Aishworya is the projects manager at KLL to ensure projects meet their objectives. Apart from meeting project goals, she helps KLL reach a wider audience by leading organizational social media accounts, newsletters and civic engagement activities. Her work is rooted within the biopsychosocial dimensions of technology and innovation. She believes technology is only as great as it is useful to people using it.

I’m Amanda McCann. I’m a mapper and programmer originally for Ireland, but now based in Germany. I work at Geofabrik. (pronouns: english: she or they, deutsch: „sie“)

I’ve been on the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors since Dec 2019/ I’m currently the OSMF Secretary. I write up what I do in OSM on my OSM Diary.

I’m on the Communication WG, and I have lots of OSM stickers which we’ll send you for free. I started & admin the En.OSM.Town Mastodon/Fediverse server for the OSM community

Ana Luísa Teixeira 2021 Young Explorer, geographer, master degree student at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei and leader of chapter Unificar Ações e informações Geoespaciais of Youthmappers network. In the chapter, the team leads 2 projects: 1 mapping of historical heritage in São João del-Rei (Minas Gerais - BR) and 2 mapping of communities in the municipality of Tefé (Amazonas, BR) to remove them from cartographic invisibility.

FLOSS contributor involved in many projects (OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia projects, Gnome)
Currently OpenStreetMap Project Manager for Wikimedia Italia (Italian OpenStreetMap Local Chapter), part of the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and member of cOSMopolIT, group dedicated in Diversity and Inclusion within the italian OpenStreetMap Community.
Local organizing committee for SotM 2022.

Software Engineer working at Woven Planet (previously CARMERA) on the Automated Mapping Platform team. OpenStreetMap contributor living in Brooklyn, New York.

Always looking for ways to improving conditions for pedestrians and cyclists through mapping, analysis, and tools. Interested in finding the quirky scenarios that bend the data model. Pronouns: He/Him.

I am passionate about building inclusive spaces in the OSM and open mapping community - where the communities are prioritized, listened to, and are able to voice their concerns.

Affiliations:
Advocate, Geoladies PH
Volunteer, OSM Philippines
Member, Local Communities and Chapters WG
Online Community Engagement Lead, HOT
Co-chair, HOT Community WG

Benjamin Herfort is researcher at HeiGIT and doctoral candidate in Geography at Heidelberg University. In his research and work he is dealing with the temporal evolution of OpenStreetMap data, MapSwipe and information from social media. He is developing open source tools and methods that incorporate geographic information systems for disaster management and humanitarian aid.

Brandon is a cartographic technologist based in Taipei, Taiwan. He has a background in computer graphics and systems programming; some of his interests are language & localization, digital heritage, and computational map design. He's currenly working on Protomaps, a new suite of developer-friendly tools for mapmaking on the web.

Born in 1983. and living in Belgrade, Serbia. Since first introduction with Slackware in 2001, fascinated by free and libre software. Main theme of contributions to OSM are around fixing and improving data in automated ways, but with human touch (5000+ changesets over 13 years). Big fan of normalized data with strict schema:) Since degoogling, OSM is indivisible part of my life. Principal Software Engineer based out of the Microsoft Development Center Serbia and have been working at Microsoft in different teams for 10 years now, but slowly gravitated towards Maps&Local team.

Chad is the Social Sector Industry Lead within Locana and has been applying OSM data to development and humanitarian challenges for over the past decade. As a co-founder of YouthMappers, Chad’s work focusing on leveraging the latest technology, creating partnerships, and building scalable geospatial capacity within the development industry and local communities.

Christopher Beddow is a data analyst working on products related to OpenStreetMap and Mapillary. He is part of the basemaps team at Meta, is a longtime contributor to OSM and Mapillary, and has a special interest in mapping pedestrian routes, rural areas, and mountainous regions. He is from Montana, USA and lives in a small town in Switzerland. Chris is a member of the Swiss OSM association and loves to ski, hike, and ride trains. He is open to collaboration on projects, talking maps over espresso/apero, and meeting mappers from around the world. Find him on twitter: @cbed32

Enthusiastic about open source and the OpenStreetMap project, I decided to found OpenIndoor after 8 years of DevOps practice in a large company because I believe in the potential of Maplibre and open indoor data to improve building data visualization. My company, OpenIndoor, proposes to apply a customizable visual rendering on data sources (Osm, GeoJson, IMDF, AutoCAD) and to add functionalities such as navigation, the possibility to switch to photosphere mode, immersive camera movement, 3D objects display etc.

