BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Tri Tech Computers//node-icalendar//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:a2ae4dee-1124-431d-92f6-0e6eecdacc90 SUMMARY:"Walkshed.js: Client-side Raster Processing with OSM Data Tiles" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOSM is commonly used for map tile generation and routing \, but much less so with data rasters. Rasterizing OSM data can open up a whole new set of mapping and analytical possibilities using map algebra. W alkshed.js is a project combining OSM data tiles and cost-distance raster calculations to measure pedestrian access for a location. This talk will b e a technical dive into creating OSM data tiles and the JavaScript code us ed to do raster processing in the browser.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T220000Z DTEND:20130608T220000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:3faf5c4b-6466-4bdf-81f0-4e4d634ae602 SUMMARY:"From Wiki Gardening to Map Gardening: Analyzing Contribution Patte rns in OpenStreetMap" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will propose a framework for classifying an d quantifying the ways in which OpenStreetMap contributors interact with O SM data. Existing research does not differentiate between various types of contribution to OSM\, even though these activities (such as adding new fe atures in an unmapped area versus modifying the geometry or tags of existi ng features) may stem from different motivations\, rely on different types of skill\, and occur in significantly different contexts. This lack of di stinction leaves many questions unanswered. Are the users who initially co ntribute data the same users who later maintain it? Do the types of tasks undertaken by users change over the duration of their engagement with OSM? \n\nAlan will present an analysis of the extent and frequency of map gard ening - the crowd-sourced maintenance of geographic data - within OSM\, ma king comparisons across spatial and temporal scales and between individual users. He'll argue that this typology offers a new tool for understanding what characteristics lead to committed OSM contributors and healthy local mapping communities.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T164500Z DTEND:20130609T164500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:19f8713d-e02f-4c43-bc17-7b9fa7a2d703 SUMMARY:"The Threads of OSM Discussions: Are the Doors Really Open?" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOpenStreetMap exists with what Gabriella Coleman calls a collaborative ethical temperament - one that explicitly honors transparen cy\, accessibility\, and openness for the purpose of participation. Vibran t and open dialog is key in encouraging and facilitating this participatio n. But are the doors really open to anyone? \n\nIn this talk Alyssa will i ntroduce openthreads\, a platform for the analysis and visualization of li stserves. Through the openthreads methodology\, alongside various visuali zations of OSM mailing lists\, she'll demonstrate how OSM dialogs start an d exist over time. Who has a voice? What does it mean to participate in OS M discussions? And what can we do to hold ourselves accountable in creatin g an even more diverse community of participation? \n\n\n DTSTART:20130609T194500Z DTEND:20130609T194500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:55768e24-37b0-42d0-99f9-a66ba48ad1a4 SUMMARY:"Using OpenStreetMap Data to Build Your Dynamic Maps" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nMany projects today are collecting data continuously and want to build maps that show the latest trends. Whether the data is docum enting street congestion\, air quality\, human movement\, or a host of oth er subjects\, this data can be combined with OpenStreetMap to build dynami c and real-time maps for the web. This session will demonstrate how CartoD B can be used to store\, manage\, and sort OSM data\, and then be used to combine dynamic data with OSM layers to create real-time maps. While publi shing dynamic maps on the web has traditionally been a technological chall enge\, CartoDB now makes it easier than ever before. CartoDB serves maps f rom a live database with on-demand filtering and styling. It also utilizes caching strategies that mean your maps are always fast but never get out of sync from the data on your account. \n\n DTSTART:20130608T194500Z DTEND:20130608T194500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d4b695c0-d110-4e1c-8174-9c7acb5b25ea SUMMARY:Putting the Carto into OpenStreetMap Cartography DESCRIPTION:---\n\nEarlier this year\, Andy embarked on a rewrite of the Op enStreetMap standard Mapnik stylesheets\, porting them to the CartoCSS sty ling language. This opens the door for developing the styles using TileMil l\, as well as making them easy to customize for other projects.\n\nIn thi s session Andy will discuss some of the background behind the rewrite\, ti ps that he's picked up\, tricks that were developed\, and advice on the co mmon pitfalls when styling OSM data in TileMill. He'll also explain how to wrangle the stylesheets to suit your own projects and how to help further improve our cartography.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T174500Z DTEND:20130608T174500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:89d6d26f-bace-47d6-be08-891c96f50cf4 SUMMARY:The Secrets of Mapnik DESCRIPTION:---\n\nArtem Pavlenko\, creator of Mapnik\, will lift the hood on the open source rendering engine. This will be an almost non-technical snapshot of tricks that can lead to awesome performance for the user\, deb unking a few myths along the way. As planet OSM gets bigger\, speed and sc alability become paramount - but meanwhile users want more features. This session will look at ways to reconcile these two (or not)\, and where the balance should be. It will also examine possible directions the Mapnik pro ject could take\, with the aim of kickstarting a focused discussion in the OSM community.