Mapping USA (January 31)
This coming Saturday at 1pm CST I’ll be co-presenting in a workshop at Mapping USA, a free virtual conference organized by OpenStreetMap US. The workshop, Historical Mapping with OpenHistoricalMap, OldInsuranceMaps.net, and Yesterdays will feature demos from me, Jeff of OpenHistoricalMap, and (particularly excitingly) Jacob and Mike from the new project Yesterdays. We’ll be showing how all of these crowdsourced applications are interrelated, for example, how georeferenced maps OldInsuranceMaps.net have been integrated directly into Yesterdays.
Registration is free, so come join us online this Saturday afternoon!
Code4Lib (March 2-5)
I also have a presentation and workshop coming up at Code4Lib 2026 in Philadelphia. This will be my first time at this conference, so I’m especially looking forward to meeting new people in the library world.
- Old Maps for New Apps: Making and Using Georeferenced Sanborn Maps at Scale - Main conference presentation (in-person and accessible via online registration)
- Running a Community Georeferencing Event - Post-conference workshop (in-person only)
This workshop will be the first time I have designed and presented materials specifically about the “georeference-a-thons” that we here in New Orleans and folks at a number of other organizations have held over the last few years. Preparing for this workshop will yield more documentation and materials around that part of the website, so stay tuned for more updates.
