Stephen Epps

maps with @alloftheplaces and @overturemaps
formerly @snapchat and @mapzen

[Overture Maps Foundation @OvertureMaps]

We’re pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of our global open maps datasets.

✅Base, Buildings, Divisions, Places themes are now GA
✅New alpha Address theme: 200M+ addresses from 14 countries
✅A new visualization tool

Learn more:
https://t.co/KKw6ALdpmo

[Overture Maps Foundation @OvertureMaps]

Join our AMA on Overture Maps' GA release. Expert panel discusses:

- Transportation layer updates
- GERS developments
- New Address theme
- Live Q&A included

📅 Thursday, Aug 1 | 🕖 8 AM PT

Register: https://t.co/cLhz1Ry1aF

[Nathaniel V. KELSO @kelsosCorner]

Excited to announce #whosonfirst admin and human settlement data is now available on #hdx as per country shapefile ZIPs to help with humanitarian mapping: https://t.co/xesGPgbRRG

[Nathaniel V. KELSO @kelsosCorner]

Introducing Karmashapes – open data for towns and villages in India available for download from #whosonfirst!

https://t.co/KBBOyXudND

Includes 915,468 locality records and 190,397 neighbourhoods records (with 579,116 detailed polygons), thanks to @MapMakinMeyers and @stepps00

[thisisaaronland @thisisaaronland]

@stepps00 megawrote a megablog post about updating all the “megacities” in @alloftheplaces – https://t.co/xc3NKIkwdW

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

@MapMakinMeyers 😎 looking good! what's the source?

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

@MapMakinMeyers 👀👀

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

@AlxndrTheNate @JoannaMerson Ahh.. a little late to the party here. WOF has historical data for areas in Eastern Europe, but no historical data for France going this far back. Happy to import if a source is found though :)

[Mapzen @mapzen]

<tap tap tap> is this thing on?

we have good news! Mapzen is now a @linuxfoundation project!

https://t.co/QpldV4NxSL

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

@MapMakinMeyers nice!! would love to compare this with whosonfirst-data.. do you have a sharable link to Canada data?

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

@MapPornTweet @mapzen It will! https://t.co/tnt3uVuv0t

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

A big thank you to all of my colleagues at @mapzen, it was a pleasure working with such an amazing team! While Mapzen may be shutting down, WOF will live on... https://t.co/SiyDpshi6S

[Who's On First @alloftheplaces]

who’s on first, chapter two – https://t.co/JhHNzxlgLe

[Mapzen @mapzen]

Some sad news from Mapzen... we'll be shutting down at the end of January. Read more here: https://t.co/A680DYGpWI

[Mapzen @mapzen]

WOF in a Box, Part II: https://t.co/lGWmUqdvrY

[Mapzen @mapzen]

Canada! Spain! The Netherlands! Buenos Aires! Your neighbourhoods have arrived just in time for the holidays! https://t.co/PccAuC0PRw

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

WOF in a box! https://t.co/3RpatklDkZ

[Mapzen @mapzen]

WOF in a Box: run Who's On First on your own hardware. https://t.co/NuXckrE16X

[Who's On First @alloftheplaces]

disambiguating burger joints ranks pretty low on the list of pressing problems these days but life is funny that way sometimes... https://t.co/UWku7lBbu6

[Who's On First @alloftheplaces]

"...except to say that Who’s On First would like to be the bucket of water to OpenStreetMap’s giant eagle." – https://t.co/kWP2g2JY9P

[Stephen Epps @stepps00]

Can't wait to rock my new @mapzen socks!

[Mapzen @mapzen]

“This was not a talk about how we do that work [on Who’s On First] but rather why it is important to do it, at all.” https://t.co/Z2MdPbmUuY