Ian Shiland

About

I've been building geospatial software for more than a decade, mostly data pipelines, catalogs, APIs and web maps.

I trained as a geographer (M.A., University at Albany) and started my career in government, first for the State of New Jersey and then the City of New York, building geospatial tools and applications for environmental planning, health and housing. From there I moved to the private sector, working on federal contracts supporting GeoPlatform.gov and SEC.gov. Today I lead the Basemaps team at Vantor.

I mostly write Python, TypeScript and SQL.

I live in Upstate New York with my wife and two kids.

Open source

• GeoLens

  A self-hosted geospatial data catalog with semantic search. Its OGC API endpoints work directly in QGIS and ArcGIS. getgeolens.com

• nyc-open-routing

  Drive, bike and walk routing for New York City, built on pgRouting and the LION street network. It also does isochrones and live traffic.

• python-geosupport

  Python bindings for NYC Geosupport, for geocoding New York City addresses locally without calling an outside API.

• highlands-rastervision

  Impervious surface mapping for the NJ Highlands from two decades of aerial imagery, with semantic segmentation in Raster Vision.