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For anyone else who follows along in this domain, there's an interesting competitor in the space I stumbled across recently: https://felt.com/ Pretty nice looking product and robust feature set. Love to see GIS tooling becoming more accessible.

You might be interested in what they are building at http://felt.com/ they have a lot of great data sets already built in and it can handle imports of all kinds of mapping data. Not for actually updating the core data of maps, but seems like the tool to address the UX of mapping multiple types of data and presenting or exploring it.

Felt | Front-end Engineers, Product Designers | Oakland, CA | Full-time, On-site | https://www.felt.com/jobs I'm the former founder & CEO of Remix (YC W15)[1], a city planning software company which recently sold for $100M[2]. Now I'm teaming up with the best technologist I know and starting something new: Felt[3]. We're keeping a low profile, but it's an interactive web tool in the same vein as Figma, Webflow, etc but for a very different industry and with a climate focus. We can share the full details when we chat. We're well-funded and hiring our founding team. Looking for senior software engineers and product designers. Reach out to us to learn more: [email protected] [1] https://www.remix.com/solutions/transit [2] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [3] https://www.felt.com

Felt | Community and Social Media Reps and Sales Engineers) | REMOTE (US timezones only) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is the best way to make maps and work with geospatial data on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. We are taking on an industry that's been stagnant for more than 30 years, but is essential to the workings of practically every company. Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer. First, we are looking for a Community and Social Media Rep. who will put our platform in the front the eyes of the right people, foster the right kind of community and be our voice online. The ideal person will have worked for a technical product and knows how to talk about it, have worked on launches (we do a lot! [2]]) and is comfortable in a start-up environment. Second, we are looking for sales engineers who will help close the loop with our customers. We operate in a very technical field and our sales engineers will be bridging the gap between what our customers want and what our tools can do for them. We are well-funded, and have been around. You can read more about it our funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year…

How does this compare to Felt [1]? It would be nice to have some plans with listed prices in between "Free" and "Enterprise" ("book a demo"). For comparison, Felt has $30/mo and $90/mo plans. Calling yourselves "the new standard for GIS software" seems like overly strong branding. [1]: https://felt.com/

Here's the data on a map, since for some reason the article didn't include one: https://felt.com/map/NYC-Rat-Observations-Oct-2023-via-Transit-app-43y… (You can toggle the layers to switch between no/some/many rat data. Sorry about the colors, best I could find. More purple = higher frequency of rat observations.)

I don't know if there's a readymade tool for this, but maybe you could plot it as a collaborative map so that it's clear which drivers/passengers are close to each other? Something like https://felt.com/ might help. Like if you just plot everyone's neighborhoods, you can then draw shapes around each carpool. Or there's this that I've used before, but I think it's really just a signup list and not something that automatically tries to geo-optimize your routes or anything: https://www.groupcarpool.com/#video_demo You can DIY something similar in Airtable, which is a bit nicer to use than Excel for something like this.

You might also want to check out https://felt.com/ (also OSM-based).

Such a great utility for serverless tile hosting. Really enjoying where GIS in the cloud is going. Another really awesome tool that is used a lot with protomaps is Tippecanoe. https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt Excited that active development is started again

Have you heard about https://www.felt.com or https://umap.openstreetmap.fr ? Both run on OSM and are free

I'm the author of a few of the tools mentioned in this post! A convenient new development is instead of using tippecanoe -> go-pmtiles to create PMTiles archives, you can now output .pmtiles directly: tippecanoe -o bks2.pmtiles mainroad.geojson ... This is available in Tippecanoe (https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe) v2.17 and later. Thanks to Felt (https://felt.com) for supporting this open source work.

I work on geospatial apps and the software I think I am most excited about is https://felt.com/. I want to see them expand their tooling such that maps and data source authentication/authorization was controllable by the developer, to enable tenant isolation with proprietary data access. They could really disrupt how geospatial tech gets integrated into consumer apps. This article doesn't acknowledge how niche this stuff is and it's a lot of training to get people to up to speed on coordinate systems, projections, transformations, etc. I would replace a lot of my custom built mapping tools with Felt if it were possible, so I could focus on our core geospatial processes and not the code to display and play with it in the browser, which is almost as big if not bigger in terms of LOC to maintain. As mentioned by another commenter, this DuckDB DX as described is basically the same as PostGIS too.

Or here: https://felt.com/explore/us-electric-power-transmission-lines-new-jers… (Account signup required.)

For modern AMQP back ends, people usually implement a quorum queue based on this paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf An overview of why this replaced many traditional non-durable queue use-cases in RabbitMQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZC7m6dCDA https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues What are Elixir/Erlang channels: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html What types of problems channels are used to solve: https://felt.com/blog/pheonix-channel-routing-patterns Have a great day, =3

https://github.com/coconut-xr/apfel-kruemel works today, I only know about battery-optimized software in the context of games and radio though. https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interactions and https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/ might be of interest.

In the tools space, cf. open source GeoJSON-to-vector tile tool Tippecanoe, which recently got a new non-Mapbox home at Felt: https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt, https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

In many ways that is what we're building at Felt (where I work). We don't offer much in the way of analysis, but we make it very easy (IMO of course) to share your maps. Here's a couple maps that I have made about the Honoulu marathon that I wouldn't have made in a more complex/time-intensive piece/powerful piece of software: - https://felt.com/map/UNOFFICIAL-Honolulu-Marathon-2022-TCg9CKrVlRDiZqw… - https://felt.com/map/UNOFFICIAL-Honolulu-Marathon-2022-Road-Closures-C…

Take a look at Tippecanoe, which is under active development again[0]. The original developer, Erica Fischer (who is wonderful to work with), has a fork[1] where new work is happening. [0] https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt [1] https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

https://felt.com/map/Appalachian-Trail-Thru-Hike-9BZ2GWGGKQ1G9Cd1jxjy9… I just loaded this big map on a pixel 4a and while it was laggy, it still responded and didn't crash

ironically, performance is terrible with most of their demos, and I'm using chrome on a decently powerful desktop. https://felt.com/map/San-Diego-Zoo-Virtual-Tour-LC3QHLPxR4ywZsX6opbW0A

For an upcoming trip to NYC, I was trying to map some NYC walks and highlights using Google Maps, but I stumbled into a lot of limitations (limit on number of layers, limits of number of legs of an itinerary, ect.). I was able to import all my existing NYC geo-points into Felt and quickly chart some itineraries from different sources. Way, way faster than Google Map. Let's see how fast it will render once I'm on the ground in the city with mobile interent. One major difference with Google Map is the lack of custom layers, but so far it hasn't been a problem. This is my NYC 2022 trip map :) https://felt.com/map/New-York-2022-u7J1aE2ZSLOmdwCP4WGCOA

I found a "© Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap contributors" in the bottom left when I clicked on an example (https://felt.com/map/Community-Solar-Draft-Proposal-U8dl9A6ZiShubyGIIl…

There's a bit about our team at the bottom of the About page :) https://felt.com/about

This link worked fine for me: https://felt.com/map/Cross-USA-Road-Trip-kiQ9CRDdlS02s8w65KoRO9AB

https://felt.com/team sends me to a 404. :)