{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Spatial Stack with Matt Forrest","title":"The Map Anyone Can Edit (and the Tools Behind It) with Jake Low","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ecb770bc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2763,"description":"In this episode of the Spatial Stack, Matt sits down with Jake Low, software developer at OpenStreetMap US and maintainer of MapRoulette, OSMCha, Field Papers, and Layercake.\nJake explains how a map that anyone can edit takes in about 40,000 changesets a day, and why his job is building tools for the community rather than gatekeeping it. He walks through every way people contribute, from StreetComplete on your phone to JOSM on the desktop to Field Papers, a pen-and-paper workflow used in disaster response and elementary school classrooms.\nThe conversation also covers getting data back out of OpenStreetMap, from Layercake's thematic GeoParquet extracts to Sourdough, a new vector tile schema inspired by CSS Zen Garden. Jake breaks down the ODbL license in plain English, how companies like Amazon are paying contractors to map rural driveways, and why 80% of maintaining open source infrastructure is just keeping it alive.\nWhether you're making your first edit tonight or pulling the planet file into DuckDB, this conversation shows you how the world's open map actually runs.\nConnect with Jake:\nWebsite: https://www.jakelow.com/\nGitHub: https://github.com/jake-low\nOSM US Slack: https://slack.openstreetmap.us\nOpenStreetMap US: https://openstreetmap.us\nSUPPORT\nSupport OSM US: https://openstreetmap.us/get-involved/donate/\nLEARN MORE\nField Papers: https://openstreetmap.us/our-work/field-papers/\nLayercake: https://openstreetmap.us/our-work/layercake/\nOSMCha: https://openstreetmap.us/our-work/osmcha/\nMapRoulette: https://openstreetmap.us/our-work/maproulette/\nCHAPTERS:\n00:00:00 – Intro\n00:02:03 – Welcome and Jake's background\n00:03:44 – 40,000 changesets a day and OSMCha\n00:07:28 – What OpenStreetMap US does\n00:11:19 – Contributing at every scale: StreetComplete to JOSM\n00:13:11 – Mapping with pen and paper: Field Papers\n00:15:56 – Start tonight: MapRoulette and 10,000 duplicate reservoirs\n00:19:32 – Gamification, paid mapping, and Amazon driveways\n00:22:49 – Sourdough and the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eQgCuZrC7zp58BwqV7sl3SCjjIPfOYXp-k4ce29LXQY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ZjU3/N2JlMDJiYTFjOWY5/OWQ5NWQxYmZjMjMw/Yzg1ZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}