Katy DeCorah

I worked out of the SF Mapbox office last week and then hung around for the weekend. Adventure was had (along with cocktails, sunburns, and getting 10,000 steps).

A couple months ago, I was chewing on an idea for a slide for my FOSS4GNA talk and I needed to write it out. Knowing that The Pastry Box Project had opened their submissions, I worked on the idea and massaged it into something that I enjoyed.

A couple weeks ago I gave my talk Writing for everyone at FOSS4G NA. I had a great time! You can click through my slides, follow along with my notes, or watch the video.

Swoosh. Plunk. Flick. Flick. Flickflick. Tap. Taptaptaptaptap. Swoosh.

I was in Burlingame and San Francisco this past week for FOSS4G NA. Slides and video to come, but for now:

The best way down the hill is on your belly, like a penguin.

A year later, I’m back chatting with Tim:

Say you have a dataset for a handful of countries or all the countries, or maybe a handful of states or all the states. You want to assign your data to each state or country as a polygon of that area, not a point, so you can do fun colors or popups and make a darn cool map.

After flipping through past posts, I realized that my lush green static map didn’t match wintery posts. For example, Christmas day hike. It’s winter, nothing is green. Everything is white and then gray and then cold and then sometimes sad. So I needed a map style to match winter (minus the sad).

The trail was a sheet of ice, but a pretty sheet of ice.