About

I'm Tom MacWright, a hacker at MapBox and Development Seed. Please email me to get in contact. I'm @tmcw on Twitter, and don't actively use any other social networks.
Presentations
I’ve spoken at quite a few different events.
- Open Source’s Critical Role When Data Must Be Shared at GOSCON 2009
- Fast Map Interaction Without Flash (Development Seed Blog) at Where 2.0 2011
- Offline Mapping with Maps on a Stick (YouTube) (liveblog) (Development Seed Blog) at ICCM 2010
- Tiger/Line Data in The Cloud (Development Seed Blog) at Where 2.0 2010
- Making Beautiful Maps from Data (Development Seed Blog) at FOSS4G 2011
- MBTiles, etc (Development Seed Blog) at The OGC in Boulder, CO
- The State of Open Source GIS at Where Camp Boston, October 29th, 2011
- Project it Yourself at Geo DC
- Big Data with node.js, polymaps, and redis at node.js DC
- Beyond the Google Maps Paradigm at FOSS4G NA
Colophon
If you’re curious, this site uses Jekyll and is hosted by GitHub. Images are hosted on Flickr and maps on MapBox Hosting. I use vim and have my .vim on GitHub.
If you’re looking for another MacWright, here are a few (all ‘of relation’ – it’s a rare name): MacWright Studios, Sarah MacWright, Gloria, Doug.