| Title | Description | Presented |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaning up Boundary Relations in JOSM | Boundary relations in OSM are often a mess, and can be quite a chore to clean up. This guide walks through a number of different ways to make the task easier. | SOTMUS 2026 |
| OpenStreetMap in the Field | Bringing mapping tools into the field collapses the distance between “ground truth verification” and “updating the map”. In this presentation, we briefly discuss distinct strategies for field data collection and some of the different tools for doing so. | EPA Webinar March 2026 |
| Data Gardeners Wanted | OpenStreetMap needs more local editors who help encourage high-quality data. Who better than the local governments to make it happen? We’ll make the case for getting involved in local OSM edits as a means of serving residents. | IMAUG February 2026 Meeting |
| Hold Onto Your Pearls, Grandma! We’re Switching to OSM! | A Model for Government Engagement with OSM | State of the Map US 2025 |
| Weird Arcade Tips and Tricks | In which we use Esri’s Arcade expression language to make our Dashboards do unexpected things, both useful and silly. | ILGISA Webinar May 2025 |
| Making OpenStreetMap the Authoritative Source | Bringing “OpenStreetMap” and “Authoritative” a bit closer together. | GIS Day 2024 |
| ST_SquareGrid for a Dynamic Street Map Index | Detailing how I used PostGIS to make a very specific end product, only directly using OpenStreetMap data, and creating no intermediate layers. | PostGIS Day 2024 |
| Intro To QGIS | A beginner’s guide to QGIS | ILGISA Annual Conference 2024 |
| Shared Instances & ArcGIS Server | An overview of what shared instances are, when to use them, and how you stand to benefit | ILGISA Annual Conference 2024 |
| Let’s Read a Legal! | A quick overview of common legal description characteristics and how to interpret them | ILGISA Annual Conference 2024 |
| Intro To OpenStreetMap | A whirlwind tour of what OpenStreetMap is, how it works, and how to contribute to the project. | ILGISA Annual Conference 2024 |
| Your Very Own OSM! |
A step-by-step guide to using osm2pgsql and osmium to create a regional extract of OpenStreetMap
|
FOSS4GNA 2024, ILGISA Annual Conference 2023 |
| Leveraging OpenStreetMap for Asset Inventories | Imagining what asset management could look like with OpenStreetMap | ILGISA Regional Meetup 2024 |
| Kendall County on OSM | A brief overview of the various ways that Kendall County uses and contributes to OpenStreetMap | OSMUS Government Working Group April 2024 Meeting |
| Have it Both Ways | Demonstrating how to add ArcGIS Feature Service connections to QGIS for viewing and editing, and discussing some of the more interesting QGIS features that make it worth doing. | ILGISA Webinar February 2024 |
| Open Sourcing Farm Card Calculations |
In which we take a legacy proprietary workflow and recreate it with GeoPandas
|
FOSS4GNA 2023, ILGISA Annual Conference 2022 |
| Developing Digital Restaurant Inspections | Describing the development process of Kendall County’s digital restaurant inspection process, which was successfully deployed in 2023. | ILGISA Annual Conference 2023 |
| Creating a Local OSM Extract | An overview of OpenStreetMap and how to extract and manipulate the data for an area of interest. | ILGISA Regional Meetup 2023 |
| Herding Cats 2023 | How we used the OSM Tasking manager to coordinate some mapping efforts with our interns. | ILGISA Annual Conference 2023, FOSS4GNA 2023 |
| Serverless XYZ Basemaps | A quick how-to on generating XYZ basemap tiles and serving them through Amazon Web Services S3 | ILGISA Annual Conference 2023 |
| Dashboards and Data Expressions | Showcasing the various ways of using Data Expressions in ArcGIS Dashboards, both useful and silly | ILGISA Annual Conference 2022 |
| Hosted Copies, Targeted Updates | Updating ArcGIS Online / Portal layers from disparate other sources | ILGISA Annual Conference 2022 |
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