This year’s annual State of the Map US conference is shaping up to be a big deal. From June 6th to 8th, OpenStreetMappers from all over the world will come together at the United Nations headquarters to share their latest mapping work and their visions for the project’s future. Check out the amazing program covering community, cartography, mapping techniques, and education with examples from non profits, government, universities, businesses and more.
This conference comes at a time when OpenStreetMap and open geospatial data is just starting to reveal their power. Just last week in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, the open map has shown once again that it has become critical infrastructure to some of the biggest and most important institutions on the planet. In the past ten years, we have seen the community-driven project grow from a crazy idea to global coverage. OpenStreetMap continues to gain traction in government, and it has become more than competitive with proprietary data.
We’re excited to join amazing speakers in a jam-packed program and to connect with everyone. Here are the sessions where you can catch us:
Lyzi Diamond will report together with Beth Schechter from Stamen on lessons learned from building a global education community with Maptime.
Konstantin Käfer will discuss the progress made on in-device rendering together with Matt Blair from Mapzen, Steve Gifford from WhirlyGlobe-Maply, and Hannes Janetzek from OpenScienceMap.
Sajjad Anwar will explain how OpenStreetMap’s software is an amazing platform for any collaborative mapping project - not just OpenStreetMap.
Arun Ganesh will give a lightning talk about the State of the Map in India.
Minh Nguyen will share his ideas for how to tickle more local mappers into action.
Aaron Lidman will take a deep dive on tools like to-fix that scale our mapping effort as a team.
And you’ll find me sharing how we’re building a team of professional mappers to help build the best map in the world.
Book your trip and join us. We’re looking forward to seeing you in New York!
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