State of the Map US 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to State of the Map US 2023 | Maggie Cawley, Lee Schwartz | 23m |
OpenStreetMap US runs this conference since 2010 and this year lists 110 speakers from over 100 submissions, funded by sponsors including Meta as platinum and… | ||
| The Geography of Climate Inequity | Jeremy Hoffman | 26m |
Uses FLIR surface imagery, volunteer-mounted thermometers and GPS rides at 6am/3pm/7pm, and a predictive infill model to map urban heat; Richmond 2017 shows a… | ||
| Mapping a Path to Digital Democracy: A Federal Perspective | Tod Dabolt, Carrie Stokes, Eddie Pickle, Ryan Hathaway, Josh Campbell | 52m |
Federal agencies report concrete wins and remaining blockers: OSM powers a scaled YouthMappers network and field mapping used to plan malaria spraying and… | ||
| My School Today: Crowdsourcing geospatial data for mapping school locations | Anela Layugan | 12m |
Project maps school locations across Africa using OpenStreetMap + WorldPop + ArcGIS StoryMaps to generate isochrone rasters for 0–30 / 30–60 / >60 minute… | ||
| How we use OSM data for news mapping | Hannah Dormido | 11m |
Washington Post cartography uses OpenStreetMap as a live base layer with building polygons, streets and alleys to produce breaking maps fast. Examples include… | ||
| Visualizing Hospital Accessibility with OpenStreetMap | William Edmisten | 15m |
Interactive static-site maps show driving-time isochrones to the nearest hospital computed entirely from OSM using Valhalla for isochrones, Python +… | ||
| Mapillary Camera Grant Program | Edoardo Neerhut | 06m |
Mapillary and OSM US provide 20 GoPro Max 360 cameras plus tripod adapter, selfie stick, a fat gecko triple suction cup mount and USPS shipping box to collect… | ||
| Simplifying access to OpenStreetMap data for urban planning | Vitor George | 05m |
A prototype platform tracks city-level OpenStreetMap changes and pushes processed presets (schools, hospitals, cycling infrastructure) as GeoJSON files to a… | ||
| Using OpenStreetMap with the Python OpenPoliceData package | Paul Otto | 05m |
OpenPoliceData standardizes incident‑level datasets (traffic stops, use of force, officer‑involved shootings, complaints) into pandas tables and provides a… | ||
| Mapping Urban Deprivation | Maxwell Owusu | 07m |
Maps deprived urban areas by combining open geospatial layers and machine learning into a reproducible pipeline that resamples inputs to a 100 m grid for… | ||
| MVT Tiles and Autonomous Driving, and other non-UI usage | Yuri Astrakhan | 05m |
Argues that Map Vector Tiles (MVT) work for more than rendering and demonstrates a GitHub proof-of-concept repo with 51 replies and 14 comments that adds lane… | ||
| Optimizing the Value of Geospatial Data | Derald Dudley | 12m |
GeoValue frames a concrete checklist: follow the geographic information value chain—acquisition, harmonization, accessibility—to turn datasets into assets… | ||
| Reimagining Public Transport: An OSM-based Street Supply Tool | Thet Hein Tun | 13m |
An interactive web prototype extracts OpenStreetMap geometry and attributes to return aggregated road lengths by hierarchy for any user-drawn polygon… | ||
| The best of both worlds: designing an international American map | Minh Nguyen, Clay Smalley | 09m |
OpenStreetMap Americana recreates a midcentury U.S. atlas look while actually handling multilingual labels, packaged as a reusable library that pulls names… | ||
| Introducing Public Domain Map | Quincy Morgan | 10m |
Public Domain Map is a bridge database that lets government entities request crowdsourced mapping and return validated data under a CC0 license back into… | ||
| Simplifying OpenStreetMap Data: Reducing Multi-Lane Streets to Single Lanes | Achituv Cohen | 12m |
A Python pipeline using OSMnx Python package reads OSM, drops unnamed segments and service roads, computes bearing, clusters collinear lanes, buffers and… | ||
