Topic / open data

Open Buildings

Google publishes an open archive of 1.8 billion building footprints.

OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment

Joe Morrison updates us on the state corporate investment in OpenStreetMap.

Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets

Gurri on private vs. public emotions, McCloskey on the boom of modern progress, and Facebook's work on OpenStreetMap data.

Library JSON

A proposal to build an open format for book data using json.

Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types

Weaving Books Into the Web

The Internet Archive is working on linking to scanned books for Wikipedia book citations.

MapSCII

A neat tool for accessing an interactive map on a terminal console.

Assisted Tasks for OpenStreetMap

HOT OSM team on using ML techniques to assist in mapping tasks.

A Growing Geo Community: Takeaways from FOSS4G NA 2019

My takeaways from this year's FOSS4G-NA conference in San Diego, CA.

Humanitarian Exchange Language

The HXL standard allows for uniform exchange of humanitarian datasets.

The Opportunity Project

On our engagement with the US Census team in the Opportunity Project.

OpenAerialMap: Open Drone Imagery for Humanitarians

How you can use OpenAerialMap for hi-res imagery in Fulcrum Community.

Weekend Reading: Fulcrum in Santa Barbara, Point Clouds, Building Footprints

Santa Barbara SAR with Fulcrum Community, open point cloud data on AWS, and Microsofts millions of building footprints.

Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM

Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.

Topography, Bathymetry, Toponymy

“A few resources for topography, bathymetry, and place names in mapping.”

topoView

Topo map viewer from the USGS for National Map data.

Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping

David Garcia and Daniel Huffman's cartography projects.

Video Mapping in OpenStreetMap with Fulcrum

A quick overview of my video mapping workflow for OSM editing, using Fulcrum.

Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames

Smart Keyboard Folio, defending 'climate optiism', and exploring place name data.

An Open Database of Addresses

One of the coolest open source / open data projects happening right now is OpenAddresses, a growing group effort assembling around the problem of geocoding, the process of turning human-friendly addresses into spatial coordinates. Here's a quick overview of the project.

Bringing Geographic Data Into the Open with OpenStreetMap

An essay on the value and importance of the OpenStreetMap project.

Creating New Contributors to OpenStreetMap

What can the OSM community do to create a larger body of contributors, and get registered users to edit?

Local Knowledge

Here are the slides from my talk at the first ever Ignite Tampa Bay. It was a blast to watch all the great talks from such a varied set of interests and passions. Great turnout, too — we drew a sellout crowd out to watch.