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T171500Z DTEND:20130608T171500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:3ba1e57b-5a17-4be9-bd77-94437c737e12 SUMMARY:OpenStreetMap and Flight Simulation DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will explore the use of OpenStreetMap data in flight simulation software and specifically in [osm2xp](http://wiki.ope nstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2xp)\, software that injects OSM data into flight s imulators. Benjamin will show the evolution of terrain representation in f light simulators and discuss how OpenStreetMap can improve the existing la ndscape in this area. He'll show how close to reality you can get thanks t o OSM\, discuss the pros and cons of using OSM in flight simulation\, and talk about the different approaches out there. \n\n DTSTART:20130608T171500Z DTEND:20130608T171500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:5f6744fb-682e-4857-bcae-54f0e6d1dacf SUMMARY:"I Dream of Data: Building Worldwide\, Multi-Source Maps" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nStart with local government content\, add a dash of comm ercial navigation\, a pinch of OSM\, and wa-lah! You've got a recipe for c reating the best in breed of authoritative maps. Simple? Not a chance. If your goal is to create beautiful\, complete\, and authoritative maps that describe essential data layers\, using disparate sources is often required . \n\nThis session will discuss issues for achieving this goal - data qual ity assessment\, metaphors for contribution\, handling imports and data co nflicts\, and licensing paradigms. Christine will discuss the Esri Communi ty Maps program\, its results from a recent assessment of integrating OSM data into Community Maps\, and ways OSM and Community Maps can learn from and benefit one another in the near future.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T191500Z DTEND:20130608T191500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:2954d91b-aeaf-41cd-9800-adac9e8a4f85 SUMMARY:"Pushpin\, Stats\, and Mobile Editing" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nIn the fall of 2012\, the mobile OpenStreetMap editor fo r iOS devices - Pushpin - was launched. It's now been used by thousands of people in over 100 countries for casual editing\, mapping parties\, and h umanitarian aid projects. Pushpin has lowered lower the bar for mappers\, making it simpler for newcomers to make meaningful contributions. This tal k will review some of the experiences of Pushpin's development\, statistic s on its usage worldwide\, and how Spatial Networks wants to grow the app in the coming year.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T153000Z DTEND:20130608T153000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:76722ed0-08a6-4657-bc31-df14559e9eea SUMMARY:"Humanitarian OpenStreetMap at the Red Cross: The Inside Story" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOver the last three years\, the American Red Cross' Inte rnational Services Department went from a geospatially unaware institution to an active user\, contributor\, and advocate of OpenStreetMap and geosp atial technologies for its humanitarian responses and long-term programs. Everywhere it works\, OSM is becoming the first-choice map and data layer employed to orient Red Cross teams. \n\nAnd the Red Cross is not just user s\, but also contributors. In Uganda\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Argentina\, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, the American Red Cross remotely maps disaster prone communities and ongoing disaster sites to assist on t he ground response teams. In Chile\, Uganda\, Indonesia and Nepal\, they t rain and equip OSM field teams within Red Cross National Societies capable of mapping communities we preparing for disasters. Back in the U.S.\, the y've engaged Tulane and George Washington University students to remotely map priority project sites around the world. \n\nThis team owes its succes ses entirely to the good will and assistance of the OSM community. This pr esentation will fling the doors wide open and show the Red Cross' OSM acco mplishments and their roadmap for the future. Recommended for anyone inter ested in seeing how OSM can benefit international humanitarian organizatio ns.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T210000Z DTEND:20130609T210000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:ced38a69-b87b-47bd-81d2-5ec76c1d7240 SUMMARY:"Vector Tiles for Distributed\, High Performance Rendering of OSM" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe potential for custom and real-time maps from OSM is growing fast\, but the size and complexity of the data increasingly limits new and creative uses. Many seek to craft beautiful maps from OSM only to find their energy and time mostly taken by importing the data into a data base and massaging it into manageable pieces.\n\nA powerful solution to th is problem is to allow the rendering of OSM data directly from vector tile s. Vector tiles combine the strengths of image tiles - fast\, cacheable\, and easy to distribute - with the flexibility of source vectors - high res olution\, interactive\, and renderable in infinite ways. Supporting multip le named layers and containing a space efficient serialization of geometri es and attributes\, vector tiles once created can be cached and distribute d to any number of map rendering clients.\n\nIn this session Dane will des cribe a new high performance and open source library for creating vector t iles and rendering vector tiles to various formats using Mapnik. Mapnik in this context becomes both server-- producing vector tiles on demand - and client - rendering beautiful maps from vector tiles. After covering the d etails of how to write your own software to use vector tiles\, Dane will d emo an experimental version of TileMill that leverages this technology to enable immediate styling of a global set of OSM vector tiles.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T213000Z DTEND:20130608T213000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:c69efe0c-28ac-4b42-972b-6705eefb928d SUMMARY:"OpenTripPlanner: Recent Developments in Multimodal Routing with OS M" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a leading open source platform for multimodal trip itinerary planning and transportation system analysis\ , established in 2009 and now deployed in 14 countries. OpenTripPlanner ha s long had a close association with the OpenStreetMap project\, with the m ajority of OTP deployments relying on OSM data for street network routing\ , and the deployment of OTP helping to drive local OSM improvement efforts in many communities where it has been introduced. \n\nThis presentation w ill serve as a follow-up to the introductory OpenTripPlanner talk at the 2 012 State of the Map US\, focusing on recent and ongoing developments with the project. These include the development of new user interfaces\, initi al work on support for driving navigation\, and the ongoing development of the OTP Analyst extension\, a package that uses OTPs routing capabilities to enable advanced transportation policy analysis.