I think it's helpful to offer some background on myself in order to provide context for my edits, establish a modicum of authority on certain topics, and acknowledge potential biases.

Places

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I've lived in Ohio most of my life, in Canton and then Cincinnati. I currently live in Toronto, Canada.

Expertise

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Formal

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My education was in urban planning and geography with a focus on GIS and quantitative methods in transport geography. Most of my work in grad school dealt with non-automotive forms of transport such as bicycles[1] and public transit[2][3]. I've also published in cartography[4] and worked professionally in that area.

I have a PhD in urban planning from U of T, master's degree in geography (quantitative, human geography) from the University of Cincinnati, and my bachelor's is in urban planning, from the same university but a more design-oriented college (DAAP).

I currently work in transportation for the City of Toronto.

Informal and Hobbies

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I've been sewing for about a decade now (recently knitting too), and contribute sometimes to pages on sewing and pattern-making.

Other Projects

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I contribute regularly to OpenStreetMap under the same username.

My partner works in medical illustration / taxidermy / anatomy, and I sometimes upload some of his work to Wikimedia Commons.

References

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  1. ^ Ledsham, Trudy; Farber, Steven; Wessel, Nate (2017). "Dwelling Type Matters: Untangling the Paradox of Intensification and Bicycle Mode Choice". Transportation Research Record. 2662: 67–74. doi:10.3141/2662-08. S2CID 117439736.
  2. ^ Wessel, Nate; Allen, Jeff; Farber, Steven (2017-06-01). "Constructing a routable retrospective transit timetable from a real-time vehicle location feed and GTFS". Journal of Transport Geography. 62: 92–97. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.04.012. ISSN 0966-6923.
  3. ^ Wessel, Nate; Widener, Michael (2017-01-01). "Discovering the space–time dimensions of schedule padding and delay from GTFS and real-time transit data". Journal of Geographical Systems. 19 (1): 93–107. Bibcode:2017JGS....19...93W. doi:10.1007/s10109-016-0244-8. ISSN 1435-5949. S2CID 37953830.
  4. ^ Wessel, Nate; Widener, Michael (2015-04-11). "Rethinking the Urban Bike Map for the 21st Century". Cartographic Perspectives. 0 (81): 6–22. doi:10.14714/CP81.1243. ISSN 1048-9053.
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