Tag: hipster
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Will Skora: “I scraped an electronic list of pantries and set up a website”
Will Skora (Twitter, blog) likes to make and read maps and do geospatial analysis to help others understand the world. During the day, he manages food pantries for a Cleveland non-profit; he’s a member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team; co-organizes Cleveland’s Maptime chapter Open Geo Cleveland, and Cleveland’s Code For America Brigade, Open Cleveland. Will was…
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Lyzi Diamond: “Make things. Put them on the internet.”
Lyzi Diamond is a 2014 Code for America Fellow with the city of Lexington, KY. She has spent much of her career in government GIS, but is now tinkering in the land of open source geospatial technologies. She spends her free time organizing geo meetups, writing tutorials, making silly web maps, riding bikes, and playing…
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Interview with Tom MacWright: “If you want to make anything new, you have to ignore some of the rules”
Tom MacWright is a guitarist in Teen Mom and keyboardist at Mapbox. Tom was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into maps/GIS? A long time ago I made the Swem Signal, which basically made my college’s library a little more navigable. Then I started at Development Seed and helped make a lot of…