\n\nThe session will be presented by David Emory\, a principal with Conveyal and one of the found ing developers of OTP. Conveyal is a new consultancy born out of the OpenP lans transportation technology group and focused on providing support for OpenTripPlanner and related open transportation projects.\n\n\n\n DTSTART:20130609T150000Z DTEND:20130609T150000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:80c7a285-cf0b-436e-b4ca-e4972f3e12c6 SUMMARY:Build a craigslist Scale Map Installation with OSM Data DESCRIPTION:---\n\nCraigslist serves 50 billion monthly page views to 60 mi llion users across 700 sites in 70 countries. Self hosting a complete map service from top to bottom at this scale presents many challenges includin g:\n\n * live updating of OSM data\n * map styling for sense of purpose\ n * rendering and serving map tiles\n * geocoding user input\n * search ing geodetic data\n * displaying geodetic results in meaningful ways\n * giving back to OSM with user data feedback\n\nIn this talk Dennis will ad dress all these issues and discuss how his team implemented the above at c raigslist scale.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130609T194500Z DTEND:20130609T194500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:f7b63315-fc6e-4071-89fd-ee7bac7c0d9d SUMMARY:"Updating OpenStreetMap's TIGER Imports to TIGER 2013" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nA lot of the OpenStreetMap data in the United States was originally imported from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER map data. Unfortu nately at the time of the import\, TIGER was in the middle of a multi-year project to correct misalignments and omissions\, and most of these correc tions have never been applied to OpenStreetMap. This talk is about Eric's attempt to merge TIGER updates into OpenStreetMap and the things that make doing this difficult.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T210000Z DTEND:20130608T210000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:9d6f7a9d-d9f0-4a43-8754-8edbe82fce77 SUMMARY:Community Mapping in Nicaragua DESCRIPTION:---\n\nA new community is emerging in Nicaragua. This session w ill discuss how the OpenStreetMap community gained momentum in the country \, which lessons have been learned on community building with OSM\, what r eal life problems exist\, what makes mapping in Central America unique\, a nd where the local community wants to go next. This is a story-telling ses sion about experiences\, mapping parties\, influence on local politics\, a nd communities.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T223000Z DTEND:20130609T223000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:2d1b81d2-744c-4f9e-bdcd-38bdec9dcfa0 SUMMARY:Open For Business DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will discuss what it means to start a busin ess around using OpenStreetMap and the benefits inherit in going open with your business model. Frederik\, a founder of the small OSM consulting fir m Geofabrik\, will talk about interesting projects\, strange clients\, stu ff that worked well\, and decisions he won't make again - in short\, lesso ns learned from a couple years of earning one's bread with OpenStreetMap. \n\n DTSTART:20130609T191500Z DTEND:20130609T191500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:e4c90b96-6fa2-4adf-8113-00365ad79070 SUMMARY:The Geofabrik Download Server DESCRIPTION:---\n\nEver since the planet file became too large for the aver age end user to process\, Geofabrik have made country extracts available f or people to download. It was just a few countries initially\, but meanwhi le there are daily updates for most countries in the world\, and even sub- regions for some of those where OSM is big. This technical talk explains t he chain of open source tools that powers the download server\, explains t he problems and limitations of the approach used on that server\, and comp ares it to other ways of producing daily or even sub-daily regional OpenSt reetMap extracts. \n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T161500Z DTEND:20130608T161500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:5d42804a-5dc0-4dfd-9d80-364a886b5545 SUMMARY:OSM Core Architecture and DevOps DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will provide an introduction to the OpenStr eetMap operations team\, the core OpenStreetMap setup\, and its operationa l management. It will discuss the website and API architecture\, including infrastructure\, monitoring and stats\, its frontend and backend\, testin g and deployment\, and future plans. Grant will also briefly touch on the tile and caching architecture. If you're interested in what powers OpenStr eetMap and make it tick\, come to this session.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T164500Z DTEND:20130608T164500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:2e2e28f2-76d9-40e6-a380-377a706a5af1 SUMMARY:Pure Vector Pathways for OSM Display DESCRIPTION:---\n\nSince its inception\, the primary display methodology fo r OSM data has been raster tiles. There are several problems with this app roach\, including size and inflexibility at runtime. This session will exp lore a pure vector pipeline for handling and displaying OSM data on mobile and desktop platforms in a performant way. Advantages include smaller fil e sizes\, the possibility of on-device data\, instant restyling and dynami c label placement.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T223000Z DTEND:20130608T223000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:6b052a17-b26a-4dbd-a8ad-33c638f3dc41 SUMMARY:"Using Imports to Build Community: The Seattle Import Case Study" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will discuss some of the traditional concer ns with imports and review how the Seattle import into OpenStreetMap was d esigned to address those concerns and improve OSM map quality and communit y participation in the Pacific Northwest.