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”

Kate Chapman: “If what HOT is doing seems exciting to you, get involved”

Kate Chapman is the Executive Director at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Her most recent work has been in Indonesia working on a three-year program with the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction using OpenStreetMap and InaSAFE to help disaster managers better develop contingency plans. Previous to working at HOT, Kate was involved in development of multiple … Continue reading Kate Chapman: “If what HOT is doing seems exciting to you, get involved”

Steve Coast to GeoHipster: “You try stuff and 90% of it’s gonna fail, and you should be happy with that”

  Steve Coast is the founder of Open Street Map and Head of OSM at Telenav. Steve was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev, incorporating question suggestions from Renee Sieber and Christina Boggs. Q: Last week was the 10th anniversary of Open Street Map, which you founded. Congratulations! OSM and you personally got a lot … Continue reading Steve Coast to GeoHipster: “You try stuff and 90% of it’s gonna fail, and you should be happy with that”

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