Building an AI Map Agent with Self-Hosted Planet-Scale OSM and Tiny LLMs
2026-09-02 , Conference Management Room1

How far can a fully open geospatial stack take a natural-language request like “Show me cafes in Hiroshima City”? This talk presents TRIDENT, text2geoql-dataset, and a self-hosted planet-scale OpenStreetMap stack for building a grounded, interactive AI map agent.


This talk presents a practical end-to-end pipeline for building an AI map agent with a fully open geospatial stack. Starting from a natural-language request such as “Show me cafes in Hiroshima City,” I demonstrate how TRIDENT, text2geoql-dataset, and core OpenStreetMap services including Overpass API, Nominatim, and Taginfo can be combined to generate grounded, interactive maps without depending on public shared infrastructure for repeated LLM-driven queries.

The talk has three parts. First, I introduce my self-hosted “osm-planet-in-da-house” environment, where planet-scale OSM services run at home and provide rate-limit-free endpoints for experimentation. Second, I explain how text2geoql-dataset synthesizes and validates natural-language-to-Overpass-QL training pairs by resolving place names, checking tag validity, and confirming that queries return real results. Third, I discuss the path toward running the deepest layer of the agent with a tiny local model on Raspberry Pi-class hardware for offline or low-connectivity settings.

Rather than promising magic, I will focus on concrete architecture, lessons learned, practical constraints, and what is realistically possible today with FOSS.


Level of technical complexity: 3 - advanced Give indication of resources (video, web pages, papers, etc.) to read in advance, that will help get up to speed on advanced topics.:

Suggested advance reading:
- TRIDENT: https://github.com/yuiseki/TRIDENT
- text2geoql-dataset: https://github.com/yuiseki/text2geoql-dataset
- osm-planet-in-da-house: https://github.com/yuiseki/osm-planet-in-da-house
- Overpass API / Overpass QL documentation
- Nominatim documentation
- Taginfo

Indicate what is (are) the open source project(s) essential in your talk:

TRIDENT; text2geoql-dataset; osm-planet-in-da-house; OpenStreetMap; Overpass API; Nominatim; Taginfo

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