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State of the Map US 2026

Jun 11–13, 2026 · Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison, WI, United States

Conference
State of the Map Software engineering
Dates
Jun 11, 2026 – Jun 13, 2026
Venue
Madison Concourse Hotel
Place
Madison, WI, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
200
OSM US recap: 'Over three days, 200 fellow mappers and OSM enthusiasts...'
Website
openstreetmap.us
Recorded
13 sponsors · 92 speaker appearances
Notes
14th SotM US. Program on Sessionize (state-of-the-map-us-2026.sessionize.com). CFP ran to Feb 16, 2026. Speakers from openstreetmap.us talk pages (affiliations not printed there); sessions missing there added from the Sessionize program.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Academic & Nonprofit Admission (Early Bird)$175Jan 31, 2026web.archive.org
General Admission (Early Bird)$200Jan 31, 2026web.archive.org
Professional Admission (Early Bird)$400Jan 31, 2026web.archive.org
One Day Pass (Standard)$180May 1, 2026web.archive.org
Academic & Nonprofit Admission (Standard)$220May 1, 2026web.archive.org
General Admission (Standard)$300May 1, 2026web.archive.org
Professional Admission (Standard)$550May 1, 2026web.archive.org
One Day Pass (Late Bird)$250—web.archive.org
Academic & Nonprofit Admission (Late Bird)$275—web.archive.org
General Admission (Late Bird)$400—web.archive.org
Professional Admission (Late Bird)$650—web.archive.org

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
Flamingo$2,500—openstreetmap.us
Bronze$4,000—openstreetmap.us
Silver$8,000—openstreetmap.us
Gold$15,000—openstreetmap.us
Platinum$20,000—openstreetmap.us
Diamond$30,000—openstreetmap.us