\n DTSTART:20130608T223000Z DTEND:20130608T223000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:46c1feaa-5809-41ed-b042-85c40d38ea89 SUMMARY:"Using GeoGit with OpenStreetMap: Distributed Versioned Spatial Dat a Editing" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nGeoGit is a new open source software project that is des igned to allow for multiple individuals to contribute to geospatial featur e data while providing versioning\, provenance\, and support for collabor ative workflows. This session will explore interoperability between GeoGit repositories and OSM. \n\nGeoGit is designed to allow for multiple indivi duals to contribute to geospatial feature data while providing distributed and decentralized versioning. With this capability we can move into a pa radigm that allows for distributed collaboration on geographic data develo pment and management while synchronizing with larger centralized repositor ies such as OpenStreetMap. GeoGit provides the ability to maintain a histo ry of the changes to geospatial vector data\, track who provided the chang es\, store comments on the reasons for the changes similar to the OSM API\ , and overall makes it easy for a user or organization to establish and ma intain their own node. GeoGit provides the ability to track and maintain t he provenance of the data in a distributed and sometimes connected environ ment. By combining GeoGit with user-focused applications and portals\, thi s can be done in such a way that the provenance of the data is maintained throughout the process and interoperability with repositories such as OSM is simple and painless.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T213000Z DTEND:20130609T213000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:34357220-34a1-4bfb-a2bc-050a196cef57 SUMMARY:USGS National Map Corps DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Map Corps uses the OpenStreetMap editing platform to collect and manage points on their map. The project has recently expanded to 19 states\, with plan s to expand to the entire country by the end of the year. This will will d iscuss the project and the possibilities for importing the USGS crowdsourc ed data back in to OpenStreetMap.\n DTSTART:20130609T171500Z DTEND:20130609T171500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:e2fe83c9-f793-4001-ba5e-2c506ea7169d SUMMARY:"Mappers in (Meat) Space" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nDo you have a local group of mappers who you see regular ly\, or do you only see mappers once a year at SOTM? This session will tal k about why you might want to join or start a local meetup group\, how to get it started\, and how to keep momentum up. Kathleen\, one of the organi zers of the very active Washington\, DC geo group as well as other local c ommunities\, will discuss: \n\n* Why meet in person? \n* How to find mappe rs near you\n* How to assess your community's needs\n* Strategies to sprea d the word\n* Ideas around keeping momentum up\n DTSTART:20130609T174500Z DTEND:20130609T174500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d851bed4-d508-4c6e-8417-abe225bcdd6a SUMMARY:Adding Traffic to OpenStreetMap DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session is all about using real-time GPS data to ad d traffic and roadway speed data to OpenStreetMap. Kevin will discuss traf fic-engine\, the open source platform for data processing and analysis. As a bonus\, he'll also walk through how to leverage large amounts of GPS da ta to improve OSM center lines.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T161500Z DTEND:20130608T161500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d576e136-f764-42fa-b506-d73d530fab22 SUMMARY:Ways to Bring Your Aerial Imagery into OpenStreetMap DESCRIPTION:---\n\nFolks from Public Lab will share some of their open sour ce tools that plays well with OpenStreetMap. They'll run through some of t heir latest work using or integrated with OpenStreetMap: \n\n- Did you kno w that MapKnitter.org\, software for turning aerial images into maps\, int egrates with Potlatch for easy tracing into OSM? This session will show ho w this can be done and what can be made using MapKnitter.org. \n- A projec t is starting up for expanding MapKnitter with a Motion Parallax engine to automatically reconstruct a 3D model of the area of interest and output a flat (""orthorectified"") image. \n- Through a new partnership with Fligh tStats\, you can easily place a picture you took from a plane window into MapKnitter for tracing into OSM. \n- Their Android aerial acquisition mobi le phone app is fun to use with balloons\, kites\, RC planes\, n-copters\, and more. \n\nCome to this session to hear about these ways to integrate your own aerial imagery with OpenStreetMap\, and how to get involved with Public Lab.\n DTSTART:20130609T220000Z DTEND:20130609T220000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:f91b1b33-e4f7-4284-a8b6-da3ca6d06475 SUMMARY:"Why the U.S. National Park Service Contributes Back to OSM" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe NPMap team is responsible for coordinating web mappi ng across the U.S. National Park Service. One of its primary responsibilit ies is creating customized basemaps and web applications for individual pa rks. To build these applications the team uses a variety of technology and data including OSM. \n\nIn this talk\, Mamata will discuss the results o f a pilot project with America's most visited National Park - the Great Sm oky Mountains - and efforts to improve park data in OSM and in turn the Na tional Park Service's own mapping products. With the National Park Servic es' adoption of open source tools\, data\, and basemap services\, it has a vested interest in contributing to and improving data in OSM. \n\n DTSTART:20130609T174500Z DTEND:20130609T174500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:3ee2de5c-9cd0-4d3e-9190-d55e17eaa441 SUMMARY:"Huddling Around Data: Driving Local Communities on 3.7 Million Squ are Miles" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nCommunity building can be hard! Especially here in the U .S.