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.