State of the Map US 2025 · boston

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Topic: State of the Map US 2025

Dan (May 25 2025 at 22:44):

Apparently the big US OSM convention this year is June 19-21 in Boston!

Dan (May 25 2025 at 22:45):

I was in the OSM Slack to ask a question related to the bike stress map and thankfully noticed.

Dan (May 25 2025 at 22:45):

https://openstreetmap.us/events/state-of-the-map-us/2025/

Philip Durbin (May 25 2025 at 22:59):

It looks like I could get an academic discount but I'll be in Seattle then. Oh well. Maybe next time!

Dan (Jun 02 2025 at 16:30):

I paid the $50 to attend Thursday at the Foundry. I bet I'll meet some cool people! Friday and Saturday are $175 each, though I think $280 gets you the whole conference.

Philip Durbin (Jun 02 2025 at 22:53):

Nice. I should ask if anyone from gis.harvard.edu is going.

Dan (Jun 06 2025 at 21:30):

So I spent $50 on Thursday for "workshops". But they're offering General Admission for $100 (instead of $280) for volunteers, so I signed up and will be able to upgrade. So I guess I'm all-in!

Man, BU is gonna be SUPER well mapped after this month :-D

Dan (Jun 06 2025 at 21:34):

Figured it's worth it for the networking if nothing else.

Philip Durbin (Jun 06 2025 at 21:39):

Nice about the upgrade. Why BU, specifically? Oh, it's at BU.

Dan (Jun 06 2025 at 21:40):

Friday and Saturday at least. Thursday is at the Foundry.

Philip Durbin (Jun 16 2025 at 01:57):

BCU Labs will be on a panel: https://whova.com/embedded/session/hDeQXpxoDgWux-bVAy3MI1xD65j3yq9pnQuXjZnYCNA%3D/4651281/?widget=primary

(They created the stress map: #boston > Bike Stress Map )

Dan (Jun 16 2025 at 17:31):

Cool. I'll have to check if I chose to volunteer during that time. I had to make some difficult decisions on that.

One guy here works for a rural fire department that relies on OSM. Particularly since everything is inconsistent and/or informal. It's much better than Google Maps. I think he added a bunch of data himself based on public sources.

Dan (Jun 19 2025 at 23:02):

"I got a fire on Grandma's Road" which only the locals refer to that way. And I guess there's a tag for "local name".

Dan (Jun 20 2025 at 18:45):

Another cool thing was a county in IL that uses OSM as their authoritative data source. They review all the edits and only had two cases of vandalism so far, one of which was fixed by someone else before they had a chance.