Category: Opinion
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A Changing of the Guard at GeoHipster
GeoHipster’s leadership is being handed over to Randal Hale in 2022.
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OpenStreetMap US: We’re Hiring!
OpenStreetMap US is hiring an Executive Director! OpenStreetMap is the free, open-source map of the world created by volunteers all over the globe. The US chapter, guided by its Board of Directors, supports the OpenStreetMap project in the United States through education, fostering awareness, ensuring broad availability of data, continuous quality improvement, and an active community.…
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Making GeoHipster an independent business
When a door opens Making GeoHipster an independent business By Mike Dolbow, GeoHipster CEO Someone somewhere, with a similar addiction to being busier than humanly possible, said that when a door opens, you should walk through it. In other words, when opportunity knocks, if you’re at all interested, you should pounce. I guess that’s what…
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Will Cadell: “Cities are people, and people are maps”
Will Cadell is the founder and CEO of Sparkgeo.com, a Prince George-based business which builds geospatial technology for some of the biggest companies on Earth. Since starting Sparkgeo, he has been helping startups, large enterprises, and non-profits across North America make the most of location and geospatial technology. Leading a team of highly specialized, deeply…
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The Special Tool
Mike Dolbow is a GIS Supervisor for the State of Minnesota and the operations manager of the Minnesota Geospatial Commons. He has served on the GeoHipster Advisory Board since 2014. This past summer, I put a new set of stairs on the end of my deck. In the grand scheme of home improvement, it was…
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Paul Ramsey: “The jungle is very very large, and there’s always a bigger gorilla”
Paul Ramsey is a Solutions Engineer at CartoDB. He has been working with geospatial software for over 15 years: consulting to government and industry, building a geospatial software company, and programming on open source. He co-founded the PostGIS spatial database project in 2001, and is currently an active developer and member of the project steering…
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Gary Gale: “Dear OSM, it’s time to get your finger out”
A self-professed map addict, Gary Gale has worked in the mapping and location space for over 20 years through a combination of luck and occasional good judgement. He is co-founder and director of Malstow Geospatial, a consultancy firm offering bespoke consulting and services in the geospatial, geotechnology, maps and location based services fields. A Fellow…