Geomob Podcast - 151. Grant Slater: OpenStreetMap Ops

Joining Ed this week is Geomob London regular (and speaker back in May of 2015), and first full time employee of OpenStreetMap Foundation, Grant Slater. After 15 years of volunteering for OSM, Grant became a full time employee in May 2022 and has continued to work tirelessly to improve the service many in the geospatial community rely on. Listening to Grant speaking of the work he is still so passionate about after all this time is inspiring, especially when you know how small the team is. Tune in to hear about the challenges of operating such a popular service, the evolution of his role, the future of OSM Operations, and how you can get involved.

Relevant links:

• Profile of Grant on the OSMF site
• OSMF page describing the Operations Working Group
• Website of the OSM Operations Working Group
• Grant's talk at SotM2022
• Grant is on Twitter as @firefishy1
• OSM Operations Team is on Twitter as @OSM_Tech
• Grant's account on GitHub

Some other episodes mentioned in this discussion

• Episode 35 with Sarah Hoffmann who runs the OSMF Nominatim service
• Episode 132 with Ilya Zverev, maker of the Every Door OSM Editor