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State of the Map US 2025

Jun 19–21, 2025 · George Sherman Union, Boston University (Thursday workshops at The Foundry, Cambridge), Boston, MA, United States

Conference
State of the Map Software engineering
Dates
Jun 19, 2025 – Jun 21, 2025
Venue
George Sherman Union, Boston University (Thursday workshops at The Foundry, Cambridge)
Place
Boston, MA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
300
OSM US recap: 'Over 300 mappers gathered in Boston'.
Website
openstreetmap.us
Recorded
13 sponsors · 123 speaker appearances
Notes
13th SotM US, theme 'Charting the Course'; OSM US 15th anniversary. Sunset networking cruise for sponsors/add-on ticket holders. Speakers from openstreetmap.us talk pages (affiliations not printed there); sessions missing there added from the Sessionize program.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Thursday Workshops - 1 Day Only$50—web.archive.org
Friday Only Admission$175—web.archive.org
Saturday Only Admission$175—web.archive.org
Academic & Nonprofit Admission$180—web.archive.org
General Admission$280—web.archive.org
Professional Admission$550—web.archive.org

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
Copper$3,500—openstreetmap.us
Bronze$7,500—openstreetmap.us
Silver$15,000—openstreetmap.us
Gold$20,000—openstreetmap.us
Anniversary$30,000—openstreetmap.us

