Author: jonahadkins

  • Maps and mappers of the 2020 calendar: Daniel Fourquet, July

    Q: Tell us about yourself A: For most of my life I have been fascinated with maps, both studying them and making them myself. As a child I would fill folders with detailed maps of an imaginary country and would spend too many hours playing games like SimCity and Civilization on the computer (ok, I…

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  • Maps and mappers of the 2020 GeoHipster calendar: Megan Gall, June

      Q: Tell us about yourself.  A: I started my career as a shovelbum, digging holes and mapping Fort Ancient Indian villages in West Virginia. We used survey equipment to inform the hand drawn maps, but one day I went into the office and someone had turned my hand drawn map into an image on…

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  • Maps and mappers of the 2020 GeoHipster calendar: Nikita Slavin, April

    Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I’m a 29 years old student from the Cartography M. Sc. Program, from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. I hope it will go well and this September I’ll successfully defend my thesis about the exhibition methods of historical maps in mixed reality. I obtained my first degree at St-Petersburg University in 2012,…

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  • Maps and mappers of the 2020 GeoHipster calendar: Heikki Vesanto, March

    Q: Tell us about yourself.   A: I am originally from Finland, but got started in GIS during my undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Great university with one of the most picturesque campuses in the world. After Glasgow I went back to Finland for a MSc in Geoinformatics at the University…

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  • John Gravois to GeoHipster: “Lift while you climb.”

    John Gravois is a developer at https://showrunner.io. Previously, as a Product Engineer at Esri he helped build ArcGIS Hub, maintained a handful of Leaflet plugins and coordinated with developers across the company to steer Open Source strategy. He has a tattoo of a California Raisin and when he’s not in front of a computer you can often find him tangled up in…

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  • OpenStreetMap US: We’re Hiring!

    OpenStreetMap US is hiring an Executive Director! OpenStreetMap is the free, open-source map of the world created by volunteers all over the globe. The US chapter, guided by its Board of Directors, supports the OpenStreetMap project in the United States through education, fostering awareness, ensuring broad availability of data, continuous quality improvement, and an active community.…

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  • Maps and mappers of the 2018 GeoHipster calendar — Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel

    Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I’m really passionate about data visualization, and am a huge advocate that everyone is capable of creating beautiful, well-designed, and user-friendly maps, graphics, and data viz (even if they say “they can’t” because they never learned). I sort of stumbled upon cartography – it never was my original plan,…

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  • Maps and mappers of the 2018 calendar: Andrew Zolnai

    Live WebScene Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I’m a geologist by training and turned to computer mapping and GIS 30 years ago in Canada. Why? I took eight years high school Latin in France, and while I cannot write code I sure can fix it… Handy on Unix then Java scripts when you’re posted…

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  • 2018 GeoHipster Calendar is Now Available

    We’re pleased to announce that the 2018 GeoHipster calendar is available to order! Thanks to all who submitted maps for the calendar. If your map made it into the calendar, we will send you a complimentary copy (please email pbr@geohipster.com for details). Note: We’re switching print-on-demand vendors this year on a trial basis. The good…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2017 GeoHipster Calendar: Nathaniel Jeffrey

    Nathaniel Jeffrey – August Q: Tell us about yourself. Before I fell into GIS, my studies in Environmental Science led me to a freshwater conservation project in Kenya, and down sewer pipes in my home city of Melbourne. Honestly, sewers are kind of fascinating if you have a background in biology.  You think tapeworms can…

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  • GeoHipster Mixtape Volume 2

    GeoHipster Mixtape Volume 2 Last April we published the first GeoHipster Mixtape,  a look into the tunes we chill to, scream to, and grind to during the work day. This is Volume 2. On most days we listen to the soundtrack of work:  phones, email notifications, office chatter, or the sound of the city. For…

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  • Maps and Mappers of the 2017 GeoHipster Calendar: Mark Brown

    Mark Brown MSc – February Tell us about yourself. I am an ecologist and conservationist with strong technical skills in GIS & Remote Sensing. My interests lie in the application of geospatial technologies to help solve ecological and environmental problems. I love developing novel techniques in areas where these technologies might not have been previously…

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