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I'd love to know where these ideas come from. All the way from the top? Product? Developers with a 20% time window? They've always been innovative and despite s

I'd love to know where these ideas come from. All the way from the top? Product? Developers with a 20% time window? They've always been innovative and despite size/growth/scale seem to be able to keep that up.

Oompa 13y ago
It's more organic than you think. Employees want to see something, so they sell others on and work on it themselves if they can. If they can sell others to help, eventually it can ship. If not, then it atrophies and gets killed before it makes it out to the public.
hughes 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the request came from a user. I've seen a couple features get implemented after suggesting them via the contact form.
holman 13y ago
> Developers with a 20% time window? We like to call it 100% time. Work on what you're interested in. In this case, Ben — who handles a lot of our outreach to government agencies — knew that GeoJSON is something that could be a big deal for open data in government, so he built the feature. There's not much more to it than that.
- voltagex_ 13y ago
  Cool. I wonder what the conversion workflow --> GeoJSON is like? KPX and CSV and XLS are common over at data.gov.au / data.act.gov.au
  - saraid216 13y ago
    GeoJSON is an entirely different type of data. "columns" and "rows" aren't a useful way to think about it; you have to talk about points and closed polygons and their associated metadata instead.