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Brian Sperlongano

Brian Sperlongano

Mapping hobbyist, open data enthusiast, and OSM US board member

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I'm a long time hiker, geocacher, runner, software developer, and map nerd. A few years ago I created StreetFerret, a software tool that conflates OSM data with Strava to help runners attempting to run every street in their city. I'm active in the community, and I've coordinated community efforts to standardize tagging of rivers, protected areas, and highway classifications. I'm excited to bring the Americana project to the table to fulfill a long-held desire for "a map of our own".

Highways BoF

Expressways, trunks, unclassified, tracks oh my! You've heard updates on the Highway Classification project and maybe even drafted some guidelines for you state. Where are we succeeding as a US community and where can we improve? Join other mappers for discussions on what comes next for highways in the US.

Drafting State-level Highway Classification guidelines

The US Highway Classification project seeks to harmonize highway tagging across the US. The federalized structure of our vast country leads to a wide variety of road funding, building, and designation practices. By necessity, local mappers in each state must figure out guidelines for how to choose appropriate classifications based on their state's practices and available data.

This workshop will dive into the details of developing state-level classification guidelines. Beginning with an overview of the process already used in some states, we'll look at the data sources provided by state DOTs, discuss ways of interpreting their meanings in the context of OSM, and look at common pitfalls with certain data sources. We'll help participants identify appropriate starting points for their States of interest and get started on or improve a draft.

Project wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/2021_Highway_Classification_Guidance

An American Map Style

Highway shields! Expressways! This talk introduces the OpenStreetMap "Americana" project, which aims to build an American map style, complete with the features that North American users expect to see on their maps.

We'll explore the techniques involved in rendering highway shields and the challenges involved in rendering an attractive highway network given the quirks and complexities of the American highway system. On the implementation side, we'll show how we're implementing an American style on a vector-tile software stack using the OpenMapTiles schema, MapLibre, and ordinary Javascript. Lastly, we'll highlight some of the future possibilities that a vector-based American map style can enable.

Brian Sperlongano

Mapping hobbyist, open data enthusiast, and OSM US board member

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