Brandon ℒⅈ∪
@bdon.org
building a new map of the world at @protomaps.com cartographic tools, neogeography, systems programming, @recursecenter.bsky.social, https://80s.nyc https://bdon.org https://www.are.na/bdon https://github.com/bdon 📍 NYC
12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings
All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands
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Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0 github.com/mapbox/mapbo... "Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and an official plugin (``mapbox-gl-pmtiles-provider.js`) that loads on demand."
Release v3.21.0 · mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Features and improvements ✨ Introduce the TileProvider API, a mechanism for extending GL JS with custom vector tile providers. Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and ...
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Tickets are on sale for Brooklyn Web Workers on March 30th withfriends.events/event/85aZ9V...
Mon, Mar 30 - Brooklyn Web Workers - March 2026 by Brooklyn Web Workers
Learn more, get tickets, and follow this event
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Brooklyn Web Workers is one week away! Our first speaker this month is Brandon Liu (@bdon.org) with "Maps as a new web primitive"
Made some improvements this week to my map of United States real property (federal land, buildings and other fixed structures) - new agencies and better geocoding, including USPS, TVA and State - filter by property type (e.g. "parking structure") and year built - where available, actual land areas
What the United States Owns
Interactive map of Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) buildings across the United States.
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TASA(Taiwan Space Agency) has recently released five images captured by FORMOSAT-8. According to TASA, the image resolution met the originally designed 1m resolution. This is a great improvement over FORMOSAT-5’s 2m resolution images. www.tasa.org.tw/zh-TW/announ...
cool new map built on pmtiles + @protomaps.com
CarbonPlan@carbonplan.org · 6mo agoToday we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict. medium.com/@michalmigur...
Weeknotes, 2026W04: Boundary Issues
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create…
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"We will not devalue the EPSG dataset by including such inappropriate geodesy and cartography."
Was looking at my cloudflare worker serving maps via pmtiles, saw there is a new dashboard on cloudflare with a map of request locations, poked around into how it works and indeed cloudflare themselves are serving their map via the pmtiles cloudflare worker
Developers with contempt for marketing are usually the ones most susceptible to it
For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours! youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw
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CNG@cloudnativegeo.org · 10mo ago🎙️Join the next episode of the Great Data Products podcast LIVE on Oct 29 at 4pm PDT! @jed.co will sit down for a conversation with @bdon.org about building maps for the web. Brandon is the creator of @protomaps.com. Register to watch live here ⤵️ greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
“Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart”
anyone in nyc want to #geobreakfast this Friday? 9:30 AM @ downtown brooklyn mile end deli, reply or DM for rsvp please! (we need a headcount)
come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)
The business model of food is drinks The business model of transit is real estate The business model of maps is ?
blogging update: i am posting through my dissertation, it is very bare bones and a painfully niche topic but I'm pretending this is me making progress: placing.technology
just opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~ (it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)
I sometimes muse about the savage job-destroying nature of the open source community: hundreds of thousands of developers working tirelessly to unemploy as many of their peers as possible by giving away the code they've written for free.
tired of landing pages and single-page sites. you should make websites with as many pages possible
My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results. Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.
