User:Authalic

About Me

Profile Userboxes This user lives in the United States of America. This user is a skeptic. This user attends or has attended The University of Utah. MS This user has a Master of Science degree. This user is interested in maps and mapmaking. This user can program in Python. This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time. 1,000+ This user has made more than 1,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has been a Wikipedian since July 2005.

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah and work in a cartographic / geotechnical job with a real estate company. I took an extended wikibreak in the spring of 2007, while I worked on completing my Masters thesis. I finally graduated from the University of Utah with an M.S. in Geography in Summer 2007. I'm slowly getting back into a few projects here.

Editing

I primarily edit articles relating to Geographic Information Systems and the Western (U.S.).

Articles I am researching

I plan to expand, or create, these articles when I have time, and more reference material:

• Robbers Roost - hideout in southeastern Utah during the outlaw era
• Amasa Mason Lyman - early LDS Church figure, pioneer, and controversial guy.
• Caleb Rhoads and Abraham Powell - early settlers of eastern Utah
• Spring Canyon (Utah) - site of a number of coal camps in the early 20th century, now entirely abandoned.
• Uinta Basin - perhaps the last major region of Utah which does not have its own article.
• Danger Cave - archaeological site in western Utah.

Articles I originated

I'm still working on these:

• Castle Gate mine disaster
• Castle Gate, Utah
• Hole-in-the-Wall
• Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
• Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system
• Shaded relief
• Harold Gatty
• PostModern MTV