Jonah Adkins
Technical Cartography Lead at Meta
Newport News, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJonah Adkins is a seasoned cartography and GIS professional with over a decade of hands-on geospatial experience and 19 years in the broader mapping space, currently leading Technical Cartography at Meta. He combines enterprise-scale data stewardship—managing multi-terabyte imagery and elevation repositories for defense and training—with creative map design honed at specialist studios like Stamen. Jonah has led municipal and military GIS programs, taught ESRI tooling, and run a consulting practice, giving him a rare blend of operational, instructional, and entrepreneurial perspective. An active organizer and volunteer in the OpenStreetMap and civic-tech communities, he helps bridge open data movements with large-scale product needs. He’s equally comfortable authoring precise cartographic deliverables and architecting backend map data pipelines and databases. Based in Newport News, VA, Jonah brings pragmatic problem-solving and a community-first ethos to complex spatial challenges.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Tabb High SchoolChristopher Newport University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
bounding10
maplibre-gl10
schema10
openstreetmap10
arcgis10
overture-maps10
js10
raster10
esri-leaflet10
esri10
geo10
gis10
openstreetmap-data10
editor9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jonahadkins/jonahadkins.github.io
Oct 2013 - Apr 2022
It All Started With A Map.....
Contributions:525 commits, 5 PRs, 345 pushes in 8 years 7 months
map
osmus/detroit-mapping-challenge
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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