You are behind two game-changing tools: leafmap, a user-friendly Python library for interactive mapping and geospatial exploration, and geemap, a Python package for seamlessly integrating Earth Engine data analysis and visualization. What motivates you to invest your time and expertise in creating free, open-source tools? My primary motivation stems from a passion for harnessing the power of geospatial technologies to address environmental challenges. In the Spring of 2020, while teaching Earth Engine at the University of Tennessee, I encountered a significant obstacle. The Earth Engine Python API documentation was very limited, making it difficult for…