This semester’s Map Chat schedule wraps up with a real treat: a visit from Atlas Guo, award-winning mapmaker and all-around cool guy. On Wednesday, December 4 at noon Central time, join us via Zoom or meet us in the Cartography Lab in Science Hall (room 250).
Come on “A Cartographic Journey with Atlas Guo”: he’ll explain how and why he got into the field of cartography, and then he’ll share the design process for a handful of his maps. Also: he’ll have stickers. You know you want a sticker.
About Atlas
Atlas Guo is a Ph.D. candidate in Cart/GIS at UW–Madison, affiliated with the Spatial Computing and Data Mining Lab and the UW Cartography Lab. His research focuses on GeoAI-powered spatiotemporal analysis and cartographic visualization for natural disaster management. Atlas has interned with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and the United Nations Development Programme. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Atlas received a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in GIS from Sun Yat-Sen University. As a self-proclaimed “map evangelist,” Atlas is an active contributor to the mapping communities, earning over 30 relevant awards from CaGIS, NACIS, Esri, WLIA, etc. His innovative maps have also been featured in publications such as the Atlas of Design and Esri Map Book. Atlas’s recent cartographic explorations include multivariate thematic mapping, shaded relief creation, LEGO map design, and AI-generated cartography. To view his work, visit his website: CartoGuophy.com.