Felt – Blog Archive

2024

Product

Introducing the new Team plan

Sri Vemuri

Product Marketing

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July 16, 2024

Product

Felt 3.0: Apps and dashboards powered by native Postgres & Snowflake integrations

Sam Hashemi

CEO

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July 16, 2024

Engineering

Exploring the power of Felt's API: highlights from our internal Hackathon

Álvaro Arredondo

Data Curator

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June 18, 2024

Case Study

How County of Santa Barbara Public Works delivers instant emergency updates with Felt

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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June 12, 2024

Better together — our ongoing commitment to QGIS

Álvaro Arredondo

Data Curator

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May 29, 2024

Product

Integrate and automate: power your apps with Felt's API and Python SDK

Álvaro Arredondo

Data Curator

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June 4, 2024

Case Study

Case Study: How Sharetown tackles logistics with Felt

Nora Shevick

Customer Success Manager

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May 13, 2024

Product

Cartography Tips for Designing Web Maps

Mamata Akella

Cartographic System Designer

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March 20, 2024

Product

Search, filter, select — data discovery done right

Álvaro Arredondo

Data Curator

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February 27, 2024

Product

Getting the most out of Felt’s new Workspaces

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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January 25, 2024

2023

Product

Teaching Spatial Analysis with Felt

Mamata Akella

Cartographic System Designer

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December 21, 2023

Powerful new admin tools and a streamlined billing experience

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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December 11, 2023

Product

Three key UI upgrades in Felt 2.0

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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November 30, 2023

Product

Announcing Felt 2.0 — a better way to work with maps

Sam Hashemi

CEO

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November 9, 2023

Engineering

How Tippecanoe makes Felt’s polygons look good, part 2: preventing shard gaps

Erica Fischer

Engineer

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October 24, 2023

Engineering

How Tippecanoe makes Felt’s polygons look good, part 1: choosing good label points

Erica Fischer

Engineer

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October 17, 2023

Engineering

SOC 2 certified: Felt’s enterprise-grade security infrastructure

Can Duruk

CTO

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October 17, 2023

Product

Dynamic styling, hillshades, & raster algebra – Felt’s new raster rendering engine

Damon Burgett

Engineer

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October 3, 2023

Engineering

Deploying more, stressing less: how Felt achieves 15+ daily releases

Can Duruk, CTO

Founder

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September 19, 2023

Product

How one engineering firm streamlined client feedback with the 'Add to Felt' QGIS plugin

Anna Savina

Content & Community

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September 7, 2023

Editorial

Mapscaping podcast: an interview with Felt's CEO

Anna Savina

Head of Community & Content

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August 2, 2023

Product

Introducing powerful new cartographic design tools, including heat maps

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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August 8, 2023

Product

July spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

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August 2, 2023

Engineering

Visualizing weather data using the Felt API

Damon Burgett

Software Engineer

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July 13, 2023

Product

June spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content And Community

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July 6, 2023

Product

Felt for advocacy groups: mapping traffic violence in Oakland

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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June 29, 2023

Product

Easily bring data to Felt with our QGIS plugin and the Felt API

Michal Migurski

Data Products

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June 21, 2023

Product

May spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and community

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June 6, 2023

Editorial

Felt for investigative journalism: mapping Malaysian deforestation

Anna Savina

Content & Community

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June 1, 2023

Powerful conversations in Felt: Comments, Public Feedback, and Grouping

Kevan Lee

Marketing

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May 30, 2023

Engineering

From SVG to Canvas – part 2: a new way of building interactions

Tom Hicks

Engineer

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May 24, 2023

Editorial

Mapping protected territories: Westchester Land Trust case study

Anna Savina

Content and community

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May 23, 2023

Engineering

From SVG to Canvas – part 1: making Felt faster

Tom Hicks

Engineer

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May 16, 2023

Engineering

Graceful startup and shutdown for Phoenix applications

Jason Axelson

Engineer

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May 9, 2023

Product

April spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and community

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May 2, 2023

Engineering

Routing patterns for manageable Phoenix Channels

Lucas San Román

Engineer

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April 18, 2023

Product

GeoTIFFs, XYZ urls, and raster imagery – now in Felt

Isaac Besora Vilardaga

Engineer

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April 25, 2023

Product

March spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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April 11, 2023

Modern client collaboration: Alta Planning + Design case study

Anna Savina

Content & Community

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April 4, 2023

Product

Creating maps on the web with QGIS & Felt

Anna Savina

Content & Community

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March 28, 2023

Editorial

Felt becomes first flagship sustaining member of QGIS

Michal Migurski

Data Products

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March 21, 2023

Product

Monthly spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content & Community