Sponsors 13

Title / headline 1

  • Esri · Anniversary · $30,000

Gold 1

  • Grab · Gold · $20,000

Silver 5

Bronze 3

  • Google · Bronze · $7,500
  • onX · Bronze · $7,500
  • Uber · Bronze · $7,500

Other 3

Speakers and talks 123

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Aaron Young—SpeakerA decade of Imagery—
Alex Ilisei—SpeakerBeyond Street Imagery: Crowdsourcing LiDAR—
Alison Badrigian—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Allison James—SpeakerMapping Access to Places of Worship with OpenStreetMap—
Alyssa Castronuovo—SpeakerOpen Street Level imagery for US with Mapillary and OSM US—
Alyssa Castronuovo—Speaker15 Years of OpenStreetMap US—
Andrew Middleton—SpeakerKnow Your Audience!—
Andrew Middleton—SpeakerWe Bought a Map Store: Two Years In—
Andrew Scott White—SpeakerRegional air quality impacts of Amtrak passenger trains—
AngieLo Trujillo—SpeakerIntegrating Bike Lanes and Cycle Routes into OSM: An Essential Pillar for Efficient Mobility—
Arianna LaGamma—SpeakerMapping FXBGO! Bus Stops: Enhancing Transit Access in the City of Fredericksburg, VA—
Arianna LaGamma—SpeakerMapping USA's Libraries: Putting Every Library on the Map!—
Bart Louwers—SpeakerMapLibre status: web, mobile, new tile format, server, edit, ...—
Bart Louwers—SpeakerMake your own base map or overlay tiles with MapLibre stack and Planetiler—
Bibiana McHugh—SpeakerGovt as a Contributing OSM Member and User - A Success Story—
Brian Sperlongano—SpeakerRun every street in a city with OpenStreetMap data—
Celeste Reynolds—SpeakerPractice-Based Lesson using OSM Helping to Develop New Mapper skills in the Classroom—
Chad Blevins—SpeakerPedestrian Working Group Updates—
Chad Blevins—SpeakerIntroduction to OpenStreetMap—
Chad Blevins—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Christopher Beddow—SpeakerThe Future of Map Data from Street-level Imagery—
Christopher Beddow—SpeakerMapping Footways in Busy Areas—
Clay Smalley—SpeakerUnderground Truth: How to Map a Pipeline—
Clifford Snow—SpeakerSafe Routes to School—
Clinton Lunn—SpeakerOffline Rock Climbing Mobile Maps—
Cristiano Giovando—SpeakerPixels, Please! Powering Maps with Open Imagery—
Daniel Schep—SpeakerHow we mapped the Richmond Water Crisis—
Daniel Schep—SpeakerMaking maps with Ultra—
Daniel Schep—SpeakerBuilding a Local OSM Community—
Daniela Waltersdorfer—SpeakerWhat is the OpenStreetMap Foundation—
David Loutzenheiser—SpeakerMapping Trails in Metro Boston—
David Schneider—SpeakerOpenStreetMap for Transit Tourism: Have a Rail Good Time!—
Deepak Pradhan—SpeakerRaster & Vector analysis using Uber H3 Indexes and PostgreSQL—
DK Benjamin—SpeakerIntroducing ChatMap: Open mapping with chat apps—
DK Benjamin—SpeakerPixels, Please! Powering Maps with Open Imagery—
Eric Brelsford—SpeakerSaying Farewell to Stamen's Map Stack—
Eric Brelsford—SpeakerMaintaining a family of related map styles: efficient cartography with Stamen’s style builder—
Eugene Kizevich—SpeakerMultimodal HH-routing (highway hierarchy) in OsmAnd—
Felipe Valdez—SpeakerExpanding internet access with OSM: Philly Community Wireless—
Fernando Mazzoni—SpeakerIntegrating OpenStreetMap with AI to Power Transportation Infrastructure Projects—
Hanbyul Jo—SpeakerUpdates From Development Seed!—
Harrison Devine—SpeakerState of the Map US Closing Session—
Harrison Devine—SpeakerLet's map things using JOSM!—
Ian Spangler—SpeakerUrban atlases, library collections, and historical geodata—
Iolando Spinola—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Isaac Castillo—SpeakerNo Child Left Inside: Mapping Playgrounds to Help Every Child Play—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerHow we mapped the Richmond Water Crisis—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerBuilding a Local OSM Community—
Jake Low—SpeakerImproving OSM lake polygons using LiDAR data—
Jake Low—SpeakerIntroduction to OpenStreetMap—
Jake Low—Speaker15 Years of OpenStreetMap US—
Jake Low—SpeakerWhat's new in OSMCha—
Jamie Dickinson—SpeakerScience Through Mapping: Engaging Students with OpenStreetMap—
Jazzy Smith—SpeakerState of the Map US Closing Session—
Jeff Meyer—SpeakerNavigating Map Libraries: The Leventhal Map Center and OHM—
Jeff Meyer—Speaker(Re)Charting the Course of Empires in OHM—
Jennings Anderson—SpeakerOSM Data Validation: Moving from Daylight to Overture—
Jérôme Urbain—SpeakerHow to put an entire count(r)y in a container: transportable OSM data integration into Postgis—
Jérôme Urbain—SpeakerAnalyzing OSM data in Postgis: using docker and imposm to download it efficiently—
Joshua Carlson—SpeakerHold On To Your Pearls, Grandma, We’re Switching to OSM!—
Juan Carlos Melo Luna—SpeakerIntegrating Bike Lanes and Cycle Routes into OSM: An Essential Pillar for Efficient Mobility—
Juan Carlos Melo Luna—SpeakerOpenStreetMap as a Tool for Raising Visibility of Indigenous Communities in the Amazon—
Kapeel Daryani—SpeakerSF Bay Area's Mapping Data Services Platform—
Kelsey Taylor—SpeakerMaintaining a family of related map styles: efficient cartography with Stamen’s style builder—
Kshitij Raj Sharma—SpeakerVirtuGhan : Virtual Computation Cube for EO Data—
Kshitij Raj Sharma—SpeakerRaster & Vector analysis using Uber H3 Indexes and PostgreSQL—
Kshitij Raj Sharma—SpeakerCollaborative field mapping with Field-TM—
Kuan Butts—SpeakerBetween Two Turns: Identifying and defining turn paths—
Kurt Schellhase—SpeakerMapping Footways in Busy Areas—
Kurt Schellhase—SpeakerPedestrian Mapping with Aerial Imagery: An ML-Driven Approach—
Lee Schwartz—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Liam McGee—SpeakerFixing data that is as old as me—
Maggie Cawley—Speaker15 Years of OpenStreetMap US—
Maggie Cawley—SpeakerState of the Map US Closing Session—
Maggie Cawley—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Maggie Cawley—SpeakerWelcome to State of the Map US 2025—
Marc Prioleau—SpeakerSomething you might not know about Overture Maps—
Martijn van Exel—SpeakerMeet Your Mappers!—
Martijn van Exel—SpeakerBuilding a Local OSM Community—
Martijn van Exel—SpeakerMapRoulette—
Martijn van Exel—Speaker15 Years of OpenStreetMap US—
Matthew Whilden—SpeakerLet's map things using JOSM!—
Meagan Briganti—SpeakerHold On To Your Pearls, Grandma, We’re Switching to OSM!—
Melinda Alexander—SpeakerTeaching and Assessing Civic Engagement with OSM—
Michael Batame—SpeakerA geographical mapping and characterisation of food resources in a Ghanaian university campus—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerShining a light: basic strategies for local historical mapping—
Nick Kaufmann—SpeakerAR: The Next Interface for GIS and Spatial Computing?—
Nick Mole—SpeakerMapping New Bicycle Infrastructure—
Nicole Siggins—SpeakerFrom map gazing to humanitarian action: My journey through OSM and the world of open mapping—
Nicole Siggins—SpeakerMapSwipe Today and Its Future in OSM—
Nilofer Christensen—SpeakerSmarter navigation for two-wheelers & informal transit: leveling-up OSM for Southeast Asia—
Peter Cooper Jr.—SpeakerMapping of New England's Historic Town Pounds—
Philipp Kandal—SpeakerBeyond Street Imagery: Crowdsourcing LiDAR—
Priti Pandurangan—SpeakerAtlas of Intangibles—
Priti Pandurangan—SpeakerObserve, Collect, Map—
Ricky Zhang—SpeakerMapping Pedestrian Infrastructure at Scale for the State of Washington—
Ricky Zhang—SpeakerFinding crosswalk types, tactile pavings and sidewalk widths at scale with AI—
Rishi Singh—SpeakerPonds from Space: Monitoring Pantropical Aquaculture and Coastal Habitats using Satellite Imagery—
Rob Savoye—SpeakerHighway & Trail Conflation with OSM—
Said Turksever—SpeakerPedestrian Mapping with Aerial Imagery: An ML-Driven Approach—
Said Turksever—SpeakerOpen Street Level imagery for US with Mapillary and OSM US—
Scott Kilcoyne—SpeakerSaturday Plenary Session—
Sean Gorman—SpeakerImproving POI Accuracy with Crowdsourced Geographic Poses—
Sean Whitcomb—SpeakerFrom OSM to insight: analyzing spatial data with PostGIS and QGIS—
Sean Whitcomb—SpeakerUrban park equity in Phoenix, Arizona—
Silvia Rivera Alfaro—SpeakerThe other streets: adding NYC Honorary Street Names to visualize communities—
Stephanie May—SpeakerMapping Muddy Branch Trail—
Steven Johnson—SpeakerMapping Party! A field mapping event for new & old mappers—
Steven Johnson—SpeakerIntroduction to OpenStreetMap—
Suresh Devalapalli—SpeakerFinding crosswalk types, tactile pavings and sidewalk widths at scale with AI—
Suresh Devalapalli—SpeakerMapping Pedestrian Infrastructure at Scale for the State of Washington—
Tiffany Chu—SpeakerWelcome to Boston—
Tim Julien—SpeakerHorizonDB: High-throughput geocoding at Radar—
Tim Tadros—SpeakerFrom Data to Destination: Lyft’s Approach to Routing with OpenStreetMap—
Timothy Feller—SpeakerMapping for Neurodiversity - A Call to Innovate—
Upendra Oli—SpeakerVirtuGhan : Virtual Computation Cube for EO Data—
Victor Shcherb—SpeakerMultimodal HH-routing (highway hierarchy) in OsmAnd—
Viktor Vereb—SpeakerMagyar Mapping with NNG Kft: How Enterprises Can Contribute to OSM—
Wade Crump—SpeakerThe State of the Map in Maryland and How I Mapped Howard County—
Yao-Ting Yao—SpeakerUDef-ARP: Python Open-Source Tool and Its Implementations—
Yunzhi Lin—SpeakerImproving Map Data with Emerging Technologies—
Yuri Astrakhan—SpeakerMapLibre status: web, mobile, new tile format, server, edit, ...—
Yuri Astrakhan—SpeakerMake your own base map or overlay tiles with MapLibre stack and Planetiler—

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