Tag: geo
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Eight young professionals doing awesome things in geo
by Jonah Adkins [@jonahadkins] Real talk: I love geo. After 15 years or so in this field, I’m constantly amazed at the work being accomplished by my colleagues. I’m especially inspired by the new class of talent that comes along every few years. Whether it be a thought-provoking tweet, a fresh take on cartography, or…
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Marc Pfister: “I enjoy that I can see my work get turned into large physical objects”
Reading his bio, one might get the impression that Marc Pfister is the prototypical geohipster. After studying mechanical engineering, he was a bicycle designer by day, and DJ by night. He then took his CAD skills and turned them into a 10-year GIS career. As a tinkerer who has to take everything apart, he began…
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What will be hot in geo in 2015 — predictions from the GeoHipster crowd
GeoHipster asked several GeoFolk to predict what will be HOT in geo in 2015 (see 2014 predictions from December 2013). Here are their answers: Nicholas Duggan, Dragons8mycat Thanks for the opportunity, let me first get into smug mode and say that I wasn’t too far off the mark with Boundless’ OpenGeo being prime place for…
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Ed Freyfogle: “Every startup is vulnerable, that’s what makes it exciting”
Ed Freyfogle is a German/American entrepreneur living in London. He is one of the founders of Lokku, makers of the OpenCage Geocoder. Ed was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: You are the only geo person I know with an MBA from MIT. By contrast, I know people who wish they had an MBA…