The State of the Map US conference at the United Nations Headquarters is in NYC June 6-8. It’s not too late to sign up to attend—the deadline has been extended to Wednesday, June 3! As an incentive, we are highlighting the talks by your friends at Mapzen. You won’t want to miss Diana Shkolnikov and Indy Hurt’s workshop on Extracting interesting data from OSM on Monday June 8 at 9 AM.

Ever wonder about the hidden data gems OSM might posses? Feel overwhelmed at the prospect of searching for and extracting them? Well then this workshop is for you. Needle meet haystack no more! We’ll take you on a whirlwind tour of a variety of tools available to browse, search, slice, and dice OSM into valuable byte-sized insights.

Diana is a “classically-trained” software engineer entering the world of all things geo. When she’s not busy looking up meanings of geo-related acronyms, she focuses on software design, process and testing all-the-things. She’s is currently working on an open source geocoder, which she now knows is just a fancy word for geo search.

Indy is a data scientist lending her geographic expertise to all things “open.” She extracts the good, the bad, and the ugly across time and space to help us understand data in new and exciting ways.