Daniel Morissette
President at Mapgears
Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Morissette is a seasoned geospatial software leader with 27 years of experience, currently serving as President of Mapgears from Saguenay, Quebec. He combines executive leadership with deep hands-on engineering, having earlier held VP and contract development roles at DM Solutions Group and PCI Geomatics. A contributor to the widely used OSGeo GDAL project, he has focused on improving data format handling and robustness in raster/vector processing—work that underpins many geospatial systems worldwide. Trained as a computer engineer at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, he blends formal engineering discipline with practical product and project delivery. Known for quietly fixing tricky edge cases in open-source libraries, he brings a pragmatic attention to detail that improves reliability for downstream users.
27 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B. Ing. Computer Engineering, B. Ing. Computer Engineering at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
English, French
Github Skills (12)
vector10
spatial10
gdal10
geo10
grib10
vector-math10
c-language10
geospatial10
cprogramming-language10
raster10
spatial-data10
sql9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Dec 1998 - Mar 2020
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 21 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the GDAL library. They addressed issues related to SQL joins, GRIB driver data handling, and alpha value handling in color tables. The user also implemented changes related to handling zero-length class names in GRC and returning BSB dataset's PLY coordinates as a WKT polygon. These changes indicate a focus on refining data format handling and improving the reliability of the library.
gdalgeospatialrastergeospatial-datavector
MapServer/msautotest_DEPRECATED
May 2007 - Feb 2015
This repository is kept for historical purposes. Tests should now go into main mapserver repo
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 7 years 10 months
gomapserver
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