- DevClub: Как работают транспортные приложения ("How transport apps work"). A brief history of GTFS and related technologies, transit data collections, APIs, and my new GTFS storage format.
- DevClub: Игры как самовыражение, для каждого ("Games for self-expression, for everybody"). Looking at three game engines (Flickgame, Bitsy, Twine) and making three short games in these. Why would you need that, and why not choose bigger engines?
- HOT ESA Hub: Every Door Intro. Webinar on basics of the Every Door editor.
- BalticGIT: Getting POI from OSM. See below for a better version.
- FOSS4G: How to get points of interest from OSM. An in-depth review of mapping and tagging practices of OSM, how it fares against proprietary POI providers, and what one needs to know to use the data.
- FOSS4G: What in-game maps can teach us. An impromptu talk made on Nintendo Switch about in-game maps, how do they work, and how they are different from real world maps.
- State of the Map: Meet Your Mapper. A warming up show together with Gregory Marler before the event.
- State of the Map: Point of Interest Anyone?. State of points of interest and their imports in OSM, and how can we make them better.
- State of the Map: Two cool things on Every Door roadmap. Lightning talk on walking papers and advanced configuration in Every Door.
- GIS Päev: Miks kasutada GeoPackage? ("Why use GeoPackage?", no recording). Exploring open geodata formats: GeoJSON, Spatialite, and GeoPackage.
- FOSDEM: A Better Public Transport App. Explaining how I built Easy Transit, why the UX is best in class, and which open source data and libraries helped me.
- BalticGIT: You don't need a map. Maps are common in geospatial and other tools, but do we always need them? Sometimes an image or a list work much better.
- DevClub: Что и как OpenStreetMap ("What and how OpenStreetMap"). Introduction to OpenStreetMap, how to use it and how to map.
- DevClub: Открывай как боженька ("Open like a boss"). Open licenses for art and code, and what are the common pitfalls with those.
- State of the Map: Every Door and the future of POI in OSM. The history of Every Door development, why open data is daunting to work with, but open source helps.
- FOSS4G: Surveying amenities for OSM at scale (no video yet). Outlines OSM tagging model, how it's different from proprietary offers, and how Every Door will change how we look at OSM data quality and coverage.
- ETV+: Tallinn Public Transit App. I made Easy Transit and wanted to share it. The TV invited me for a five minute discussion.
- ETV+: "Planning a summer route". Overview of some tools to take on a trip: Organic Maps, Cycle.Travel, WikiVoyage.
- FOSDEM: Telegram Bot For Navigation. About my "Na Rayone" Telegram bot, which helped me map 400 shops around and produce an exciting database of addresses and amenities with a search.
- State of the Map: Map-Less Map Editors. I made a Telegram bot for editing the map, which posed a question: why do we even need interactive maps? And is it possible to make a better POI editor for OpenStreetMap?
- DevClub: Как любовь к автобусам заставила выучить Flutter ("How my love for buses made me learn Flutter"). How do you start developing a mobile app? With choosing a right framework, of course. And then I explain my Easy Transit app, where I get data and how do I present it.
- FOSDEM: Reverse Geocoding Is Not Easy. I made a reverse geocoder on OpenStreetMap data in Juno, using only PostGIS. And it's better than any alternatives because it uses polygonal geometry.
- SotM Baltics: ODbL in twelve examples (no video, slides pending).
- ByGIS: Общаться с OpenStreetMap. Как? ("Communicating with OpenStreetMap. How?"). Following some thoughts from FOSDEM, here I explain how communications works in open source projects and OSM specifically. "Company goals almost never align with OSM values".
- State of the Map: Send Me A Postcard. About the OSM Cards website for postcrossing between OSMers.
- FOSDEM: Hundred thousand rides a day. In Juno we validated NYC road network and fixed all the errors, and also published GPS traces from all our taxi drivers.
- ByGIS: Святой источник ("Holy source"). OpenStreetMap is drawn using outdated GPS traces and outdated satellite imagery. Can that be overturned? Juno helps: it published a day-old dataset for GPS traces in New York.
- ByGIS: Аэрофотосъёмка без дронов и самолётов ("Aerial photos without drones or planes"). A story on how in 2012 we had a mapping party in Vyshniy Volochyok, where we also lifted a camera with a helium-filled baloon and then stitched some photos from it together.
- ByGIS: Обратный геокодер — это непросто ("Reverse Geocoding Is Not Simple"). How hard it is to make a reverse geocoder on OpenStreetMap data? Turns out, polygonal addresses introduce a new level of complexity.
- State of the Map: Reverse Geocoding Is Not Simple. A lightning talk version of my ByGIS talk.
- State of the Map: Broken Promises and Technical Difficulties. OpenStreetMap data model is good, but we can do better. Few things that need fixing: history and object versions, back references, restoring deleted objects, atomic changes and so on.
- State of the Map: Share the Word. My experience in sharing OSM news and thoughts: about a blog, a podcast, a radio, a telegram channel.
