Mapping Party with Felt!

We're glad to reboot MaptimeSF with Mapping Party with Oakland's own Felt, which provides amazing tools for internet maps! For everyone who uses maps at work or loves maps, Felt is the internet-based mapping tool that makes collaboration simple and powerful in a flexible range of styling. In the landscape of legacy mapping tools, Felt sets a standard for design and speed Maptimers will very much appreciate; it allows users to upload datasets (including raster files!) that can be styled and shared in a matter of minutes! If you're familiar with Felt, you might want to look at this tutorial. But all levels of mappers welcome!

Felt's Senior Engineer Erica Fischer will describe the creation of the tiling engine Tippecanoe, before a tutorial cum mapping party at Oakland's own OMNI Commons. Felt offers tools to upload large data as satellite imagery, and other map tiles, with which map timers will have some real hands-on time to experiment. Maptime believes mapping is more fun done together, and Felt offers the perfect tools to do so. *Just bring your laptop and any dataset about Oakland you'd like to render in a new, elegant map.* As always, no mapping skills presumed; all levels are encouraged to attend.

We're lucky to host Erica Fischer, a Senior Software Engineer at Felt. She is a developer of the world's best tiling engine, Tippecanoe. For the past decade, Tippecanoe has been the best way to make scale-independent views of your data. At any level from the entire world to a single building, you can see the density and texture of the data rather than a simplification from dropping supposedly unimportant features or clustering or aggregating them. At Felt, Erica makes it easy to see and share large-scale file uploads in Felt with new public releases of Tippecanoe.

(To explore the map of building use in Oakland designed used as a banner to this event that uses open data in Felt to visualize render a comprehensive view of city zoning, check out the full web map.)