Dane Blakely Springmeyer

Freelance Mapping and Web Developer

I develop open source solutions for solving geospatial modeling problems,
designing web applications, and deploying map servers.

I specialize in these toolkits: Mapnik, GeoDjango, OpenLayers, PostGIS, MapServer, and GDAL

Contact me about services:

dbsgeo [at] gmail.com | 4042 Latona Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105

News:

• Note: I'll be offline for potential projects from late August through September, as I'm getting married at the beginning of September.
• Check it: Mike and Shaun have updated the excellent Maps From Scratch AMI.

Recent Talks & Lectures:

• May 19th | WHERE 2.0 | Maps From Scratch Workshop
   -> related blog post: "The Only Question Left"
• WA URISA Python Scripting Session | Mapnik Cartography: Flash Slides | PDF
• WA URISA Workshop | Mapnik and Django: Flash Slides | PDF
• OR URISA | Roadflaw.com: PDF
• NOAA | Open Source Toolkits: PDF

Screencasts:

• Setting up Quantumnik
• Quantumnik - Loading Cascadenik styles
• Quantumnik - Exporting XML for TileLite
• Quantumnik - Styling OSM postgis data from scratch

Recent open source projects:

• Spatialreference.org
• Roadflaw.com
• OpenOceanMap
• Eureka Marine

Open source software I contribute to:

• Mapnik
• Mapnik Utilities
• Quantumnik
• TileLite
• GeoDjango
• GeoDjango Basic Apps
• Django-shapes
• Django-tiles

resume.pdf