- State of the Map: OpenStreetMap Awards 2019 (no video: held at a social event).
- SotM US: Keeping New York road map perfect. Same about Juno activity in NYC, but from a more local angle.
- SotM US: You don't know OpenStreetMap. Common knowledge about OSM and how it isn't always true. "Map is free", "anybody can map", "events build communities" and so on. Do they?
- School in Homyel: Урок по основам OpenStreetMap от Juno Lab ("OpenStreetMap basics lesson"). A re-recording of a talk I gave to school children on the basics of mapping: how maps are drawn, for what they are used and so on.
- SotM SEE: OpenStreetMapS (no video, slides pending). We see OSM as a single project, but every community has its rules, every editor has its devotees. Also it's pretty hard to include people who don't speak English or don't need open geodata.
- SotM SEE: Open Licenses (no video, slides pending). An improptu lightning talk on ODbL license and its shenanigans.
- GIS Tech in Earth Studies: OpenStreetMap: альтернативная картография ("Alternative Carthography", no recording). A keynote at Belarussian State University on GIS Day. Just an overview of OSM for professional GIS.
- PraRovar Tourism: Как сделать маршрут ("How to plot a route"). Bicycle touring conference, this one was about online tools and apps for cycling.
- FOSDEM: Every Subway Network In The World. How I fixed the public transport schema for subways in OSM, wrote a parser, and with a help of few mappers made subway routing possible in Maps.Me.
- State of the Map: What's up with the public transport. Looks at the tagging schema for public transport, highlights its issues, and proposes a better one.
- State of the Map: Every Day I'm Mapping. Some OSM Streak history and statistics.
- State of the Map: Public transport in OSM, BoF session. Basically ensuring everybody the refined public transport schema would work.
- State of the Map: OpenStreetMap Awards 2018.
- Schemotechnika: Открытый общественный транспорт ("Open public transport"). GTFS format and worldwide collection of the feeds. Also how the public transport is represented in OSM, and should we map arrival schedules. Ending with some ideas on automating parsing schedules and storing them somewhere.
- ByGIS: Невероятные приключения общественного транспорта в OSM ("Incredible adventures of public transport in OSM"). Roughly the same as the SotM talk: how the current public transport schema is bad and how the new one can fix everything.
- Open Data Day Moscow: Где найти общественный транспорт ("Where to look for public transport"). GTFS feeds, proprietary and open providers, collections. Getting subway stations and routes from OSM.
- FOSDEM: How to break the OpenStreetMap. Releasing an editor in MAPS.ME was great, but also lead to few issues that stem from OSM data model and community. It really wasn't equipped with dealing with so many edits and new users. We need better monitoring and other tools.
- SotM Tanzania: MAPS.ME. How I made a build for Tanzania, few hints on how the editor works, and a few words on place reviews.
- ByGIS: Чужих данных нам не надо ("We don't need no data"). A three-part examination of importing practices in OpenStreetMap, what went wrong and how the community built around that, and finally look at OSM Conflator, a new POI importing tool that follows the guidelines.
- Schemotechnika: Тут вам не жёлтые страницы ("Not a yellow pages!"). Importing large batches of POI into OpenStreetMap with OSM Conflator.
- Schemotechnika: Нарисуй их все ("Map them all"). A story of how I spent several month on mapping all underground rivers in Moscow.
- Schemotechnika: Удивительная картография ("Amazing carthography"). You won't believe what you can find in OSM data! Street lamps, 3D buildings, indoor plans, potholes and much more.
- Schemotechnika: Качество данных о метро в OpenStreetMap ("Subway data quality in OpenStreetMap"). Basics of the new subway mapping schema, and the progress of tidying up subway systems of the world.
- Schemotechnika: Дом в доме ("Building inside a building"). Simple 3D Schema, how do you map according to it, visualize the buildings, and what are the alternatives.
- State of the Map: Before maturity comes puberty. Companies are starting to use OSM a lot, but the community is rebellious. We need time to accept and grow.
- State of the Map: Mapping well with MAPS.ME and how people fail at that. Few non-obvious things about Maps.Me built-in editor: notes, advanced opening hours, names.
- State of the Map: Mapping Rivers (no video). A lightning talk version of my Schemotechnika talk on mapping underground rivers in Moscow.
- State of the Map: OpenStreetMap Awards 2017 (no video: held at a social event).
- FOSS4G Europe: "Struggling With The Open Community" (no video). How we added an editor into MAPS.ME, and some people in OSM did not like it.
- Map Solutions: "Every Road And Every Stop" (no video). Big overview of road mapping in OpenStreetMap, how to use the data for routing.
- SHORTЫ: PIN-MIX (in Russian). A short talk on weekly night bicycle rides in Saint-Petersburg. 20 slides 20 seconds each.
- FOSDEM: Mapping with a phone. Demonstrating most of the Android mobile apps for editing OpenStreetMap, and presenting the Maps.Me editor.
