Tag: interview
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Mamata Akella: The toolbox to build and design maps for the web is ever-changing
Mamata has been a professional web cartographer for over a decade building maps and technology for Esri, National Park Service, CARTO, Stamen, Facebook, and now Felt. She loves pushing the limits of cartography on the web and working on cross-functional teams to build cartographic thinking into products used by both technical and non-technical users. This…
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Daniel Rotsztain to Geohipster: “The pandemic made us all urban geographers”
Daniel Rotsztain is the Urban Geographer, an artist, writer and cartographer whose work examines our relationship to the places we inhabit. The author and illustrator of All the Libraries Toronto and A Colourful History Toronto, Daniel’s work has also been featured in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and a regular column on CBC Radio’s Here and Now. As a frequent patron of libraries,…
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Maggie Cawley: “What else can we do but keep going?”
Maggie Cawley is the Founder of Boomerang Geospatial, a geospatial consulting company specializing in education and dabbling in other map-related endeavors. Current Boomerang efforts include developing curriculum around open source GIS and leading educational and wildlife trips in southern Africa. She volunteers with TeachOSM to integrate geography back into classrooms through open mapping, and supports…
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Bill Dollins: ““GIS” as a distinct technological entity is disappearing”
Bill Dollins is the Chief Information Officer at Spatial Networks, Inc., where he is responsible for leading information management and security strategy. He works remotely from his home office in Southern Maryland, leading a team that is focused on optimizing the acquisition, management, analysis, and delivery of geospatial data. Bill was interviewed for GeoHipster by…
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GeoHipster @ Mapbox’s Locate Conference: Kairos Aerospace
Ari Gesher, Matt Gordon and Julia Chmyz work at Kairos Aerospace, a Bay-Area-based company specializing in aerospace solutions for environmental surveying and digital mapping. Ari, Matt and Julia were interviewed in person by Amy Smith during the 2018 Mapbox Locate Conference in San Francisco.Describe Kairos Aerospace. Ari: Kairos applies the notions of faster, cheaper, iterative…
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Muthukumar Kumar: “Connect with other geogeeks”
Muthukumar Kumar lives approximately near bulges.become.bowls (Munich, Germany). An active blogger, he has been blogging with Geoawesomeness for the past 5 years and loves talking about everything geo with geo-geeks from across the world. You can reach him on Twitter @muthukumarceg Muthukumar was interviewed for GeoHipster by Ed Freyfogle. Q: Muthu, let’s dive right into…
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Euan Cameron: “I don’t like labels, it is your actions that count”
Euan Cameron is responsible for Developer Technology at Esri and views a well-designed API as valuable as any work of art. Euan has worked in the geospatial software industry for over 30 years and continues have fun innovating with aps and technology. Euan and his wife Julie are outdoor enthusiasts and can often be found…
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Anna Riddell on monitoring relative sea level change, accounting for the wiggle of the centre of the Earth
Anna works for Geoscience Australia as a Geodesist, but is currently doing a PhD at the University of Tasmania. Her research is focused on using Global Positioning System (GPS) data from Australian sites to derive a spatially-comprehensive vertical velocity field for the continent. Anna was interviewed for GeoHipster by Alex Leith. Q: You’re a Geodesist-hipster,…
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Tim Wallace to GeoHipster: “Try to get the whole picture before you criticize”
Tim Wallace is a Graphics Editor and geographer for The New York Times, where he makes visual stories with information gathered from from land, sky and space. He has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tim was interviewed for GeoHipster by Amy Smith. Q: How did you get into mapping? A: I’ve…
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Ian Dees to GeoHipster: “It’s important to produce something that affects others in a positive way.”
Ian Dees is making it easier for people to find and use all sorts of geodata. He is a member of the OpenStreetMap US board, founder of OpenAddresses and All The Places, and is always looking for new data to explore and share. Ian was interviewed for GeoHipster by Mike Dolbow, about a month before…
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Kumiko Yamazaki: “Do your part and keep the community going”
Kumiko Yamazaki* is a tech manager at MapQuest, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. She has spent her entire career in the geospatial industry as a cartographer, GIS analyst, and software engineer. You can follow her on Twitter at @kyamazaki. Kumiko was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? A: I…