State of the Map US By the Numbers

More than two weeks have passed since a packed long weekend in San Francisco for State of the Map US, and we’ve had some time now to reflect and run some numbers.

381 attendees came out for the conference, making this the largest OpenStreetMap gathering ever. It was 70% larger than last year’s U.S. conference in Portland, echoing the overall huge growth we’re seeing in new users and edits to OpenStreetMap.

Most people traveled to the conference from within the United States, with a large West Coast representation. But the international crowd was also impressive with folks coming from Nicaragua, Haiti, Germany, England, France, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, and other countries. Of all attendees 20% were female, which while still small is up from last year’s count of 15.5% female attendees.