Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Make Maps Better Together
Search
Mike Skalnik
April 12, 2014
0
280
Make Maps Better Together
Presented at State of the Map US 2014
Mike Skalnik
April 12, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Mike Skalnik
See All by Mike Skalnik
DevconTLV Git Workshop
skalnik
3
320
GT Web Developers - Rails Intro
skalnik
1
260
3D Printers
skalnik
2
300
Rails Workshop 2
skalnik
5
280
Rails Workshop
skalnik
7
520
Featured
See All Featured
Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture
addyosmani
512
110k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
tanoku
271
27k
A better future with KSS
kneath
239
17k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
55
5.5k
Agile that works and the tools we love
rasmusluckow
329
21k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
42
7.5k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
81
9k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
lauravandoore
462
33k
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
geoffreycrofte
75
5.8k
A designer walks into a library…
pauljervisheath
205
24k
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
137
6.9k
Making the Leap to Tech Lead
cromwellryan
133
9.3k
Transcript
Make Maps Better Together
Hi, I’m @skalnik
I write code at GitHub !
Lets look at some past trends
" Archie, Gopher, WAIS HTTP
" XML JSON
" SOAP REST
" Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word Markdown #
" ESRI Shapefile, Google KML GeoJSON, TopoJSON
What have we learned?
>
> Silo’d labor Collaboration
> Complex Simple
> Perfect Pragmatic
Dumb formats & Smart tools
Upgrading tools is easier than upgrading a format
So what?
Story time
First time in DC!
Want to &
Yelp, Foursquare, etc
Asked @benbalter
$ benbalter/dc-wifi-social
$ leahbannon/dc-bars-sans-tv
$ bennylope/rva-wifi-social
$ niryariv/tiptipa
OpenStreetMap is showing >
Collaboration on everything
Not just data, but higher level information
!
Commit .geojson ??? Profit
None
Diffs? We got dat
None
GitHub supports the whole GeoJSON spec
Cluster over 1,000 markers
Custom markers
Embeds
Gists
Treating data as code
How do we encourage more?
speakerdeck.com/ skalnik/make-maps- better-together
!