Civic Hack & Map Night FT Talk & Demo of RapiD

Join us for Civic Hack and Map Night, where community members use their skills to make San José, and the South Bay, a better place. Our featured speaker is Jesspher Mesia, who give an overview of the RapiD tool and a live demo. RapiD is an AI-Assisted Open Street Map (OSM) editor that suggests machine-generated map features. This process significantly increases the speed and ease of adding features into OSM. RapiD was initially developed to incorporate Facebook's machine-generated roads, but can be used to import any feature type. For example, Microsoft's machine-generated building polygons can be added to OSM using RapiD. For more information go to: https://mapwith.ai.

About the Speaker: Jesspher Mesia studied Geography/GIS at Humboldt State University. Jesspher interned and worked for various city planning departments and also worked as a field technician in the Midwest mapping and inspecting power/telecommunication lines. Now, Jesspher works for the Facebook maps Data Integrity team. The team's primary responsibility is being one of the last lines of defense to prevent vandalism, profanity, and significant erroneous OSM edits from being ingested into Facebook Maps. The team uses internal tools to look at organized OSM changeset edits in high priority cities before ingestion from OSM.

Agenda

• 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Networking & Food
• 6:45 - 7:00 PM: Welcome & Featured Talk on RapiD
• 7:00 - 8:45 PM: Team breakouts
• 8:45 - 8:50 PM: Wrap up, report back

What is Code for San Jose?
Code for San José is a volunteer organization made up of makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts who come together to use tech to solve civic problems. Learn more about our current projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/).

• What to bring

• If you have a laptop, please bring it.
• Reusable water bottle
• Notebook
• Pen or pencil

How to get here
The venue is a bike ride from the Caltrain Diridon station, and close toVTA (vta.org) bus lines.

Parking:
There is street parking and a parking lot next to and behind the building.

We've found it helpful to be clear on what Code for San José is, and what it isn't:

Code for San José is:

• a place people gather to work on open-source projects that benefit our community

Code for San José is not:

• an organization that teaches people how to code

• always prepared to pair you with a project on day one. That said, it's a good idea to look through the open data (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/data/) available to us and our projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/), and start thinking about a project you might find interesting to work on.

If you are new to Code for San José, please:

• Review the Code of Conduct ( http://www.codeforsanjose.com/codeofconduct.html ).

• Join the slack channel (https://slackin-c4sj.herokuapp.com/) and check out our github (http://github.com/codeforsanjose).

• Check out our updated list of projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/) and their needs.

• Want to start a new project? Check out our project playbook (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_gxmGh0wC81HPYxgtWhFgTrwAA-OWQxEHxpWD1rQB1w/edit?usp=sharing)