Tag: maps and mappers
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Map and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Euan Mitchell – February
Tell Us About Yourself:My name is Euan Mitchell and I am a geospatial professional in Edinburgh, Scotland. I have a PhD in geology and worked as a college professor in the United States for several years, before changing careers and returning to my hometown of Edinburgh about four years ago. That led to an MSc…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Amanda Robinson – January
This month’s map comes from Amanda Robinson Tell Us About Yourself I’m from Canada but I’ve lived and worked in London, England for 16 years. My main job is Associate Director at a consultancy that primarily works with local/municipal level government on things such as economic strategies and development. Mapping comes into the job because…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Ron Halliday – December.
Tell Us About Yourself I graduated in 1996 from the Cartography: Digital Mapping program at the College (now Centre) of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. At the time it was one of the few programs dedicated to cartography in North America, and to my good fortune I grew up nearby — I found…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Gretchen Williams – October
Tell Us About Yourself I am currently a GIS Technician working in the private sector. I hold a B.S. in Geology from Montana State University, where I took three semesters of GIS. While I thoroughly enjoyed those courses, I did not yet imagine myself as a budding GIS professional. A couple years later I found…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Barbara Kent – June
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Barbara Kent and I’m a GIS Specialist with California Dept. of Transportation (CalTrans). Tell us the story behind your map This is an update to a map I made in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 shutdown. Because just about everything was shutdown and we were avoiding being around…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2032 Calendar – Kate Berg – April
Tell Us About Yourself I am GIS lead at the State of Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). I’ve been in the field for over 10 years since my first GIS class at UCLA in 2012. Since then, I’ve taught GIS at the university level and worked in the non-profit, private, and…
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Maps and mappers of the 2020 calendar: Daniel Fourquet, July
Q: Tell us about yourself A: For most of my life I have been fascinated with maps, both studying them and making them myself. As a child I would fill folders with detailed maps of an imaginary country and would spend too many hours playing games like SimCity and Civilization on the computer (ok, I…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2019 Calendar: Aly Ollivierre
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I work full-time as a Cartographer at National Geographic Maps, part-time conducting freelance work as Tombolo Maps & Design, and part-time working with the conservation NGO BirdsCaribbean. I’m rounding up on 10 years of experience at the end of 2019 and am passionate about beautiful maps, participatory mapping, bird…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2019 GeoHipster calendar — Team Bright Rain, April
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I was surprised that we were the only collaboration to submit an entry, we are a team of two strong here at Team Bright Rain: David Puckett Bright Rain Solutions’ owner, operator, geospatial developer, data wrangler and self professed Grand Poobah. I’ve been part of the Geo Community for…