Christian Quest
Responsable Produit at OpenStreetMap France
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolChristian Quest is a product leader and longtime builder of open geodata tools based in Paris, with 13 years of professional experience and technical roots dating back to the 1980s. He currently leads product work on Panoramax at IGN and has a track record of initiating and operating civic tech projects like OpenEvacMap, OpenSolarMap and the opendatArchives archive for French open data. Previously he served as data scientist and digital advisor at the Assemblée nationale and as a consultant for Etalab, blending public-sector policy insight with hands-on data and software delivery. A former president and ongoing spokesperson for OpenStreetMap France, he combines deep mapping domain expertise with community leadership and governance experience. Christian’s background includes early software entrepreneurship and Minitel-era systems, signaling a long-standing curiosity for interoperable networks and public-interest technology. He is known for turning complex public data into practical APIs and services that prioritize reuse and civic value.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Math Sup., Math Sup. at Lycée Saint Louis (Paris)BAC E, BAC E at Lycée d'Arsonval (St Maur des Fossés)
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
taxonomy10
democracy10
perl10
geojson10
aide10
imagery10
geodjango10
csv-parsing10
adaptation10
government-data10
coders10
openstreetmap10
react-leaflet10
overpass-api10
twitter10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
cquest/geocodage-spd
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Scripts de géocodage et remise en forme des bases du Service Public de la Donnéee
Contributions:84 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 2 years 9 months
basespublic-servicedesadressegeo
tilery/utilery-osm-recipe
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes in 15 days
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