Open Source

40025 readers

129 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Placemark is going open source and shutting down (macwright.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's an easy to use web GIS. Looks quite cool actually.

top 7 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Kudos to the developer. It really is the right thing to do when services shut down.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

That looks really cool, it is a shame it couldn't get where it needed to be for a long term business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The author has worked on observablehq.com and currently works on val.town which are both really cool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm happy to create more value than I capture.

What an amazing way to say that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'd just copied that exact thing to comment on. We need more people like @[email protected] in our world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like something related to openstreetmap, maybe contact them and see if they can do something with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

OSM already has Qmap which is similar, and QGIS also had a web gis these days.

Maybe placemark will be easier to run, and it looks like it is a bit more user friendly then the other options, but the niche is already a bit crowded.