Category: Maps & Mappers
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Maps and Mappers 2025 – March – Bernie Conners
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Bernie Connors, a Geomatics Engineer from Fredericton, New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada. I have been working in GIS since 1993 and I have worked for the Province of New Brunswick since 1997. I manage an ArcGIS Server architecture that is used to share the province’s rich GIS resources as online…
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Maps and Mappers of 2025 – February – Christina Shintani
Tell us About Yourself: I’m a cartographer at Woodwell Climate Research Center where I make maps that communicate climate science to address the climate crisis. Previously I was a graphics editor at National Geographic magazine where I made maps on topics ranging from climate change to conservation and biodiversity. My background is in physical geography,…
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Maps and Mappers 2025 – January – Kseniia Nifontova
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Kseniia. Right now, I am a student in the International Cartography Master program, but before starting my studies, I worked for many years as an analyst in the field of urban and transport planning. I think it’s because this field often involves working with different barriers (physical, social…
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Maps and Mappers 2024 – December – Aly DeGraff Ollivierre
Due to some issues I’m running behind just a bit – so enjoy this map from December of 2024. Tell Us About Yourself I am a Senior Cartographer at National Geographic Maps, own my own freelance business, Tombolo Maps & Design, and have been making maps professionally for 15 years. My maps have been in more…
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Maps and Mappers 2024 – October – Antonia Blankenburg
Tell Us About YourselfMy name is Antonia Blankenberg. Alongside being a drummer with the fantastic TBL8 Brass, I’m a Lead Consultant in Utilities with Esri Ireland and I’ve been working in GIS for 5 years now. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I took…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – September – Phoebe Ly
Tell Us About Yourself I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and moved to Austin, Texas, where I was an undergraduate student and then a geologist. I’m currently graduating in October from an international cartography master’s program based in Europe, and I am excited to see what life brings next. Tell us the story behind…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Katherine Rudzki – July
Tell Us About Yourself I’m a GIS Analyst at Summit Design and Engineering Services where I manage data and collection processes for projects focused on asset maintenance. I started my career in GIS on a whim; I was thinking of getting my masters in Geology but realized I would need to fill a GIS-sized hole in…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Tracy Homer – June
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Tracy Homer. I graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in December 2023 with a degree in GIS. I currently work for the Software Freedom Conservancy – a non profit organization that focuses on ethical technology and open source license compliance, so I only do mapping in my fun…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Laura Angelica Bautista Montejano – April
Tell Us About Yourself:I was born and raised in Mexico City. I have a master’s in Spatial Planning [meaning absolute space], and I am a map enthusiast and a criminal analysis enthusiast, what better way to represent criminal behavior than using maps! I worked as a crime analyst for years in Mexico and I am…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Abigail Rabinovitch – March
Tell us about yourself I fell in love with maps as an undergrad, I was studying so much I barely left my room and maps were my window to the outside. I spent so much time browsing topographic maps that at one point I forgot water wasn’t sky blue ! Since getting my degree I…
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Map and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Euan Mitchell – February
Tell Us About Yourself:My name is Euan Mitchell and I am a geospatial professional in Edinburgh, Scotland. I have a PhD in geology and worked as a college professor in the United States for several years, before changing careers and returning to my hometown of Edinburgh about four years ago. That led to an MSc…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Amanda Robinson – January
This month’s map comes from Amanda Robinson Tell Us About Yourself I’m from Canada but I’ve lived and worked in London, England for 16 years. My main job is Associate Director at a consultancy that primarily works with local/municipal level government on things such as economic strategies and development. Mapping comes into the job because…