November 11–12, 2022
OpenStreetMap US and WikiConference North America are teaming up to host the second annual Mapping USA: a free virtual conference in celebration of the Wiki and OpenStreetMap communities across the continent.
Join us for a Mappy Hour on Thursday, a half day of talks on Friday, and a day of workshops, birds of a feather sessions, editing parties, and mapathons on Saturday. Live audio translation between English and Spanish will be provided for all Friday talks.
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Sponsorship
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Swag
Limited-edition shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, pillows, and more featuring our new logo are now available to order on our swag shop.
Local Chapters Congress
The Local Chapters & Communities Congress will take place on Saturday, November 12. Register to join the global conversation about building local OpenStreetMap communities.
More information
You can find more details on the OpenStreetMap Wiki, where you can also plan in-person meetups.
Follow @OpenStreetMapUS and the #MappingUSA tag on Twitter for the latest updates.
Conference program
Times below are given in Eastern Standard Time. Full talk descriptions are available here.
Thursday, November 10 |
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| Time | Session |
| 8:00 pm ET | Mappy Hour Join us for a casual hour of networking and socializing. |
| 9:00pm ET | End of Thursday |
Friday, November 11 |
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| Time | Session |
| 2:00 pm ET | Welcome to WikiConference NorthAmerica + Mapping USA |
| Opening Keynote: The Case for Sister Projects Minh Nguyễn |
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| 2:25 pm ET | Break |
| 2:30 pm ET | At 18 years old, is OSM entering adulthood? Jennings Anderson & Martijn van Exel |
| Linking Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap/OpenHistoricalMap Richard Welty |
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| Mapping the Virtual Border Wall with Public Records, Satellite Imagery, and Virtual Reality Dave Maass |
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| 3:00 pm ET | Break |
| 3:15 pm ET | Public Domain Map Quincy Morgan |
| Tips & Tricks for the Programs & Events Dashboard Sage Ross, LiAnna Davis |
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| Mall Mapping with Every Door Martijn van Exel |
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| Diversifying Wikipedia's biographies Ian Ramjohn |
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| Sound Logo Rae Adimer |
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| Building OSM Into the Elementary Classroom Mike Jabot |
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| 3:45 pm ET | Break |
| 4:00 pm ET | OSM US Trails Initiative Jake Low |
| Data Modeling the Person Lloyd Alimboyao Sy |
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| You can help us fix it: Learning new skills at the Philadelphia WikiSalon Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Co-facilitator; Wikipedian in Residence, Annual Reviews and Doreva Belfiore, Co-facilitator, The Philadelphia WikiSalon |
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| Utilizing Open-Source Software Tools in Evaluating Transportation Equity and Accessibility to Pediatric Vaccination Centers in 14 Ohio Counties Ahmad Ilderim Tokey |
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| Fostering open knowledge by providing effective support to volunteers - an introduction to Wikimedia Foundation's Committee Support Team Xeno (WMF) [Jack Glover] |
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| Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap Edward Betts |
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| 4:30 pm ET | Break |
| 4:40 pm ET | Come Here or Go Away?: Identifying Challenges to Scholarly Wikipedia Editing Savannah Cragin, Dr. Jennifer Johnson |
| Parks, Spawns, Nests and Pikachu: OpenStreetMap and Pokemon GO players Christopher Greene-Szmadzinski |
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| Print an OSM Extract: Trailheads maps from OpenStreetMap Rob Chohan |
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| Collaborative Corridors to Address OSM Underrepresentation Bill Wetherholt |
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| 5:20 pm ET | Break |
| 5:30 pm ET | Wikimedia New York City, Sure We Can Wil540 art |
| Magic Wand: A Plugin for JOSM Junior Flores |
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| Swiping into a love of OSM Dan Joseph |
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| WikiCred 2022 Grant Cycle Overview Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) |
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| Future of North American Wikimedia affiliates Peter B Meyer |
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| 6:00 pm ET | Closing Remarks Announcements from OpenStreetMap US & WikConference North America |
| 6:15pm ET | Open socializing Use this time to socialize virtually, ask questions of speakers. |
| 7:00pm ET | End of Friday |
Saturday, November 12 |
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| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | Track 4 |
| 11:30 am ET | Better tagging, better bike lanes, better cities Facilitator: Taylor Reich |
Atlas of Surveillance: Building a crowdsource map of police technology Facilitators: Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton, Paul Tepper |
Tool Time Demos + Q&A for software including: Monitoring the features you care about with OSMCha Wille Marcel Mikro: Sustainable Approach to Community Mapping Chad Blevins Working with Daylight Open Data on AWS Mike Jeffe & Jennings Anderson Transforming Visual Data into Meaningful Maps with RoadBotics by Michelin Sam Stephan, Lisa McCune-Noll US Mapillary Missions United States Edition Albert Gonzalo Bautista Making street-level imagery available as open data with Mapillary Albert Gonzalo Bautista OSM-Seed for packaging the key tools from OSM ecosystem Ruben Lopez Mendoza |
Wikimedia Indiana: A New User Group Rooted in Cultural Heritage Facilitators: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, Jere Odell, Jamie Flood |
| 12:00 pm ET | View it! tool: utilizing Structured Data on Commons for image discovery View it! team |
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| 1:00 pm ET | Tagging Party Facilitator: Minh Nguyễn |
Wikimedia sued the National Security Agency for mass surveillance. Now what? Presenter: Kate Ruane |
100 Caribbean Leaders on Wikidata: Launching WikiCari's newest project Presenters: Ian Ramjohn, Sherry Antoine |
OSM Education Birds of a feather Facilitator: Steven Johnson (TeachOSM) |
| 1:45 pm ET | Reclaiming the right to privacy with grassroots tactics Panelists: Franziska Putz (WMF), Micah Epstein (Coveillance), Lia Holland (Fight for the Future), TBC (ACLU or AmnestyTech). Moderator: Franziska Putz |
Automatic citations in Wikipedia: how they work and how to fix them Presenters: Diego de la Hera, Evelin Heidel (WMUY), Gimena Del Río Riande (CONICET), Nidia Hernández (CONICET), Romina De León (CONICET), Dennis Tobar (WMCL) |
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| 2:30 pm ET | Catskill Park, NY forest landcover mapathon Facilitator: Attila Kun |
Digital platforms as repositories of shared knowledge about conflict Facilitator: Valentina Vera-Quiroz |
How Wiki Education supports 12,000 new editors a year Facilitators: LiAnna Davis, Helaine Blumenthal, Ian Ramjohn |
Wiki99 and the global canon Facilitator: Lane Rasberry |
| 3:15 pm ET | Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap Edward Betts |
Wikifunctions - a new Wikimedia project Facilitator: Denny Vrandečić |
WW, WWWWW (Wikiproject Witches, Who, What, When, Where, Why) & A Woman of the Century Presenter/Facilitator: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight |
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| 4:00 pm ET | Wikidata's tenth birthday Facilitator: Peter Meyer |
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| 5:00 pm ET | End of Saturday | |||
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