Minh Nguyễn
TIGER wrangler
San Jose, California, United States
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Minh is all over the map, lavishing attention on everything from taquerías in California to cornfields in Ohio to alleys in Vietnam. He leads the mapper community in San José and contributes to OSM-related open source projects. By day, he is an iOS software developer.
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Lowercase history: micromapping the past
History is about far more than empires, wars, and migration. The same attention to detail that makes OpenStreetMap special – that human touch – also makes OpenHistoricalMap stand out in the field of historical geography. What does it mean to micromap history, and why does it matter? How can we apply traditional OSM mapping skills without unduly biasing the map toward the present? What can we learn from academic practices in historiography?
The best of both worlds: designing an international American map
At first blush, OpenStreetMap Americana is a nostalgic map design that harkens back to the midcentury American road atlas. At the same time, it is also a modern application that adopts best practices in internationalization. The map needs to be intuitive to Americans who have never ventured abroad – but it must also be informative to an international audience unfamiliar with the United States, in all of its complexity. How does the project reconcile these two seemingly opposed design goals? Join us on a world tour of the obstacles we overcame over the past year and the opportunities ahead for advancing the state of the art in OSM map rendering.
Lessons from the sign shop
Minh has spent much of the last year cataloguing the thousands of standard signs posted by highway departments across the United States. Cataloguing these signs has revealed a number of gaps in OpenStreetMap’s homegrown ontology for describing transportation features, which is historically heavily influenced by European standards. This exercise has given the community a framework for systematically closing the gaps and making the tagging system more flexible. Join Minh to gawk at some of the more unusual signs, and learn how you can contribute to this effort as a roadgeek, graphic designer, or tag connoisseur.
A turbo introduction to Overpass
Who? What? When? Where? How many? The Overpass API and Overpass turbo are essential tools for making sense of OpenStreetMap data. Learn how to dash off a quick wizard query, go deep with OverpassQL for common tasks, and integrate the results into mapping workflows. This introduction to Overpass does not require any programming or GIS experience, but familiarity with OSM tagging is recommended.
State of the Map US 2023 Sessionize Event
State of the Map US 2022 Sessionize Event
WikiConference North America + Mapping USA 2022
The Case for Sister Projects
Connect 2020
Look Both Ways: Integrating OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
State of the Map US 2019 Sessionize Event
State of the Map U.S. 2018
OSM Counts: meaningful metrics for local mapping communities
State of the Map U.S. 2017
Do you node the way to San Jose?
A Thousand Maps in Your Pocket
State of the Map U.S. 2015
Tickling locals into action
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