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Program

Thursday

, 4th October Summary & Social Events

Arrive in Detroit on Thursday for an optional afternoon city tour and welcome happy hour.

2:00pm - 4:00pm Detroit Experience Bus Tour

Take a professionally-led, two-hour bus tour through the heart of Detroit, learning about the city's innovative past. Tickets are an extra cost on top of the State of the Map US ticket and are available on the ticket website.

5:30pm - 7:00pm Geochicas Gathering

Geochicas is convening a pre-event gathering at Ready Player One to meet other women who are interested in closing the gender gap and working towards diversity in our communities. Geochicas welcomes anyone who perceives herself as a woman.

7:00pm - 9:00pm Welcome Happy Hour

Everyone is invited to an evening social event at Ready Player One hosted by Loveland Technologies.

Friday

, 5th October Summary & Social Events

Registration in the morning at Cobo Hall. Get here early to pick up your badge, t-shirt, and to find a seat for the start of the program. Sessions and workshops will occur throughout the day. Hear from your fellow OpenStreetMap community members about what they’re working on. Lunch will be provided; if it’s a beautiful Fall day, the Detroit riverfront is just steps away.

Please see here for the full workshop schedule!

8:00am Registration

9:00am Opening Remarks

Beth Niblock, CIO, City of Detroit

9:15am A Welcome and Update from the OpenStreetMap US Board

9:30 am

Room 310A 20 min each Detroit: The Best Open Map in the World Dexter Slusarski, City of Detroit Blight to Boom: Collaborating to Map Change Janine Yoong, Mapillary

Room 310B 20 min each Transportation as a Service – Using OSM at Lyft to Improve Your Ride Alexandra Kazakova and Renee Park, Lyft OSM In Every Car… Closer Than You May Think Philipp Kandal, Telenav

10:30am Break

11:00am

Room 310A 1 hour Automotive Panel TBD

Room 310B 20 min each Building Abroad Community Kiana Ziola, KAART The Road Towards Diversity in OSM Still Needs to be Mapped Miriam Gonzalez, Geochicas and OpenStreetMap Latam

12:00pm Lunch

1:00 pm

Room 310A 20 min each Validation Of The Users, By The Users, For The Users Matthew Gibb, Radiant Solutions POI Data Illuminated Diana Shkolnikov, StreetCred Can We Validate Every Change On OSM? Lukas Martinelli, Mapbox

Room 310B 20 min each Space to the Power of X Kevin Bullock, DigitalGlobe OSM: All Your (Esri Vector) Base Are Belong To Us Jessica Acosta Rodriguez, Esri OpenStreetMap as an AWS Public Dataset and Its Uses Joe Flasher, Amazon Web Services

2:30pm

Room 310A 1 hour Lightning Talks Jake Sigal, Dani Waltersdorfer, Bryan Housel, Thomas Hervey, Nuala Cowan, Emmor Nile

Room 310B 20 min each The Machine Mappers Are Coming Eric Gundersen, Mapbox OSM at Facebook Drishtie Patel, Facebook, Inc

3:30pm Break

4:00 pm

Room 310A 20 min each Discover Rural America Clifford Snow Inclusive Pedestrian Mapping: OpenSidewalks, AccessMap, and Accessibility Nick Bolten, University of Washington, Taskar Center, OpenSidewalks The OpenStreetMap US Camera Lending Program Toby Murray and Martijn van Exel, OpenStreetMap US

Room 310B 20 min each Historical Change Mapping Using OSM as a Platform Marc Farra, Development Seed OSM vs. Blockchain to Tell the Historical Mapping Story Jeremy Lechtzin, StreetDeets SharedStreets: Making Streets Interoperable Kevin Webb, SharedStreets

6:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour

Join your fellow attendees for drinks and food at HopCat Detroit. Discuss what you learned, why you are excited and relax before the next day!

Saturday

, 6th October Summary & Social Events

Get ready for another great day of talks. Registration will still be open if you’re just getting in. Lunch is provided on Saturday as well.

Join us Saturday evening for a reception at the Michigan Science Center. We’ll have food and beverages of all types, six planetarium showings, and free run of the museum for hours.

8:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am Keynote

9:30 am

Room 310A 20 min each Filling in the Gaps with the Mapillary API Christopher Beddow, Mapillary OpenStreetCam Is Now An Open Machine Learning Platform for OpenStreetMap Adrian Margin, Telenav

Room 310B 20 min each OSM in World Bank Operations: Analyzing Green Space in Tbilisi, Georgia Charles Fox, The World Bank OSM for Disaster Management: City Wide Mapping Project (Jakarta,Surabaya and Semarang) Harry Mahardhika Machmud, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Indonesia

10:30am Break

11:00 am

Room 310A 20 min each MapRules: Custom Tagging Presets & Validation Rules Max Grossman and Clarisse Abalos, Radiant Solutions United States Destination Tags David Koons, Kaart

Room 310B 20 min each Connecting Educators to OSM Community Members & Vice Versa: A Discussion Celeste Reynolds, Mashpee (MA) High School Connecting Educators to OSM Community Members & Vice Versa: A Discussion Derek Sheets, Stranahan High School, Broward County Public Schools

12:00pm Group Photo

12:15pm Lunch

1:00 pm

Room 310A 20 min each Microgrants to OSM Communities: What Worked, What Didn't Rebecca Firth, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Climate Change Impact Assessments with OpenStreetMap Ethan Nelson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mapping Accuracy in OpenStreetMap: Dealing with the Volunteer Mapper’s Motivation and Quality Data Contribution Victor Sunday, UniqueMappersTeam Port Harcourt-University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Room 310B 20 min each Building AI-Assisted Mapping Tools: Progress And Lessons Learned Drew Bollinger, Development Seed Analytic Support for Contributors: Defining Levels of Automation for Machine Learning Applied to Crowdsourced Mapping Ryan Lewis, In-Q-Tel CosmiQ Works / SpaceNet Semi-Automated Map Editing Favyen Bastani, MIT CSAIL

2:30pm

Room 310A 1 hour Lightning Talks Jerry Paffendorf, Rebecca Firth, Michelle Steigerwalt, Minh Nguyen, George Hunt, Josh Campbell

Room 310B 20 min each Why Geocoding is Hard and How You and OSM Can Help Julian Simioni, geocode.earth Offline Maps for Mobile — Making Maps That Are Mobile First Rob Chohan, RobLabs.com

3:30pm Break

4:00 pm

Room 310A 20 min each The Map Quality Measurement Initiative: A heat-map approach to visualize gaps in map quality Muning Brandeis, Critigen Urchn Tells You Where Cities Change, and Where OSM is Out-of-date Derek Lieu, Development Seed Kaart's Quality Checks to Improve Road Data and Routing Ian Malott, Kaart

Room 310B 20 min each Map Matching When the Map is Wrong James Murphy, Lyft Maps For All Maneuvers Yuanyuan Pao, Lyft OSM in UrbanFootprint: Combining walk network with transit schedule data for non-auto-based accessibility measures Kuan Butts, UrbanFootprint

6:00pm - 9:00pm Science Center Social

Join your fellow attendees at the Michigan Science Center, 5020 John R St. Can you say planetarium? It will be running! Have a drink, eat some food and explore the museum. To get here, take the QLine, rideshare, or bikeshare straight up Woodward Ave.

Sunday

, 7th October Summary & Social Events

Stick around on Sunday for morning sessions, workshops, and the closing session. We’ll also organize some optional tours Sunday afternoon.

9:30 am

Room 310A 20 min each Applying Big Data Tools and Techniques to OpenStreetMap with OSMesa Seth Fitzsimmons, Pacific Atlas OSMnx: Visualization and Analysis of OpenStreetMap Networks in Python Geoff Boeing, Northeastern University

Room 310B 20 min each OSM and Land Use Planning - City-Scale Scenario Development for the Future of Cities Jamie Alessio, UrbanFootprint Pic4Review: Mapping with Street-level Imagery Christopher Beddow, Mapillary

10:30am Coffee

11:00 am

Room 310A 20 min each Generate real 3D worlds for automotive simulation & training in 20 minutes or less. Avi Cieplinski, Mapbox Breaking Down Silos: OSM and Esri side by side Steve Moore, Esri

Room 310B 1 hour Lightning Talks Ryan King, Miriam Gonzalez, Simon Shapiro, Holly Krambeck, Dale Kunce

12:00pm Lunch

2:00 - 4:00pm Detroit Experience Walking Tour

Tickets available

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