Tuesday, June 2. 2009

Nominations for the Most Influential People in Geospatial: 2010 and Beyond

Directions Media is looking for the individuals who will influence geospatial technology for the next five years. Many, many people have helped get us to we where we are today; their names fill the textbooks and magazines of the last 35 years. Who will fill those shoes in the coming years?

We'd like your help in identifying these individuals. They may be from the public, private or educational arena, from geospatial industry or not, programming or politics. To start, we are asking for nominations from the geospatial community. It'll take just a few moments to share a person's name, title and a few sentences explaining why they should make the list. We'll review the nominations and cull down the list. Then we'll ask the community to vote to tease out the top ten later this summer. 

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Here are some important folks in the world of Journalism and GIS:

* Jennifer LaFleur, currently at ProPublica, was another GIS pioneer in the 1990s, working at the San Jose Mercury News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Dallas Morning News.

*Matt Waite, St. Petersburg Times, has also used GIS for years as one of the primary tools for analytic journalism. Most recently, a big and important story on how developers in Florida failed to follow laws related to wetlands.

#1 Tom Johnson (Link) on 2009-06-03 15:56 (Reply)

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