So welcome to my crossover post. Which I hardly talk about Geohipster. Geohipster is one of those “side things” that’s been happening for over 10 years now. Back in the dearly days of twitter……or I should call it the “Golden Age of social media”, Atanas Entchev had an idea to Document the industry. So a handful of us post articles highlighting professionals in the industry AND – We have this Calendar.
The best part of the calendar is it’s maps made by people. Some are professional cartographers. Some aren’t. All are excellent and tell a story of some sort. For the last 3 years I’ve been in charge of putting the call out and trying to spread the word far and wide that the calendar is accepting submissions.
This year was a bit different. If you’ve kept up (or if you haven’t), I tried my best to pull the greatest disappearing act of all time back in January 2025 thanks to an unknown medical condition. So I’ve been a bit off on the Geohipster front. I’ve gotten a few articles published and have been generally running behind getting the monthly maps published.
My first call for maps almost got enough. My second call put us over the usual count and left is judging 18 very excellent maps. The maps were so good I figured out a way to stick 17 of the 18 into the calendar.
The calendar is up for sale on Lulu.com and you can get there through Geohipster or Here. What happens with the proceeds? Are you just throwing money in my pockets? Nope. The money is used for everything from operating costs to anything else I can come up with. It pretty much breaks even each year. We used to do sponsorships on the website but to be honest we do generate a lot of traffic but not enough to make a sponsorship worth it for the company. Although – if you have a ton of cash you’re looking at getting rid of please throw it at us.
I’m going to change some things up this year. Shake up some interviews and probably change the way we accept calendar submissions. It’s time for a bit of change – of course I have to make time for the change.
Anyway – for those of you who nothing about it – Welcome to Geohipster. For those of you that do – Thanks for the continued support.
