Ian S. H. Ward

Search, Platform, Security @mapbox Prev. @developmentseed

"Job's not finished" - Kobe

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

The FSD problem for a clothes-folding robot: so whose socks are these? whose underwear are these? "Should have it in about 2 years"... "It'll all be sorted out by the end of next year"... Gonna need RFID chips in your britches.

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

Check out how the Mapbox MCP server can boost Claude Desktop and other AI chat bots' geospatial awareness and capabilities. Get directions and ETAs, conduct research about points of interest, check walkability with isochrones, and more.

[Kieran @k_mcmaps]

AI just got a sense of place. 🌎
We just launched @Mapbox MCP — the first protocol that makes LLMs and agents spatially aware.
Let’s talk about why that matters 👇

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

The state of weather forecasting...

[Andy Vermaut @AndyVermaut]

Andy Vermaut shares:Even Jimmy Butler Had to Witness the Hottest Village Basketball League in China: An amateur basketball league became an improbable nationwide phenomenon, with the Miami Heat star among the out-of-towners who made a trip to… Thank you! https://t.co/KHpVnqW9ia

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

Do you use Snowflake? We built an app which lets you geocode your data, and do enterprise boundaries lookups using Mapbox, all from within Snowflake. Check it out https://t.co/YJ9DNbkXmT

[developmentseed @developmentseed]

We can't believe we've been fortunate enough to be on this journey for 20 years. If we had to sum it all up in one word, it would be: grateful.
#ds20 1/5

[Topi Tjukanov @tjukanov]

Did you know Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar and Barack Obama in Honolulu? Who is the most famous person from your home town?

I made a map of the most notable people around the world. Built with @Mapbox.

Check it out here: https://t.co/NR0J7nqTn1

🧵

[El Programador Senior @5eniorDeveloper]

Le compré a mi hijo un curso de programación de "Python para principiantes" y no lo quiere, así que lo estoy regalando. Tiene 12 años, es cariñoso, pero creo que no le va a gustar programar.

[Zally @zallyhg]

Yo leyendo documentación de alguna tecnología bien organizada y explicada

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

Using Mapbox to get to Mapbox to build more Mapbox. Bravo @willwhitedc and team! Looks fantastic! https://t.co/LWDGvqQgrJ

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

My daughter got a @GoPro for her birthday this week. Shortly after firing it up she says "Oh look they're using Mapbox!" and shows me the thumbnail-sized current location map displayed on top of the video in their iPad app. Love the daily surprise "they're using Mapbox!"

[Mapbox @Mapbox]

How many Mapbox-powered apps do you use? 👀 #builtwithmapbox

[Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia]

Unreal.

[developmentseed @developmentseed]

We've just open sourced the code behind PEARL, our platform that allows you to do fast AI-based land classification without writing a line of code. We hope this code will accelerate responsible efforts to monitor our planet and address climate change 🧵
https://t.co/kBAEOwucmI

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

@creativiii @Mapbox @creativiii greetings from the Mapbox Search org. Our APIs are fully operational this morning. Sounds like you found an issue w/ a non-Mapbox service? https://t.co/uLcnRPfojO Thanks for reaching out and let us know if you need further assistance. https://t.co/BAbaW8LslR

[Leo Petrucci 🎱 @lxopetrucci]

Azure is blocking/failing all requests to third party APIs which means all of our endpoints that rely on getting Geolocational data are down (yes this includes making new accounts) 🙂🔫

[@tommy_rivs @tommy_rivs]

Baby steps. A gentle rage.

The process has not changed and so the approach won't either, but now a greater focus is required.

The little things of the day make the difference in the big things of life.

There is a calm urgency...

https://t.co/VgylofmOBa

PC: @StephenKersh

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

What's the most you've used Facebook Messenger Kids in one day? "About three hours". What were you doing? "Talking to my friends...while playing Roblox"...

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

@alinapaz I thought about you just last week btw... I was standing at the edge of a windy, rough seas Atlantic ocean in NC, and out of the whitecaps, four swimmers suddenly appeared and swam to shore, safety floats in tow. I thought - that looks like the kind of swimming Angelina does!

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

Is the best thing to read after the Hard Thing About Hard Things, is to re-read it? Does anything compare or compliment?

[Ian S. H. Ward @ianshward]

@alinapaz Thanks for the recommendation @alinapaz I will check it out.

[mikel @mikel]

What an incredible milestone. Congrats to everyone who has contributed to get to this point. Wonderful to see #100000000 in Senegal