Tyler Mitchell

Hi, I'm the owner/publisher of Locate Press and author of Geospatial Power Tools - GDAL/OGR Command Line Tools (Locate Press) and Web Mapping Illustrated (O'Reilly, 2005).

I've worked for a variety of database and consulting companies over the years including OmniSci (GPU analytics) - Couchbase (NoSQL) - Actian/Ingres (big data analytics)). In these companies I worked in Product Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering Management. In my earlier GIS consulting work I've managed natural resource datasets for forestry, mining, and hydro companies across British Columbia.

I'm proud to have launched Locate Press several years ago, as the first publication focused on open source geospatial topics! Gary Sherman ran it for ten years and grew the book list to 15 titles. We continue to partner on projects. Check out the other dozen or so open source mapping and GIS data books.

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A brief look at my OSGeo-related past... I originally proposed the idea of OSGeo back in 2004/2005. When Dave McIlhagga and Gary Lang put their support behind it, the effort really took off, bringing in dozens more open source geo project leaders and communities. As OSGeo's Executive Director (2006-2011) I ran the day to day operations and together we all kept moving open source geospatial technology to the forefront. Another way I was doing this was to get quality book/training material into the marketplace. After my book (Web Mapping Illustrated) was published in 2005, the need for such support material has become even clearer - business, government and academia (as well as professionals in general) all need high quality material that is reliable in the long term. Learn more about Locate Press.

Interviews, Articles & Presentations Article in the Technology Innovation Management Review, Beyond Technology: Enabling Communities Through Social Interoperability, August 2011 Video presentation at OSGIS Nottingham, June 2011 (slide animations failed in recording, but contact me if you want full quality source) Article in Open Source Business Resource journal: Reassuring End Users Of Open Source: The OSGeo Example, Mar 2009 My interview with Yves Jacolin, Oct 2009 GutsyGeeks radio interview 8/15/2009 (mp3) Mentioned in GIS Professional UK magazine article (0.2MB PDF) Quoted in Japanese software development gihyo.jp article My interview with Linux Journal Directions Mag interview with Paul Ramsey and I about FOSS4G 2007 gvSIG conference interview (1MB PDF)

Contact: tylermitchell -at- shaw ca Blog: blog.locatepress.com Blog: spatialguru.com Blog: http://makedatauseful.com Book: Web Mapping Illustrated Book: GDAL Geospatial Power Tools Old OSGeo Blog: osgeo.org/tyler

Past Events Here are some of the events that I spoke at or represented OSGeo at since it started: FOSS4G 2011, Denver, Sept 12-16, 2011 Rendez-vous OSGeo Quebec, Chicoutimi, Canada, June 14-15 OSGIS, Nottingham, UK, June 21-23, 2011 FOSS4G 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2010 OSGIS, Nottingham, UK, June 21-23, 2010 OSGeo Rendezvous Quebec - by video WAURISA, Tacoma, Washington, April 19-21, 2010 GIS In Action, Portland, Oregon, April 14-17, 2010 FOSS4G 2009 - Sydney, Australia - October 20-23, 2009 WhereCamp5280 - Denver, USA - August 14-15, 2009 Mil-OSS 2009 - Atlanta, USA - August 12-13, 2009 First Open Source GIS UK Conference - Nottingham, UK - June 22nd, 2009 For personal reasons I had to cancel attendance at a few events in 2008... FOSS4G 2008 - Cape Town, Sep. 29 - unable to attend Open Source World Conf - Málaga, Oct. 22 - unable to attend Mobile Augmented Reality and Geospatial - Quebec City, Canada, August 28-29, 2008 - unable to attend OSBootcamp / Geocamp - Ottawa, Canada, June 2-3, 2008 - unable to atend GeoTec Event - Ottawa, Canada, June 2-3, 2008 - unable to attend University of Edinburgh lecture - Edinburgh, May 4, 2008 1Spatial Conference and OSGeo UK Meetup May 2008 - London/Stansted, April 29-May 1, 2008 II Jornadas de SIG Libre, Girona, Spain, March 3-5, 2008 (invited keynote, video recorded) Including pre/post-event meetings with Local Chapter, gvSIG team, FreeGIS book team and others in Madrid and Valencia Kansai Open Forum, Osaka, Japan, 9 November, 2007 Including follow-up repeat of presentations in Tokyo, Japan, 12 November, 2007 I was even able to sign a few books at the O'Reilly.jp office III Encontro Nacional de Usuários MapServer (site offline), May 9-11, Brasilia, Brazil, 2007 (invited keynote) Various pre/post-event meetings as well FOSS4G 2007, Victoria, Canada, 24-27 September, 2007 (keynote, organiser, BOF, AGM) Location Intelligence, San Francisco, USA, 17-18 April, 2007 (booth, presentation in OSGeo session) Autodesk University conference, Las Vegas, USA, 27-30 November, 2006 (booth, BOF) FOSS4G 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland (booth, BOFs) Where 2.0 2006, San Francisco, USA (booth, BOFs) For other events that had or will have some OSGeo representation (presenters, attendees, workshops, etc.) events see this wiki page, this wiki category and the upcoming events list here on OSGeo.org