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
290
Rails Workshop
skalnik
7
530
Featured
See All Featured
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
126
17k
[Rails World 2023 - Day 1 Closing Keynote] - The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
35
2.3k
Building an army of robots
kneath
306
45k
How to Create Impact in a Changing Tech Landscape [PerfNow 2023]
tammyeverts
52
2.8k
The Art of Programming - Codeland 2020
erikaheidi
54
13k
Imperfection Machines: The Place of Print at Facebook
scottboms
267
13k
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
garrettdimon
PRO
31
1.2k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
jeffersonlam
349
20k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
85
4.7k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
25
2.8k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
524
40k
Designing Experiences People Love
moore
142
24k
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
!