\, with its sprawling urban areas and vast near-empty areas. How do you start a local OpenStreetMap conversation when geography works against you ? \n\nThis session will propose an alternative strategy for driving local communities - Local Data Dashboards. What if your city\, region\, or state had its very own page showing always up-to-date statistics about OpenStre etMap in your areaof new mappers\, rankings\, maps showing where folks hav e been busy\, and where data is growing stale? What if that Dashboard had social tools letting you easily email local mappers and start a local foru m or mailing list? Martijn will show a very early prototype and will ask f or your ideas for the Dashboard.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T171500Z DTEND:20130609T171500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:4d5bcacd-8ac4-4847-9e62-cc4323a02aea SUMMARY:"MapRoulette\, One Year Later" DESCRIPTION:---\n\n[MapRoulette](http://maproulette.org/)\, which started o ut as the Remap-a-Tron\, was presented last year at State Of The Map Portl and. Since then\, it has evolved into a popular mapping pastime for both c asual contributors and hardcore mappers. This session will look at the acc omplishments and milestones of MapRoulette in the past year\, and provide an outlook for the year(s) to come. \n\n DTSTART:20130609T201500Z DTEND:20130609T201500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:cafa1b02-beb9-43e4-9dcd-312293713385 SUMMARY:All I Want for OpenStreetMap is Social and Attention DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOpenStreetMap is a strong social environment for data\, and that's key to its success. Maps\, tags\, places\, and code are the res ult of online and offline conversations\, not top down dictations\, meanin g OSM is more expressive for more situations. Yet the core tools to connec t mappers to talk about maps and monitor an area are still the same as fiv e years ago. There are overflowing gardens of cool organizational tools an d hacks. How can we bring these tools together to reach more mappers?\n\nT his talk will survey the current social functions in the OSM ecosystem\, e nvision where the community can go\, and suggest concrete development step s.\n DTSTART:20130608T201500Z DTEND:20130608T201500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:5da96a56-a990-4d76-8ab2-a2a947bdf686 SUMMARY:Improving Data Collection in OpenStreetMap to Better Map Our Nation al Parks DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe NPMap team recently kicked off work on a system call ed Places of Interest. This system will provide a way for the OSM communit y to contribute spatial information (structures\, campgrounds\, trails\, w aterfalls\, etc.) back to the NPS\, and streamline the process of getting National Park Service data into OpenStreetMap. Data that's collected throu gh Places of Interest will be distributed to NPS personnel at parks\, cert ified\, and then exported back out to OpenStreetMap. This data will also b e used by a variety of the Park Service's internal and public-facing deskt op\, web\, and mobile applications (including our basemap\, Park Tiles).\n \nIf done right\, Places of Interest will fundamentally change how the Nat ional Park Service does data. There are\, however\, a slew of hurdles to o vercome - some technical\, some social\, and some institutional. This pres entation will cover some of these hurdles and also go into detail about ho w the NPMap team is planning on implementing their ideas. In addition\, it will cover why the National Park Service and other federal agencies canno t simply use raw OpenStreetMap data in its products.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T161500Z DTEND:20130609T161500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:18f98803-be7b-46c4-b6a2-9b3401bad8d9 SUMMARY:"Introducing Quattroshapes\, the Global Polygon Gazetteer" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nFoursquare needs quality place data to power its geocodi ng engine to ensure the best recommendations. When someone searches for be st coffee in Brooklyn\, a simple venue to place point or venue to place bo unding box search can result in venues in Manhattan and Jersey City overwh elming the results for Brooklyn. To improve recommendations\, they've crea ted an authoritative source of polygons around a curated list of places. T his gazetteer of non-overlapping polygons provides more relevant results t han simple point geometries. \n\nThis work is based on foursquare checkins \, geocoded photos from Flickr\, and an extended version of Natural Earth. The quattroshapes technique calculates the dominant place ID for a given area based on heterogeneous inputs and supplemented geometries with open g overnment data. The quattroshapes code and resulting polygons are licensed under CC-BY.\n\nGeocoding can be the hardest part about going open source - and geo and reverse geocoding is even harder. Reverse geocoding reports the gazetteer place for a latitude and longitude map location or address string and is useful when source data needs to be normalized. This new pol ygon gazetteer data is used in TwoFishes\, the coarse splitting geocoder ( and reverse geocoder) written in scala from David Blackman at foursquare.\ n\n DTSTART:20130609T201500Z DTEND:20130609T201500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:853b76d7-02c9-4d10-a25a-7695977adf23 SUMMARY:"TopoJSON: A Smaller GeoJSON with Some Neat Tricks" DESCRIPTION:---\n\n[TopoJSON](https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki) is a serialization format for geographic data that offers efficiency through topological representation. An extension of GeoJSON\, TopoJSON describes lines and polygons in terms of shared arcs. By encoding each arc only once files with overlapping geometry (such as county boundaries) are significa ntly smaller. Arcs are described by an efficient fixed-precision delta enc oding that results in significantly smaller serialized data. Compared to t heir GeoJSON equivalents\, OSM road databases in TopoJSON are roughly 80% the size\, buildings shrink to 40%\, and other geodata like coastlines and county outlines can be 30% or smaller than the original. The relative sav ings are maintained even after gzip compression.