An idealistic technocrat on the move. Always looking for the beauty in everyday life as well as seeing new things in the world.

Author of O'Reilly's Introduction to Neogeography, and various articles at Make and MacTech magazines. Developer of GeoPress, Mapstraction, Mapufacture, DashSaver, IndigoWidget, and many other things.

Mastodon @ajturner@nullisland.social

I'm the Director + CTO of Esri R+D Center in Washington, DC - focusing on building ArcGIS Hub, a platform for data sharing and civic collaboration.

I blog at HighEarthOrbit on neogeography, mobile location-based-systems, home automation, robotics, engineering and travel.