Brandon is the creator and core maintainer of Protomaps, a free and open source map of the world.

In this lightning talk, he will tell us about his journey to maintaining open source projects as a job.

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.

Welcome to an exploration how generative AI impacts development (frontend, backend, mobile) trends, tooling and practices -- concluding with recommendations for individuals, teams and businesses on how to cope and thrive in this new world.

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