Tag: geohipster
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Bill Morris: “There’s a lot of value in questioning the establishment”
Bill Morris is a passable developer, a derivative cartographer, and a GIS refugee. Having cleared a decade as a geospatial professional and founder of Geosprocket LLC, Bill is now mapping renewable energy markets as the Lead Visualization Engineer at Faraday Inc., where he has yet to pay for a software license but is getting nervous…
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Josh Livni: “Depth is important; breadth is more useful”
Josh Livni has been making maps ever since he started getting lost in the wilderness. He works on the Google Crisis Response team, helping to make actionable information more accessible during times of disaster. Before joining Google, he ran a consulting company, integrating cartographic and statistical tools on the web. He cuts his own hair,…
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GeoHipster 6-month anniversary recap
GeoHipster launched six months ago. At the time we didn’t know what to expect, and where it was going. But the response has been encouraging, and we’ll keep forging full speed ahead. First of all, I want to thank Glenn Letham for encouraging me to launch GeoHipster, and GISUser for the initial financial support. Next,…
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Bill Dollins to Geohipster: “Programming feels very similar to writing a poem”
Bill Dollins (Twitter, blog) is a programmer and partner at Zekiah Technologies, responsible for leading Zekiah’s geospatial consulting business. Bill was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: You are a Senior Vice President at Zekiah Technologies. Do you consider yourself a mapper, a coder, a businessman, or a social media guru? A: I tend…
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All one planet
I am just going to leave this here while I work on my tractate (Working title: “Is (geo)hispterism exclusive?” (Thesis: “No”)). it’s @boundlessgeo @google @Esri having beers at @MapBox talking about @openstreetmap – all one planet pic.twitter.com/VwtGcBzV67 — Andrew Turner (@ajturner) April 12, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Andrew Hill: “What are the limitations of what we call a map?”
Andrew Hill (Twitter, website) is Senior Scientist at Vizzuality and is responsible for innovation, education and community engagement at CartoDB. Andrew was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: You hold a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. How did you get into mapping? Do you consider yourself a “map guy”? A: When I was an undergrad, I…
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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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Interview with Tom MacWright: “If you want to make anything new, you have to ignore some of the rules”
Tom MacWright is a guitarist in Teen Mom and keyboardist at Mapbox. Tom was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into maps/GIS? A long time ago I made the Swem Signal, which basically made my college’s library a little more navigable. Then I started at Development Seed and helped make a lot of…
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Week two summary: What defines the GeoHipster
GeoHipster officially launched two weeks ago. In the two weeks since launch, the GeoHipster website received over 2,517 page views from 1,382 unique visitors. Our inaugural poll “What defines the GeoHipster?” received 869 responses (poll results) from 217 users in 25 countries (thanks to all who responded (the poll is still open)). This shows that GeoHispterism is alive and…