Topi Tjukanov Topi Tjukanov lives approximately at 60°N & 25°E (Helsinki, Finland) with his wife. Topi works for the Finnish state in the Ministry of the Environment and does geospatial data visualization as a hobby and an occasional freelancing work. He graduated 2014 with a masters degree in geography from the University of Helsinki and … Continue reading Topi Tjukanov: “In Finnish basemaps forest is white”
Author: Ralph Straumann
Alasdair Rae: “I think the best maps are simple ones”
Alasdair Rae I grew up in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands and then went on to study geography in Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde, more of the same, with a good bit of GIS at The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) and the University of Liverpool, where I did my PhD in urban and … Continue reading Alasdair Rae: “I think the best maps are simple ones”
Achim Tack & Patrick Stotz: “More and more nonsensical things are mapped just for the sake of mapping”
Besides other engagements, Achim and Patrick work as data journalists at Germany-based Spiegel Online, one of the most widely read German-speaking news sites. They're also the creative duo behind the information visualization blog mappable.info, where they share new tools and spare-time projects around their passion for maps and geospatial data. Here they speak about their … Continue reading Achim Tack & Patrick Stotz: “More and more nonsensical things are mapped just for the sake of mapping”
Vasile Cotovanu: “Better to publish a (not perfect) map than having a masterpiece … unpublished”
Vasile Cotovanu is the author of the “SwissTrains” railway map -- one of the first animated public transport maps on the web. He has worked as a software engineer on the mobile team of local.ch, one of the most used websites in Switzerland. Vasile was interviewed for GeoHipster by Ralph Straumann. Q: Hi Vasile, I’ve … Continue reading Vasile Cotovanu: “Better to publish a (not perfect) map than having a masterpiece … unpublished”