about

history

The website started off as a personal test bed to develop web mapping applications. This evolved in becoming a show case, reflected in the website's motto what the map can be. More recently, emphasis shifted to a themed blog, discussing the latest trends in location based services (LBS), Web cartography, and geo-blogging. In early 2005, it was time to start webmapper as a small company.

profile

Edward Mac Gillavry (1977) is currently product manager at TomTom. Edward was a member of the editorial board of the Dutch journal Geo-info and served as a technical editor of the O'Reilly publication Mapping Hacks. He regularly speaks at conferences and gives guest lectures about geoinformatics and web cartography. He was self-employed as an independent consultant and developer, worked for the Dutch National Atlas of Public Health and for an online mapping company in London.

Edward studied Geoinformatics at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC and received an MA in Geography from Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2000. He enjoys Indonesian cooking and hopes one day to obtain a black belt in shotokan karate.