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Tom MacWright replied to Andrew Turner's discussion 'Designing Maps & Interaction'

I've implemented one of the zany ideas we came up with in this group, audio maps. Here's the audio version of DC (gets interesting once you hit Virginia Ave, at 2:10 or so. and the code is on GitHub in the same repository as real distance maps.

October 20, 2009

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September 21, 2009

Tom MacWright replied to Patrick Meier's discussion 'Add your Ignite Talk proposal here!' in the group Sign-Up for Ignite Talks!

Name: Tom MacWright Title: SlingshotSMS - A Lightweight SMS Gateway that Runs on a USB Drive Description: SlingshotSMS is a super-lightweight SMS Gateway designed to get SMS platforms up and running with with few moving parts and minimal configurati…

September 4, 2009

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September 4, 2009

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August 18, 2009

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August 17, 2009

Tom MacWright is now a member of Crisis Mappers Net

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August 15, 2009

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Organization / Affiliation

Development Seed

Website

http://www.developmentseed.org/

macwright@gmail.com

Keywords / Tags (expertise, interests)

Portable code, modularization, Drupal, performance

Bio

Tom is a GIS developer at Development Seed, where he has been the lead architect of our open source mapping stack that combines Mapnik with Drupal to create beautiful custom maps. Tom’s work has led him deep into cloud hosting and computing research, where he is pioneering ways to leverage cloud services to support international development work. He recently collaborated with Amazon Web Services to get 125 GB’s of TIGER U.S. Census data hosted in the Amazon cloud, making this important public data set more accessible and easier to work with than ever before.

In addition to mapping, Tom is also an experienced open source developer who has spent most of his time programming in Drupal. At Development Seed, he has helped build large, complex websites and communications tools for organizations like the New America Foundation and Human Rights Watch.

Project(s)

MapBox, OpenLayers, slingshotSMS