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OpenStreetMap US is committed to helping people get the most out of OpenStreetMap. Our events feature talks from community members with deep and specialized knowledge on a staggering range of topics. Recorded talks are one of the best ways to learn more, 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: The Geography of Climate Inequity

Keynote: The Case for Sister Projects

Keynote: Ingrid Burrington

Keynote: Mapping Prejudice

buildings

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

recreation

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

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

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

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

ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps

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

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!