Year: 2024

  • Maps and Mappers 2024 – October – Antonia Blankenburg

    Maps and Mappers 2024 – October – Antonia Blankenburg

    Tell Us About YourselfMy name is Antonia Blankenberg. Alongside being a drummer with the fantastic TBL8 Brass, I’m a Lead Consultant in Utilities with Esri Ireland and I’ve been working in GIS for 5 years now. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I took…

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  • 2025 Geohipster Calendar

    2025 Geohipster Calendar

    It feels like only yesterday I was typing “2024 Geohipster Calendar”……….. 2025 is here and has been “triple checked” for my sanity. The price increased just a bit to $18.00 dollars. There are warnings all over the order page about the Canadian Mail Strike so order appropriately if you are in Canadia. Link to Purchase!…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – September – Phoebe Ly

    Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – September – Phoebe Ly

    Tell Us About Yourself I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and moved to Austin, Texas, where I was an undergraduate student and then a geologist. I’m currently graduating in October from an international cartography master’s program based in Europe, and I am excited to see what life brings next. Tell us the story behind…

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  • Local FOSS4Gs are a great way to bring the magic to the community

    Local FOSS4Gs are a great way to bring the magic to the community

    John is a geospatial consultant based in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he runs Mammoth Geospatial, an open-source-focused GIS company. Specialising in open source GIS consulting and training, his career has taken him from BC & the Yukon to South America, PNG, the Pacific, and Australia. Deeply involved in the open geo community, John started Geogeeks Perth, chaired…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Katherine Rudzki – July

    Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Katherine Rudzki – July

    Tell Us About Yourself I’m a GIS Analyst at Summit Design and Engineering Services where I manage data and collection processes for projects focused on asset maintenance. I started my career in GIS on a whim; I was thinking of getting my masters in Geology but realized I would need to fill a GIS-sized hole in…

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  • 2025 Calendar Submissions

    2025 Calendar Submissions

    It’s that time of year. In order to make this smoother this year the first official calendar recipient is me to make sure there are no glaring errors like “Hey it’s not 1984”. We’re excited to issue the call for maps for contributions for the 2025 GeoHipster calendar. Entries are subject to these rules, and…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Tracy Homer – June

    Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Tracy Homer – June

    Tell Us About Yourself My name is Tracy Homer. I graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in December 2023 with a degree in GIS. I currently work for the Software Freedom Conservancy – a non profit organization that focuses on ethical technology and open source license compliance, so I only do mapping in my fun…

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  • Where are they now? Kurt Menke

    Where are they now? Kurt Menke

    Exactly 7 years ago I had the chance to Interview Kurt Menke. You may know Kurt from his books, Discovering QGIS. You may know him from his consulting days over in New Mexico. You may know him from his interviews up here. At the end of the interview 7 years back Kurt said “For me…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Laura Angelica Bautista Montejano – April

    Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Laura Angelica Bautista Montejano – April

    Tell Us About Yourself:I was born and raised in Mexico City. I have a master’s in Spatial Planning  [meaning absolute space], and I am a map enthusiast and a criminal analysis enthusiast, what better way to represent criminal behavior than using maps! I worked as a crime analyst for years in Mexico and I am…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Abigail Rabinovitch – March

    Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Abigail Rabinovitch – March

    Tell us about yourself I fell in love with maps as an undergrad, I was studying so much I barely left my room and maps were my window to the outside. I spent so much time browsing topographic maps that at one point I forgot water wasn’t sky blue ! Since getting my degree I…

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  • Where are they now? Adam Steer

    Where are they now? Adam Steer

    In honor of the 10th anniversary of geohipster, we’re looking back at past interviews. Six years ago Alex Leith interviewed Adam Steer. Adam covered Sea Ice, Point Clouds, Africa, and Skiing. When asked the most important question of “Shapefile or Geopackage he threw in with Geopackage with the best answer ever: “GeoPackage! Although to be…

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  • Paper maps are novelties in a screen age

    Paper maps are novelties in a screen age

    Photo from this article in the Providence Journal The Map Center in Pawtucket now run by California man after giveaway (providencejournal.com) Andrew Middleton is a cartographer and small business owner from Central New York. He self published a book of scuba diving maps called Diving Monterey and the expanded edition is expected some time later…

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