The same person also did geojson.io, which is a wonderful tool I use occasionally. Great for testing geojson. It's a pity placemark did not make it as a company but fantastic it's now open sourced.<p>The people at geomob did an interview with Tom MacWright two years ago or so on their podcast: <a href="https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-118" rel="nofollow">https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-118</a> when he just launched placemark.
Placemark is going open source and shutting down (72 days ago)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250459">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250459</a>
Very polished project. The founder is now helping build Val town, which seems pretty awesome, too:<p><a href="https://www.val.town/" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/</a><p>(Also his blog is a great read: <a href="https://macwright.com/" rel="nofollow">https://macwright.com/</a>)
I wish I had a use for this, GIS tools usually don't have such a level of polish and intuitiveness. I could maybe see building a capable data viewer on Placemark as a base, but I would be ignoring half its features at that point.<p>Since this was a commercial product for some time, I'd love to hear some user anecdotes: What did they use it for? Did Placemark replace some existing tool, or was it used for new kinds of tasks?
This is amazing, thanks for open sourcing it!!<p>I own the domain chattymaps and have been planning to do a map based chat app on there - maybe digging into placemark will spur me on todo that.
I've seen a lot of these generic GIS tools.<p>the problem is ArcGIS is so prevalent and invasive in work flows that the remaining work and workers simply aren't substantial enough.<p>a product like this needs a ecosystem and a "killerapp" to really thrive.