- Name: Matt Kenny
- GIS Data Engineer At Tableau Software
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A global basemap of the world.
- Three Map Styles
- User-toggleable Layers
- Features Translated into Eight Languages
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A global geocoding database.
- MapServer - Powers our Map Service
- PostGIS - Spatial Database/Processing Environment
- Quantum GIS - Visualization Tool
- Fiona - Read Shapefiles; convert to python objects
- Shapely - Perform geoprocessing operations (buffer, clips, itersections, simplification).
- We make our own internal tools.
- Our processes need to be cross-platform
- Engineers use Linux, Mac, Windows workstations.
- Our processes need to be modular
- Data formats can change, don't want to re-write tooling every time.
- Processes need to be automatable
- Reducing amount of manual processing == Less chance of operator error
- Process large volumes of data