\n\nIn addition to smaller size\, the TopoJSON encoding also enables applications to easily work on the topology of the data. For example\, a chloropleth county map can draw interior borders separately from the exterior borders without extra data o r calculation. The TopoJSON software package comes with useful simplificat ion\, quantization\, and conversation tools. Strong browser support and a smaller wire format make TopoJSON particularly good for use in web browser maps today.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T220000Z DTEND:20130609T220000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:18d2b0e6-a6ee-4d9d-870a-e407caee4a68 SUMMARY:"I'll Grade Your Edits: OpenStreetMap in Higher Education" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nFor the last few years\, George Washington University's upper division GIS class has integrated OpenStreetMap assignments into the course curriculum. This past semester\, the class worked closely with the International Services Division at the American Red Cross to map disaster prone communities in Columbia and Indonesia. These efforts were in conjun ction with the National Red Cross chapters in these countries that are usi ng the data toward disaster mitigation efforts. The students loved the ass ignment - contributing to real data.\n\nNuala and Richard are interested i n formalizing the workflow developed to assign\, operate\, and grade this type of assignment for undergraduate classes. The result would be a small module that could be used in any undergraduate class (not just GIS or Geog raphy) that promotes the collective creation of open source data. This ses sion will discuss experimentations with various editors\, task managers\, and desktop GIS software to achieve this module\, and will open the floor up ideas from you on how to make this better\, more concise and more acces sible.\n\n DTSTART:20130608T153000Z DTEND:20130608T153000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:289b1892-59a6-4c27-b6ff-05b7a15a1096 SUMMARY:"Data on Demand: Rapidly Available Satellite Imagery and OSM" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOpenStreetMap is rich with detailed data about the world . Turning that data into useful information is the next big challenge. Sky box Imaging is launching a fleet of high-resolution imaging microsatellite s to capture timely imagery of the world. Skybox uses OpenStreetMap data t o provide context to our change detection algorithms and analysts as they turn this raw data into useful information. \n\nFrom simple land parcels t o road vectors to trees in parking lots\, OSM data has proved invaluable a s a reliable and up to date source of reference data. For applications lik e disaster recovery and economic analysis\, knowing what should be at a lo cation is as important as knowing what is at a location. Making OSM data a vailable in an easy to use form allows human analysts to identify new info rmation in satellite images and focus their attention on the changes of hi ghest interest. \n\nThis session will provide an overview of how Skybox ma kes image data available for analysis and how OSM provides the background for this analysis. \n\n DTSTART:20130609T210000Z DTEND:20130609T210000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:5329b7cf-9d28-4b33-a723-8c97ec3d2896 SUMMARY:Zombie Based Learning OSM Style DESCRIPTION:---\n\nGeography is becoming less and less emphasized in the Fl orida public school curriculum partly due to the standardized assessment s ystem. In an attempt to inspire our youth and promote geography as a life skill\, Patrick has spent some of his free time volunteering at local scho ols. In this talk he'll talk about Zombie-based geography lessons that uti lize OpenStreetMap data and other open tools he's used in an effort to gro w students' interest in contributing to OpenStreetMap and learning how geo graphy will benefit them in the event of a zombie apocalypse.\n DTSTART:20130608T150000Z DTEND:20130608T150000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d1bb696f-3ff0-4184-9d7f-776c7812ae6e SUMMARY:Address Import Review DESCRIPTION:---\n\nIn 2010 an address import was done in Surrey\, BC\, but no one has yet reviewed it to determine if it has been a success. This tal k will look at how the import was done\, examine how the data has been int egrated with other OpenStreetMap data\, and ultimately used by mappers.\n\ n DTSTART:20130608T220000Z DTEND:20130608T220000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:f4cc9773-80cf-4c4b-94eb-5e0057539812 SUMMARY:"Getting U.S. Highway Shields onto the Map" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will discuss the details and difficulties o f creating a framework for a map rendering that uses route relations to pl ace realistic-looking highway shields.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130609T153000Z DTEND:20130609T153000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:56045900-fd4d-42f9-b9fd-f277cd8f0c87 SUMMARY:"From Plans to Reality: Mapping the Transition" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nWhere OpenStreetMap maps the world as it exists\, OpenUr ban maps the world as it could be. This session will look at how OpenUrban \, a non-profit\, user generated web map and wiki focused on urban develop ment\, maps shared ambitions and ideas people have to make their communiti es the best possible places to live and work. \n\nThe built environment i s changing at a tremendous scale and pace and it's important that people u nderstand these changes. People can't respond to or develop informed opini ons about things they don't know exist. OpenUrban proposes pushing data on projects tagged as built directly from OpenUrban to OSM. This means that OSM's data on buildings and infrastructure would be up to date within days or hours in cities where planners\, architects\, and activists are keepin g close watch via OpenUrban. \n\nThis session will explore how location ba sed data transitions from conceptual plan to concrete reality in different contexts (e.g. Istanbul v. Seattle v. New York). A major goal will be to open up a discussion on the necessary technical and logistical processes f or making these data transformations.