Cartography & geospatial development

A sense
of place.

I’m Jesse, a mapmaker and geospatial developer. I turn geographic data into maps and interactive stories.

Discover my work

From pixels and data to pen and paper.

01 / Portfolio

Selected work12

Different mediums. A shared curiosity.

Sentinel-2 satellite imagery of smoke from the Palisades Fire along the Los Angeles coastline

Featured projectSentinel-2 imagery, as published by OroraTech.

Interactive storytelling2025

The Palisades Fire, visualized

A geographic story about a changing landscape, built with MapLibre and Scrollama.

MapLibre
Scrollama

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World map of moose range across North America, Scandinavia, and Russia, colored by the language family of each region’s name for the animal, with a legend of names such as Moose, Elch, Älg, Los, and Hirvi

Thematic cartography2024

Moose-nomers

Where moose live, and the many names they go by.

Population-density change across Japan, mapped between 2000 and 2020

3D cartography2024

Where people move

Japan’s changing population, seen in three dimensions.

Dark 3D map of California with hexagon columns showing satellite fire hotspot detections from May to October 2024

3D hexagon mapping2024

A season of hotspots

A fire season’s satellite detections, stacked in 3D hexagons.

Polar map of the arctic fox’s range across Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, and Russia, with a portrait of an arctic fox

Thematic cartography2024

A fragile range

The arctic fox’s circumpolar range, and its fragile foothold in Fennoscandia.

Dark globe centered on Africa and the Middle East, with countries colored by IPC food insecurity phase and extruded by the number of people affected

3D globe animation2024

Food insecurity, classified

IPC food insecurity classifications on a rotating globe.

Dark globe with glowing points and translucent halos marking certified International Dark Sky Places, concentrated in North America and Europe

Interactive web mapping2024

Where the night stays dark

An interactive globe of certified International Dark Sky Places.

Dark world map tracing Thomas Stevens’s 1884–1886 bicycle route across the United States, Europe, and Asia to Japan, with land routes in red and sea routes dotted

Historical journey mapping2024

Around the world on a penny-farthing

Thomas Stevens’s 1884–1886 ride around the world.

A relief map of Sweden with terrain contours and city labels

Terrain & raster cartography2024

A different kind of relief

Finding a different kind of relief in Sweden’s terrain.

A colored-pencil panorama looking from Heimgarten toward Herzogstand and the nearby lakes

Hand-drawn cartography2024

Away from the screen

A view of the Bavarian Alps, with pen and paper.

A vintage-style map of the Italian peninsula, with traditional cartographic details

Cartographic design2024

An older way of seeing

A contemporary map in a historical visual language.

Map of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, with hiking and portage trails over a hillshade and imagery basemap

Trail cartography2024

Trails of the Boundary Waters

Hiking and portage trails in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.

02 / About

Cartographer and
geospatial developer.

I work between cartography and code, making geographic information easier to understand and explore.

My projects range from interactive stories and 3D maps to terrain studies and drawings from a mountain trail. The medium changes; the curiosity about place stays.

CartographyGeospatial developmentVisual storytelling

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A senseof place.

Selected work12

Cartographer andgeospatial developer.

A sense
of place.

Cartographer and
geospatial developer.