From Bolt scooters to golf carts, the future of short distance travel is full of interesting surprises! In this talk, we’ll discuss how the Valhalla routing engine can be used for low-speed vehicle routing. As a motivating example, we’ll discuss a real problem faced by two municipal governments in the US who needed to offer safe routing for golf carts, how this led to the development of a low-speed vehicle profile for Valhalla, and the challenges we faced along the way.

The renowned Stamen Map Tiles, after more than a decade of being used and loved by digital cartographers the world over, have received a facelift. Together, Stamen and Stadia Maps created all new vector versions of Toner and Terrain based on the modern mapping stack of open data and an open source toolbox of vector tiles and styles, while preserving backward compatibility for existing users. We will discuss the technical challenges to creating an affordable map tiling service at scale and provide some perspective on how OSM-based digital cartography has changed since these tilesets were originally created.