Nice to see kepler.gl getting some love here!

Funny enough, I just released an open-source, opinionated map editor built on top of kepler.gl with their DuckDB integration — yesterday! If anyone's curious to see how it all fits together, feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/mountayaapp/insight-editor.

It’d be great to have contributors join our collaborator summit [0] in the Seattle area this fall!

It’s a free event, supported by the OpenJS Foundation, kepler.gl’s host foundation.

We’re expecting to have a session from Shan, the creator of Kepler.gl as well as Ilya, the creator of SQLRooms. We’re still accepting session proposals as well [1]!

[0] https://deck.gl/events/seattle-summit-2025/ [1] https://github.com/openjs-foundation/summit/issues/450

Foursquare has another open source project worth noting on DuckDB - SQLRooms

https://sqlrooms.org/

“Build data-centric apps with DuckDB An Open Source React Framework for Single-Node Data Analytics powered by DuckDB”

Which is powered by deck.gl, also a very nice library.

https://deck.gl/

From earlier post (2018): https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/keplergl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181879

Oh so exciting!!!

I’ve been looking for an alternative to CARTO, their sales reps are awful and their pricing is wildly expensive and opaque.

As someone to whom these kind of awesome visualizations are often presented, let me tell you something. Real decisions do not depend on these nice stuff. I sometimes feel sorry for the folks who spend great effort in producing these, like a children amusing themselves with the great sand castles they built. A lot of times, simple text or numbers could also have more effect on the decisions.

The marketing page needs some work on mobile but otherwise a cool library.

Export your phones GPS pings and then use this to render a heat map of the most frequently used locations :)

i love kepler.gl! regularly use it just to visualise trips, good to see it gaining visibility