Category: Geohipsters
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Maps and mappers of the 2020 GeoHipster calendar: Megan Gall, June
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I started my career as a shovelbum, digging holes and mapping Fort Ancient Indian villages in West Virginia. We used survey equipment to inform the hand drawn maps, but one day I went into the office and someone had turned my hand drawn map into an image on…
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Mike Dolbow: “I haven’t always succeeded, but I’ve always been satisfied with the pursuit”
Mike Dolbow is a GIS Coordinator at a small state agency and your classic Jack of All Trades (Master of None). Mike was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? Would you do it all over again given the chance? A: Like a decent percentage of my peers, I…
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Nate Wessel to GeoHipster: “I want to get stuck doing something”
Nate Wessel is an urban planner and cartographer living in Toronto. He spent much of his life so far in Ohio and enjoys cycling, walking, mapping things, and playing with his cat. Check out his website https://natewessel.com/ for more info. Nate was interviewed for GeoHipster by Natasha Pirani. Q: Hi Nate! How did you become…
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Sahana Murthy to GeoHipster: “GIS is a very large umbrella, brimming with opportunities”
Sahana Murthy is the General Manager of Loveland Technologies, where she manages the team, the product, and the overall corporate & marketing strategy. Prior to Loveland, Sahana had extensive experience working with software companies and startups of all sizes across USA & India. Over the years, she has worn multiple hats with roles ranging from…
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Hans van der Kwast to GeoHipster: “A change in education is needed to break this vicious circle”
Hans van der Kwast is a physical geographer specialized in GIS and remote sensing. From 2007 to 2012, he worked at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) as a researcher in environmental modelling. In 2009 he defended his PhD at Utrecht University on the integration of remote sensing in soil moisture modeling using the…
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Nicole Martinelli to GeoHipster: “The map you need but don’t have is the most compelling.”
Nicole Martinelli is a tech journalist turned community organizer because she needed a map to navigate earthquake-prone San Francisco, California. She founded Resiliency Maps and now spends time making maps for community responders on that cutting-edge medium, paper. Nicole was interviewed for GeoHipster by Mike Dolbow. Q: You and I met at State of the…
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Emily Jirles: “Embrace failure, and with time, persistence, and humility you’ll eventually grow gills”
Q: Tell us a little about your background. What kinds of things did you work on before your current role? A: I wanted to be a diplomat or ambassador, travel the world, so I majored in International Relations with a concentration in Peace and Security (what does that mean? I honestly couldn’t tell you anymore).…
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Belle Tissott to GeoHipster: Data Science and Teenage Bird Angst
Belle Tissott is an Assistant Director of Product Development at Digital Earth Australia, where she works to develop new methods to process and analyse satellite imagery in order to map and better understand Australia’s land and water. She is a programmer and mathematician, with a strong drive to do what she can to make a…
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Update on the 2020 calendar
On November 26th, we at GeoHipster were informed of a dispute regarding potentially incomplete credits for one of the maps in our 2020 calendar. In the following days, we entered into discussions with the involved parties in an attempt to reach a satisfactory resolution. As a result of these discussions, on December 2nd we created…
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Johannes Kröger to GeoHipster: “$existing_free_software can do that already.”
Johannes (Hannes) Kröger is a geospatial professional from Hamburg, Germany. During most of this interview, Hannes was working as a research assistant in the Lab for Geoinformatics and Geovisualization (g2lab) at HafenCity University Hamburg. Recently Hannes joined a consulting firm to challenge his expertise in the real world. His unprofessional outlet is a chaotic stream…
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On #PostGIS Day, We Unveil Our 2020 Calendar
Let us here at GeoHipster be some of the first to wish all of you GeoJSON lovers out there a happy #PostGIS Day, just in case you don’t have our 2019 calendar to give you a handy reminder. And this year, we’ve actually had our act together well enough to be able to release our…
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Call for Maps: the 2020 GeoHipster Calendar
Hello GeoHipster fans, cartographers, and map geeks around the world! While we’ve put out teasers over the last few weeks, today we’re making it official: we’ve set a deadline of October 25 for you to submit your map for the 2020 GeoHipster Calendar. We’re trying to move a bit quicker this year so we can…