Tag: osm
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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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Gary Gale: “Dear OSM, it’s time to get your finger out”
A self-professed map addict, Gary Gale has worked in the mapping and location space for over 20 years through a combination of luck and occasional good judgement. He is co-founder and director of Malstow Geospatial, a consultancy firm offering bespoke consulting and services in the geospatial, geotechnology, maps and location based services fields. A Fellow…
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Kate Chapman: “If what HOT is doing seems exciting to you, get involved”
Kate Chapman is the Executive Director at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Her most recent work has been in Indonesia working on a three-year program with the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction using OpenStreetMap and InaSAFE to help disaster managers better develop contingency plans. Previous to working at HOT, Kate was involved in development of multiple…
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Ed Freyfogle: “Every startup is vulnerable, that’s what makes it exciting”
Ed Freyfogle is a German/American entrepreneur living in London. He is one of the founders of Lokku, makers of the OpenCage Geocoder. Ed was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: You are the only geo person I know with an MBA from MIT. By contrast, I know people who wish they had an MBA…
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Steve Coast to GeoHipster: “You try stuff and 90% of it’s gonna fail, and you should be happy with that”
Steve Coast is the founder of Open Street Map and Head of OSM at Telenav. Steve was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev, incorporating question suggestions from Renee Sieber and Christina Boggs. Q: Last week was the 10th anniversary of Open Street Map, which you founded. Congratulations! OSM and you personally got a lot…
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All one planet
I am just going to leave this here while I work on my tractate (Working title: “Is (geo)hispterism exclusive?” (Thesis: “No”)). it’s @boundlessgeo @google @Esri having beers at @MapBox talking about @openstreetmap – all one planet pic.twitter.com/VwtGcBzV67 — Andrew Turner (@ajturner) April 12, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js