User:Jody.garnett@gmail.com

Spatial Systems Architect working as a consultant with LISAsoft. While I am willing and able to work with anything, a lot of my web presence is devoted to open-source spatial. I am on the GeoTools, GeoServer and uDig steering committees. I also volunteer with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and am helping set up LocationTech (industry working group for the Eclipse Foundation). The passion comes from a focus on communication, I love working in decision support and communicating vast quantities of information in a form that can be understood. Since the world is where we live, often as not this involves making a map. On a technical front GIS represents a great challenge (along with Big Data and Business Intelligence) where the data volume lets everyone work on real computer science.

Projects:

• http://locationtech.org/projects/technology.udig (LocationTech)
• http://geotools.org (OSGeo)
• http://geoserver.org/ (OSGeo)

Web:

• http://how2map.blogspot.com
• https://twitter.com/jodygarnett
• http://www.lisasoft.com/blogs/jodygarnett