OpenGeo

Paul Ramsey, OpenGeo’s spatial database wizard and frequent poster to this blog, was recently interviewed by Matt Ball for V1 magazine. It’s a good read, and we think you’ll enjoy it.

While the interview covers a wide range of topics, here’s a quote that encapsulates OpenGeo’s software to me probably better than any white paper or business plan could:

Building a web map app is something that a technically inclined forester should be able to do, it shouldn’t require someone from the computer science department. The Web is evolving to be a place where people can put a basic set of development tools, JavaScript and HTML, to a lot of different uses. Not inventing their own language…We’re just providing some geo flavor on top.

Read the entire interview…

We are thrilled to welcome Paul Ramsey to the OpenGeo team.

Paul has made a name for himself in the world of open source geospatial software as the founder of Refractions Research and leader in the PostGIS, GEOS, and uDig projects, for which he was honored with the Sol Katz award in 2008. A director of OSGeo, he has throughout his career been a vocal proponent of the robustness of open source geospatial software.

Paul joins us as a PostGIS expert. At last able to offer consulting and support for that software, we can now endorse PostGIS as the root of our OpenGeo stack. We welcome also his experience as OpenGeo grows to a new stage of social enterprise–and his eminence and eloquence as an advocate for the Open Geospatial Web.

You can find Paul’s thoughts on joining OpenGeo on his blog.