I write software to make geospatial data work for you. I have worked with geo-data for over 20 years, and I know a great deal about it. You can hire me to help you.
Find me on LinkedIn, Mastodon, GitHub, OpenStreetMap. You can book a free consultation, up to 1 hour, here.
I infrequently write about what I do, experience, and think about. Tags are your friend here, for example #geo.
Teasing good POI data out of OSM is hard. I am doing it.
OpenStreetMap data comes to you unfiltered, raw. OSM, being a crowdsourced map, gives you no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, or generally fitness for use. It's up to you to design a data pipeline that gets you the geodata you actually need.
WKT, GeoJSON and bounding box mode
Geolocation, no more log in and a clear button!
An in the process, I made some progress calming my brain
Developing a detection algorithm for pedestrian infrastructure map completeness in OpenStreetMap data
My lightning talk at State of the Map U.S. 2025
My presentation at State of the Map U.S. 2025
Learn how to tag turn lanes in OpenStreetMap using JOSM with this step-by-step video tutorial.
Meet Your Mappers is a new tool I wrote that lets you find active OSM mappers around you. It is free for anyone to use.
This post was 95% written by AI. This is an absolutely terrible idea, as you can see. None of my other posts are written in whole or in part by AI.
I went down a little Obsidian templater rabbit hole..
How (and why) I use Obsidian Tasks