Eric Gundersen & Alex Barth: “Working in the open lets us meet really cool people”

Eric Gundersen (top) and Alex Barth As CEO of Mapbox, Eric Gundersen coordinates product and business development. Eric has been with the team since the start, and splits his time working on projects in San Francisco and Washington, DC. Eric got his start in the mapping and open data space at Development Seed, building open source tools for … Continue reading Eric Gundersen & Alex Barth: “Working in the open lets us meet really cool people”

All one planet

I am just going to leave this here while I work on my tractate (Working title: "Is (geo)hispterism exclusive?" (Thesis: "No")). it's @boundlessgeo @google @Esri having beers at @MapBox talking about @openstreetmap - all one planet pic.twitter.com/VwtGcBzV67 — Andrew Turner (@ajturner) April 12, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Andrew Turner: “Share, experiment, fail, try again, share — ride that geofixie like a boss”

Andrew Turner (blog, Twitter) is the CTO of the Esri R&D Center in Washington, DC. Andrew was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: You became an Esri employee when GeoIQ became part of Esri. Tell us about your mission at Esri. A: Esri has had a long and storied mission to transform the world through geography. This philosophy … Continue reading Andrew Turner: “Share, experiment, fail, try again, share — ride that geofixie like a boss”

Interview with Tom MacWright: “If you want to make anything new, you have to ignore some of the rules”

Tom MacWright is a guitarist in Teen Mom and keyboardist at Mapbox. Tom was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into maps/GIS? A long time ago I made the Swem Signal, which basically made my college's library a little more navigable. Then I started at Development Seed and helped make a lot of … Continue reading Interview with Tom MacWright: “If you want to make anything new, you have to ignore some of the rules”