12-02, 16:00–18:00 (America/Belem), Room Guajará (C Block)
Overture Maps Foundation provides millions of points of interest (POIs) as open map data. This gives OpenStreetMap users a chance to improve the map using open source geospatial tools in Python, along with various open APIs, to compare and validate the data. This workshop will let users learn how to do it in a place on the map of their own choosing.
Overture Maps Foundation has released open data with various points of interest around the world, which are compatible with OpenStreetMap to be validated and added to the map. In this workshop, attendees will be able to fork and modify collaborative Python notebook in order to learn how to fetch and preview Overture Places, as well as apply filters, including using a bounding box or place polygon to get POIs in a specific neighborhood or city. They will then have the chance to request data from OpenStreetMap that is in the same area and explore methods for finding which POIs already exist in OSM, how they might be updated by adopting some of the attributes from Overture, and also finding which Overture POIs are eligible to be added to OSM, ans how to check which might have evidence that they really exist.
Attendees should have their own laptop, some basic Python knowledge, and an OpenStreetMap account to get started.
Christopher Beddow is a map data analyst at Meta who has worked on integrations, developer tools, and community growth with Mapillary and OpenStreetMap over the past 8 years. He is an avid Python and SQL user with an interest in computer vision to improve maps. Chris loves to travel and ski, learns languages, and likes riding trains with his wife, son, and dog when at home on Switzerland.