Episode 28: What "OpenStreetMap US" is with Maggie Cawley & Alyssa Wright

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#28 Cover art uses imagery by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
(https://www.hotosm.org/) OpenStreetMap contributors
(https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Maggie
Cawley (https://twitter.com/maggiemaps?lang=en) OpenStreetMap US
(https://www.openstreetmap.us/) Alyssa Wright
(https://twitter.com/alyssapwright?lang=en) OpenStreetMap US
(https://www.openstreetmap.us/) | Open Source Collective
(https://opencollective.com/opensource) Show Notes In this episode
Justin and Richard talk with Maggie Cawley, Executive Director of
the American OpenStreetMap US and Alyssa Wright, current Board
Member of OpenStreetMap US. If you’ve never heard of OpenStreetMap
US you will learn all about what it is, how you can use it, how you
can edit it (YES, it’s editable like Wikipedia), and how it differs
from Google Maps. 1:40** What is OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap
US? How are they different? The ladies also share how many people
are all together in the OpenStreetMap world in their biosphere and
how many contributing editors there are. 04:41 Justin wonders how
the map data is licensed and was it a hard sell to the community or
an easy one? 08:24 OSMF and OSM US are slighty different. Richard
is interested to know what Maggie and Alyssa are doing for each one
and how do they see them growing. 10:43 Richard wants to know the
Code of Conduct and was questioning if it was just started or did
it change. 12:40 Justin wants to know what percentage Craig, from
Craigslist, give to their annual budget. Also, regarding
sustainability, the discussion of what it costs to run
OpenStreetMap as a service is answered. 13:34 Maggie talks about
who is involved in their membership which is made of many different
people. 17:00 Richard wonders if anything is difficult now and what
does sustainability look like and if there are any problems. The
ladies talk about all the challenges there have been. 23:09 Why
would people use OSM vs. Google Maps? Empowerment is a big factor
with OSM. 27:18 Justin wonders how Maggie and Alyssa deal with
possible misinformation from bad edits, especially with the
earthquakes or tornados or if there have been any issues. 32:04 The
ladies answer some questions from Richard regarding what
sustainability means for OSM and how do you make sure everyone is
working on the same product, doing it with the same intention, but
with the same sort of guidance. Quotes 05:43 “ODbL, it’s a unique
license.” 15:15 “I always point to my phone, it’s like, you know,
this is essentially a map that we’re carrying around with us
constantly and whether we’re talking about data privacy in our
location, movement, or crime statistics or this Coronavirus, this
is grounded in space, and we’re grounded in space.” 21:08 “Billions
of people in this world do not have an address. So, without an
address that means you don’t have a legal right to your land.”
23:17 “It’s very well known that Google is going to map where they
have commercial interest.” Spotlight 34:07 Justin’s spotlight this
week is Dracula PRO-Episode 27. 34:40 Richard’s spotlight is
Leaflet JS. 34:57 Maggie’s spotlight is QGIS project. 35:17
Alyssa’s spotlight is PostGIS community. Links Maggie Cawley
Twitter (https://twitter.com/maggiemaps?lang=en) Alyssa Wright
Twitter (https://twitter.com/alyssapwright?lang=en) State of the
Map U.S. Conference (https://2020.stateofthemap.us/) Craigslist
Charitable Fund Donation
(https://www.openstreetmap.us/2019/10/craigslist-charitable-fund/)
OpenStreetMap.US (https://www.openstreetmap.us/) OpenStreetMap.org
(https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/38.01/-95.84) OpenStreetMap
on Slack (https://slack.openstreetmap.us/) QGIS
(https://qgis.org/en/site/) PostGIS (https://postgis.net/) TeachOSM
(https://teachosm.org/) Dracula Pro-Episode27
(https://sustain.codefund.fm/27) Leaflet JS
(https://leafletjs.com/) Special Guests: Alyssa Wright and Maggie
Cawley.