Tag: Kenneth Field
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Maps and mappers of the 2019 calendar: Kenneth Field, Cover
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I’m Ken, I’m a bit of a cartonerd. For the last 8 years I’ve allowed Esri to pay me to work for them. Technically I’m a ‘Senior Software Product Engineer’ but more informally I make maps, write about maps, talk about maps, teach about making maps and generally make
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Kenneth Field: “I tried to get ‘Professional cartonerd’ on my business card at work. It was rejected outright.”
A self-confessed ‘cartonerd’ with a personal and professional passion for mapping, Ken gained his BSc in Cartography at Oxford Polytechnic and PhD in GIS at Leicester University and fell into academia. He spent 20 years in key positions in UK universities before moving to sunny California to join Esri in 2011. He has presented and
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Maps and mappers of the 2016 calendar: Kenneth Field
In our series “Maps and mappers of the 2016 calendar” we will present throughout 2016 the mapmakers who submitted their creations for inclusion in the 2016 GeoHipster calendar. *** Kenneth Field Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I tend to call myself a professional cartonerd having never had a job with the word ‘cartographer’ in