Adam Cox - Owner Geospatial Software Developer

Adam Cox

Owner Geospatial Software Developer

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Adam Cox is a geospatial software developer and owner of Legion GIS with 11 years' experience building web maps, spatial databases, and cultural heritage inventories. Based in New Orleans, he combines front-end web programming, Python tooling, and spatial data engineering to deliver Arches deployments, custom QGIS plugins, and production data pipelines for research and public-facing platforms. He led engineering for the HeRoP Lab’s SDOH & Place search platform and built large opioid-risk data ecosystems, demonstrating both product-minded development and hands-on AWS/infrastructure work. An active open-source contributor, Adam has contributed UI and Firefox-compatibility improvements to the well-known Arches heritage platform. His academic background (MS Geography, MLIS) and early fieldwork in archaeology and cultural landscape inventories give him a rare blend of technical skill and deep domain knowledge in historical maps and cultural heritage. You can find his explorations and code under @mradamcox across GitHub, BlueSky, Observable, and Mastodon.

11 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Anthropology at Lawrence University

Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS at Louisiana State University

English, Spanish

Github Skills (5)

css10

javascript10

ui-design9

html8

django6

Programming languages (15)

C++CSSCRustPLpgSQLGoHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

archesproject/arches

Jan 2016 - Aug 2021

Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:1 release, 531 commits, 225 PRs in 5 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Arches platform. Their work involved modifying JavaScript code within the `map.js` and `page-view.js` files to improve Firefox compatibility and add user interface controls for help panels and image reloading. Additionally, they styled the help panel and toolbar elements, adding a new class for the login button to enhance the user interface and accessibility of the Arches platform.

pythondjangocultural-heritageweb-apparcheology

mradamcox/mradamcox.github.io

Aug 2016 - Mar 2025

Contributions:77 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 8 months

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