OpenStreetMap US

Snag your early bird tickets for #SOTMUS2025! And don't just take our word for it! “SotM US is my favorite geo event of the year. It is the perfect space to connect, learn, and share with the community." ~SotM US enthusiast ?? https://buff.ly/3UJ0exw #FeelGoodFriday #StateoftheMapUS #SOTMUS2025

?? In this season of #gratitude, we are thankful for the #OpenStreetMap community! We've got good news to share in our November newsletter ?? https://lnkd.in/gpc3H54m

Learn about OSM Merge, the most recent OSM US Community project, in this blog post: ?? https://buff.ly/4i7qN9M #OSMMerge #OpenStreetMap #emergencyresponsemapping

OSMnx version 2.0.0 has been released! ?? This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. If you haven't used it before, OSMnx is a Python package to easily download, model, analyze, and visualize street networks and any other geospatial features from OpenStreetMap. You can download and model walking, driving, or biking networks with a single line of code then quickly analyze and visualize them. You can just as easily work with urban amenities/points of interest, building footprints, transit stops, elevation data, street orientations, speed/travel time, and routing. Get started here: https://lnkd.in/gchKgTDm On a personal note, this has now been a labor of love for me for about 9 years. Wow. I initially developed this package to enable the empirical research for my dissertation. Since then, it has powered probably 2/3 of the articles I've published over the years. And it has received hundreds of contributions from many other code contributors. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. I hope you find the package as useful as I do. Now I'm looking forward to all your bug reports ??

Share your expertise and knowledge of #OpenStreetMap at #StateoftheMapUS2025! Submit your session ideas here: https://buff.ly/4905hQk Need a little inspiration? Check out this blog post first: https://buff.ly/48U07oM

Loading the World! OpenStreetMap Import In Under 4 Hours Advancements in hardware, Postgres, and software are making large data loads easier than ever. Greg Smith has a new blog on loading OpenStreetMap in record time. The full world OpenStreetMap import is a notoriously big process to run in a Postgres database. Folks often plan on a full 24 hour process. Greg has it running in 4 hours! Pretty impressive. He's improved several hours just in the last few Postgres releases. Check out all the details in our blog today: https://lnkd.in/gFQAPUbm

I spent a couple hours with Anthropic #Claude to whip up a welcome page for new #OpenStreetMap contributors. It uses the #Anthropic #API to parse their first map contribution and say something nice about it!

Today is the last day to submit your talk or workshop for Mapping USA (Jan. 24 & 25)! The application closes at midnight on November 25th (that's tonight!). Claim your free ticket and send in a proposal here: https://buff.ly/3YGalWx #MappingUSA #OpenStreetMap

Congratulations to Craig Allan on being elected Chairperson of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Read draft notes here, incl. other board officers and roles:

If you do any geospatial work in Texas, or want to see a legit mapping community in action the Texas GIS Forum is a must. Marcie Hogan and I attended last week to demonstrate the power of open mapping with Mapillary, OpenStreetMap Foundation, and Overture Maps Foundation. In 1997 the Texas Senate passed a bill to "develop consistent statewide digital data layers" and 25 years later they've managed to build and maintain some of the largest and most detailed statewide datasets. https://lnkd.in/eiNSKY43 I walked away with great collaboration ideas with City of Austin Brystin Herbeck, ACC Sally Holl, New Braunfels Patricia Flores White, and more. Let's make great maps together!