Derick Yang
As a Senior Software Engineer at Strava in San Francisco, California, I work on the Geo and Metro teams, where I build tools for athletes, explorers, transportation advocates, city planners, and trail networks to better explore the world around them. I'm knowledgeable about Apache Spark, Scala, distributed systems, cache infrastructure, and cloud infrastructure. When I'm not thinking about maps, you can find me running, cycling, traveling, cooking, or eating.
Session
The Strava Global Heatmap visualizes aggregated public GPS traces, guiding athletes worldwide in planning their routes by highlighting popular paths. This presentation demonstrates how the Heatmap, in conjunction with our routing engine, can be utilized to identify and fill in missing ways in OpenStreetMap (OSM). We will discuss an algorithmic strategy for creating generated pathways and introduce a prototype of an interface that facilitates the easy integration of these pathways into OSM. We will showcase how Strava's Heatmap can promote OSM's goal of developing a more comprehensive global map, highlighting a mutually beneficial relationship between the two platforms.