import -- The Slow Road

roads

Assisted Road Surface Tagging with Machine Learning

AARoads Wiki: A Case Study

Collaborative Corridors to Address OpenStreetMap Underrepresentation

Road Quality Trends in the USA, 2018-2021

Digitize & Manage Your Roads: How RoadBotics Creates Road Data

Arrive in 30,000 kilometers: Ground-truth-based road quality findings in 30 US metros

Road Work Ahead

Let’s Get Work Zones on the Map

Keeping New York road map perfect

State of the US road updates

Road conflation

Geochicas and The Streets of Women: An overview into the progress of adding Costa Rica to the map

recreation

OsmAnd app for mappers

OpenStreetMap Trail compatibility with Government Trail Data: A Case Study in Washington State

(Almost) 100 years of trail mapping: The story of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club

OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative

OpenStreetMap US Trails Initiative

OpenStreetMap & Trails: New Collaborations for Responsible Recreation

Outdoor Recreation: Alabama National Recreation Trails

Unofficial Trails in OpenStreetMap in New York: Metrics & Analysis

Trails in OpenStreetMap

Parks & Recreation

Surveying the Ouray Ice Park

accessibility

Mobility & Accessibility: OpenSidewalks

OpenStreetMap + Accessibility

Measuring National Low-Stress Bicycle Accessibility with OpenStreetMap

Route Planning for Blind Pedestrians using OpenStreetMap

education

OpenHistoricalMap: Doing History

Turbocharging Local Historical Societies with OpenHistoricalMap

Query the Earth

Recreational Land Use and Liability

How does the YouthMappers Validation Hub build maps and mappers?

Analyzing and broadcasting accessibility with Open Street Map

Tools, Community and Data: Native mapping in Africa, for Africa

Inserting OpenStreetMap into Remote Sensing Curricula: Engaging Students in Image Interpretation

TeachOSM 2.0

My School Today: Crowdsourcing geospatial data for mapping school locations

Building OpenStreetMap Into the Elementary Classroom

Appalachia Mappin'

"Show-Me State" of the Map: Introducing an Open Geospatial Curriculum to High Schoolers in St. Louis

How You Can Build a More Equitable OpenStreetMap with YouthMappers' Everywhere She Maps

OpenStreetMap in Education

Back to School Night with TeachOSM: OpenStreetMap for Education

HBCUs in OpenStreetMap / Safe Routes to School

Modeling How To Use OpenStreetMap in the Classroom

Teen Maptivists

University Education and OpenStreetMap: Creating Service Learning Opportunities

Integrating OpenStreetMap into an undergraduate cartography curriculum

10 Years of OpenStreetMap in the Classroom

OpenStreetMap in Education with TeachOSM & AGS

The TeachOSM Project

Using OpenStreetMap to Teach Geography: An Introduction to TeachOSM

Travel Mapping and METAL: Maps and Map Data for Fun and Computer Science Education

How to get College Students engaged with Mapping

Spreading the word about the importance of using OpenStreetMapping in the classroom

OpenStreetMap Across Grades & Subjects

Confessions of a Nervous Geography Student

collaboration

Microcosms in OpenStreetMap

Panel: Public / Private Collaborations Around OpenStreetMap – Past & Future

Importance of Coordination Between YouthMappers

Community Organizing with MicrocOSM

Teams! Teams! Teams!

OpenStreetMap powerups: upgrade your mapping toolbox from collection to analysis

Supporting Local Groups on openstreetmap.org

disaster mapping

OpenStreetMap for Community Wildfire mitigation planning in the Western US

Identifying Gaps in OpenStreetMap for Disaster Resilience

Disaster Response & Resiliency

Digital Elevation Models for Coastal Hazard Preparedness

Street-Level Imagery for COVID and Catastrophe Mapping

The Power of Satellite Imagery in Disaster Response

AI for disaster response mapping: lessons from SpaceNet 4

Evaluating fire evacuation routes using open source maps and data

Are you ready? Bridging the resiliency gap with OpenStreetMap

Collaboration is Key: Engaging communities and governments with Open Cities Africa

imports

Imports are A̶w̶e̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ Hard Work

OpenStreetMap Imports

Simplifying OpenStreetMap data conflation with Hootenanny

Denver Metro Buildings Import - Couldn't do it Without Community!

