Category: Maps & Mappers
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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…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Ron Halliday – December.
Tell Us About Yourself I graduated in 1996 from the Cartography: Digital Mapping program at the College (now Centre) of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. At the time it was one of the few programs dedicated to cartography in North America, and to my good fortune I grew up nearby — I found…
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Map and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Emory Beck – November
Tell Us About Yourself I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I’m a data analyst at Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, and have a background in Geology. I am also the founder of MapHustle. My website, www.maphustle.co.nz showcases a portfolio of my works, blog posts (to expand on, currently only one blog post) and…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Gretchen Williams – October
Tell Us About Yourself I am currently a GIS Technician working in the private sector. I hold a B.S. in Geology from Montana State University, where I took three semesters of GIS. While I thoroughly enjoyed those courses, I did not yet imagine myself as a budding GIS professional. A couple years later I found…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – David Salazar – September
Tell Us About Yourself I am currently writing my master thesis for the MSc. Cartography program (https://cartographymaster.eu/). I have always liked maps. The more details, the more I like them. I get fascinated how artistic they can be. My background is in Geography but was a bit frustrated when a map was seen just as…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Barbara Kent – June
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Barbara Kent and I’m a GIS Specialist with California Dept. of Transportation (CalTrans). Tell us the story behind your map This is an update to a map I made in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 shutdown. Because just about everything was shutdown and we were avoiding being around…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar: Adam Steer
Tell us about yourself I was tinkering with topography datasets in the Barents Sea and around the Svalbard archipelago, having just executed a mid-pandemic emigration to Norway for a contract working in the northern Barents Sea. I was really working on ways to make terrain visualisation happy for extremely hilly parts of the ocean (for…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2032 Calendar – Kate Berg – April
Tell Us About Yourself I am GIS lead at the State of Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). I’ve been in the field for over 10 years since my first GIS class at UCLA in 2012. Since then, I’ve taught GIS at the university level and worked in the non-profit, private, and…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar: Antonia Blankenberg – March
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Antonia Blankenberg. I’m a Senior Consultant with Esri Ireland. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I took a module studying the geomorphology of Mars, during which I was introduced to ArcMap. I was so intrigued and inspired…