Erica Fischer

Erica Fischer is an engineer who has made notable contributions to the field of geospatial technology. She is the creator of Tippecanoe, a tool designed for creating scale-independent views of large data sets. This tool is recognized for being the world’s best tiling engine and is widely used in the mapping community. Beyond her work with Tippecanoe, Erica is a flagship sponsor of QGIS, a project aimed at building a robust ecosystem for mapping software. She also supports Protomaps, an initiative focused on developing new basemap systems. Additionally, Erica actively contributes code to various essential open source geospatial tools, further enhancing the capabilities and accessibility of mapping technologies.