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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – March – Lesly Aracelly Bautista Buendia
Where are you located on Earth? I am currently based in Vienna. What do you do? I am a student in the International Master of Cartography program and am currently writing my thesis in Vienna. How did you get into making maps / the geospatial field? I have always been fascinated by maps as communication
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – Cover – Chiara Phillips
Where are you located on Earth? Berlin, Germany What do you do? I am a Senior Solutions Engineer at Seqana, where I work at the intersection of geospatial product design and software engineering. My work focuses on translating environmental data into tools and applications that help people make informed decisions. How did you get into
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Maps and Mappers of the 2026 Calendar – Barry Rowlingson – January
Where are you located on Earth? I live in the small town of Lancaster, in the north of England (this is important later). Historically built on the textile industry as an important west coast port city with links to the lands across the Atlantic and hence the evils of slavery. The town still has a
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Dilara Bozkurt – Front Cover
Tell Us About Yourself I’m Dilara, originally from Istanbul, Turkey. I studied at the prestigious M.Sc. Cartography program at four different universities in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. I have a multi-disciplinary background spanning cartography, urban and regional planning, design, and technology. Currently, I work as a part-time data scientist in Germany. Tell Us the
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Map and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – November – Hemed Lungo
Tell Us About Yourself My name is Hemed Lungo a 24 years old Tanzanian Or Place where Mount Kilimanjaro is found (cause people seem to be familiar with that).I stay at Dar-es-salaam to be specific, I recently graduated this year from the Institute of Finance Management (IFM), where I studied Information Technology (IT). My background
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2026 Geohipster Calendar
You may be wondering “Hey when does the longest running Artisanal completely Organic Map Calendar come out?” Guess What? It’s PostGIS Day and you’re favorite calendar is back (and the right year – I tripled checked). This year I put out the call and the Cartographers Answered. From the Phillipines to Germany to the US,
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Ana Lucia Gonzalez Paz – October
Tell us about yourselfI’m a visual projects editor at The Guardian in the UK. As a visual journalist, making maps is part of my job, but I’ve always been a bit of a jack of all trades, and I love learning new tools that help me tell visually led stories. I fell in love with maps
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Jan-Paul Meine – September
Tell Us About Yourself Hi, I’m Jan Paul Miene. I’m currently completing my Master’s degree in Geodata Technology at the Technical University of Würzburg/Schweinfurt in Germany. My background is in geovisualisation, and I’ve always been fascinated by the intersection of data, geography, and design. What I enjoy most about cartography is that maps have the
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I didn’t set out seeking to get into the geospatial field, it sort of found me.
Janelle Daigle holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography and a Masters of Science degree in Geoinformatics. She began her integration of GIS and space weather during her graduate studies at Millersville University where she participated in Millersville’s SWEN (Space Weather and the Environment) program. Her Masters thesis focused on utilizing geospatial technology to assess the
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Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – Aaron Koelker – July
Tell Us About Yourself Hi, I’m Aaron Koelker. I was introduced to GIS while pursuing an Environmental Science degree and quickly became hooked on its unique blend of problem solving, storytelling, and visual design. I then spent eight years with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection providing enterprise GIS support and working on a wide variety of mappy
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2026 Calendar Submissions
It’s that time of year! We’re excited to issue the call for maps for contributions for the 2026 GeoHipster calendar. Entries are subject to these rules and guidelines for entry are listed below. So, send us your maps! (The deadline is 2025-10-23.) Guidelines: I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to
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I curate a list of 5,000+ ArcGIS server addresses at all levels of USA government.
Joseph Elfelt is a software developer in the geo world as a result of a life-long interest in maps and self-teaching. His interest in maps began as a child looking at his father’s collection of USGS topographic maps for a large part of Minnesota. After college, Joseph moved to Seattle and went to work for