<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>I want to thank all of you who were able to make it to DC this past weekend for coming to SOTM US. I had a great time and that was in no small part because I was able to get together with some of the folks here on this list.<br>
<br>If you weren't able to make it, and want to see the talks, head over to the web site and watch them online. With my mapper goggles on, I thought these were particularly interesting:<br><br></div><div>* Paul Mach from Strava, talk on matching poorly traced OSM geometries to their GPS traces - cool and it works today! <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/session/slide/">http://stateofthemap.us/session/slide/</a><br>
</div><div>* The lightning talks had some great stuff, like Mapillary, Maptime, OpenAddresses, OpenDroneMap: <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/session/lightning-talks/">http://stateofthemap.us/session/lightning-talks/</a><br>
</div><div>* Kathleen talked about organizing local meet ups: <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/session/meeting-in-person/">http://stateofthemap.us/session/meeting-in-person/</a><br></div><div>* <ahem> MapRoulette :) : <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/session/faites-vos-jeux/">http://stateofthemap.us/session/faites-vos-jeux/</a><br>
</div><div>* Interesting data on where the US mappers actually are (and where not) from Dennis Zielstra: <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/session/where-are-the-us-mappers-at/">http://stateofthemap.us/session/where-are-the-us-mappers-at/</a><br>
</div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>I guess I could go on but I thought I'd highlight a few to get you going.<br><br></div><div>If you were there, let me know what you thought of the whole thing, what you liked, and what we can do better - either on list or email.<br>
<br></div><div>Thanks. Oh and reminder! Edit-a-thon this weekend! We have 9 cities signed up already --> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014</a><br>
<br> </div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Martijn van Exel<br>President, US Chapter<br>OpenStreetMap<br><a href="http://openstreetmap.us/" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.us/</a><br><a href="http://osm.org/" target="_blank">http://osm.org/</a>
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