Richard Fairhurst
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.
Richard
Sessions
OpenStreetMap is the human-made map of the world. But how can one tiny human still make a difference in a project used by megacorps and crucial to millions of app and website users every day? How does OSM retain its individualism in a world that wants it to be consistent, orderly and predictable? Is it game over for the experimental, iconoclastic, independent map? Richard Fairhurst offers a challenging but upbeat look at the changing landscape for the OpenStreetMap mapper, user and developer.
OSM has an unrestricted tagging model. Mappers can invent and use any tags.
While this is part of OSM's success story, it has lead to a database where
the globe is described in ever greater detail. In this talk we want to
explore how users of OSM data handle a tagging model with so few constraints.
Richard, the owner of cycle.travel, and Sarah, maintainer of Nominatim, team
up to share their experiences of a decade of working with, and occasionally
fighting against, OSM's ever evolving tagging schema.