Month: April 2016
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What does a GeoHipster listen to? — Everything!
Music & Maps : A GeoHipster Mixtape On most days, we listen to the soundtrack of work: phones, email notifications, office chatter, or the sound of the city. For some of us, our daily soundtrack is a carefully curated playlist of our favorite tunes. Being in the latter group, music can provide the white noise…
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Andy Woodruff: “Seriously, buy an actual textbook!”
Andy Woodruff works to design and build custom interactive maps with Axis Maps, a small company that grew out of the cartography program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. He is currently one of the Directors at Large of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he’s also a co-organizer…
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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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Maps and mappers of the 2016 calendar: Terence Stigers
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. *** Terence Stigers Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I never formally studied GIS so I’m tempted to say I ‘fell into’ it, but that would imply…