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FOSS4G-NA 2015 Recap: "So Mapbox is like, all over this thing."

So, @Mapbox is, like, all over this #foss4gna thing.
— Penny Beames (@_peripatetic_) March 12, 2015

Last week, eleven Mapboxers (plus @gundersen, @lxbarth, and @ericfischer) made our way down to Burlingame, CA for this year's FOSS4G-NA conference. We had a booth with an awesome demo reel by @mwanee that consistently had at least one person asking about one or another of our tools, and some of us got a chance to do some live support and debugging with folks who were interested in our tools. The experience was totally awesome.

This year's conference was co-located with EclipseCon -- there were 775 total attendees between

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About MaptimeHQ

MaptimeHQ includes Beth Schechter, Lyzi Diamond, Alan McConchie and Camille Teicheira. All of us are available to help get your chapter onboarded, so don't hesitate to reach out! You can also reach all four of us at [email protected].

Transitmix: Design Your Perfect Bus System

On June 19th at BETA, we had the pleasure of launching the public beta of Transitmix, a sketching tool for transit planners (both professional and armchair) to quickly design routes and share with the public. Transitmix is a cross-team, collaborative project that has received contributions from no fewer than eight 2014 fellows from more than seven different city teams*, and it has been an amazing opportunity for all of us to learn from each other, share skills, and build on each other's work to create something truly awesome.

Transitmix is the first tool of its kind. It allows users to draw bus routes on any city's road grid and specify frequency and times of service to determine estimated total cost of the system. Users can then share their maps for others to view and "remix" by adding, changing, or dele

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So excited about a MaptimeXXX chapter! Welcome aboard.

Beth and Alan and Lyzi are CC'd on this email -- they can also help to get you onboarded. We're currently still working on getting good resources out to new chapters, but for now, we have a few things we can get you set up with. First, here's a doc we've been working on with some info. That'll help you to get started. (It involves making a Twitter account! :D) Also, here's a blog post Lyzi wrote about why Maptime exists that might help to guide your events.

Here's some more advice and thoughts, specifically with regards to venues:

Portland has monthly meetings at the EsriPDX space. MaptimeOAK doesn't have a consistent space yet. MaptimeSF meets every week at Stamen's offices. Consistent spaces are good, but it's more important that meetings happen at least once per month. Stay in constant communication with folks who might b

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