Dennis Raylin Chen is an Open Data enthusiast, map lover, active contributor of OpenStreetMap, and a Wikidata and Wikipedia lover. OpenStreetMap Taiwan and Wikidata Taiwan community member. Co-host Taipei OpenStreetMap x Wikidata monthly meetup. I have made several imported-project on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. And also regularly do QA stuff on both projects.
I also serve as the chairperson of Wikimedia Taiwan, the legal entitles of the Wikimedia movement in Taiwan.

Dustin is a software engineer at the Alan Turing Institute. He's been building A/B Street since 2018 to help people study transportation in cities and rapidly explore how to reduce dependency on motor vehicles. A huge part of this effort is interpreting and rendering OpenStreetMap in great detail. Recently, parts of this effort have been split out into modular components like osm2lanes, which can be integrated in OSM renderers and editors directly.

OSM contributor since 2008, I have contributed quite a few when I was traveling. I like contributing to opensource projects. I learned Python for my studies and my work, so I have decided to create the QuickOSM project, to combine both OSM and QGIS. If I’m not contributing on Github, you can see me outside hiking or recording tracks in the mountains.

I'm the local coordinator for Apulia of Wikimedia Italy, the local chapter of Wikimedia Foundation and OpenStreetMap Foundation. I'm 17, so I'm still a student, and I'm very passionate about technology in general, free culture and free licenses. Thanks to WMIT, I've had the opportunity to make other students work on Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap and to organise the local Wiki Loves Monuments contest for Apulia.

Florian Lainez has been an OpenStreetMap contributor for over 13 years. He is one of the architects of the OpenStreetMap France association, of which he was vice-president. Florian has led many collaborative projects in OpenStreetMap, including "Ça reste Ouvert" (Staying open), the collaborative map of places open during the 2020 Covid lockdown.
Since 2019, he is manager of Jungle Bus, a company specialized in co-creating mobility data with the OpenStreetMap community.
In 2022, he founded the french OSM professionals federation "La fédération des pros d’OSM".

Gala is a mathematician and programmer, with a background in education, optimisation and all-things data. She is a data scientist and director at Diagonal, where she is responsible for data science and built-environment analytics. Gala's experience is in strategic technical leadership, the design and implementation of algorithms and models within the urban planning and civil infrastructure space, and mathematical optimisation. Gala is passionate about using analytics to explore and break down urban and social inequalities.

Geoffrey Kateregga is the Community Manager at the Open Mapping Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa. He is an active member of the OpenStreetMap Africa community - a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa organizing the State of the Map Africa conference and joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well-detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap in order to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa.

Geoffrey Kateregga is the Community Manager at the Open Mapping Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa. He is an active member of the OpenStreetMap Africa community - a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa organizing the State of the Map Africa conference and joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well-detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap in order to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa.

Grant Slater is the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Senior Site Reliability Engineer.

Before becoming the OSMF's SRE in May 2022 he worked as a consultant DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer during the day and moonlighted as part of the all volunteer OpenStreetMap Operations Team (sysadmins)

Grant has been involved with OpenStreetMap for 16 years, 15 years of which he has in-part been responsible for running the project's infrastructure.

Greta is an early career researcher at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, University of Leeds. She holds a BA in Sociology and MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures. Greta is passionate about open, interdisciplinary research and R. For the last 6 months, she has been busy learning as much about geocomputation as possible.

Hartmut Holzgraefe is located in Bielefeld, Germany and has studied electric engineering and computer science. He is working as a database support engineer for MariaDB Corp. has contributed to Open Source project since the late 1990s, and has been an OSM contributor since 2007. He has sort of become the new maintainer of the MapOSMatic render stack since 2016.

