Topic
OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
My friend Joe Morrison wrote an excellent piece on the current state of corporate investment in OpenStreetMap: The four companies in the inner circle — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft — have a combined market c…
- Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets
🐇 Looking-Glass Politics On private emotions being thrown into the public sphere: People escape the Dunbar world for obvious reasons: life there appears prosaic and uninspiring. They find a digital interface and, lik…
- Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation
⚾️ How the Nationals Fixed Stephen Strasburg and Saved Their Season Strasburg tipping his pitches almost ended the Nats’ run: He remembered the game Strasburg pitched in Arizona on August 3. The Diamondbacks pounded S…
- mapwith.ai
In a conversation yesterday I learned about this project called RapiD, led by Facebook to use computer vision technology to detect features for mapping in OpenStreetMap. They’re working on a fork of the iD editor that…
- MapSCII
I love that people out in the open source world still build things like this. It's an xterm-compatible renderer for accessing interactive map from a terminal console. I even tried it from a console on an EC2 instance…
- Weekend Reading: Summer Solstice, Zoom Learnings, and TeachOSM
📺 5 Learnings from Zoom Zoom is one of those admirable SaaS companies built on solid product and amazing execution. I love this — not relying on anything sexy or super inventive, just solving a known problem better t…
- Assisted Tasks for OpenStreetMap
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has been working on an experimental version of the Tasking Manager tool that incorporates deep learning-assisted mapping projects. The OSM community has long been (and still largely…
- Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map
🛰 Buildings from Imagery with RoboSat This excellent guide shows how to combine take imagery from OpenAerialMap and buildings from OpenStreetMap, and combine to train a model for automated feature extraction. It uses…
- Video Mapping in OpenStreetMap with Fulcrum
With tools like Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, it’s pretty easy now to collect street-level images with a smartphone for OpenStreetMap editing. Point of interest data is now the biggest quality gap for OSM as compared t…
- Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball
🇹🇿 Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary A fun travel post from the Mapillary team after FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam. A drive around Zanzibar collecting images for OpenStreetMap mapping. Also check out part 2 of the journey…
- OpenStreetMap and TeachOSM
I’ve hosted many OSM mapathons in the past, and today’s event with AGS and the Geo2050 conference was a huge success. It’s hard to create an engaging, productive environment that’s conducive to new mappers learning ab…
- Teaching OpenStreetMap
We’re heading up next month to the American Geographical Society’s Geography2050 again this year, which will be my 4th one, and the 5th annual overall. It’s always a great event — a diverse crowd in attendance and a c…
- Weekly Links: OSM on AWS, Fulcrum Editor, & Real-time Drone Maps
Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena 🗺 Using Amazon’s Athena service, you can now interactively query OpenStreetMap data right from an interactive console. No need to use the complicated OSM API, this is pure SQ…
- Bringing Geographic Data Into the Open with OpenStreetMap
This is an essay I wrote that was published in the OpenForum Academy's "Thoughts on Open Innovation" book in early summer 2013. Shane Coughlan invited me to contribute on open innovation in geographic data, so I wrote…
- Pushpin, Statistics, and Mobile OpenStreetMap Editing
In the fall of 2012, we launched Pushpin, a mobile OpenStreetMap editor for iOS. It’s now been used by thousands of people in over 100 countries for casual editing, mapping parties, and humanitarian aid projects. Push…
- Grassroots Mapping
Since OpenStreetMap is growing in leaps and bounds, I wanted to take the time to give a brief intro at Ignite Tampa. This talk introduced the project itself, the importance of OSM community growth, and the OSM Tampa B…
- Creating New Contributors to OpenStreetMap
I wrote a blog post last week about the first few months of usage of Pushpin, the mobile app we built for editing OpenStreetMap data. As I mentioned in the post, I'm fascinated and excited by how many brand new OpenSt…
- Fixing Geography in Education
I believe our higher education system is not properly preparing students of geography & GIS for the workplace, especially when it comes to modern mapping technology. This was a talk from the FOSS4G Ignite session on m…
- OSM Tampa Bay
At the start of 2012, I started a meetup group (OSM Tampa Bay) for the local Tampa-St. Petersburg to get together and contribute to OpenStreetMap. This talk was from our first WhereCampTB event, to get our local mappe…