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Carl Sack<\/a>, activist, cartographer, professor and NACIS stalwart, died last week of a sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 41. Here is his memorial page<\/a>. On Mastodon, Daniel Huffman wrote<\/a>: \u201cI will have more words about him later on, but for now I will say that Carl was a beloved educator and member of the NACIS community, and a valued friend. It’s still pretty hard to believe he’s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Sack, activist, cartographer, professor and NACIS stalwart, died last week of a sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 41. Here is his memorial page. On Mastodon, Daniel Huffman wrote: \u201cI will have more… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791965,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/10\/nacis-2021-on-youtube\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830739,"position":0},"title":"NACIS 2021 on YouTube","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 October 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"As has been the case in previous years, videos from the presentations at this year\u2019s NACIS annual meeting, which took place earlier this month in Oklahoma City, are now available at the organization\u2019s YouTube channel. 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