Maggie Cawley
Maggie currently serves as the Executive Director for OpenStreetMap US. She joined OSM US in March 2019 after 15 years as a geospatial professional supporting projects across all sectors and industries. In her role at OpenStreetMap US, Maggie works to engage, support and grow the OpenStreetMap project and community across the United States through programs, advocacy, education and events, including the annual State of the Map US conference.
Sessions
Is your government utilizing OpenStreetMap data in their workflows? How can crowdsourcing be leveraged to improve the completeness, freshness, and breadth of government geospatial data? As the world’s largest crowdsourced geospatial database, OpenStreetMap is poised to serve this need. Two years ago, OpenStreetMap US formed a Government Working Group to seek out mutually beneficial relationships between the public and open data communities. As part of this effort, OSM community members and representatives from federal agencies have been investigating solutions for feature collection. This collaboration has led to the development of Public Domain Map, which connects OpenStreetMap and government datasets. Through the Public Domain Map workflow, OpenStreetMap and government open geospatial data becomes more complete, current and readily usable by government agencies and the millions of users relying on both datasets. In this session, I will share the journey of Public Domain Map, how the project is bringing together US federal agencies and open source contributors to meet this goal, and how you can be part of it.