User:Asgerpetersen

Asger Sigurd Skovbo Petersen


Partner, Septima

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Asger is an open source and open data advocate. Open source geospatial software has played a central role in his professional life since 2000, where he does development, consulting and training on open source geospatial software. Asger co-founded the company Septima in 2013 with the aim to help Danish clients to utilize newly released open governmental geodata using open source software.


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 * OSGeo Experience






 * Open source geospatial software nerd since 2000
 * Develops QGIS plugins
 * Offers training in OSGEO software
 * Some minor patches for GDAL
 * Bug reports for numerous OSGEO software
 * Developer on rasterio (pythonic python wrapper around GDAL)
 * Regularly facilitates clients´ funding of OSGEO software
 * Developed and taught semester long basic GIS course at Techical University of Denmark using PostGIS as primary GIS
 * Attended all international FOSS4Gs since Denver
 * Failed miserably at founding Danish OSGEO chapter in 2014
 * In the founding committee for the Danish QGIS user group, 2015
 * Consultant on the geo platform on winning bid on the National Danish Data Distribution Platform - using mapserver, mapcache, postgis and other OS software


 * Contact:
 * Email: asgerpetersen AT gmail DOT com
 * Phone (work): +45 91 32 69 44
 * Skype: asgerskovbopetersen


 * Spoken Language(s): English, German, Scandinavian


 * Profile last updated: 21 8 2015