I had the honour to be invited and received a scholarship to attend and give a talk at the yearly edition of the State Of The Map US conference in beautiful San Francisco. A great community, with engaging and inspiring individuals and a very well organised conference — it was altogether a superb experience. It is remarkable that OpenStreetMap is a community project at such an exciting inflection point. A great deal of innovation can be observed. The atmosphere of people genuinely enjoying their work is ever-present, and many start-ups and larger companies are discovering business models built on Open Geo Data.

So far there has been good feedback and great input for my talk and the project of mapping Nicaragua: