Tag: 2020 maps and mappers
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Maps and mappers of the 2020 calendar: Victoria Johnson, August
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: My name is Vicky Johnson, I’m a cartographer in Washington DC. I work on a data analysis team in international development (not trying to be cagey about where I work! I just prefer to keep my professional and personal work separate. It’s probably overkill but I feel better about…
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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…