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Phoebe Sajor 23 Jun 2026 1 min read

Ryan is joined by Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in bringing spatial data to the next generation of Microsoft tools; how Overture’s 50 organization members are creating open, standardized, and interoperable global spatial data sets; and their solutions to the innate challenges of…

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Derick Yang 24 Jan 2025 10 min read

Much of our heatmaps are built on batch data outputs stored in Rain At Strava, we love maps — some of our most loved features are nestled on map surfaces. My team, the Geo team, is focused on building and improving these products. On the Geo and Metro teams, we tend to work with large datasets: aggregations of open source…

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Dave Cheney 29 May 2018 13 min read

This post discusses how maps are implemented in Go. It is based on a presentation I gave at the GoCon Spring 2018 conference in Tokyo, Japan. What is a map function? To understand how a map works, let’s first talk about the idea of the map function. A map function maps one value to another. Given […]

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Dave Cheney 30 Apr 2017 3 min read

In my previous post I showed that Go maps are not reference variables, and are not passed by reference. This leaves the question, if maps are not references variables, what are they? For the impatient, the answer is: A map value is a pointer to a runtime.hmap structure. If you’re not satisfied with this explanation, read on. What […]

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