Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46

Can Duruk is the co-founder & CTO at Felt, a company working on bringing maps to the browser. In Can's own words they want to make maps fun and collaborative. Think of Felt as the Figma or Notion of Maps.

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About Can

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- Felt

- Check all the shownotes on a Felt map

- Westchester Land Trust

- The World Bank using Felt

- Bicycle & Pedestrian planning

- QGIS & Felt

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(00:00) - Introduction

(01:37) - Sponsor: satelitte-image-deep-learning

(02:26) - Can Describes Himself

(03:30) - What is Felt?

(04:11) - Making Maps Fun (and Why That's Important)

(06:27) - Building Something the Feels Fun

(09:21) - Why Maps Specifically?

(13:30) - The Story of Felt

(15:13) - Working with First Responders

(18:04) - Making Maps Collaborative

(21:37) - Unexpected Technical Problems

(25:34) - Dealing with User Input Data

(29:09) - Browser-based mapping

(34:27) - Figma set the stage

(35:21) - Anything that can be built on the web ultimately will

(36:25) - Technical Details of Building Felt

(43:18) - Where does the name come from?

(44:43) - felt.com

(46:34) - Target audience

(52:42) - Can's Favorite Felt Use Cases

(54:38) - Shownotes brought to you by Can

(55:16) - Make maps for everyone

(56:57) - Having a vision

(58:19) - QGIS partnership

(01:03:13) - Writing Online

(01:06:27) - Can's Twitter

(01:08:25) - Languages

(01:09:49) - Thinking Differently in Different Languages

(01:11:06) - Coming to the US

(01:12:31) - Does Felt work in multiple languages?

(01:15:30) - Book/podcast recommendation

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