Sterling Quinn @sterlinggis

Sterling Quinn

@sterlinggis.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Geography at Central Washington University. Interests include critical cartography, crowdsourced maps, free and open source software, and Latin America

17 Followers | 10 Following | 2 Posts | Joined: 07.02.2025 | 1.2676

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The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries - Marketplace Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google Maps. Sterling Quinn, Professor of Geology at Central Washington University, ...

This morning’s Marketplace Tech episode aired some of my comments about the ways that big tech companies handle name and boundary changes in their online maps. www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

10.02.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve moved here from Twitter/X. Looking forward to continuing the conversation. 🌎

07.02.2025 05:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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@geochicas

Central Washington University, College of the Sciences (COTS)
@cwucots

CWU College of the Sciences is comprised of 13 departments and 10 programs in varying sciences. Ellensburg, WA cwu.edu/sciences

Alan MacEachren
@alangeog

Emeritus Geographer, Cartographer, Visualization Researcher … and beyond the career - active birder

Anthony Robinson
@arobinson

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professor of Geography, Penn State. Director, Online Geospatial Education programs & GeoGraphics Lab. Chair, AAG Cartography & Mapping Specialty Group. Vice Chair, ICA Commission on Geovisualization. Past President of NACIS.

George Porto Ferreira
@gorg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

PhD Candidate at UBC, Environmentalist, Cycling Activist, Mountaineer, Sailor, Geographer, QGIS Lover, Yogi, Intermittent Vegetarian, and Free Software advocate [bridged from https://fosstodon.org/@gorg on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

Felipe Sodré
@felipesmbarros

Aprendendo a ser geógrafo entre bits, bytes e geometrias

Gilberto Camara
@gcamara

Pesquisador em Geoinformatica, Ciência de Dados Geoespaciais, Modelagem de Uso da Terra. Foi diretor do INPE (2005-2012) e do Group on Earth Observations (2018-2021). Gosta de Milton, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ockeghem, Monteverdi e Luciano Berio

OpenStreetMap US
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OpenStreetMap
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