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Anna Savina, Content and Community
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833
Language
English
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Summary

Felt recently concluded its inaugural Halloween mapping challenge, celebrating innovative uses of cartographic elements created with their platform. Winners were awarded a limited-edition Felt bucket hat and stickers, evaluated by web cartographer Mamata Akella and Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel, a director at the North American Cartographic Information Society. Categories included Most Creative Use of Felt Element, awarded to Angelica Rodriguez-Arriaga for her pumpkin genetics map, and Most Intriguing Dataset, won by David Tingle with a map of popular candies by state. Erdag Kucukdemirci won Best Overall Design for the Fictional San Mateo Halloween Crawl map, and Alberto Romeu Carrasco's U.S. Cemeteries map received recognition for Best Collaborative Use Case. The Spookiest Subject Matter was awarded to Hayley Moir for the Spooky Edinburgh map. Felt encourages users to share their maps in their new Slack group, where the best entries will be featured in November.