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130609T223000Z DTEND:20130609T223000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:e26bae90-e695-4e90-ac76-d6cc035efd77 SUMMARY:You Are Not The Crowd DESCRIPTION:---\n\nIs OpenStreetMap a tribe of worker ants? A self-organizi ng anarchy? Is it truly crowd-sourcing? And how do we recruit a bigger cro wd to complete our mission of mapping the world? Is OpenStreetMap's cause best served by seeking to emulate Google Map Maker and Waze\, or are we on the right track already? And if the latter is the case\, what's holding u s back?\n\nIn this talk\, Richard will examine OpenStreetMap's greatest su ccesses to find the motivations that drive our mappers\, developers\, and organizers and ask how we can learn from these to build a bigger\, better OSM.\n\nThis lively session will change how you think about OSM (no refund s available in case of dissatisfaction). Expect Monty Python\, church orga ns\, Welsh architecture\, European socialism\, and the ultimate answer to life\, the universe\, and OSM mailing lists.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T161500Z DTEND:20130609T161500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:014fd16c-784d-45e3-ad15-83832cac540a SUMMARY:Telenav Probe Trace Enhancements for OSM DESCRIPTION:---\n\nTelenav is making use of its internally sourced\, fully anonymized database of vehicle navigation probe trace data to enhance the quality of the OSM map. These probe trails are matched directly to updated extracts of the OSM map. From this a variety of enhancements are underway . Free flow speed and probe trail count analysis suggests highways that sh ould be substantially upgraded or downgraded from their current tagging\, particularly in areas that have received limited data attention. Vehicle r outing turn restrictions can be inferred from probe trail statistics. Sinc e these results are often challenging to verify and validate\, the results of these and similar efforts can be channeled through MapRoulette for ver ification and application to the OSM map. These enhancements will widen co mmunity use of and involvement with OSM by enhancing the navigation qualit y information within the map.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T174500Z DTEND:20130608T174500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:765655bd-d39b-44fc-9538-5f1dd0f606a7 SUMMARY:"Telenav Traffic Locations: A Perspective on OSM Data" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThis session will look at Traffic Locations\, which will provide an OSM map based view of real-time traffic information for displa y and consumption. These locations are derived from a division and recombi nation of the more important highway classes. This process has created som e unique insights and posed challenging questions regarding OSM data. For example\, wide scale variations in OSM highway classification between some metropolitan areas becomes evident. While the primary motivation for Traf fic Locations is to create and report real time traffic information\, the development of this new resource can help stimulate further improvements t o the OSM map.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T164500Z DTEND:20130608T164500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d9b557c5-3d6b-4519-ab71-ea30322524c7 SUMMARY:"Minecraft\, Meet OSM: Building a Walkable\, 3D\, Minecraft-Style O penStreetMap Editor in Voxel.js" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nVoxel.js is an open-source\, Javascript implementation o f the popular game Minecraft. This session will explore the idea of using OSM data to build a simplified 3D version of a city that could more accura tely mirror our experience of interaction with urban spaces. \n\nWhat if i nstead of editing a map by way of its 2D representation\, one could add to the corpus of OSM data by virtually walking through a city and identifyin g points of interest? What if one could modify 'ways' and 'nodes' by diggi ng up 'stone blocks' and replacing them with 'dirt'? Would this make OSM m ore palatable and attractive to a generation of individuals who have grown up interacting with virtual 3D environments? This talk is a retelling of Ryan's experience implementing OSM data in a 3D representation using Voxel .js.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T153000Z DTEND:20130609T153000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:b4aa4096-ec1f-4d99-ad5d-44eb0c8efdf7 SUMMARY:"A New Vision for openstreetmap.org" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nWhat could a ground-up redesign of the [OpenStreetMap we bsite](http://www.openstreetmap.org/) look like? In this session\, Saman w ill discuss the strengths and shortcomings of the current site design\, pr esent a vision for a modern\, user-friendly\, and responsive openstreetmap .org\, and outline possible approaches for implementing such a redesign.\n \nAmong other things\, the redesign will introduce concepts for strengthen ing community aspects of the site\, improving the on-boarding experience f or new users\, and defining a more logical information architecture that m akes the relationship between the community\, data\, and map layers of the site clearer. Saman will present both wireframes and fully rendered mock- ups illustrating his plans. \n\n DTSTART:20130608T191500Z DTEND:20130608T191500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:d269934d-be78-4fae-b6d5-2158dc34f951 SUMMARY:A Gazetteer for the Library of Congress DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe Library of Congress and the New York Public Library have been developing an open source gazetteer platform to power geographic search across their bibliographic collections. This gazetteer and concord ance pulls together various sources of contemporary and historical geograp hic information - including OSM - and makes them available for easy manage ment by Library staff and public volunteers alike. This session will discu ss the challenges of conflating OpenStreetMap data with other data sources \, as well as provide geographic text search at scale.