Brandon Liu
Employers on the program
- 2026Overture Maps Foundation1 talk
- 2022–2025Protomaps3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- State of the Map
- FOSS4G
- CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference)
- FOSS4G Europe
- FOSS4G North America
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2026 | State of the Map Asia 2026 | State of the Map | keynote | State of the Overture Maps as Overture Maps Foundation | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | CNG Conference 2025 | CNG Forum (Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference) | speaker | Minimum Viable CNG as Protomaps What is the essence of cloud-native geospatial? It might not be a SaaS, but instead simple primitives that are simple to publish anywhere. | |
| Jul 18, 2024 | State of the Map Europe 2024 | State of the Map | speaker | Chasing the Neogeography Dream | |
| Jul 1, 2024 | FOSS4G Europe 2024 | FOSS4G Europe | speaker | Open Source vs. Open Core for the Protomaps Project Since 2023, the Protomaps project has transitioned from an "Open Core" project to a fully open source one, centered around the PMTiles open data format. | |
| Oct 23, 2023 | FOSS4G North America 2023 | FOSS4G North America | speaker | Moving Protomaps from Open Core to Open Source | |
| Jun 26, 2023 | FOSS4G 2023 | FOSS4G | speaker | Serverless Planet-scale Geospatial with Protomaps and PMTilesProtomaps is a simple, self-hostable system for tiled vector datasets. In the year since last FOSS4G, we've rolled out a new compressed specification (V3),…Show lessProtomaps is a simple, self-hostable system for tiled vector datasets. In the year since last FOSS4G, we've rolled out a new compressed specification (V3), added support for tile generation tools, and open sourced key integrations with content delivery networks. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 | State of the Map US 2023 | State of the Map | speaker | An Infinite Map: The Protomaps Vector Basemap based on OpenStreetMap | |
| Aug 22, 2022 | FOSS4G 2022 | FOSS4G | speaker | Web mapping at any scale: Bite-size, full-stack cartography with Protomaps + PMTiles open source tools as Protomaps Protomaps is a new, open source set of tools for vector cartography on the web. It’s designed to enable projects of any scale - from hobby projects of a…Show lessProtomaps is a new, open source set of tools for vector cartography on the web. It’s designed to enable projects of any scale - from hobby projects of a neighborhood, to dense datasets covering the entire planet. | |
| Aug 19, 2022 | State of the Map 2022 | State of the Map | speaker | Innovating on derivative OpenStreetMap datasets as Protomaps OpenStreetMap consists of tagged nodes, ways and relations. Many use cases of geographic data, however, need a tabular dataset of points, lines and polygons.…Show lessOpenStreetMap consists of tagged nodes, ways and relations. Many use cases of geographic data, however, need a tabular dataset of points, lines and polygons. Processing OSM into derivative datasets is a crucial task that can benefit from new tools and formats. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 | State of the Map US 2019 | State of the Map | speaker | OpenStreetMap Express - a spatial file format for the planet |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilya Zverev | 6 | — | 2024 |
| Said Turksever | 5 | — | 2024 |
| Yuri Astrakhan | 5 | — | 2024 |
| Edoardo Neerhut | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Florent Gravin | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Jennings Anderson | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Matthias Mohr | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Andrea Aime | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Christopher Beddow | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Maggie Cawley | 4 | — | 2023 |
| Federica Gaspari | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Matthew Hanson | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Andrea Antonello | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Angelos Tzotsos | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Antonio Cerciello | 3 | — | 2024 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.