Sponsors 13

Title / headline 1

  • Esri · Diamond · $30,000

Gold 3

  • Grab · Gold · $15,000
  • TomTom · Gold · $15,000
  • Uber · Gold · $15,000

Silver 2

Bronze 4

Other 3

Speakers and talks 92

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Gareth Baldrica-Franklin—KeynoteKeynote: Engaging with the Local Landscape: The Story of Mapping Teejop—
Abe Rubenstein—SpeakerHow Madison civic tech gave me a map to navigate my early career—
Adam Cox—SpeakerIntegrating OSM User Authentication into OldInsuranceMaps.net—
Aditya Sridhar—SpeakerScaling OSM Curation: AI Agents for High-Volume Ground-Truth Validation—
Adrian Margin—SpeakerReinventing Map-Making with Edge AI Dashcams: KartaDashCam at Scale—
Alan McConchie—SpeakerMapping totem poles with a 5-year-old new mapper—
Alan McConchie—SpeakerState of the OSM cartography landscape—
Alice Lee—SpeakerRapid Disaster Mapping for Playgrounds: Turning Geospatial Data into Recovery Priorities—
Alyssa Castronuovo—SpeakerAn Update from your Hosts, OpenStreetMap US—
Alyssa Castronuovo—SpeakerHow OpenStreetMap Infiltrated our Relationship (or how you can get your loved ones into OSM)—
Amy Bordenave—SpeakerPWG 1.0: Creating the Pedestrian Working Group Schema & Guide—
Amy Bordenave—SpeakerOpenSidewalks in OpenStreetMap: Using OS-CONNECT as a Reference Layer in Rapid—
Andrew Heare—Speaker(Re)Mapping DC's Bus Network—
Ariel Kadouri—SpeakerPlotting OpenStreetMap—
Ben Varick—SpeakerUsing OpenStreetMap data to assess the bikeability of schools—
Brian Spencer—SpeakerMapping with Restraint: How Lyft leverages and contributes to the OSM Community—
Chad Blevins—SpeakerA Decade of Mapping Impact: Celebrating 10 Years of YouthMappers—
Clay Smalley—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 2: Let's Get Mapping!—
Clay Smalley—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 1—
Clay Smalley—SpeakerOSM-lish: OpenStreetMap's Own English Dialect—
Daniel Krol—SpeakerState of OpenStreetMap on Internet-in-a-Box—
Daniel Steiner—SpeakerUsing Maps to Tell Stories—
Devon Hanbey—SpeakerContributing with an Open Source Toolchain—
Dhanyasri Bolla—SpeakerDhanyasri's take on megacities climate resilience—
Diane Fritz—PanelistBuilding Communities Panel Discussion—
Emily Jacobi—SpeakerCommunity mapping, data sovereignty and Indigenous toponyms on OSM—
Emma Farahay—SpeakerSanborn in Sandusky - A Search for Local Stories—
EmmaLi Tsai—SpeakerOpen Wetlands Map - an accessible, community-maintained dataset of wetland observations—
Felipe Valdez—SpeakerFrom Sidewalk to Signal: Mapping Internet Access with Street-Level Imagery—
Gopi Malathi—SpeakerThe Social Life of Data Quality in OSM—
Gopi Malathi—SpeakerAI & OSM - Birds of a Feather—
Harald Kliems—SpeakerUsing OpenStreetMap data to assess the bikeability of schools—
Harald Kliems—SpeakerImpact of Mapillary Camera Grant and Scaling Open Street-Level Imagery Across US—
Harrison Devine—SpeakerOSM US Closing Session—
Howard Veregin—SpeakerWelcome to Wisconsin—
Jacob Chapman—SpeakerState of OpenStreetMap on Internet-in-a-Box—
Jacob Hall—PanelistBuilding Communities Panel Discussion—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerPWG 1.0: Creating the Pedestrian Working Group Schema & Guide—
Jacob Hall—SpeakerHow OpenStreetMap Infiltrated our Relationship (or how you can get your loved ones into OSM)—
Jake Low—SpeakerAn Update from your Hosts, OpenStreetMap US—
Jake Low—SpeakerOSM US Tech Updates—
Jazzy Smith—SpeakerOSM US Closing Session—
Jeff Meyer—SpeakerHistory & Open Mapping Birds of a Feather—
Jeremy Herzog—SpeakerHow We Prepared HIFLD for the Singularity—
Joshua Carlson—SpeakerCleaning Up Boundary Relations in JOSM—
Julio May—SpeakerScoring the feasibility of micromobility with OSM data—
Kapeel Daryani—SpeakerCartography on Autopilot: Turning GTFS and OSM into Beautiful Maps—
Kelsey Taylor—SpeakerState of the OSM cartography landscape—
Kelsey Taylor—SpeakerMapping wild animals in NYC with open and crowdsourced data—
Kiri Carini—SpeakerOSM US Closing Session—
Lane Becker—SpeakerWikimedia Enterprise – Lessons learned from working with large commercial reusers—
Lindsey Peña—SpeakerCoordinates of Connection: Mapping the People, Places, and Purpose That Bind Us—
Luke Everhart—SpeakerUsing LANDSAT and OSM to Map Urban Heat Impact—
Maggie Cawley—SpeakerWelcome to State of the Map US 2026—
Maggie Cawley—SpeakerAn Update from your Hosts, OpenStreetMap US—
Martijn van Exel—PanelistBuilding Communities Panel Discussion—
Martijn van Exel—SpeakerAnnouncing MapRoulette 4—
Matthew Whilden—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 2: Let's Get Mapping!—
Matthew Whilden—SpeakerMotivating mappers—
Matthew Whilden—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 1—
Matthew Whilden—SpeakerOSM US Closing Session—
Matthew Whilden—SpeakerReview of American Roadways (ROAR)—
Michal Migurski—SpeakerWikimedia Enterprise – Lessons learned from working with large commercial reusers—
Michal Migurski—SpeakerCan you make a legal map with OpenStreetMap?—
Michal Migurski—SpeakerThe Usefulness of Road Networks in OSM—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerGood vibes about places—
Minh Nguyễn—SpeakerHistory however you look at it—
Minh Nguyễn—PanelistBuilding Communities Panel Discussion—
Nat Henry—SpeakerOpenPOIs: a superset of open place data—
Nat Henry—SpeakerWhat is real? Estimating the fidelity of OSM data using changesets—
Parth Vyas—SpeakerMapping with Restraint: How Lyft leverages and contributes to the OSM Community—
Puneet Kollipara—SpeakerSafeguarding America's Open Infrastructure Data: OSM As An Ecosystem Enabler—
Quincy Morgan—SpeakerOSM US Closing Session—
Quincy Morgan—SpeakerThematic OpenStreetMap with TheMap.is—
Richard Hinton—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 2: Let's Get Mapping!—
Richard Welty—SpeakerOHM: In Search of the Eastern Turnpike—
Rob Savoye—SpeakerWhy Ground-Truthing is Important—
Rob Savoye—SpeakerUsing Official Datasets for Roads and Trails—
Sam Yasen—SpeakerThe Walksheds Tool: Evaluating Pedestrian Accessibility Using OSM Data—
Samuel Younkin—SpeakerUsing OpenStreetMap data to assess the bikeability of schools—
Sean Gorman—SpeakerEmbedding Tiles: Should We Be Structuring Open Map Data for AI?—
Shaishav Maisuria—SpeakerHow Amazon Generates Map Tiles for Last-Mile Delivery Using OSM-Derived Datasets and Planetiler—
Shaundrea Kenyon—SpeakerWant to edit but not sure where to start?—
Stephanie May—WorkshopIntroduction to Web Maps—
Stephen Kennedy—SpeakerMadison in 50 Maps: A Cartographic Tour through OSM—
Steven Johnson—SpeakerTeenMaptivists: Open Mapping in High School—
Steven Johnson—WorkshopAn Introduction to OpenStreetMap Part 2: Let's Get Mapping!—
Steven Johnson—SpeakerEducation Birds-of-a-feather—
Vishal Kumar—SpeakerHow Amazon Generates Map Tiles for Last-Mile Delivery Using OSM-Derived Datasets and Planetiler—
Vitor Vieira—SpeakerMergin Maps: an open source platform based on QGIS for data collection and collaboration—
Yuri Astrakhan—SpeakerYour own map service with MapLibre, OSM data, Planetiler—
Yuri Astrakhan—SpeakerMapLibre Tiles - next generation tiles and other MapLibre news—

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