As I mentioned each of the last two weeks, this weekly contest has come to a close. Thanks again for playing and making this a fun weekly tradition here at HA. The winner of the final contest was GCM. It was in Boston.
The very first contest was posted at HA a few weeks before Obama’s election. Back then, I was still posting the pictures at reload.ws, which no longer exists. Since then, there have been over 300 contests with many winners. Here are the top winners over the years (everyone who won at least 5 contests):
milwhcky – 76
wes.in.wa – 58
Liberal Scientist – 21
Geoduck – 13
Mlc1us – 10
Sewventy2002 – 9
WaGuy – 8
Brian – 8
Poster Child – 6
Don Joe – 5
2cents – 5
zzippy – 5
I have two main reasons for moving on here, one of which is that since July, I’ve been working for HERE, Nokia’s mapping and location services group. I joined HERE via an acquisition, an incredibly fortuitous turn of events for a complete map geek like myself, but as I’ve gotten older and wiser, I’ve become more conscientious about keeping work and the blogging I do separate.
Second, I’m hoping that after the new year that I can begin putting together a weekly feature related to politics and current events once again. Being a parent with two small children hasn’t given me much time to do this, but my oldest has started kindergarten and I’m optimistic that I’ll once again have the bandwidth for it. I’m still formulating exactly what it will look like, but the basic premise will be about tracking anti-authoritarian movements across the globe. I know that there hasn’t been a lot of content in general here, but I’m hoping that things will pick up again at HA in the new year.
Again, thanks so much for making these contests fun. Hope to see you all in 2015.
No hurry, come back when you’re ready and able, the world isn’t going to run out of authoritarian movements anytime soon.
Thanks for all your work in providing these contests, Lee! As a fellow map geek, I have thoroughly enjoyed trying to solve them. They have gotten me all wound up and frustrated at times, but those “bingo” moments when I figured them out were very rewarding.
I have little interest in politics, so I may not be back for your next project, but I hope all goes well for you.
Looking forward to your posts.
Like your premise, we need more analysis that connects global movements. Check out roarmag.org.
I’m surprised I managed to win 8 of these. How cool!
@2
Thanks! Congrats on all your many wins and best of luck to you.
@5
You too! Thanks so much for playing!
@1,3,4
Thanks for the encouragement and links. I’m hoping to make commenter-interaction a vital part of this, but that might be tricky as I generally don’t have time to read/write comments until early or late in days. And that makes it tough to police comment threads for off-topic and other out-of-bounds posts before things get derailed.
Wow, Milwicky, the winner of the contest most of time, doesn’t have an interest in politics? How the hell did he end up on this site so often?