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Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46

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Can Duruk is the co-founder & CTO at Felt, a company working on bringing maps to the browser. In Can's own words they want to make maps fun and collaborative. Think of Felt as the Figma or Notion of Maps.

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About Can

Shownotes
(Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books)

- Felt

- Check all the shownotes on a Felt map

- Westchester Land Trust

- The World Bank using Felt

- Bicycle & Pedestrian planning

- QGIS & Felt

- Read Margins, Can's newsletter

Book & Podcast Recommendation:

Timestamps

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:37) - Sponsor: satelitte-image-deep-learning

(02:26) - Can Describes Himself

(03:30) - What is Felt?

(04:11) - Making Maps Fun (and Why That's Important)

(06:27) - Building Something the Feels Fun

(09:21) - Why Maps Specifically?

(13:30) - The Story of Felt

(15:13) - Working with First Responders

(18:04) - Making Maps Collaborative

(21:37) - Unexpected Technical Problems

(25:34) - Dealing with User Input Data

(29:09) - Browser-based mapping

(34:27) - Figma set the stage

(35:21) - Anything that can be built on the web ultimately will

(36:25) - Technical Details of Building Felt

(43:18) - Where does the name come from?

(44:43) - felt.com

(46:34) - Target audience

(52:42) - Can's Favorite Felt Use Cases

(54:38) - Shownotes brought to you by Can

(55:16) - Make maps for everyone

(56:57) - Having a vision

(58:19) - QGIS partnership

(01:03:13) - Writing Online

(01:06:27) - Can's Twitter

(01:08:25) - Languages

(01:09:49) - Thinking Differently in Different Languages

(01:11:06) - Coming to the US

(01:12:31) - Does Felt work in multiple languages?

(01:15:30) - Book/podcast recommendation

- Support the podcast on Patreon
- Website
- My Twitter
- Podcast Twitter
- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter
- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work

  continue reading

82 episodes

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Can Duruk is the co-founder & CTO at Felt, a company working on bringing maps to the browser. In Can's own words they want to make maps fun and collaborative. Think of Felt as the Figma or Notion of Maps.

Episode Sponsor: satellite-image-deep-learning newsletter
To keep up with all things satellite images & deep learning, follow Robin Cole's newsletter here

About Can

Shownotes
(Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books)

- Felt

- Check all the shownotes on a Felt map

- Westchester Land Trust

- The World Bank using Felt

- Bicycle & Pedestrian planning

- QGIS & Felt

- Read Margins, Can's newsletter

Book & Podcast Recommendation:

Timestamps

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:37) - Sponsor: satelitte-image-deep-learning

(02:26) - Can Describes Himself

(03:30) - What is Felt?

(04:11) - Making Maps Fun (and Why That's Important)

(06:27) - Building Something the Feels Fun

(09:21) - Why Maps Specifically?

(13:30) - The Story of Felt

(15:13) - Working with First Responders

(18:04) - Making Maps Collaborative

(21:37) - Unexpected Technical Problems

(25:34) - Dealing with User Input Data

(29:09) - Browser-based mapping

(34:27) - Figma set the stage

(35:21) - Anything that can be built on the web ultimately will

(36:25) - Technical Details of Building Felt

(43:18) - Where does the name come from?

(44:43) - felt.com

(46:34) - Target audience

(52:42) - Can's Favorite Felt Use Cases

(54:38) - Shownotes brought to you by Can

(55:16) - Make maps for everyone

(56:57) - Having a vision

(58:19) - QGIS partnership

(01:03:13) - Writing Online

(01:06:27) - Can's Twitter

(01:08:25) - Languages

(01:09:49) - Thinking Differently in Different Languages

(01:11:06) - Coming to the US

(01:12:31) - Does Felt work in multiple languages?

(01:15:30) - Book/podcast recommendation

- Support the podcast on Patreon
- Website
- My Twitter
- Podcast Twitter
- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter
- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work

  continue reading

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