Curated, handcrafted cartography and geospatial intelligence — integrating GIS, AI, and design — by Dr. Richard Donohue.
This is a working portfolio, digital workshop, and creative studio for experimental cartography and geospatial tools — mixing old-school craft with bleeding-edge code.
🗺️ Web Cartography Fast, lightweight, artisanal web maps — optimized for storytelling, exploration, or analysis. Built with MapLibre, Tippecanoe, and modern JS frameworks.
🧠 Spatial Data Science Smarter maps begin with smart data. I integrate advanced spatial analysis, open data pipelines, and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) using Python, PostGIS, and AI tooling.
🎨 Map Styling & Design Systems Maps with a point of view. I craft original basemap styles, cartographic design systems, and intuitive legends — guided by clarity, aesthetics, and ethics.
🧪 R&D and Experiments Open-ended spatial experiments, tool prototyping, and weird beautiful stuff. Because the future of maps belongs to the curious — to those who chase rabbits down data trails, question the obvious, and redraw boundaries where the unknown still breathes.
- FLOWFINDER — Research framework for testing watershed delineation accuracy across different hydrological analysis tools.
- Geomockery — AI-powered tool for generating realistic mock geospatial data for testing and development purposes.
- Ghost Forest Watcher — Satellite imagery analysis system using computer vision to monitor forest recovery after wildfire events.
- ESDA Web Mapping — Modern framework combining web mapping with exploratory spatial data analysis capabilities.
- Tilecraft — AI-assisted CLI tool that generates vector tile pipelines and cartographic styles from natural language descriptions.
- Agentic workflows for complex spatial analysis automation
- Climate impact visualization for mountain and coastal systems
- Natural language interfaces for cartographic design
- Open source tools for democratizing advanced GIS capabilities
- Ethical AI applications in environmental mapping
I'm a geospatial AI consultant, recovering academic, and longtime map nerd based in the U.S. Mountain West. I blend cartographic craft with open-source tech, Buddhist insight, and a commitment to spatial justice.
Let’s make better maps. Together.
This website is built with love using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.