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Challenge seeker, CEO at @maptiler, Swiss resident, proud dad of two boys, cartographer, programmer & entrepreneur.

Switzerland
Joined July 2011
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Our geocoding in North America just got a massive upgrade. Get 10x more postal codes in Canada and much more accurate US searches to power your logistics, checkouts, and other apps. Read more: maptiler.link/4suGWe5
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Meet me and the team at #MWC26 in Barcelona - Hall 5 Stand 5C30 #swisstech - showing cool #geosplats and much more!
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
🗓️ Save the date 🗓️ Join us on Oct 21st for the first ever MapTiler Connect conference! Expect: ✨ Experts from across industries ✨ A sneak peek at future developments ✨ A big announcement you won’t want to miss Full program coming soon. 👉 Register at maptiler.link/3HxCTMh
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
🎉 We’ve won the Map of the Year 2024 award, presented by the Czech Cartographic Society! 🗺️ We’re proud to share that the Czech Cartographic Society has awarded the Map of the Year 2024 prize in the category of Digital Cartographic Products and Online Applications to MapTiler for the project TimeMap.org. 👏 “This award is a great recognition of our team's dedication to innovation in digital cartography,” says @petrpridal, CEO of @MapTiler “We’re excited to continue building tools that make complex geographic data more accessible and engaging for users around the world.” A huge thank you to the entire team! 🤎 You can explore the map on TimeMap.org and OldMapsOnline.org
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Go global with the MapTiler SDK! Find out just how easy it is to add a 3D globe to a website or app! #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebMaps #WebGL #Globe
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
We’re live on Product Hunt for the next 24 hours! 🚀 Our founder @petrpridal , just shared our launch post, and we’d love your support. Supporting us is completely free—just drop an upvote or leave a comment to help us stand out. 👉 producthunt.com/posts/timema… Every bit of support means the world to us. Thank you! 🙌 #ProductHunt #LaunchDay #FreeSupport
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‼️ 🔍 Explore 6,000 years of history on TimeMap.org ‼️ Discover countries, people & events on an interactive map. A project by @MapTiler and team from @HiuAV2017 @Akademie_ved_CR @CzechAcademy #History
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Emersing your users in a 3D world is easy with MapTiler. Add an Augmented Reality button to your #JavaScript map with two lines of code; no need to deploy anything to an app store! More details: bit.ly/3TNP89p #SpatialComputing #AR #MR #AugmentedReality #MixedReality
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Planning my next gravel bike tour to the Calmont on the Moselle, the steepest vineyard in Europe, with #AR and @MapTiler
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A true joy to announce TimeMap.org and the new version of OldMapsOnline at the @Stanford university. It was an honor to meet @DavidRumseyMaps in person again, after having collaborated on several projects. Really one of the highlights of my career... I am thankful.
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Tomorrow, I am launching my dream project at Stanford University in San Francisco. TimeMap.org is a world map with time slider, travel back in time to history, with names of countries of the past, rulers and kings, battles, famous artists and over half a million maps.
Announcing tomorrow's (Wed 15th May) launch of TimeMap.org, the most comprehensive Interactive Map of World History! Check out the event @Stanford University and on Zoom: events.stanford.edu/event/th…
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Preview of TimeMap.org/ - the most comprehensive interactive map of history, which is launched today by @OldMapsOnline & @MapTiler teams at David Rumsey Map Center @DavidRumseyMaps at @Stanford university.
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Join us for the public launch of the next generation of OldMapsOnline with the new TimeMap. Wednesday, May 15, from 9:30am to 12:30pm PDT at the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University. Attend in person or virtually. Details and registration here - events.stanford.edu/event/th…
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
We had a wonderful week at the #FOSS4G2023 conference in Prizren, Kosovo. Big thanks to the organisation team for the wonderful event, all the people of Kosovo for being so nice to us and to the #FOSS4G community for being such great people! Have a safe travel home!
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
1/ MapTiler is yet again a Proud Partner of @RedBullXAlps 2023, providing cutting-edge 3D terrain maps for live tracking! 🗺️✨ With 32 athletes from 20 countries conquering 1138 km on foot & paraglider through treacherous alpine terrain, it's an adrenaline-fueled spectacle. 🏔️
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
Perfect pitch on #SEF23 by @SuterLu of @MapTiler 👏👏✌️👌 – at Interlaken, Switzerland
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RapID 2.0 map editor rewritten to use WebGL via pixijs.com/ for rendering. Boosted performance is great on this AI assisted editing of OpenStreetMap data. 🥳 Kudos to Chris @cbed32 from Meta, who visited our office a few weeks ago. See developers.facebook.com/blog…
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
1/6: What an event! Last week, we met in a Swiss resort to enjoy our annual skiing holiday. It was a fantastic opportunity to bond as a team and have fun in the snow. 🧵
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Klokan Petr Pridal retweeted
🟢🗺🌎⚫️Maps in your pocket?Travelling a lot? Then you for sure met @MapTiler products! Their CEO @petrpridal will tell us about Czech roots in this strat-up Thank you for being with us at #scas22! See you on 9.9. at @ETH_en #cometx #proudczech #czexpats
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A really nice presentation from @nyuriks about @maplibre project, status and community at #FOSS4G2022. Bravo! @foss4g
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