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March 14, 2023

Editorial

Felt reaches 1.0, now ready for teams

Sam Hashemi

CEO

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February 28, 2023

Engineering

Felt renders faster than ever with MapLibre

Chris Loer

Engineer

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February 28, 2023

Product

January spotlight: 10 best Felt community maps

Anna Savina

Content and community

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February 7, 2023

Product

Beautiful new ways to visualize data in Felt

Mamata Akella and Isaac Besora

Data Team

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February 1, 2023

Product

New in Felt: Geocoding, Geomatching, and Choropleths

Michal Migurski

Data Products

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January 24, 2023

Engineering

Creating UI delight: dynamically rotating mouse cursors

Tom Hicks

Engineer

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January 10, 2023

Product

December spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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January 5, 2023

2022

Product

Felt for educators: best strategies to keep students engaged

Anna Savina

Content and community

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December 20, 2022

Engineering

How we make your data look great at every scale with Tippecanoe

Erica Fischer

Engineer

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December 13, 2022

Product

Make your maps shine with powerful background and styling controls

Loren Baxter

Designer

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December 6, 2022

Product

November spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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November 29, 2022

Rate limiting algorithms for client-facing web apps

Tyler Young

Engineer

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November 8, 2022

Editorial

How Nonprofits are collaborating on Felt to get out the vote

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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November 3, 2022

Product

October spotlight: best Halloween Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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October 28, 2022

Engineering

Upload Anything: how we revolutionized data upload

Conor Landry

Engineer

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October 25, 2022

Editorial

Learning from history: why we should study old maps

Anna Savina

Content And Community

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October 11, 2022

Product

September spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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October 4, 2022

Product

10 maps that push the boundaries: fire progression, Colorado River basin & more

Mamata Akella

Cartographer

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September 20, 2022

Editorial

A new home for Tippecanoe and Erica, too

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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September 13, 2022

Editorial

Mapping for peace: cartography at USAID

Anna Savina

Content and Community

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August 23, 2022

Editorial

Felt Style Language: a powerful new mapping grammar

Isaac Besora & Mamata Akella

Data Team

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September 14, 2022

July 2022 layers: hot springs, drought monitor & more

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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August 2, 2022

Product

Put your data to work

Michal Migurski

Data Products

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September 13, 2022

Engineering

Narrowing in TypeScript with type predicates and discriminated unions

Tom HIcks

Engineer

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July 19, 2022

How to design a beautiful map

Loren Baxter & Mamata Akella

Designers

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August 9, 2022

Product

June 2022 layers: ZIP codes, congressional districts & more

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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July 5, 2022

Engineering

When “one size fits all” fails: PostGIS bounding boxes for maps

Joe Hermann

Engineer

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July 7, 2022

Editorial

Making maps for the San Antonio Spurs

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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July 28, 2022

Product

Felt’s public beta, and a new $15M round of funding

Sam Hashemi

CEO & Co-founder

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May 31, 2022

Product

Building the Figma for maps

Giles Van Gruisen

Engineer

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June 2, 2022

Editorial

The forefront of diplomacy: making maps at the State Department

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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May 3, 2022

Engineering

Tips for improving your Elixir configuration

Jason Axelson

Engineering Manager

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March 31, 2022

Engineering

Taking Hashrocket's "Ultimate Elixir CI" to the next level

Tyler Young

Engineer

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April 12, 2022

Engineering

SQLAlchemy reflection and PostgreSQL for data schema flexibility

Juan Ignacio Sanchez-Lara

Engineer

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March 2, 2022

Editorial

Mapping climate change at the Washington Post

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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November 1, 2021

Engineering

Tools for fast (and less furious) frontend development

Omar Rizwan

Engineer

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February 2, 2022

2021

Engineering

Computer graphics in the land of maps

Isaac Besora

Engineer

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December 27, 2021

Editorial

The evolution of map making at National Geographic

Rachel Zack

Chief of Staff

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December 7, 2021

Editorial

Transforming our National Park maps: a conversation with Nate Irwin

Rachel Zack

Editor

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November 30, 2021

Editorial

Behind the lines: exposing partisan gerrymandering with PlanScore

Rachel Zack

Editor

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November 16, 2021

Engineering

What it takes to make a map

Can Duruk

Founder

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October 20, 2021

Engineering

Hot reloading: a faster way to develop modern apps

Jason Axelson

Engineer

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October 7, 2021

Engineering

Cultivating code for who comes next

Joe Hermann

Engineer

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September 29, 2021

Editorial

Making maps for the New York Times: the unexpected career of Tim Wallace

Rachel Zack

Editor

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September 22, 2021

Editorial

The woman behind that Amtrak map

Rachel Zack

Editor

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August 30, 2021

Editorial

Inside the cartographic mind of Mamata Akella

Rachel Zack

Editor

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August 30, 2021

Engineering

Multiplayer prototyping: if your tools aren't fun, you're not doing it right

Julius Tarng

Creative Technologist

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August 25, 2021