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Heather Leson is driven by a world where everyone lends a hand. At the intersection of social impact, strategy, technology, and open principles, she delivers innovative products and experiences with global networks. As an Open Ambassador (Red Hat), Heather writes and advocates for open organizational values to support governance shifts and strategic global community engagement. A leader in the open space: she has represented and worked for many open organizations including serving as the Board Member of both the OpenStreetMap Foundation (2 years) and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (4 years).

Member of OpenStreetMap project since 2010, editor of the russian news blog SHTOSM, author of several OSM-related articles, had spoken at many conferences and developed some tools for editing and processing OSM data. Made the Level0 editor and a tool for importing tens of thousand amenities into OSM, which is used by several SEO companies. Currently living in Estonia and working at Wheely.

Data Scientist on the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) Data Science Development Programme at the University of Leeds. Currently exploring the utility of open data for transport planning, specifically open data on transport infrastructure, aiming to develop OSM transport infrastructure data packs for every transport authority in Great Britain.

Jana Bauerová is the Missing Maps Community Engagement& Communication Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières. She has a Masters in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. She has worked with the United Nations Office in Geneva and for the International Committee of the Red Cross as a delegate and spokesperson in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. In her current role, in addition to communicating about the Missing Maps project both internally and externally, she is involved in organizing mapathons and engaging volunteers in mapping in many countries where MSF works.

Chair of Tanzania Development Trust and founder, Crowd2Map. Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project with Tanzania Development Trust putting rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, we have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap, an open source map available to all, with the help of over 17,500 volunteers worldwide and 1600 on the ground in Tanzania. With minimal budget and no staff we have so far added over 6 million buildings and trained community mappers in 26 areas of Tanzania.

Jess Beutler is the Program Director at OpenStreetMap US. Her focus is to strengthen and expand the impact and breadth of programs for the OSM US community, such as Mapping for Impact and TeachOSM. Prior to working with OSM US, Jess has led participatory mapping projects and supported OpenStreetMap communities across sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Turning the real world into OSM since 2011.
Doing stuff at MapTiler for the last few years.
An active member of the Czech OSM community.

To find out more about me and what I am doing, the best thing is to find me at the SotM and talk to me directly. I can truly appreciate that!

Jochen Topf has been active in the OpenStreetMap community for many years as mapper and software developer. He is the maintainer of the Osmium framework, created the taginfo site, an active osm2pgsql developer and has his fingers in many other OSM related software. In his professional live he works as a software developer and consultant in the OSM and GIS world.

I am a software engineer, with a specialty in mobile application development. Over the past 7 years I have worked, mostly in the private sector, on enterprise and start-up applications on 3 continents. My experience in the industry has taught me that good application development iteratively builds off the existing ecosystem, and must be done in close collaboration with end users, principles also enshrined in the UNICEF Principles for Digital Development.

The Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) is tasked with finding and implementing ways for the Foundation to support the growth of local communities and potentially encourage established communities to further organise themselves and eventually formally affiliate with the Foundation as one of its Local Chapters. Aside from that, the LCCWG will also facilitate a global exchange of ideas and support among Local Chapters and communities and review and suggest improvements to the Local Chapters affiliation scheme.

I'm a design leader at Grab where I oversee Geo platform product design experience for both hardware and software such as maps, crowdsourcing, IoT, voice guidance, navigation & search experience for Grab super app, driver app, KartaView app and Geo tools system. Before joining Grab, I worked in MNCs & design consultancy designing for Electrolux, HP, Philips and IKEA. In 2014, I was awarded the Singapore President's Design Award conferred by the President of the Republic of Singapore. I have a Master of Arts degree in Interaction Design from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden funded by the Swedish Government.

I'm Luc Kpogbe. I am one of the leaders of the OSM community in Benin. I have worked on the animation of the local OSM community and other communities in West Africa. At the moment I am based in France and I'm working with CartONG association as GIS Specialist. I also continue to work on the animation and promotion of Openstreetmap data.

