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Mike Skalnik
April 12, 2014
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Make Maps Better Together
Presented at State of the Map US 2014
Mike Skalnik
April 12, 2014
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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
!