| External Data and Importing in the United States | James Crawford | 13m |
The Florida land-use import progressively greens the peninsula by running county-by-county conflation, deleting low-value polygons and preserving named… | ||
| Landsat data types, usage and access in conjunction with OpenStreetMap data | Jacob Savoy | 13m |
Landsat 7, 8 and 9 provide 30 m pixels across ~180 by 185 km scenes with an effective 8‑day revisit when 8 and 9 operate together, and include thermal band 10… | ||
| OpenStreetMap In Local Government | Micheal Kaluba | 30m |
OpenStreetMap Uganda builds a GIS-based property register for four new cities that links OSM street names to field surveys, cleans Kobo/ODK exports in Excel… | ||
| How to contribute to osm.org | Brian DeRocher | 07m |
A major communities feature for osm.org is nearly complete after 2–3 years of work: it adds a top-level navigation item for spatial and interest communities… | ||
| Tracking OpenStreetMap History and Quality with the ohsome Stack | Marcel Reinmuth | 06m |
The ohsome stack exposes a time-indexed OpenStreetMap history via the OSM history database (OSHDB) and web APIs, with a form-based dashboard that shows… | ||
| The OpenHistoricalMap experiment | Richard Welty | 06m |
OpenHistoricalMap runs on the OSM stack but extends it: 10+ years of work adds a custom vector rendering engine to power a time slider (raster tiles proved… | ||
| osm2pgsql flex backend | Paul Norman | 09m |
osm2pgsql’s new flex backend lets users define arbitrary tables and uses a per-object flex API to decide for each node way or relation where it goes so you can… | ||
| Switching to PMTiles | Indraneel Purohit | 06m |
Switching to a single-file PMTiles archive lets a map stack serve both vector and raster tiles without third-party tile APIs; the project converts MBTiles to… | ||
| (Travel) time is money! Costing turns, intersections, and ways | Kuan Butts, Jamie Saxon | 16m |
A scalable method uses OLS regressions on map‑matched traces (Tokyo and Richmond) to estimate seconds per meter for ways and fixed seconds per intersection or… | ||
| ChatGeoPT: Exploring the future of talking to our maps | Ben Strong, Mikel Maron | 16m |
A toy geospatial assistant called ChatGeoPT translates natural language into valid Overpass API queries, sends them, then feeds the XML results back into GPT-3… | ||
| Large scale field mapping with OSM | Rob Savoye | 16m |
A new tool called Field Mapping Tasking Manager coordinates large field campaigns and produces one XLSForm and a geojson extract per task so mappers get only… | ||
| Building a Sustainable OpenStreetMap Community in the Eastern Caribbean | Christopher Williams | 10m |
Saint Lucia runs OpenCities that trains 135 people and records 150,000 map changes and 11,000 building footprints to update decade-old official maps for hazard… | ||
| Mapping the turn of the Century with OHM and oldinsurancemaps.net | Jeff Meyer, Adam Cox | 12m |
oldinsurancemaps.net turns the Library of Congress Sanborn scans into ready-to-use web tiles and a single mosaic endpoint that import into OpenHistoricalMap… | ||
| Comparative study on key OSM tags needed for a well-functioning automotive navigation | Viktor Vereb | 14m |
Comparative testing in Budapest uses NNG’s OSM+ in iGO, Mapbox’s OSM-backed maps and OSMAND and concludes OpenStreetMap is viable for automotive navigation but… | ||
| Putting the AR puzzle together with OpenStreetMap | Edoardo Neerhut | 15m |
Argues that AR navigation is practical now if map data fills key gaps and shows which pieces already work: precise pedestrian ways and crossings geometry… | ||
| Spatial Equity NYC | Sarah Williams | 17m |
An interactive web tool aggregates 15 equity indicators (downselected from 50–60 open datasets) and reports them aggregated at the council district level so… | ||
| Participatory & Open GIS for Action-Oriented International Development | Rory Nealon, Brent McCusker | 15m |
