[HN Gopher] Placemark is now open source - web-based geospatial ...
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Placemark is now open source - web-based geospatial data editor
Author : danboarder
Score : 213 points
Date : 2024-01-25 03:24 UTC (19 hours ago)
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| spacec0wb0y wrote:
| Anywhere we can see a working demo?
| defrost wrote:
| See it being used? https://www.youtube.com/@_tmcw/videos
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| I didn't see an URL to reach a working demo for hands on test
| drive.
| andrewviren wrote:
| https://app.placemark.io/play
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Wow, nice.
| etewiah wrote:
| This is amazing, thanks for open sourcing it!!
|
| I own the domain chattymaps and have been planning to do a map
| based chat app on there - maybe digging into placemark will spur
| me on todo that.
| reddalo wrote:
| Great news! It could totally look like a G Suite app.
| cinntaile wrote:
| This is different from a project that was started as open
| source without any company backing. Without a company backing
| it it likely won't survive.
| vincnetas wrote:
| Placemark is going open source and shutting down (72 days ago)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250459
| jillesvangurp wrote:
| The same person also did geojson.io, which is a wonderful tool I
| use occasionally. Great for testing geojson. It's a pity
| placemark did not make it as a company but fantastic it's now
| open sourced.
|
| The people at geomob did an interview with Tom MacWright two
| years ago or so on their podcast:
| https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-118 when he just launched
| placemark.
| webel0 wrote:
| I can't believe I'm saying this but: I wish they had placed an
| ad for placemark on geojson.io.
|
| I had no idea this existed until just now but I've worked at
| two companies where a lot of coworkers could have benefited
| greatly from a map app that has a few more features than
| geojson.io but is less complex than qgis/arcgis.
| incanus77 wrote:
| geojson.io is owned & managed by our former employer, Mapbox,
| where Tom built it originally some years ago, whereas
| Placemark was an independent project by Tom.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| I've seen a lot of these generic GIS tools.
|
| the problem is ArcGIS is so prevalent and invasive in work flows
| that the remaining work and workers simply aren't substantial
| enough.
|
| a product like this needs a ecosystem and a "killerapp" to really
| thrive.
| mistrial9 wrote:
| you mistake "lockin" for competition. GIS will always be niche.
| There is no reason not to use standards for GIS, and open
| source has a place in the long term.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| the point is ArcGIS simply as first right of refusal for
| almost any significant workflow.
|
| certainly GIS outside of this is valuable but it's within a
| specific project specific world that it's a component of and
| not the central hub
| greenie_beans wrote:
| maybe people are trying to build a better alternative to
| arcgis? and to do this, maybe you start with a simple app
| first? and perhaps these people are also experts in gis?
| crazy to think about
| cyanydeez wrote:
| oh I agree, I run QGIS and Postgresql with PostGIS. I
| switched my entire work flow out of ArcGIS in 2016
| because ArcGIS Pro was heading to LaLa land with it's
| online subscription garbage.
|
| But, my point is: If you're goin gto compete with ArcGIS,
| it's going to come from the spokes to the hub, and not
| from the hub to the spokes. That is, you need a killer
| app for a very specific work flow and go from there into
| a ecosystem.
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| Without a "killer app", trying to build a separate hub
| and market that as-is just won't sell.
| dvdkon wrote:
| I wish I had a use for this, GIS tools usually don't have such a
| level of polish and intuitiveness. I could maybe see building a
| capable data viewer on Placemark as a base, but I would be
| ignoring half its features at that point.
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| Since this was a commercial product for some time, I'd love to
| hear some user anecdotes: What did they use it for? Did Placemark
| replace some existing tool, or was it used for new kinds of
| tasks?
| eMerzh wrote:
| would be interesting to find some mutualisation with umap-
| project.org ... or at least become a friend project :)
| jwilber wrote:
| Very polished project. The founder is now helping build Val town,
| which seems pretty awesome, too:
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| https://www.val.town/
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| (Also his blog is a great read: https://macwright.com/)
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