Presenter: Tristen Brown (@fallsemo), Designer & Developer at Mapbox
Mapbox is a mapping platform used for many use cases. Tristen will walk through some relevant ones to civic tech: from new interactive techniques for visualizing geospatial information to the tools that create them.
Tristen is a developer & designer on Mapbox Studio, a suite of cartography tools for creating digital maps. He is also a musician and proud resident of Toronto.
Breakout groups
Project | Lead(s) | Description / Needs |
Civic Tech 101 | Luke | Come here if it’s your first time!!!! |
Bike Parking | Sharly | Build bike parking app; Developer, UX, UI & Policy |
Women & Color | Mohammed | Website/CMS – developers & interested to help find speakers on tech |
TTC Performance | Raphael | Using open data to show subway performance; |
Wild Combination | Mark | Rapid Ideation card deck; stories or ideas to contribute to card deck |
Democracy Kit | Katie | Online platform for election support; webinars on running a campaign |
Budgetpedia | Arthur | Municipal/Toronto budget – basic research skills |
Data 102 | Cindy | Self-Directed Coding |
Change monitoring project | Patrick | Pipeline to monitor changes to gov’t websites; Â Ruby, Javascript, Python developers or interested in project |