Author: rjhale1971
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2024 Geohipster Calendar
If I’m not mistaken I’m about to announce the call for submissions to the 10th Geohipster Calendar. We need your maps. Sale of the maps keep us going for another year PLUS gives you bragging rights that you made it into the most spatially correct calendar in publication. Yes – I was counting this morning…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – David Salazar – September
Tell Us About Yourself I am currently writing my master thesis for the MSc. Cartography program (https://cartographymaster.eu/). I have always liked maps. The more details, the more I like them. I get fascinated how artistic they can be. My background is in Geography but was a bit frustrated when a map was seen just as…
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Where are they now? Antonio Locandro
Eight Years ago I had the opportunity to interview Antonio Locandro. We met over Twitter and I decided to interview him. This was also the first “Dual Language” interview we did as Antonio was kind enough to translate everything I asked to Spanish. From 2015 Antonio’s final comment to the Geohipster crowd was “Choose the…
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Diane Fritz: What can the mapping community collectively do to help the conversation about tackling man-made global warming….
Diane grew up in the canyons and mountains recently made more famous via the Oppenheimer movie mania of summer 2023. Her upbringing instilled a strong appreciation for both science and the outdoors. Diane left the mountains for a bit to get her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from UC San Diego. Later, after working at Los…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar – Barbara Kent – June
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Barbara Kent and I’m a GIS Specialist with California Dept. of Transportation (CalTrans). Tell us the story behind your map This is an update to a map I made in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 shutdown. Because just about everything was shutdown and we were avoiding being around…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar: Adam Steer
Tell us about yourself I was tinkering with topography datasets in the Barents Sea and around the Svalbard archipelago, having just executed a mid-pandemic emigration to Norway for a contract working in the northern Barents Sea. I was really working on ways to make terrain visualisation happy for extremely hilly parts of the ocean (for…
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Where are they now? Maggie Cawley from July 2018.
Five years ago I had the honor of interviewing Maggie for Geohipster. I kept running into her at various conferences and at OpenStreetMap activities. That interview covered a lot of ground from starting a business to mapping a park in Africa to Jewelry. I encourage you to go back and give it a read. From…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2032 Calendar – Kate Berg – April
Tell Us About Yourself I am GIS lead at the State of Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). I’ve been in the field for over 10 years since my first GIS class at UCLA in 2012. Since then, I’ve taught GIS at the university level and worked in the non-profit, private, and…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 Calendar: Antonia Blankenberg – March
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Antonia Blankenberg. I’m a Senior Consultant with Esri Ireland. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I took a module studying the geomorphology of Mars, during which I was introduced to ArcMap. I was so intrigued and inspired…
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10 Years of Geohipster
It’s been a bit quiet up here and I apologize for that – we’ve had some epic “backend” things happening. Mike finished the handoff to me (Randy). I was finally able to get a redbubble store up and running as well as moved the website to give us some more flexibility. Which led to a…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 calendar: Emmanuel Duchene, February
Q: Tell us about yourself: A. My name is Emmanuel Duchene. I work as a teacher in Sweden. Originally from France, I have for a long time felt a strong attraction for Sweden. I moved here in 2011. I am married and have two children, one of which did this map collab with me. I…
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Maps and Mappers of the 2023 calendar: Conner Houston, January
Q. Tell Us About Yourself: A. Hi, I’m Connor Houston (www.reachabove.ca) and am a geographer and a geospatial professional. I work for the Province, putting Ontario (CANADA) on the map by using a variety of GIS technologies, introducing Ontario to potential investors and constantly striving towards faster, better, cheaper geospatial systems of insights, engagement and record.…