\n\n DTSTART:20130609T191500Z DTEND:20130609T191500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:8d6da7ef-ad7b-4233-91fe-0d2c771e1060 SUMMARY:Helping People in Need with OSM DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is a non-profit orga nization composed of OpenStreetMap contributors and humanitarian aid worke rs who collaborate to map areas affected by humanitarian crisis. This sess ion will talk about what HOT does\, how the organization works works\, wha t it's doing now\, and its plans for the future. \n\n DTSTART:20130609T213000Z DTEND:20130609T213000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:9204e851-4ac6-4e7e-8de3-1abaefc4f574 SUMMARY:"The U.S.\, Imports\, and Bots\, Oh My!" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nImports are a sensitive subject in OpenStreetMap\, usual ly frowned upon\, often blamed\, and not spoken about in polite company. I n this talk\, Serge will describe the changing landscape of U.S. imports a nd bot efforts\, from manual imports to automated bots\, and tool standard ization.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T213000Z DTEND:20130608T213000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:e1135b90-1117-478c-a192-d093adbd82b0 SUMMARY:Jeux Sans Frontires DESCRIPTION:---\n\nOpenStreetMap is an incredibly rich source of data that can support many uses beyond mapping. One use is to build silly games that may or may not help with geographic literacy. Sophia and Rich built [Stre et Name Fight](http://streetnamefight.com/fight) over the course of a nigh t after much silliness\, Mexican food\, and scotch. They will discuss obvi ous things such as technical details and invite other developers to build simple and fun games using the OpenStreetMap platform.\n DTSTART:20130609T150000Z DTEND:20130609T150000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:71bac398-9067-40a6-8888-e66cfba7a390 SUMMARY:"Vectors\, OpenStreetMap\, and Mobile" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nVector maps are hot right now\, with Google and Apple de ployments in the news. On the web side\, HTML5 and WebGL make vector maps workable and fast\, respectively\, and on the mobile side\, we have the tw o above examples to show us it works. So what do we do for OpenStreetMap?\ n\nmousebird consulting makes an open source toolkit called WhirlyGlobe-Ma ply - WhirlyGlobe for the 3D interactive globe and Maply for the 2D map. B oth are based on OpenGL ES\, and both are very fast for iOS (iPad\, iPhone ) and (soon) Android. The openstreetmap.us server is returning vector base d tiles for several levels. This gives us a nice\, semi-official platform to try out high performance vector map display on iOS. This session will p resent a simple experiment in that area. It will take a lot of work to mat ch the quality (Apple jokes aside) of the commercial vector maps. Our hope is that a nice framework for fetching and displaying vector tiles can nud ge us further along that path.\n\n\n DTSTART:20130608T210000Z DTEND:20130608T210000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:5210700e-8269-4aab-b4a1-e4efbe3fe4ec SUMMARY:Cohesive OSM Experiences Across the Screen and Paper DESCRIPTION:---\n\nIn this session Steve will discuss his last year working as lead developer on an ambitious successor project to the popular Field Papers platform called [CaerusGeo](http://www.caerusgeo.com)\, currently b eing tested in Syria\, Afghanistan\, and Libya. \n\nCaerusGeo is different than the typical web mapping platform in that an substantial amount of co nceptualization and testing was undertaken to ensure its viability in "fro ntier" environments where analog mediums such as paper and verbal communic ation solely rule data collection. This talk will focus on the extensive a mount of work needed to create an system that gelled with the environment' s workflow\, as opposed to replacing it outright\, and also the trials and tribulations experienced in integrating with Mapfish Print\, an extremely powerful but lightly documented component for producing excellent wallmap and atlas PDFS. \n\nSteve will also discuss the fork brought into the [Ma pfish codebase](https://github.com/mapfish/mapfish-print/pull/37) to meet the project's needs\, why he chose Leaflet for the frontend\, and how cont ributing multiple pulls to that project has made him a better [Javascript programmer](https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/contributors).\n\n DTSTART:20130608T201500Z DTEND:20130608T201500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:feb9750c-c1e4-410b-af2a-029129d4bd36 SUMMARY:OSM and Government What You Need to Know About TIGER DESCRIPTION:---\n\nThe US-based OpenStreetMap community is one of the large st constituencies for the Census Bureau's TIGER data. The 2007 data served as the base for OSM in the U.S.\, and OpenStreetMap continues to evaluate TIGER as a resource. Yet the role TIGER plays within the Census Bureau is not well understood by the OSM community. \n\nThis presentation will intr oduce TIGER in the context of Census Bureau operations\, the rationale beh ind TIGER database design\, and how the Census Bureau maintains TIGER. \n DTSTART:20130609T164500Z DTEND:20130609T164500Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:4842cabb-2159-4021-895d-e39c92f18b90 SUMMARY:"iD\, a New Editor for OpenStreetMap" DESCRIPTION:---\n\niD is the new in-browser map editor for OpenStreetMap th at focuses on usability and simplicity. It's designed to radically improve the first-time editing experience while providing a fast and intuitive in terface for anybody mapping on OpenStreetMap. This will session will demo iD and talk about the dynamics of building this editor\, the roadmap ahead \, and the potential for similar open source projects in the OSM space.\n\ n DTSTART:20130608T150000Z DTEND:20130608T150000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130607T225028Z UID:75951da8-4f73-4f6f-8298-fd60ffce5d4f SUMMARY:"OSM Data Report: Visualizing Our Progress" DESCRIPTION:---\n\nHow complete and how well maintained is OpenStreetMap's data around the world and in different cities? How has it grown over time? Who has been doing the work? What needs more attention? Tom and Eric have been working to answer these questions by visualizing the data behind Ope nStreetMap contributions in helpful ways. They'll present their findings a nd show the true state of OpenStreetMap's data and identify areas where gr owth and improvement can be made moving forward to make OpenStreetMap a be tter map. \n DTSTART:20130608T194500Z DTEND:20130608T194500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR