Ben Balter
@benbalter
@benbalter
- My 1st ship at GitHub was GeoJSON rendering. I remember pitching @skalnik in the café at HQ2 during my onboarding week. The goal was to create a path of less resistance for gov agencies to join the open source community. 27M maps uploaded and counting. https://github.blog/2014-02-05-diffable-more-customizable-maps/
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