Tag: gis
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Lakshmanan Venkatesan: “When my wife texts me “Where are you?”, I respond with coordinates”
Lakshmanan (@iamlaksh1) is a domain consultant, GIS enthusiast, developer, and a blogger. Lakshmanan was interviewed for GeoHipster by Bill Dollins. Q: Thank you for agreeing to talk with GeoHipster. Let’s start by discussing your background. Please tell us about the region of India from which you come. Would you also discuss your educational background…
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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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Alex Leith: “A picture tells a thousand words, a map tells a million”
Alex is currently employed as a Spatial Information Analyst at TasNetworks and is a director at the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute. Alex graduated with a degree in Surveying and Spatial Sciences with honours in 2011, and has since worked in technical spatial roles. Alex has presented at international, national and local conferences and organises…
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Matthew Baker: “Breaking free from a traditional set of tools is a relief and a challenge”
Matthew Baker has been in the geospatial industry for 10 years, having studied in Windsor, Ontario and Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia Canada before working at an Urban Planning firm in Ontario, then on to Esri in Redlands, CA. Matt is now the Sr. GIS Analyst at Denver Public Schools, a position which supports the District’s planning…
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Coleman McCormick: “We have enough tools out there that look great and don’t do anything useful”
Coleman McCormick is the VP of Products at Spatial Networks where he leads the product team for Fulcrum, a mobile mapping platform for field collection. He has a degree in geography, but has worked mostly in product development and server management (for geo applications) since. Coleman organizes the local Tampa Bay OpenStreetMap community, gives talks regularly on mapping and GIS, and has a…
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Peter Batty: “I really dislike the whole attitude that GIS is this specialized sacred thing”
Peter Batty is a co-founder and CTO of the geospatial division at Ubisense. He has worked in the geospatial industry for 29 years, and has served as CTO for two leading companies in the industry (and two of the world’s top 200 software companies) — Intergraph and Smallworld (now part of GE Energy). He served…
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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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Maziyar Boustani: “GISCube is unique because it offers geoprocessing on the web”
Maziyar Boustani received his bachelor’s degree in Iran, then moved to US to receive his master’s degree in GIS. After finishing his school in 2012, he started working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena since. He is working as a GIS developer and Software Engineer, focusing on earth science projects and big data. Mazi…
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Jenny Allen: “Build applications and services that delight the geo-nervous or geo-reluctant”
Jenny Allen is a Product Manager in the Search Team at HERE. She’s worked in and out of the geo-industry for many years and lives happily in Berlin, Germany. You can follow her on twitter @sjen. Jenny was interviewed for GeoHipster by Ed Freyfogle. Q: You started your career in geo in the field, working…
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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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Ann Johnson: “I’m never gonna be as cool as Eric Gundersen”
Ann Johnson is a technology industry veteran with close to 30 years of progressively responsible experience in all sectors of the industry. With a long career spanning many companies including Data General, EMC and RSA Security, Ms. Johnson has always enjoyed applying technology to solve real customer business problems and driving value to organizations. Ms.…