Mikel Maron
Human, OpenStreetMap

Mikel Maron is foundar of Mapufacture, and web developer for hire, specializing in Open Geospatial and Wiki tech. He’s been active in the standardization of GeoRSS and in the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project, and several open source projects. He’s developed two of the first Wikis in use at the UN. Previously, Mikel worked as senior developer of My Yahoo! and researched evolutionary models of ecosystems for an MSc at the University of Sussex.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 05/12/2008

Geo-ify Your Web Site

Tutorial
Location: Salon E

Steve Coast (OpenStreetMap), Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap), Andrew Turner (GeoIQ)

Learn to use Mapstraction—the abstraction API for mapping services—from the core developers. Worried that Google might put adverts on their maps? Noticed that Microsoft Virtual Earth has better aerial imagery? Don't get locked in! Use Mapstraction to float above proprietary APIs and switch on the fly to nine different providers including OpenStreetMap. Read more.

9:00am Wednesday, 05/14/2008

Disaster Tech: What is Working and What is Coming

Location: Salon A-F

Jesse Robbins (Opscode), Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap)

Twitter and Google Maps are being used in mainstream emergency management, and projects like InSTEDD will push them even farther. This session shows you what is working, what isn't, and what's next in Disaster Tech. Read more.