Hampton Roads - A Million Buildings Later…

Denver Metro Building Import -- The Slow Road

exports

Print an OpenStreetMap Extract: Trailheads maps from OpenStreetMap

Overpass Turbo and OpenStreetMap as a Database

OpenStreetMap Express - a spatial file format for the planet

Simplifying OpenStreetMap data conflation with Hootenanny

OpenStreetMap + Wikidata + Metadata + …

data validation

YouthMappers Validation Hub

The Daylight Map Distribution

“Keepin' it fresh (and good)!” - Continuous Ingestion of OpenStreetMap Data at Facebook

How Map Matching Failures can be used for Map Making

Tracking Down SEO Contributers

Machines and Mappers - How AI and tooling can assist with OpenStreetMap Data Integrity.

Map Quality Measurement 2.0: A Map Quality Collaboration

Bringing Validation to Users: Integrating Quality Assurance Checks into Map Editors

Addresses 101

data analysis

OpenStreetMap data analysis and visualization for beginners

Identifying Gaps in OpenStreetMap for Disaster Resilience

At 18 years old, is OpenStreetMap entering adulthood?

University of Virginia Data Science Capstone

Unofficial Trails in OpenStreetMap in New York: Metrics & Analysis

2020 State of the States

OpenStreetMap Standard Layer: Who's using it?

Road Quality Trends in the USA, 2018-2021

OSM US Community Chronicles: Exploring the growth and patterns of mapping in OpenStreetMap in North America

From The Inside Out: Building a City Vacancy Portal

Map Quality Measurement 2.0: A Map Quality Collaboration

Comparing Bing US Buildings with OpenStreetMap

Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap powerups: upgrade your mapping toolbox from collection to analysis

Postcards from the Edge: A Tour of OpenStreetMap Data Analyses + Visualizations

AI/ML

Assisted Road Surface Tagging with Machine Learning

Rapid v2 - A new WebGL editor for OpenStreetMap

Using OpenStreetMap to create training data

Improving OpenStreetMap Data Quality - Me & You

iSeaTree : Quantifying & Tracking Urban Forestry Benefits as an Open Data Community

Assisted Road Surface Tagging using Machine Learning

Overture and OpenStreetMap: Expanding Open Map Data

Mapping sidewalks and street furniture with artificial intelligence and computer vision

A review of Mapillary Traffic Sign Data Quality and OpenStreetMap Coverage

Building OpenStreetMap Validation Processes in the Open

ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps

(Travel) time is money! Costing turns, intersections, and ways

Getting to know the new Rapid v2 Editor

YouthMappers in Action: Disaster Response in Turkey and Syria using OSM

An Open Data Pipeline From Esri to OpenStreetMap (and back again)

How could field collection for OpenStreetMap look like in the future?

What's new with the RapiD Editor

An end-to-end look at mapping pedestrian infrastructure in OpenStreetMap

The Built Environment: USA Structures

What's happening at MapWithAI?

“Keepin' it fresh (and good)!” - Continuous Ingestion of OpenStreetMap Data at Facebook

Buildings! Buildings! More Buildings, This time in Canada!

Machine Learning Model Democratization with OpenStreetMap Data

How much is enough?: A deep dive on training data requirements for mapping with deep learning

Machines and Mappers - How AI and tooling can assist with OpenStreetMap Data Integrity.

AI for disaster response mapping: lessons from SpaceNet 4

games

Parks, Spawns, Nests & Pikachu: OpenStreetMap & Pokémon GO players

A/B Street: a traffic simulation game built on OpenStreetMap

Gamifying POI Data Collection

Wikimedia

Future of North American Wikimedia affiliates

WikiCred 2022 Grant Cycle Overview

Wikimedia New York City, Sure We Can

Come Here or Go Away?: Identifying Challenges to Scholarly Wikipedia Editing

Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

Fostering open knowledge by providing effective support to volunteers: an introduction to Wikimedia Foundation's Committee Support Team

You can help us fix it: Learning new skills at the Philadelphia WikiSalon

Data Modeling the Person

Wikimedia Sound Logo

Diversifying Wikipedia's biographies

Tips & Tricks for the Programs & Events Dashboard

Linking Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap

Keynote: The Case for Sister Projects

Welcome to Mapping USA + WikiConference North America 2022!