Month: January 2016
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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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Machiko Yasuda: “You’d be surprised how much spatial thinking is involved in something as basic as selling and shipping things”
Machiko Yasuda (machiko.co) is a journalist-turned-web developer, who especially likes writing Ruby. She loves to teach and organize. She has taught bike safety, web development at General Assembly and coached at Rails Girls. She helps organize a pair programming meetup and Maptime LA. Outside of work, she likes rock climbing and is currently obsessed with…
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The Special Tool
Mike Dolbow is a GIS Supervisor for the State of Minnesota and the operations manager of the Minnesota Geospatial Commons. He has served on the GeoHipster Advisory Board since 2014. This past summer, I put a new set of stairs on the end of my deck. In the grand scheme of home improvement, it was…
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Maps and mappers of the 2016 calendar: Ralph Straumann
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. *** Ralph Straumann Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I’m a senior information management consultant with Ernst Basler + Partner in Switzerland as well as a Visiting Researcher…