David Overton has been working on innovation in the emerging location sector for the past 10 years.

Through collaborations, managing mapping API’s and involvement in distributed services I am putting my skills to work in my consultancy, dbyhundred Ltd.

I have had recent contracts with EuroGeographics (EG) as their Service Development Manager, Bid Manager and Project Manager, each role has been critical in implementing a European Location Framework. All my contracts with EG involve innovation via distributed architectures, cloud computing and open source solutions to create the backbone of reference for a new breed of services. These are services that INSPIRE legislation insists upon and that are increasingly demanded in commercial markets.

Within dbyhundred I lead EasyGeoCloud and Splashmaps. The former exploits the power of cloud resources to reduce costs in data production and service creation. The latter fuses trends in open data with material technology to place outstanding mapping on the most usable substrait. Our involvement in these projects is part of our core objective at dbyhundred, to make public sector geographic data more accessible .

I have been elected as a Fellow to the Royal Geographical Society for the work I have done on making Public Sector Mapping more accessible and have recently shared an award for “Exemplory implementation of Geospatial Policy and Programmes” by the Geospatial World Forum. I benefit clients with the considerable expertise I have gained in leading, coordinating, assessing and managing a great many projects and bids under a range of funding schemes: EU; FP7, CIP and Interreg, UK; TSB and Invest to Save programmes.

I live in Hampshire with my wife and two kids who tolerate my increasingly mobile life and product testing!

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