Network of 371 university chapters across 70 countries contributes over 19 million OpenStreetMap edits and trains students in participatory GIS and open… | ||
| TeachOSM 2.0 | Jess Beutler, Steven Johnson | 13m |
Ten years of school-focused OpenStreetMap work yields two concrete launches: a sandbox integrated into the tasking manager so students can practice edits… | ||
| Inserting OSM into Remote Sensing Curricula: Engaging Students in Image Interpretation | Diane Fritz | 05m |
A tested lesson plan inserts OpenStreetMap into an intro remote sensing class: students first map a familiar place using photographic interpretation cues like… | ||
| YouthMappers in Action: Disaster Response in Turkey and Syria using OSM | Feye Andal | 07m |
YouthMappers mobilizes university chapters to map earthquake damage using Rapid Editor and Mapillary, Planet and OpenAerialMap imagery, and the HOT Tasking… | ||
| Mapping for Impact | Jess Beutler | 11m |
OpenStreetMap US launches Mapping for Impact in 2021 to partner with nonprofits and agencies and creates actionable datasets: 3,000 play spaces in Philadelphia… | ||
| Utilizing OSM to discover hidden vulnerabilities to extreme heat | Kate Varfalameyeva | 14m |
Project uses OpenStreetMap and YouthMappers to map missing housing, finds over 2,000 mobile homes and 600 RVs in three months and builds a statewide dataset of… | ||
| A New Home for Field Papers | Quincy Morgan, Stephanie May | 13m |
Field Papers moves from Stamen to OpenStreetMap US stewardship and remains a live, global mapping tool; the site already hosts hundreds of thousands of atlases… | ||
| Mapping for Equity: An Intro to BetaNYC's Civic Innovation Fellows' Community Project | Jazzy Smith | 16m |
Six Civic Innovation Fellows spend February to May using OpenStreetMap and paper field maps to inventory public amenities across North Brooklyn Council… | ||
| Query the Earth | Jennings Anderson, Jonah Adkins | 06m |
A reproducible table of OSM features organized into 10 high-level themes (buildings, water, land use, etc.), published as Parquet files on the AWS Open Data… | ||
| Using MapSwipe for Heat Resilience of Mobile and Manufactured Home Communities | Maryam Shakib | 15m |
Project uses MapSwipe from the Missing Maps effort with trained student volunteers from YouthMappers to locate manufactured and mobile home communities… | ||
| Adding Open Data to Rapid through Esri | Yunzhi Lin, Steve Moore | 13m |
Meta Maps conflates compatible open datasets with OSM since 2020 and now surfaces the missing features into Rapid via an Esri workflow that consumes ArcGIS… | ||
| Improving OpenStreetMap Data Quality: Me & You | Chad Blevins | 06m |
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team drafts a concrete data quality strategy after workshops, interviews and iterative review with the Data Quality Working Group… | ||
| Turbocharging Local Historical Societies with OpenHistoricalMap | Jeff Meyer | 10m |
OpenHistoricalMap is presented as a platform that turns archives into searchable, georeferenced narratives: a Historical Society Mapping Kit plus tools to… | ||
| OSM Teams 2.0: Organized Editing and Community Management | Marc Farra | 16m |
OSM Teams 2.0 is a central API and UI for group management that attaches metadata to OSM user IDs, adds join links and per-team visibility controls, and… | ||
| From Swipes to Solutions: Exploring the Impact of MapSwipe on Humanitarian Response | Kat Kinzer | 17m |
MapSwipe is a mobile-first crowdsourcing app that produces analysis layers (no direct OSM edits) via three project types find / compare / validate, used to… | ||
| An Infinite Map: The Protomaps Vector Basemap based on OpenStreetMap | Brandon Liu | 15m |
An open source end-to-end vector basemap delivered as a single PMTiles file ~100 GB converts raw OSM/Planet PBFs plus Natural Earth into a self-hostable… | ||
| OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative | Diane Fritz, Maggie Cawley | 13m |
Pilot maps a small multi‑agency area, tags dozens of social trails with informal=yes tag, shares edits with land managers, and measures impact by comparing… | ||
| Sketch Map Tool: Participatory mapping in OSM and beyond | Marcel Reinmuth, Charles Hatfield | 14m |
Sketch Map Tool generates printable OSM-based PDFs, accepts photographed or scanned annotations, and returns a geo-referenced GeoTIFF plus GeoJSON vector… | ||
| Analyzing and broadcasting accessibility with OpenStreetMap | Anson Parker | 13m |
LYRASIS-funded work tests LIDAR and phone sensors for accessibility mapping and finds mixed results: indoor LIDAR from an iPad Pro gives ~3 cm scans but fails… | ||
| Recreational Land Use and Liability | Gray Montrose | 13m |
Virginia law relies on a broad Virginia Recreational Use Statute that generally removes landowner duty of care except for gross negligence or when a fee is… | ||
| Assisted Road Surface Tagging using Machine Learning | Jon Dalrymple | 06m |
An ML pipeline consumes USGS NAIP imagery plus existing OSM traces, produces a segmentation mask for road pixels, then labels each road segment paved or… | ||
| Rapid v2: A new WebGL editor for OpenStreetMap | Bryan Housel, Ben Clark | 15m |
Rapid v2 rewrites the renderer with PixiJS WebGL and claims 10x faster rendering versus Rapid v1, removing SVG/CSS/D3 and replacing them with an internal scene… | ||
| (Almost) 100 years of trail mapping: The story of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club | Erin Cheever | 13m |
All-volunteer club maps over 1,100 miles of trails using field-collected GPS since 2010, moving from compass and measuring wheel to Trimble DA2 for centerlines… | ||
| Using OpenStreetMap to create training data | Clarisse Abalos | 04m |
OpenStreetMap features become labeled satellite training data by generating an Overpass query from a config, downloading tiles and exporting annotations as MS… | ||
| Overture and OpenStreetMap: Expanding Open Map Data | Marc Prioleau | 14m |
Overture positions itself six months after launch as a pipeline-first project that combines OpenStreetMap, government datasets, AI/computer vision and sensors… | ||
| How does the YouthMappers Validation Hub build maps and mappers? | Richard Hinton, Adele Birkenes | 16m |
Validation Hub starts in 2019 and now supports a 371‑university network across 72 countries, running 193 YouthMappers projects while a cadre of 33 trained… | ||
| Have you checked your vector tiles lately? | Damon Burgett, Alex Parlato | 15m |
Vector tiles often carry lots of unused geometry and properties that make mid-zoom tiles balloon; a practical workflow shrinks those peaks by linting tiles… | ||
| Getting to know the new Rapid v2 Editor | Bryan Housel | 07m |
Rapid v2 (released April) replaces the old renderer with WebGL rendering so map tiles draw much faster, lets users layer AI‑derived and authoritative datasets… | ||
| Spatial Mapping in Python with GeoPandas and OpenStreetMap | Erich Purpur | 05m |
Shows a Python workflow that turns tabular police records from open police data into spatial data with GeoPandas, converts a column to WKT/geometries and plots… | ||
| Mapping Chinese Financed Development Projects Around the World Using OSM | Jacob Hall, Sheng Zhang, Max Berckmueller | 17m |
AidData maintains 13,427 projects from 2000–2017 totaling $843 billion and maps many by extracting OSM features (buildings, roads, industrial areas) to produce… | ||
| Tools Community and Data: Native Mapping in Africa, for Africa | Mercy Ọ̀naọpẹ́mipọ̀ Akintola | 03m |
Claim: companies like Milsat Technologies combine modern satellite and field acquisition tools with local communities and OSM Africa training to close… | ||
| Interplay between mapping and understanding pedestrian access through an equity lens | Nick Bolten | 19m |
