Author: atanas
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Rosy Schechter to GeoHipster: “Be kind to yourself.”
Rosy Schechter is a human being who has been fortunate to channel her love of learning and desire to improve the world into a tapestried professional practice. This path has most recently led her to lead Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), a private foundation that both provides free IP address space to the international amateur…
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Trisalyn Nelson: “The biggest challenge is working to ensure the data are representative”
Trisalyn Nelson joined the Department of Geography at UCSB as Jack and Laura Dangermond Endowed Chair of Geography in 2020. From 2016-2020 she was Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Prior, she was the Lansdowne Research Professor and Director of the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research Lab…
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Maps and mappers of the 2021 calendar: Zoey Armstrong, back cover
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: My name is Zoey Armstrong and I’m a graduate student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I’m currently working on my Master’s of Geography and my thesis is examining the effectiveness of species distribution modeling using citizen science and herbarium data. Besides researching, I enjoy going out on hikes…
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Steven Romalewski to GeoHipster: “If our maps help shape the coverage, I’m thrilled”
Steven Romalewski directs the Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of NY (CUNY). The Mapping Service engages with foundations, agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and CUNY researchers to use spatial analysis techniques in applied research projects. They specialize in online applications providing intuitive access to powerful data…
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Mike Dolbow: “I haven’t always succeeded, but I’ve always been satisfied with the pursuit”
Mike Dolbow is a GIS Coordinator at a small state agency and your classic Jack of All Trades (Master of None). Mike was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? Would you do it all over again given the chance? A: Like a decent percentage of my peers, I…
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Steve Pousty: “Never go full spatial”
Steve is a Dad, Son, Partner, and Director of Developer Relations for Crunchy Data (PostgreSQL people). He goes around and shows off all the great work the PostgreSQL community and Crunchy Committers do. He can teach you about Data Analysis with PostgreSQL, Java, Python, MongoDB, and some JavaScript. He has deep subject area expertise in…
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Glenn Letham: “On social media stay away from politics, guns, and map projection discussions”
Glenn is a Geographer (B.Sc Geog 93’) and has worked in the GIS industry since 1990 when he first worked as an intern on CAD & GIS mapping for the natural gas pipeline in Victoria, BC. Since then he has been a GIS analyst for both public and private sectors and is known mostly as…
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Michael Gurley: “When I ‘discovered’ the geopackage, I was an immediate convert”
Michael Gurley came to the Geo-field accidentally, burned brightly across the early GIS skies, relished being a small fish in a small pond, fought hard to keep the mystic arts secret from the unwashed masses, was an unapologetic ESRIalite, and then experienced a conversion to the “GIS is just a tool” doctrine, and now looks…
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Courtney Claessens: “It’s incredibly important that we stay humble in the kind of work we do”
Courtney is a product manager at the Canadian Digital Service. Before joining the public service, she worked at Esri building products to connect local governments and their communities using open data. She has a BA in Urban Systems and GIS from McGill University. She lives in Ottawa and is moderately active on Twitter. Courtney was…
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Bill Dollins: ““GIS” as a distinct technological entity is disappearing”
Bill Dollins is the Chief Information Officer at Spatial Networks, Inc., where he is responsible for leading information management and security strategy. He works remotely from his home office in Southern Maryland, leading a team that is focused on optimizing the acquisition, management, analysis, and delivery of geospatial data. Bill was interviewed for GeoHipster by…
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Tim Waters: “Psychogeography is the cross-over of geography, psychology, and art”
Tim is a British geospatial developer, based in the north of England. Active within the OpenStreetMap community where he is known as “chippy”, Tim also has an interest in historical geography. Graduating with a degree in Environmental Science and later with a GIS Masters, he has worked for a number of organisations, including GeoIQ (of…