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Schedule & Program

Program

Join for three days packed with talks, workshops, hacking, mapping parties and meetings all around OpenStreetMap.

Thursday

, 5th September Summary & Social Events

Arrive in Minneapolis and enjoy the day. Get some rest so you’re ready bright and early on Friday morning!

Friday

, 6th September Summary & Social Events

Registration in the morning at McNamara Alumni Center. Get here early to pick up your badge, t-shirt, grab a bite from continental breakfast, and find a seat for the start of the program. Sessions and workshops will occur throughout the day. Hear from your fellow OpenStreetMap community members about what they’re working on. Lunch will be provided.

Join us Friday evening for a reception at the Mill City Museum. We’ll have food and beverages of all types, a tour in the Flour Tower, and free run of the museum for hours.

Geochicas and The Streets of Women: An overview into the progress of adding Costa Rica to the map. Tamara Moscoso, Samanda Salazar, Betzabet Chaves Postcards from the Edge: A Tour of OSM Data Analyses + Visualizations Jennings Anderson, Seth Fitzsimmons
How OpenStreetMap can support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ross Bernet Are you ready? Bridging the resiliency gap with OpenStreetMaps nicole martinelli
Collaboration is Key: Engaging communities and governments with Open Cities Africa Grace Doherty Supporting Local Groups on osm.org Brian DeRocher
Denver Metro Building Import -- The Slow Road Margaret-Rose Spyker Hampton Roads - A Million Buildings Later... Jonah Adkins
OSM powerups: upgrade your mapping toolbox from collection to analysis Marc Farra, Seth Vincent A turbo introduction to Overpass Minh Nguyễn
Addresses 101 Wade Crump Using OpenStreetMap for Affordable Housing Lalitha Muthu Subramanian
Lightning Talks Jennings Anderson, Mike Meyer, Michelle I. Albahae, Marc Farra, Matthew Darwin, Christopher Beddow, Frank Moran, Madison Draper
Expanding the reach of OpenStreetMap Steve Moore, Deane Kensok Getting on board: transport fleets capturing Mapillary imagery and our initial journey into OSM Ryan Cook Comparing Bing US Buildings with OpenStreetMap Eugene Cheipesh
Road conflation Bogdana Veselinovic State of the US road updates Tim Smith Keeping New York road map perfect Ilya Zverev
OSM 🥰 Government Panel Martijn van Exel
Evaluating fire evacuation routes using open source maps and data Evan Wyloge Map Quality Measurement 2.0: A Map Quality Collaboration Monica Brandeis, Daniel Castro, Tianyi Ren Bringing Validation to Users: Integrating Quality Assurance Checks into Map Editors Clarisse Abalos, Matthew Gibb
10 Years of Map Kibera Erica Hagen Route Planning for Blind Pedestrians using OpenStreetMap Achituv Cohen Indoor Wayfinding with Visual Impairments: OSM, BLE Beacons, and Nearby Explorer Jeremiah Rose

Saturday

, 7th September Summary & Social Events

Get ready for another great day of talks. Registration will still be open if you’re just getting in. Breakfast and lunch are provided on Saturday as well.

TeachOSM: The New Site Thomas Gertin Spreading the word about the importance of using OpenStreetMapping in the classroom Greg Hill How to get College Students engaged with Mapping Renee Wah, Cyrus Caughey
AI for disaster response mapping: lessons from SpaceNet 4 Nick Weir "MapATI" : OPENSTREETMAP as a tool to help fight against the islands of urban heat AIMEE SAMA Denver Metro Buildings Import - Couldn't do it Without Community! Margaret-Rose Spyker, Diane Fritz
iD v3 Bryan Housel, Quincy Morgan MapRoulette Martijn van Exel
Machines and Mappers - How AI and tooling can assist with OSM Data Integrity. Jeff Underwood, Danil Kirsanov How much is enough?: A deep dive on training data requirements for mapping with deep learning Daniel Hogan Machine Learning Model Democratization with OSM Data Shay Strong
Fixing OpenStreetMap with Government Imagery Christopher Beddow, Gray Koenemann Let’s Get Work Zones on the Map Derald Dudley Mapping Brands with the Name Suggestion Index Bryan Housel
Gamifying POI Data Collection Diana Shkolnikov OSM + Wikidata + Metadata + ... Yuri Astrakhan Visualize large data sets with Elasticsearch and Kibana Nathan Reese
Lightning Talks Josh Sisskind, Jeff Wegerson, Indraneel Purohit, Tim Smith, Ilya Zverev, Yuri Astrakhan
The Geometry of Mobility: Curb Management and OSM Christopher Beddow, D. Waltersdorfer Kerb your enthusiasm Emily Eros
Measuring National Low-Stress Bicycle Accessibility with OpenStreetMap Brendan Murphy The approach to building better bike maps in Canada Matthew Darwin

Sunday

, 8th September Summary & Social Events

Stick around on Sunday for morning sessions, workshops, and the closing session.

OSM Water: How well are Minnesota’s water features mapped? Matthew Manley, Bentley Breithaupt, Alex Sweeney Simplifying OpenStreetMap data conflation with Hootenanny Max Grossman, Brian Hatchl, Ben Marchant
Update on Open Historical Map: Using the OSM stack live with vector tiles Jeff Meyer How Map Matching Failures can be used for Map Making Albert Yuen, James Murphy
From The Inside Out: Building a City Vacancy Portal Jonathan Leek OpenStreetMap for Location Data Privacy Morgan Herlocker
The Power of Satellite Imagery in Disaster Response Madison Musgrave OSM Express - a spatial file format for the planet Brandon Liu
“Keepin' it fresh (and good)!” - Continuous Ingestion of OSM Data at Facebook Saurav Mohapatra Capturing the flow of tags - Chameleon Austin Lin, Evan Derickson
The serverless map stack lives Gautam Dey, Alexander Rolek Travel Mapping and METAL: Maps and Map Data for Fun and Computer Science Education Jim Teresco

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