Searching for job in tech might be pretty miserable activity. There are multiple job board websites but they are boring and often annoying. The new website called WhoIsHiring.io is trying to make the process of searching for a new employer a bit more fun (especially from a GeoGeek perspective).
The website aggregates startup job openings data from multiple services and places them on a map. It shows you how many openings are there in a particular area. The jobs are listed on the right side of the screen and when you zoom in to the map they are filtered by geography. Simple but awesome.
From the cartographic stand point there is still a lot of work to be done. The color and the size of the dots represent the same information – number of jobs in the area. Orange small dots stand for 1-30 jobs in a given location, purple mid-size dots 30-99 jobs and large green dots everything above 100. It would be so awesome if the map could at least optionally show some additional data on the map. The project is fresh and lets give it a bit more time.
The website has been created by Sebastian Pawlus a freelance developer and Ania Bywanis – digital marketer, both based in Krakow, Poland. They are currently bootstrapping and they’re seeing 80,000 users a month. We keep our fingers crossed for the success of the project!
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“The blue marble” – one of the most iconic images in all of human existence, a symbol of our adventurer spirit and the constant inexplicable urge to explore the unknown. There is something ingrained into our DNAs that makes us want to travel the cosmos, to quote Moby Dick, “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” – from Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”.
The Blue Marble, photographed on 7th December 1972, by NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans
And yet the first thing that strikes us about the “Blue marble” is its beauty and fragility. Seeing the earth from space, totally changes the way we look at our planet. It provides a altogether different perspective. It provides what Frank White termed as the “Overview Effect”
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” – Bill Anders, Apollo 8 Astronaut.
Only 555 Astronauts have ever flown into space so far and for the less fortunate among us Earthlings, Benjamin Grant’s instagram feed “Daily Overview” provides a fascinating insight into how we, humans are shaping the planet!
Overview by Benjamin Grant
Benjamin started the instagram account back in December 2013, positing a new view of our beloved blue marble from space every day and in the years since, the project has been viewed in more than 230 countries and his instagram account has over 439K followers. He started looking for such images, after searching for “Earth” on Google earth lead him to find this striking image of circular irrigation fields in Texas. The best images from his curated instagram collection of more than 950 images appear in his new book titled “Overview: A New Perspective of Earth”.
The book is a reflection of the many ways we as a society and as a species have shaped the world and continue to do so. Rows of brightly colored containers in a shipping yard in Belgium. The tulip gardens in Netherlands. The groves of green olive trees in Spain. The Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
PORT OF ANTWERP 51·320417°, 4·327546°
Reprinted with permission from Overview by Benjamin Grant, copyright (c) 2016. Images (c) 2016 by DigitalGlobe, Inc. Published by Amphoto Books, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc.
The pictures in the book are breathtaking and truly amazing. Yet, as much as they are beautiful, they are sometimes also deeply troubling – the gridded lines on a arid red martian looking terrain is the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya, home to more than 400,000 refugees. It’s deeply disturbing to see that we are able to point on a satellite image and say that it is home to hundreds of thousands of refugees.
DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP –0·000434°, 40·364929°
Reprinted with permission from Overview by Benjamin Grant, copyright (c) 2016. Images (c) 2016 by DigitalGlobe, Inc. Published by Amphoto Books, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc.
The book is a work of art, striking and insightful and for a few minutes, one experiences the same overview effect that Astronauts do when flying over our beautiful blue marble. It’s truly something! It’s something that is going to ignite a lot of conversations with your friends and family, a truly thought-provoking coffee table book if you will.
One of the most striking images for me, was the picture of the lagoon in Shadegan by Musa bay in Iran. The image wasn’t the only one that looked totally out of our world but the colors paint a poignant picture, similar to the one that evokes the overview effect among astronauts. A beautiful yet fragile ecosystem.
SHADEGAN LAGOON 30·327274°, 48·829255°
Reprinted with permission from Overview by Benjamin Grant, copyright (c) 2016. Images (c) 2016 by DigitalGlobe, Inc. Published by Amphoto Books, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc.
“Overview: A New Perspective of Earth” by Benjamin Grant is now available for sale on Amazon and other outlets.