Maggie has been spending her time volunteering with OpenStreetMap for almost a decade. She spent 10 years as a geospatial consultant and urban planner. Maggie currently serves as the Executive Director for OpenStreetMap US where she works to engage, support and grow the OpenStreetMap project and community across the United States through programs, advocacy, and the annual State of the Map US conference.

Martijn joined OSM as a mapper in 2007 and has been involved in the community as a mapper, software developer and community organizer ever since. He has been on the OSMF Board of Directors and the OSM US Board of Directors. He is a geospatial professional who has worked for Telenav, TomTom and HERE Technologies. Martijn is originally from The Netherlands but has lived in Salt Lake City, United States since 2011.

Since November 2021 I maintain the iD editor for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. I do also have a part time position at HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology), where I contribute to software for academic research about OSM data. I'm responsible for overpass-turbo, the web interface for the Overpass API. See my user page on the OSM wiki for further OSM related projects I contribute to.

Active OpenStreetMap mapper and contributor to software powering OpenStreetMap. Contributed some minor improvements to multiple editors and significant improvements to StreetComplete.

Mapper active since 2013, especially interested in mapping bicycle infrastructure, hiking trails, parks.

Involved in improving documentation about existing tagging schemas by contributing to OpenStreetMap Wiki. Active also in inventing new tagging schema where existing ones were insufficient.

I’m Max and I’m a software engineer and aspiring security researcher. I enjoy writing open-source software. I regularly contribute to various open-source projects. I’m also a passionate photographer.

I work for a non-profit which builds free and open-source software for governments in Germany.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-ammann/

Having been mapping in OpenStreetMap for more than 10 years I have been volunteering in the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's Training working group and act as its chair for four years. We hold webinars on different topics around iD and JOSM. I have no professional connection to any of these activities.

Michael Montani is a GIS Consultant at United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC). He is the Crowdsourcing Coordinator for UN Mappers, a community covering collaborative editing activities on OpenStreetMap in support of UN Peacekeeping missions and UN agencies, funds and programs. Formerly, he has been co-founder of PoliMappers, the first European chapter of YouthMappers and YouthMappers Research Fellow. Since 2016, he builds capacities for several local communities of volunteers in Africa and Asia, as well as, since few years, for UN personnel on the field. He has a MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Natalia da Silveira Arruda has been volunteering on OSM since 2014 while working with informal settlements in Colombia. She co-founded the YouthMappers' chapter GeoLab(U de A, Medellin/Colombia) in 2016 and was Regional Ambassador for Brazil and Colombia in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 (Everywhere She Maps). Natalia is a Ph.D. student with a major in Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Her research interests are focused on the relationship between the integration of land use and transportation planning, public participatory design, and neighborhood change.

I am a mapper at heart and my first data acquisition projects started back in the 2008/2009 time frame. Based out of Serbia I have been an avid OSM mapper for many years. Currently, I work as Technical Program Manager in the Maps & Local team at Microsoft Bing Maps.

Patricia Solís, PhD, is designer, director, co-founder of YouthMappers, a consortium of student-led mapping chapters on 300+ university campuses in 65+ countries. She is Executive Director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience and Associate Research Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. Solís serves a diplomatic appointment as the first woman President of the PanAmerican Institute of Geography and History for the Organization of American States. She has been a Fulbright Specialist and received the Distinguished Service Honors from the American Association of Geographers.

After studying informatics at Ghent University, Pieter was drawn into OpenStreetMap and is now working for a small company providing mobilityplanning and routeplanning services. As freelancer, he developed MapComplete, which aims to be an easy-to-use and topical map viewer and editor. You might find him climbing or cycling somewhere, even though he'll often pause to add something to OSM.

Richard Fairhurst is the creator of cycle.travel, the bicycle route-planner that loves quiet lanes, traffic-free paths and great scenery. Involved in OpenStreetMap since November 2004, he developed/maintained the Potlatch online editor and worked on other projects key to OSM's early adoption. He is now working on tilemaker, which makes vector tile creation easy and affordable for independent developers. In his free time he enjoys cycling, boating and blue cheese.