A practical method for city‑scale pedestrian mapping maps sidewalks, crossings, curb ramps and on‑sidewalk vs on‑street segments together so routing and… | ||
| Building OpenStreetMap Validation Processes in the Open | Sanjay Bhangar | 14m |
Recap of seven years: the August 30, 2018 renamed‑city incident forces companies to run closed pipelines like Meta Daylight and Apple’s Atlas to produce vetted… | ||
| OsmAnd app for mappers | Victor Shcherb, Eugene Kizevich | 11m |
OsmAnd demonstrates concrete mapper tools: live map updates push incremental diffs every 10 minutes (May 2023 California diff ~7 MB vs full map ~380 MB; ~500… | ||
| HOT Tasking Manager: The Road Ahead | Ramya Ragupathy | 14m |
Tasking Manager is a decade-old open source platform that has coordinated 11K+ projects across 158 countries and enabled ~300K mappers to add ~127M buildings… | ||
| Using OpenDataKit with OpenStreetMap | Rob Savoye | 38m |
A toolkit converts ODK Collect submissions and geojson extracts into conflated OSM XML ready to upload, using a Python pipeline (Postgres/Underpass or… | ||
| Building Heights: From Open USGS lidar to open Overture maps | Yunzhi Lin, Eric Spellman | 16m |
Uses USGS 3DEP QL1/QL2 lidar and conflated footprints from OpenStreetMap, Esri and Microsoft to estimate building heights at scale, releasing results via… | ||
| Towards automated mapping of pedestrian path networks at scale | Ricky Zhang | 15m |
A pipeline converts satellite imagery plus existing street graphs into 4,800 annotated samples and trains a multi-input segmentation network to infer sidewalk… | ||
| The State of OSMCha | Wille Marcel | 15m |
OSMCha is a change‑set validation platform created in 2015, rebuilt with Mapbox support in 2017 and now accepted as an OpenStreetMap US charter project to fund… | ||
| MapLibre Native: Status and Future | Steve Gifford | 14m |
MapLibre Native migrates the renderer from OpenGL ES to Metal by first modularizing the engine so alternate backends (Vulkan, DirectX) plug in, and by moving… | ||
| OpenStreetMap Trail compatibility with Government Trail Data | Monica Brandeis, Stephen Cerqueira | 14m |
A Washington state case study compares the RCO government trails GIS with OSM trail data, finding 95% overlap at a coarse level, about 60% highly compatible… | ||
| OpenHistoricalMap: Doing History | Richard Welty | 18m |
Overlaying 17th–19th century maps on OpenStreetMap with MapWarper exposes concrete problems and solutions: a phantom “Sea of the West” persists for 200 years… | ||
| A review of Mapillary Traffic Sign Data Quality and OSM Coverage | Said Turksever, Yunzhi Lin | 09m |
Mapillary extracts stop signs from GoPro Max street imagery using semantic segmentation and Structure from Motion, then compares results to survey ground truth… | ||
| RASED: A Scalable Dashboard for Monitoring Road Network Updates in OpenStreetMap | Mashaal Musleh | 16m |
RASED is a web dashboard that precomputes daily and monthly aggregates into a hierarchical temporal index of four-level data cubes so queries hit a few pages… | ||
| Mapping sidewalks and street furniture with AI and computer vision | Meead Saberi, Tanapon Lilasathapornkit | 10m |
An AI pipeline converts 360° sidewalk images and GPS into geolocated point and line GIS layers — benches, garbage bins, bike racks, sidewalks and crosswalks —… | ||
| iSeaTree: Quantifying & Tracking Urban Forestry Benefits | Tree Mama | 04m |
iSeaTree is a mobile app that helps beginners map and quantify urban trees by combining AI tree ID with a phone DBH measurement so users don’t need tape… | ||
| Cartography Protips: Creating Basemaps for Amazon Location Service | Stephanie May, Seth Fitzsimmons, Katie Kowalsky | 09m |
Amazon Location Service commissions produce four map styles built on OpenStreetMap vector tiles and a Stamen cartographic process, split into reference vs… | ||
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