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Map by Inge van Daelen from 2022 Geohipster Calendar
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2024 Geohipster Calendar
If I’m not mistaken I’m about to announce the call for submissions to the 10th Geohipster Calendar. We need your maps. Sale of the maps keep us going for another year PLUS gives you bragging rights that you made it into the most spatially correct calendar in publication. Yes – I was counting this morning…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – David Salazar – September
Tell Us About Yourself I am currently writing my master thesis for the MSc. Cartography program (https://cartographymaster.eu/). I have always liked maps. The more details, the more I like them. I get fascinated how artistic they can be. My background is in Geography but was a bit frustrated when a map was seen just as…
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Where are they now? Antonio Locandro
Eight Years ago I had the opportunity to interview Antonio Locandro. We met over Twitter and I decided to interview him. This was also the first “Dual Language” interview we did as Antonio was kind enough to translate everything I asked to Spanish. From 2015 Antonio’s final comment to the Geohipster crowd was “Choose the…
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Diane Fritz: What can the mapping community collectively do to help the conversation about tackling man-made global warming….
Diane grew up in the canyons and mountains recently made more famous via the Oppenheimer movie mania of summer 2023. Her upbringing instilled a strong appreciation for both science and the outdoors. Diane left the mountains for a bit to get her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from UC San Diego. Later, after working at Los…
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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 2023 Calendar: Adam Steer
Tell us about yourself I was tinkering with topography datasets in the Barents Sea and around the Svalbard archipelago, having just executed a mid-pandemic emigration to Norway for a contract working in the northern Barents Sea. I was really working on ways to make terrain visualisation happy for extremely hilly parts of the ocean (for…
