making things. saying things.

A great State of the Map US conference!

If a dataset of the size of OSM is to exist, we simply cannot afford to have a sense of proportion. We must allow for a variety of helpful slivers of the planet to help us represent its entirety in a variety of situations. Borders is one such sliver.

Curious about transportation options near a park in your city? No need to visit numerous transit provider websites, download multiple datasets, or mentally conflate various transit system maps just to understand how it all fits together.

At Mapzen, we're trying to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area—and in the many other parts of the world with puzzle-like transit systems—using open-source software and open data. The name of our new effort: Transitland.

Transitland uses geohashes in a variety of ways; come find out how.

Never fear, routing is here!

If you pay taxes, you need to be at this SOTMUS talk.

Does the OpenStreetMap community have a fraught relationship with businesses? Or have companies just been part of the community since the beginning? Learn more at State of the Map US 2015.