- Schemotechnika: FOSDEM 2016. Some photos and stories on what I heard and learned at FOSDEM.
- Schemotechnika: Правки без пакета ("Changes without a package"). How OpenStreetMap changesets is flawed and how do we process changes properly.
- Schemotechnika: Награды в OpenStreetMap ("Awards in OpenStreetMap"). How did I come to hosting OSM Awards.
- Schemotechnika: Мир больше не увидит ваши имена ("The world won't see your names anymore").
How we hid the
nametag in the Maps.Me editor and why it allows editing only localized names. - Schemotechnika: Проблемы геокодирования ("Geocoding issues"). An overview of OSM geocoding APIs, their architecture and limitations. Russian geocoders and OpenCage geocoder aggregation.
- SotM US: Millions that don't care. How Maps.Me built-in editor will change the mapping in OSM and how we leverage millions of untrained mappers.
- State of the Map: The elephant in the room. Lightning talk on users from the Maps.Me editor, how they are not going anywhere, and what we need to watch them.
- State of the Map: OpenStreetMap Awards 2016.
- Open Data Day Moscow: On OpenStreetMap. Slide-less talk on most things OSM.
- FOSS4G: The most popular OpenStreetMap editing application. MAPS.ME gained an editor, and with that became the second most popular editor in OSM. This shows some statistics and issues that arose from the huge userbase.
- Map Solutions: "How to process and store OpenStreetMap data for faster extraction and rendering" (in Russian). Some hints on data extraction (e.g. Overpass API and Osmium) and data storage (e.g. PostGIS and o5m).
- Night of Living Maps: OpenStreetMap (in Russian). What can you do with OpenStreetMap: editing, monitoring, custom maps, news.
- Open GIS: Дивный новый мир ("Brave new world"). Keynote on how open geodata trumps all.
- Open GIS: Осторожно открываются: исходный код MAPS.ME ("Opening carefully: MAPS.ME source code"). We chose to open MAPS.ME code, but that was just the start. We needed to clean up repositories, find a suitable license. And not the least, explain to everybody why even open source something.
- Open GIS: ШТОСМ и Радио. Showcasing the OSM news blog and a podcast.
- Night of Living Maps: Что такое OpenStreetMap ("What is OpenStreetMap"). Long introductory talk.
- GIS-Lab: Сбор геоданных для OpenStreetMap и их обработка ("Collecting and processing geodata for OSM"). How do we collect geodata for OSM: GPS traces, walking papers, photos, audiomapping, custom devices. Processing the data is not exacly easy.
- SotM EU: I've bought a car for mapping, now what?. Yes you move fast and can cover thousands of kilometers. But how do you map while behind the wheel? Or even in a passenger seat, surely there are better ways than drawing in a notebook?
- ОМММ: OSM проваливает (помимо прочего) социалку ("OSM fails social, among other things"). Despite its focus on community, OSM neglects doing anything to bring people together. In this talk I suggests some things, e.g. messaging API, diary subscriptions, groups, geochat etc.
- ОМММ: MapBBCode. A story of a forum plugin for adding and sharing maps, and the accompanying tools.
- Night of Living Maps: OpenStreetMap 10 (in Russian). Introduction to OpenStreetMap and its history.
- SotM Baltics: Eyes on the road: Mapping while driving. Building a surveying gear for mapping while driving behind the wheel with Arduino and Nanolog.
- SotM Baltics: What is OpenSurveyor?. Short presentation for the GSoC app for surveying. Didn't amount to much.
- State of the Map: The Bronze Age of OpenStreetMap. How we were in a tool-building era of OSM, and some proposals for better walking papers.
- State of the Map: Improving Feedback. Lightning talk on adding a "thanks" button to changesets.
- MMM: Про ноябрьскую конференцию по открытым ГИС ("On November open GIS conference"). Just a big announcement and answering questions.
- MMM: Жми кнопку ("Push the button"). Demonstrating NanoLog, a tool for precise mapping of road features while on the move.
- Open GIS: "Ваша карта" ("Your map", no video). Keynote about OpenStreetMap.
- Open GIS: "Нарисовать лучшую карту в мире" ("To make the best map in the world", no video). On mapping parties, story of some of those.
- Open GIS: Catalogue (in Russian). An attempt to make a schema for documenting OpenStreetMap tagging.
- Open GIS: "Нужен Совет" ("Need a Board", no video). Introductory talk for a discussion about establishing a Russian OpenStreetMap Board.
- SotM EU: Relation Editing (no video). My first lightning talk in English. Presenting my ideas on simplifying editing relations, and a JOSM plugin reltoolbox.
- Web&GIS: OpenStreetMap 2012 (in Russian). OSM is amazing and is used all across Russia. ODbL will come soon.
- Web&GIS: MBTiles (in Russian). A short talk on the MBTiles format, serving it, and size optimizations.