FAQ

Is this not a professional portfolio site? Where are samples of your work?

This is the second ‒ and very different ‒ iteration of my Hoffman Geospatial website. (This one I forked, modified, customized, served, built, and deployed all in Visual Studio Code.)
Sadly, as of this writing, all that I can access of my other professional website is just this single, barebones snapshot from the Way Back Machine. However, I am working on redoing the topic tags like you see on my old site, because I enjoy “knowing how much I know”!

How did you get into GIS/Geospatial?

[tl;dr] Arthritis. And friends.
I had first heard about GIS many many years ago from my Earth Club and Veterans Club friends as an undergrad. The way they described it intrigued my lifelong map-loving, geography-minded, and environmentalist heart. So a handful of years later, when I had to transition out of working in the outdoors industries due to debilitating arthritis in my feet, I began to take a look at GIS and how it could potentially keep me connected to and useful in the realms I held dear, (hopefully without the insane foot pains!). Very quickly, I fell right in love with it all and especially thanks to free online GIS learning resources such as ESRI Academy and Coursera, I knew I had landed right where I could thrive… while staying off my feet and out of unnecessary severe pain.

What do the initials C.E. stand for in your name? Common Era? Cogito Ergo?

Yes.