Thank You

Mapping & Geospatial

• Mapbox GL JS — the engine behind every WikiMapping map
• John Branigan — whose Mapbox storytelling template inspired WikiMapping Stories
• Turf.js — geospatial analysis in the browser
• Maki Icons — clean, open map icons by Mapbox
• NPS Map Symbols — icon set from the National Park Service

Platform & Libraries

• Node.js & Express — the server foundation
• MySQL — reliable data storage
• Bootstrap — responsive design framework
• Font Awesome — icons throughout the interface
• TinyMCE — rich text editing
• Sharp — image processing and compression
• SortableJS — drag-and-drop reordering
• Puppeteer — PDF generation
• Socket.io — real-time collaboration

Services & APIs

• OpenAI — AI-powered features
• Google Cloud Translate — multilingual support
• Mailgun — transactional email
• DigitalOcean — cloud hosting
• PM2 — process management
• Let's Encrypt — free SSL certificates

Public Data

• U.S. Census TIGER — boundary geometries for tracts, counties, and block groups
• Census LEHD / LODES — commuter flow origin-destination data
• GTFS — the open transit data standard

Purple Space

Purple Space is a global community of people who care, show up for each other, and do the work. Founded by Seth Godin, it gave me a place to develop WikiMapping within a community of creative, generous leaders. Thank you.

• Seth Godin — for creating the space and the ethos
• Saurabh Mithal — for running the community with care
• Heat Dziczek — whose cancer cards remind us that showing up for people is the whole point
• Mark Grimes — for caring about global women's businesses and creating a life around values
• Heat, David Leppert, Mark, Can Turanli together form We The Purple — a mastermind group of mutual support
• Michael Feeley — 800+ dailies of generosity and insight
• Kira Higgs — whose book Winnowing: A Memoir of Spiritual Longing in Secular Life is a gift
• Mickey, Alford, Can, Eve, Keith, Eike, Melissa, Damola, Allison, Anna — and many others

Team & Colleagues

WikiMapping wouldn't exist without the people who built alongside me over the years.

• Tony Hull — for our weekly talks about life, communities, opportunities, and WikiMapping
• Sean Connelly, James Stevens, Ted Magida, Rob Hudson — friends who provide me with insight as we talk over drinks or coffee
• Stephanie Milewski & Bob Thomas — for helping me see the value of project work
• Daniel, John B, John Z, Ángel, Robinson, Angela, Bruno — worked with me on the original WikiMapping and moved on to great things and beautiful families

Active Transportation Champions

Planners and leaders who valued this work long before WikiMapping had a name: Jennifer, RJ, Bettina, and Bob at Toole Design, NV5, and CTC. The Baker team. Rachana. Bill O'Neill. DelDOT. Catherine Lazorko, who included me in Carrboro's award-winning public engagement. And the national firms and MPOs who trusted a new platform with real projects.

AI Partners

The 2025–2026 rebuild of WikiMapping was developed with two AI partners. ChatGPT by OpenAI taught me coding principles and tactics I could never have learned any other way, and improved my ability to code. Claude by Anthropic helped me think through architecture and implement it — every commit says Co-Authored-By: Claude because that's the truth. Together, they made it possible to build what I could see but couldn't build alone.

Family

My wife Sandi and our kids, who give me the space to work on this. And my sister Kristi, who takes on family responsibilities with our mom that have a positive impact on my life.