I’ll be at State of the Map in Brussels this week presenting all of our work on validating OpenStreetMap data. At Mapbox, we spent the last few months looking at changes that happen in OpenStreetMap closely - geometry, tags, users and the community. I’m really excited to share what we learned, and to open the conversation on how the community can focus on keeping the map from breaking while growing. I’ll be presenting the tools we have been building, insights about problematic changes, response, mechanics of communication and more during my talk.

Our team just published an approach to validating OpenStreetMap data - talking about identifying problematic changes, inspecting them, communicating and eventually fixing. Let me know what you think!

What makes OpenStreetMap special is the community. The community is what makes OpenStreetMap a truly self-healing map. The community is the map.

Map of recently reverted changesets

If you haven’t already, watch Sanjay Bhangar’s presentation at State of the Map US.

Looking forward!