About the Elephant

clever elephant does spatial databases, map servers, training sessions, open source advocacy, workshops and more.

Paul Ramsey

Paul has over 15 years of professional experience providing technology development and advice to organizations ranging from Fortune 500 firms to large government agencies to NGOs.

  • PostGIS consulting. Custom functionality, features, set-up, tuning, data models, new functionality, training, and architectures.
  • Mapserver consulting. Core development, new features, performance, configuration, and architectures.
  • General geospatial consulting. ESRI, FME, Oracle Spatial, system architecture and design.

 

Contact

As a consultant with OpenGeo, I am always looking for interesting and challenging new projects, please get in touch.

 

Upcoming events:

  • Teaching a PostGIS workshop at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona. Also presenting on "The State of PostGIS" and "Tips for the PostGIS Power User". September 6-9.
  • Keynoting and teaching workshops at the 2010 Minnesota GIS/LIS conference in Duluth. October 13-15.
  • Presenting and teaching at FOSS4G.jp in Tokyo and Osaka, November 1-6.

Right now:

  • Packaging PostGIS into the OpenGeo Suite for OS/X and windows
  • Widening the internal geometry API in PostGIS to isolate the data structures from the code more

Hire me:

  • Need systems architecture advice? Mapserver assistance? PostGIS assistance? Drop me an e-mail and we can discuss your issue, no strings attached.