Brandon Liu - Protomaps

Protomaps is an open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.
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Brandon is the founder and lead developer of the Protomaps project. For this talk he’ll focus on Places data: geographical datasets of places in the world like landmarks and storefronts. Access to good Places data is the foundation of location-based apps, recommender systems and photo tagging.

Recently, Meta and Microsoft have released a global dataset of 60 million places with an open source license. He will show how to analyze and visualize this dataset using the Protomaps tools, DuckDB and Supabase.

🚁 Today we have Brandon Bayer dropping in to chat!

We talk about Brandon's love of flying, and how it served as inspiration for his new company, Flightcontrol ✈️

Thailand was another source of inspiration, as it was where he initially did a lot of work on Blitz.js as well as where he discovered scuba diving 🤿

Brandon's an awesome guy doing cool stuff. Check him out! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/flybayer
https://twitter.com/flightcontrolhq
https://twitter.com/blitz_js
https://www.flightcontrol.dev/
https://blitzjs.com/

[Free] and Open Source 4 Geo in the age of agentic work

In this talk we are going to share what we learned by open-sourcing FlashList and how you can use this learnings to release your open-source project.