There were lots of really good talks at SotMUS, but since there were two tracks, I couldn't attend all of them (dang it!).
Here's some quick links to presentations that I attended and really liked—several have a local Colorado perspective or are highlighting work done by current and former co-workers: ** Keynote by Emily Jacobi* (Digital Democracy): touching on real world events and how it affects our community "the urgency of now" video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJlT8li_tRw> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/saturday-keynote-emily-jacobi.html> * *Machine Learning to assist with making great maps* (Facebook) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ckY6QN5jI> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/machine-learning-to-assist-in-map-making.html> * *Mapping Sidewalks for Pedestrian routing* (Trimet) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w64pLD_bgKk> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/mapping-sidewalks-for-pedestrian-routing.html> * *Bicycle Network Analysis* - helping the majority of 'interested but concerned' cyclists to be safer (People for Bikes) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgyynQDPQnQ> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/bicycle-network-analysis.html> * *Planimetrics import for Denver Metro area* - over 600K building rooftops are ready (DRCOG) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hOqAhEpL4> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/planimetrics-import.html> * *Data Usage in Colorado* - app challenge to make public data more useful (Go Code Colorado) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxnrDWhADw> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/go-code-colorado-app-challenge.html> * *Overview of vector tiles* - pros and cons of usage (Paul Norman) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=savQWL0kq_g> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/vector-tiles.html> * *Linear (location) referencing of OpenStreetMap* road data (Mapzen) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaiC35XLGjI> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/stable-linear-referencing-system.html> * *What's up with ASTER* (terra data collected from satellites) (USGS) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0w3n2gn5WQ> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/whatsup-with-aster.html> * *Wikiwar Historical Mapping Adventures* - cool ways to use OSM data in historical war gaming (Open Historical Maps) video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on5UtbJWH4c> / summary <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/wikiwar-historical-mapping.html> There are, of course, many more presentations <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE2k2Sp5L5rb6ntduG9dt0te> to watch (including the keynote <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABb-J8ejiwU> by Astronaut Christopher Loria; the complete program <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/> is a good way to feed your appetite on all things OpenStreetMap that were discussed. Here's the group photo <https://www.flickr.com/photos/openstreetmapus/37129919014/> and we're waiting on the satellite selfie <https://twitter.com/dtankersley/status/921755360372850689> to be available soon of the over 500 people that were in attendance! Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow—there are so many videos! > > Deb, can you recommend a few things that you really enjoyed seeing and/or > that you didn't get to see but that looked really good? > > Thanks! > > Trey Jones > Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Deborah Tankersley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> For those who were able to come to Boulder, Colorado for the annual State >> of the Map US conference this past weekend—thanks and I hope that you >> enjoyed the Colorado weather and hospitality! >> >> It was a really nice program <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/> >> and it was especially cool to see more and more of the projects that the >> community has been chatting about and working on in their spare time >> finally come to life and are in production! >> >> All the talks on Friday and Saturday were videotaped >> <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE2k2Sp5L5rb6ntduG9dt0te>, >> and you can see lots of snapshots >> <https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=95444237%40N08&sort=date-posted-desc&safe_search=1&view_all=1&tags=> >> of folks at Folsom Field and a few of the evening socials. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Deb >> >> -- >> deb tankersley >> Product Manager, Discovery >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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