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Owen Ferguson

Web cartographer, developer, and designer

Work with me: owen@owenferg.com

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CMS Global Initiative of Ungulate Migration (GIUM)

Designed desktop & mobile UI/UX for GIUM, an always-updating interactive map and data source for various animal herd and species migrations across the globe

Best in show, CaGIS 2025 Map Design Competition
USGS Western Migrations

Designed desktop & mobile UI/UX for Western Migrations, an interactive map and data source with over 182 herd migrations in the western United States

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CMS Central Asian Mammals and Linear Infrastructure (CAMI) Atlas

Designed desktop UI/UX for CAMI, an interactive atlas and data source for 10 species in Central Asia

OWDCIC Camera Coverage Map

Leading development of OHAZ's wildfire camera coverage map and viewshed analysis tool in the PNW. Developed a pipeline to generate viewshed analysis of the cameras to identify risk areas that lack camera coverage, later generalized into a cross-platform GUI tool for bulk viewshed analysis with GDAL

Learn more about OHAZ View bulk-viewshed-analysis
Mesoamerican Languages

Developed a map of Mesoamerican language sites and language family regions for Invisible No More, a project dedicated to celebrating the languages and cultures of communities in diaspora in Oregon

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arrowhead-tools

Created an ArcGIS Pro Python toolbox script to automate and streamline the process of updating and adding map layers to GIUM, generalized to be used in other GIS projects

Cat cafe map

A simple web map to find cat cafes in the United States & Canada, a healing experience with feline friends

discoverWiki

A mobile game for exploring the world, one Wikipedia article at a time

Ultimate mancala

Mancala for 2–10 players on a triangle board, playable online with a party code