Month: February 2014
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Lyzi Diamond: “Make things. Put them on the internet.”
Lyzi Diamond is a 2014 Code for America Fellow with the city of Lexington, KY. She has spent much of her career in government GIS, but is now tinkering in the land of open source geospatial technologies. She spends her free time organizing geo meetups, writing tutorials, making silly web maps, riding bikes, and playing…
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Peter Bellerby, artisanal globe maker
It doesn’t get any more geohipstery than that: Peter Bellerby rides his bike to his London (UK) studio, where he and his staff make globes by hand. Several of his globes appeared in Martin Scorcese’s Oscar-winning “Hugo”. Peter Bellerby’s biggest challenge: “You are multiplying every error by pi.” (via Ralph Straumann) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVJ90AYlMQc]