I'm drolbr as a mapper and volunteer to develop software for OpenStreetMap since 2008. I'm best known for the software Overpass API. But I'm also interested in mapping for public transit and pedestrian routing. In addition, I'm at the moment serving in the Engineering Working Group and as a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation's board.

For a day job I'm developing software for public transit. While my employer and our customers profit a lot from OpenStreetMap, my actual job is doing the software for ticket vending.

Wikimedia and OSMF member since 2021, she is graduate in Geological Sciences and Technologies and
currently a PhD student in Geosciences at the Department of Earth Sciences and Geoenvironmental
of the University of Bari. She is involved in Earth Observation and
remote sensing, with particular attention to the monitoring of flood events. President and
co-founder of YouthMappers@Uniba, she is also part of the cOSMopolIT group.

Said is the Community Project Manager at Meta and working on Meta's open mapping effort. Said is Geomatic Engineer and has a Master's degree in Informatics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He is originally from Turkey and now lives in UK. He is active in building the OpenStreetMap community in Turkey and interested in mapping POIs and its accessibilities.

Sajjad is a developer and project strategist at Development Seed. He leads the GeoAI team focusing on tools to improve how Development Seed and our partners work with geographic data and machine learning. He contributes to our strategy for working with teams like HOT and with OpenStreetMap. Sajjad cares deeply about the impact open tools and data have on governance and development.

Sarah has been active in OpenStreetMap since 2008. She is a big fan to just go out and map, especially in relation to hiking, for which she has created waymarkedtrails.org. She has worked with many pieces of the OSM software stack. Nowadays she is maintainer for osm2pgsql, Nominatim and photon.

Shamillah Nassozi is a Data Quality Associate working with HOT’s Eastern and Southern Africa Open Mapping Hub. She is passionate about the use of geospatial data in development and disaster response. Shamillah has worked on various field projects at HOT and leads HOT’s technical training on mapping and data quality to community, humanitarian and local government partners in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.

Sharon is a GIS Analyst and a Licensed drone pilot who has a strong passion in Geospatial applications in Humanitarian actions with a keen focus on open data and in building inclusive and diverse spaces in the Open Mapping community.

She volunteers as a trainer for OSM Kenya and HOT Training working group, organizing, consolidating training materials and training the global OpenStreetMap community on OpenStreetMap and data validation.

Shiyue is pursuing a Masters in International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. She holds a bachelor degree with Majors in International Studies, Philosophy, Cognitive Science from the Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA). Her working experience includes a role as Editorial Assistant at Journal of Asian Studies, and Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Twin Cities. At our Lab, Shiyue is investigating the impact of human cognition on geospatial mapping.

I am PhD in Geography, professor and researcher at the Departmento de Geociências at the Federal Universidade Federal de São João del - Rei -Minas Gerais, Brazil. I am coordinator of the Youthmapper Chapter in Brazil:Unificar Ações e Informações Geograficas (UAIGeo). I have developed collaborative mapping projects in Amazonas and Minas Gerais using OSM and other free data palatators.

Simona is a designer with experience exploring digital solutions that can help domain experts think through complex problems in the built environment. Her recent work includes the design and user experience of the Greater London Authority’s Infrastructure mapping application and a flood model viewer for the New York Metropolitan Transport Authority.

I lead the Geo & Fulfilment Product and Operations teams at Grab, the largest superapp in SouthEast Asia - building the best maps and location services of SEA, and connecting consumers with drivers and merchants. Looking forward to learning from and participating in the global OSM community

https://www.linkedin.com/in/navpoint0/

I am an open software developer and OpenStreetMap enthusiast from Hamburg.

Former game and backend developer, I currently specialize in mobile app development.

You may know me as the author and maintainer of StreetComplete. I've been developing this app part-time since 2016 and since 2020 full-time alternating between being fueled by open source funds and on my own account.

I work as Developers advocate for digital maps at MapTiler.

I’m a strong believer in the open movement whether it is software, data, or knowledge, that is why I‘m a member of the Spanish OSGeo community and OpenStreetMap. I have more than 15 years of experience developing web applications with maps for several projects at the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia and startups. I’m also an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, teaching subjects related to web mapping in the Masters of Geoinformation.