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 … Continue reading Maps and Mappers of the 2032 Calendar – Kate Berg – March
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Maggie Cawley: “What else can we do but keep going?”
Maggie Cawley is the Founder of Boomerang Geospatial, a geospatial consulting company specializing in education and dabbling in other map-related endeavors. Current Boomerang efforts include developing curriculum around open source GIS and leading educational and wildlife trips in southern Africa. She volunteers with TeachOSM to integrate geography back into classrooms through open mapping, and supports … Continue reading Maggie Cawley: “What else can we do but keep going?”
Tim Wallace to GeoHipster: “Try to get the whole picture before you criticize”
Tim Wallace is a Graphics Editor and geographer for The New York Times, where he makes visual stories with information gathered from from land, sky and space. He has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tim was interviewed for GeoHipster by Amy Smith. Q: How did you get into mapping? A: I've … Continue reading Tim Wallace to GeoHipster: “Try to get the whole picture before you criticize”
Kumiko Yamazaki: “Do your part and keep the community going”
Kumiko Yamazaki* is a tech manager at MapQuest, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. She has spent her entire career in the geospatial industry as a cartographer, GIS analyst, and software engineer. You can follow her on Twitter at @kyamazaki. Kumiko was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? A: I … Continue reading Kumiko Yamazaki: “Do your part and keep the community going”
@Shapefile to GeoHipster: “80% of successful GIS work is having a good folder structure”
Shapefile Having been born together with ArcView GIS 2 in the early 90s, the Shapefile soon became, and remains, the de facto standard for sharing geospatial vector data. To this day it remains a crucial player in the global GIS community, and is even extending its reach into neighboring disciplines such as Business Intelligence. In … Continue reading @Shapefile to GeoHipster: “80% of successful GIS work is having a good folder structure”
Dale Lutz: “Imagine there’s no formats. It’s easy if you try.”
Dale Lutz (@daleatsafe) is the Co-CEO and Vice President of Development of Safe Software. Along with co-founder Don Murray, Dale created Safe Software’s core product, FME, a data integration platform which helps 20,000 organizations across the world get their data from where it is to where they need it to be. Don and Dale have … Continue reading Dale Lutz: “Imagine there’s no formats. It’s easy if you try.”
Eric Fischer: “There may yet be an objective measure of the goodness of places, but I haven’t found it yet“
Eric Fischer Eric Fischer works on data visualization and analysis tools at Mapbox. He was previously an artist in residence at the Exploratorium and before that was on the Android team at Google. He is best known for "big data" projects using geotagged photos and tweets, but has also spent a lot of time in … Continue reading Eric Fischer: “There may yet be an objective measure of the goodness of places, but I haven’t found it yet“
Jim McAndrew: “There’s always going to be some next big thing, but the basics remain the same”
Jim McAndrew is a Geospatial Database Developer. Before adding ‘geospatial’ to his job title, he worked on large Oracle databases for pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies. For the last few years, he has been working with the US Geological Survey and the National Park Service to create tools that provide public access to government data. He … Continue reading Jim McAndrew: “There’s always going to be some next big thing, but the basics remain the same”
Amy Sorensen: “Keep pushing the arbitrary boundaries between geospatial and IT”
Grew up on a farm in Iowa. Started my GIS career as an intern for Emmet County, working on first iteration of E-911 for the sheriff's department. Moved to South Dakota from there and worked for the SDDOT for a while with the esteemed title of “Automated Mapping Specialist”. Really enjoyed the work but was … Continue reading Amy Sorensen: “Keep pushing the arbitrary boundaries between geospatial and IT”
Nate Smith: “Visit a new place in the world; reach out to the OSM communities there”
Nate Smith is technical project manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. He leads out the OpenAerialMap project and dives into all things technical across HOT’s operations. Originally from Nebraska, he is now based in Lisbon, Portugal, slowly learning Portuguese and attempting to learn to surf. Nate was interviewed for GeoHipster by Amy Smith. Q: We … Continue reading Nate Smith: “Visit a new place in the world; reach out to the OSM communities there”