State of the Map US 2016

Program

Join for three days packed with talks, workshops, hacking, mapping parties and meetings all around OpenStreetMap.

Live transcription services will be available for all sessions in Pigott Auditorium and the Student Center at the following links:

Click here for Pigott Auditorium transcription
Click here for Student Center transcription

Friday, 22nd July 2016 Social events

Geo Ladies

Time: 4:30pm-7:00pm
Location: Ada’s Books & Cafe - 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Start off the weekend at the Geo Ladies Social Come meet and greet other women attending the State of the Map. We will provide drinks and hors d'oeuvres. We’re kicking things off at 4:30PM, and can’t wait to celebrate a weekend full of presentations, workshops and discussions. This is a great opportunity to network with other women in the OpenStreetMap community.

Welcome Social Sponsored by Mapbox

Time: 7:30pm-10:30pm
Location: Rhein Haus Pub - 912 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Join us to catch up with the community, welcome new members, and compete in a few rounds of bocce ball! Please note: minors may only join the party until 10pm

Saturday

8:00am Registration Student Center

8:00am Coffee / Tea Pigott Auditorium

9:00am Opening Session including a short video by Bill Gates. Pigott Auditorium

9:30am Keynote Katherine Maher - Wikimedia Pigott Auditorium

10:00am

Pigott 30min Law Clinics and the OpenStreetMap Community Rauvin Johl, Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic/OpenStreetMap US

Student Center 30min Mapping the Meta Toby Murray

10:30am

Pigott 30min OpenStreetMap past(s), OpenStreetMap future(s) Alan McConchie, Stamen Design / University of British Columbia

Student Center 30min ImproveOSM: Using Big Data To Improve The Map Brian Lau, Telenav

11:00am Coffee / Tea

11:30am

Pigott 30min Let’s get LA on the map!: The Los Angeles Building Import Case Study Jon Schleuss, Omar Ureta, Alan McConchie, Maning Sambale, OSM Los Angeles Building Import Team

Student Center 30min OpenStreetMap and the Sustainable Development Goals Tyler Radford, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

12:00pm

Pigott 30min Building community through mapathons and community mapping Drishtie Patel, American Red Cross

Student Center 30min Combating hegemonic cartographic discourses with drones Britta Ricker, University of Washington Tacoma

12:30pm

Pigott 30min Building OpenStreetMap Higher Education Communities Mike Thompson

Student Center 30min The Reality is Virtual: U.S. College Students Assist MapGive and USAID Thomas Gertin and Rory Nealon, MapGive

1:00pm Lunch

2:15pm Group Photo

2:45pm

Pigott 30min OpenStreetMap US by the Numbers, for the Community Mikel Maron, Mapbox

Student Center 30min Field mapping with Portable OpenStreetMap (POSM) and OpenMapKit Emily Eros, Seth Fitzsimmons and Nicholas Hallahan, American Red Cross, Stamen and SpatialDev

3:15pm

Pigott 30min Learning about the crowd behind OpenStreetMap through interactive visualization of the project history Sterling Quinn, Penn State University

Student Center 30min GISCorps: A volunteer community of GIS professionals David Litke, Emmor Nile, URISA (GISCorps)

3:45pm Coffee / Tea

4:15pm

Pigott 30min How can AI help us make maps? Sadi Khan, Yin Wang, Luke Walsh, Facebook

Student Center 30min TrackYourCity - Mapping public transport from scratch Uli Strötz, Ally

4:45pm

Pigott 30min Lightning Talks Multiple speakers

Student Center 30min Beyond Aesthetic Icing: Designing geo tools for humans Ekta Daryanani, Meghan Hade, Mapzen

5:15pm

Pigott 30min Lightning Talks Multiple speakers

Student Center 30min OpenStreetMap lights up the world for blind users with sound Erik Schlegel, Microsoft

6:00pm Social sponsored by Uber

Saturday, 23nd July 2016 Social events

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Seattle University’s Campion Hall

Unwind from the day of exciting talks and join us for some networking and appetizers after the Saturday sessions right on campus. (all ages welcome)

Saturday night social continued

Time: 8pm onwards
Location: Flatstick Pub - 240 Second Ave S

If you are still up for more, join us at Flatstick Pub where you can drink local and have fun. There will be local beers with an indoor 9-hole mini golf course and other unique games. (21+)

Sunday

8:00am Registration / Coffee / Tea

9:00am Keynote Dale Kunce - American Red Cross Pigott Auditorium

9:45am

Pigott 30min Using OpenStreetMap for Neighborhood Development and Feedback Andrew Wiseman, MappingDC / MaptimeDC

Student Center 30min Wikipedia Maps Yuri Astrakhan, Wikimedia Foundation

10:15am

Pigott 30min Maptime, Motherhood and Martyrdom: When Running an Open Source Community Becomes Too Much Beth Schechter, Maptime

Student Center 30min Spatial Analysis in the Developing World: Measuring Access with OpenStreetMap & OpenTripPlanner Phoebe Merritt, SpatialDev

10:45am

Pigott 30min One Map, Many Voices Chase Stephens, OpenStreetMap Seattle

Student Center 30min From an OSM Way to a Highway Shield Arielle Simmons-Steffen and Matt Kenny, Tableau Software

11:15am Coffee / Tea

11:45am

Pigott 30min Trace from Space Kevin Bullock, DigitalGlobe

Student Center 30min Befriending a Geocoder Diana Shkolnikov, Mapzen

12:15pm

Pigott 30min Skynet - Machine Learning with Satellites and OpenStreetMap data Anand Thakker, Development Seed

Student Center 30min Validating the Map Sanjay Bhangar, Mapbox

12:45pm Lunch

2:00pm

Pigott 30min How to Become an OpenStreetMap Meetup Host Clifford Snow, OpenStreetMap Seattle

Student Center 30min Millions that don't care Ilya Zverev, MAPS.ME

2:30pm

Pigott 30min Beyond fire hydrant location: what firefighters need to know James Duggan, Tacoma Fire Department

Student Center 30min What if it doesn't belong in OpenStreetMap? Kristofor Carle, Maphubs

3:00pm

Pigott 30min OpenStreetView Alex Ilisei, Martijn van Exel, Telenav

Student Center 30min Lowering the barriers to participation with Field Papers Lindsey Jacks, Cadasta Foundation

3:30pm Coffee / Tea

4:00pm

Pigott 30min Using Mapillary to Improve OpenStreetMap Johan Gyllenspetz, Mapillary AB

Student Center 30min Dynamic Timewarp Barycenter Averaging: Repairing Polyline Path Information with User Trajectory Data Matthew Redmond, Strava

4:30pm

Pigott 30min OpenStreetMap for Parks and Parks for OpenStreetMap? Dan Rademacher, Greeninfo Network

Student Center 30min Behind the Scenes of the Mapzen Targeted Editing Series - Engaging Editors Indy Hurt, Mapzen

5:00pm

Pigott 30min A Community Trail Mapping Initiative That Could Work Everywhere Derrick Nehrenberg, JuicyTrails

Student Center 30min OpenStreetMap Analytics: Rewarding contributors by tracking OpenStreetMap in real-time Marc Farra, Development Seed

5:30pm Closing session Pigott Auditorium

Sprints

Student Center 130 | 9AM - 4PM

Reserved for presentations / topic intros / meeting without distraction (classroom or larger meeting room). LearnOSM / TeachOSM. YouthMappers

Student Center 210 | 9AM - 4PM

Join hacking on code and documentation. Coordinate sprints on the OpenStreetMap Wiki ahead of time or organize a sprint spontaneously.

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