Author: rjhale1971
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – September – Safiya Nijan
Tell us about yourself: I’m a GIS undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya and a visual designer. I’ve always enjoyed the creative side of GIS, especially cartography and finding different ways to turn geographic data into something people can actually enjoy looking at. I’m particularly interested in that space where GIS and graphic design meet.…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – August – Antonio Smith
Tell Us About Yourself Hello! My name is Antonio Antoine Smith, and I am a Freelance Cartographer based in Knoxville, TN. I started as a GIS Technician 25 years ago, digitizing features from aerial imagery for a DoD subcontractor. After a few years, I made the very painful transition to CAD, creating as-built drawings of…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – July – Alikhan Beisenbayev
Tell Us About Yourself I am a Cartographer and GIS developer. Currently, writing a thesis at TU Wien under the Cartography Master’s. My background is in Geodesy, not directly connected to maps, since I worked more in the field. And when you are not in the field, geodesists process data or create topographic maps. Topographic…
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2027 Geohipster Calendar
It’s time to kick off the longest running Map Calendar in History….probably. We are looking for 14 or so so submissions for the calendar. I think last year we had a few more. We have judges randomly picked from out long sorted history that help us dig through and rate the submissions. You can read…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – June – Jan Paul Miene
Tell Us About Yourself: Greetings! My name is Jan Paul Miene – I enjoy working with GIS and geodata. Since my last appearance in the GeoHipster Calendar, I have completed my Master’s degree in Geodata Technology at the Technical University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany. I am now Head of the Digital Base Map Division for…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – March – Lesly Aracelly Bautista Buendia
Where are you located on Earth? I am currently based in Vienna. What do you do? I am a student in the International Master of Cartography program and am currently writing my thesis in Vienna. How did you get into making maps / the geospatial field? I have always been fascinated by maps as communication…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – Cover – Chiara Phillips
Where are you located on Earth? Berlin, Germany What do you do? I am a Senior Solutions Engineer at Seqana, where I work at the intersection of geospatial product design and software engineering. My work focuses on translating environmental data into tools and applications that help people make informed decisions. How did you get into…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – Barry Rowlingson – January
Where are you located on Earth? I live in the small town of Lancaster, in the north of England (this is important later). Historically built on the textile industry as an important west coast port city with links to the lands across the Atlantic and hence the evils of slavery. The town still has a…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Dilara Bozkurt – Front Cover
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Dilara, originally from Istanbul, Turkey. I studied at the prestigious M.Sc. Cartography program at four different universities in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. I have a multi-disciplinary background spanning cartography, urban and regional planning, design, and technology. Currently, I work as a part-time data scientist in Germany. Tell Us the…
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Map and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – November – Hemed Lungo
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Hemed Lungo a 24 years old Tanzanian Or Place where Mount Kilimanjaro is found (cause people seem to be familiar with that).I stay at Dar-es-salaam to be specific, I recently graduated this year from the Institute of Finance Management (IFM), where I studied Information Technology (IT). My background…
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2026 Geohipster Calendar
You may be wondering “Hey when does the longest running Artisanal completely Organic Map Calendar come out?” Guess What? It’s PostGIS Day and you’re favorite calendar is back (and the right year – I tripled checked). This year I put out the call and the Cartographers Answered. From the Phillipines to Germany to the US,…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Ana Lucia Gonzalez Paz – October
Tell us about yourselfI’m a visual projects editor at The Guardian in the UK. As a visual journalist, making maps is part of my job, but I’ve always been a bit of a jack of all trades, and I love learning new tools that help me tell visually led stories. I fell in love with maps…