OpenStreetMap US Tech Lead Quincy Morgan introduces Layercake, a new cloud-native way to work with OSM data, at FedGeoDay 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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Quincy is a mapper, developer, and traveler from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently supports community tools and websites as Technical Lead at OpenStreetMap US.
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OpenStreetMap’s native file format is OSM PBF, but this 80GB ‘planet file’ is unwieldly and not supported by all GIS software. Layercake is OSM data extracted into thematic layers (buildings, transportation, etc) and converted to cloud-native file formats that are easy to use with software from DuckDB to QGIS.
