The State of the Map US conference at the United Nations Headquarters is in NYC June 6-8. It’s not too late to sign up to attend! Over the next two weeks we will be highlighting the talks by your friends at Mapzen. Matt Blair will be on the Vector Rendering Panel at Saturday 5:00PM in Room CR1.

Phones and other consumer hardware have become powerful enough to draw beautiful, detailed maps using nothing but vectorized geometry data from OpenStreetMap. We’ll discuss techniques and challenges in creating vector renderers that are cross-platform, high-performance, and really really ridiculously good-looking!

Before joining Mapzen to develop the Tangram ES map renderer, Matt studied robotics at Cornell and made pretentious video games for phones and tablets.