#mapnerd

My first tattoo, all healed. I am really happy with my beautiful map tattoo to celebrate my Masters in GIS. Special thanks to @norarosetattoos for helping me bring my idea to life! I love the new peice of art that has made its home on my skin. 💜🌐🌱 #FirstTattoo #MapTattoo #Cartographer #Mapnerd #PlantParent #PurplePeople #CallaLilly #Calathea #TravelTattoo #WatercolorTattoo #Iamnotabadass #Iwasabigbaby (at Jackalope Tattoo)

Guys! I'm doing the thing!! 🌐🎓🎉 #graduation #MastersofGeographicInformationScience #MGIS #gis #mapnerd #UMN (at 3M Arena at Mariucci)

Vienna is treating me very well... and the Globe museum is too... well I was the only one in there for several hours and I took enough pictures to concern the guards... and guys... I'm going to make SO MANY more globes. I have BIG plans. 🌐🌍🌎🌏🌐 #globes #globe #globemuseum #mapnerd #maps #maplove #globelove #Iworemymapskirt #SopeopleKNEWiwasanerd (at Globenmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek)

Round two 🌐🗺🌐 #globe #globemaking #cartography #mapnerd #mapmaking #gis #gisiscool #MGIS #FinalProject (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Over the course of this semester I've been working on building a globe from scratch as part of my goals for graduating the MGIS program. It's been quite the process, with lots of lessons learned along the way. It's nearing completion now so I'm going to share a few of the progress pictures this week leading up to the final product. Today's picture is of the first batch of gores I printed. Gores are the printed paper parts of the globe, cut to be able to transition from a 2D paper to a 3D curved surface. Here they are arranged to come together at the North Pole. 🌐🗺🌐 #globe #cartography #mapmaking #gis #globemaking #gores #gis #mapsarecool #mapnerd #FinalProject (at University Of Minnesota- Blegen Hall)

A quick action shot of the finished base before I put on the first set of gores. When I measured the circumference to create the gores, I assumed that the paper would stay the same size when wet and didn't account for the paper stretching, which resulted with heavy overlapping in the end. #sorryEurope so I did end up creating a second set of gores, which honestly was for the best because I learned a lot in the first gore application process. #globe #cartography #globemaking #gisiscool #mapnerd #gis #MGIS #FinalProject (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

I got my last final submitted for my second to last Semester of Grad School. I can't believe I'm (actually) going to be graduating in May but it's time (no matter how terrified I am to leave school). So here's for the last stretch and all the great things I've done and will do in my remaining time. Have some laser cut 3D maps of the Superstition Mountains in Arizona I lived next to when I was a kid. #3Dmaps #mapnerd #gis #gradschool #lasercut (at University Of Minnesota- Blegen Hall)

Its the last weekend of the Renaissance Festival and I got to run around and give out my finished maps! Thank you to everyone who came out and found me to get a map!! I'm very excited to know that they are out and being used ♡♡♡ #mapnerd #mnrenfest #everythingispurple (at Minnesota Renaissance Festival)