Tag: Randal Hale
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Kurt Menke: “The most gratifying aspect of teaching these workshops is seeing people shed their technological insecurities”
A former archaeologist, Kurt Menke (@geomenke) runs Bird’s Eye View GIS and is based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He works mainly in ecological conservation, public health, and education. He has been an avid open source GIS proponent ever since he made the switch from ArcIMS to MapServer back in 2002. He recently authored the…
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Randal Hale: “80% of hipsters have a spatial component”
Randal Hale runs North River Geographic Systems. He enjoys long walks on the beach, talking about your feelings, and spatial databases. You may find him at your local conference, possibly in a canoe, or on a bike — but not all at once. Randal was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How and why…
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Regina Obe: “People spend too much time learning a programming language and forget what a programming language is for”
Regina Obe (@reginaobe) is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. She has over 15 years of professional experience in various programming languages and database systems, with special focus on spatial databases. She is a member of the PostGIS steering committee and the PostGIS core development team. Regina holds a…
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Michael Terner: “Choice is back”
Michael Terner has been working in the geo/GIS industry since 1985, initially in state government where he was the first manager of MassGIS. In 1991 he co-founded Applied Geographics/AppGeo, where he remains a partner and Executive Vice President.Michael was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev, Mike Dolbow, and Randal Hale. Q (Randal): So Michael, you…
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Shoreh Elhami: “GISCorps is nothing without its volunteers”
Shoreh Elhami is the founder of GISCorps, a URISA program that coordinates the deployment of volunteers to communities in need around the world. GISCorps was endorsed as a program by the URISA Board of Directors in October 2003 and since then has attracted over 4,000 volunteers from 98 countries worldwide. To date, over 950 GISCorps…
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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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Nathan Woodrow: “Having non-programming hobbies is super important to your health”
Nathan Woodrow is a QGIS developer, blogger, father, and reborn Warhammer 40K lover. He has been an active developer and member of the QGIS project for the last five years. His QGIS/GIS blog at nathanw.net showcases some of the upcoming features in QGIS, as well as offers tips and tricks for developers and users. Previous…
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Martin Isenburg: “May the FOSS be with LAZ”
Martin Isenburg received his MSc in 1999 from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, and his PhD in 2004 from UNC in Chapel Hill, USA — both in Computer Science. Currently he is an independent scientist, lecturer, and consultant. Martin has created a popular LiDAR processing software called LAStools that is widely used across industry, government agencies,…
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Srikant Panda: “The whole community of photogrammetry and GIS is a family”
Srikant Panda is a photogrammetrist, philosopher, friend, and owner of a brand new house. Srikant was interviewed for GeoHipster by Randal Hale, who prefaced this piece with the following: Many of you are going to be reading this and going “Who is Srikant Panda?” I said the same thing about a couple of years back…