Category: Maps & Mappers
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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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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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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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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Aaron Koelker – July
Tell Us About Yourself Hi, I’m Aaron Koelker. I was introduced to GIS while pursuing an Environmental Science degree and quickly became hooked on its unique blend of problem solving, storytelling, and visual design. I then spent eight years with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection providing enterprise GIS support and working on a wide variety of mappy…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – May – Antonia Blankenberg
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 6 years now. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I was…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – April – Cameron Denny
Tell Us About Yourself I’m a cartographer, geospatial scientist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. I work on the mapping team at the California Coastal Commision. On the side, I teach GIS courses at the University of San Francisco and help run BayGeo, a local non-profit organization focused on GIS education and training. My past…
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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…