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Interviewed on the MapScaping Podcast

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Earlier this winter I had the honor of being asked by Daniel O’Donohue of the MapScaping podcast to be interviewed about all things QGIS. I was really impressed with his attention to detail. With his suggestion I went out and bought a better microphone, a stand, a pop filter and some mic covers. These just help improve the sound quality. As a podcast fanatic/addict it was fun to learn more about podcasting gear.

I think it was worth it. I’m really happy with the way it came out, and it was interesting to be on the other side of podcasting for an hour!

The episode just dropped this morning. You can give it a listen below, or find the MapScaping podcast via your favorite podcast provider.

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2019 The Year In Review - aka the GeoMenke Index

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Clients

Number of clients served: 30

Percentage of clients which were new: 43%

Number of analysis projects worked on: 12

Approximate number of maps made: 283

Number of new ventures launched: 1 (the Q Cooperative - if you haven’t heard of this click the link. This is a team of skilled QGIS developers and teachers ready to help you implement QGIS)

Books

Number of QGIS books published: 2 (3 if I count the one published without my knowledge but with my name on it by Packt Publishing)

Number of book launches attended: 1

Teaching

Number of QGIS workshops taught: 17

Percentage of QGIS workshops taught in Europe: 24%

Percentage of QGIS workshops taught in my own city: 17%

Number of QGIS Certificates issued: 51 (these raised €1,020 for the QGIS project! - I co-issued another 65 QGIS certificates with partner organizations raising an additional €1,300.)

Number of hemispheres taught in: 4 (yes I completed the QGIS Training Hemisphere Grand Slam - in one year! That's at least one QGIS training in each hemisphere: northern | southern | eastern | western! )

Number of countries taught in: 6 (USA, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark & American Samoa)

Number of US States taught in: 7 (California, Colorado, Florida, Hawai’i, Michigan, New Mexico & Rhode Island)

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Travel

Minimum number of flights boarded: 44

Number of airlines flown: 8

Number of airports visited: 18

Percentage of airports visited for the first time: 28%

Approximate distance flown: 100,000km or 62,000mi

Different modes of transportation used while in the Netherlands: 7

Conferences

Number of professional conferences attended: 5

Ratio of conference talks given to conferences attended: 1-1

Miscellaneous

Number of Esri licenses purchased: 0

Ratio of GeoHipster interviews started to completed: 2-1.

Number of different coffee shops visited: 32

Calories burned exercising: 107,000 kCal

Number of spin classes attended: 102

Number of workouts: 67

Number of hikes: 21