Nestable, nameable, hidable folders are a great way to organize your maps.

Announcing XYZ layer support, faster collaboration, faster API, edit feature IDs, and better polygon rendering.

Just another Monday, with some improvements, fixes, and commentary!

Announcing a big new feature: the sign up button.

How we make Placemark faster, so you can make maps faster.

A fun conversation with Ed Freyfogle about geo and business

Accepting not-quite-valid data so you can make maps instead of fixing XML.

It's too hard to make a map. It's also hard to say what making a map is.

From image formats to satellites, what seemed inspiring in geospatial technology this year.

Why it might be a good idea to build your marketing site with a different technology stack than the one your application uses.

Why maps are still interesting in 2021

How we use error logging, code analytics, uptime monitoring, and continuous deployment to power map editing tools you can rely on.

How to stop worrying about using the fastest web framework and just ship the thing.

Some of our favorite open source modules that perfectly work with TypeScript and make our lives happier.

From DNS to SQL to design, here's what's been changing with the Placemark map editor.

This is one of those hard-to-pin-down engineering concepts of how to shape your data, which trickles into the whole system design.

Here are the goals and principles we're keeping in mind, building this geospatial application.

How we use Replicache to power real-time, multiplayer, collaborative map editing.

How JSON pointer lets you target and modify certain parts of JSON objects, and how this can be really useful for GeoJSON.

My thoughts on why project management applications are often overkill, and using simple tools forces you to adopt more efficient practices as a small team.

Here's why we use react-aria, a React component library made by Adobe and focused on control and accessibility.

Here's why we use Render, instead of options like AWS, to host our map editor.

There are lots of different ways to build a web application. It's about choosing the one that fits your problem area - here's why I ended up with Blitz.js, a level on top of Next.js, for Placemark.

Here's my framework for how to think about some fundamental choices I have to make when building a company.