Joachim Ungar
Geospatial IT Consultant
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolJoachim Ungar is a Geospatial IT Consultant and cartographer with 14 years of experience applying open-source geospatial tools to Earth Observation and research projects. Based in Vienna, he leads service activities for the EU EarthServer project at EOX, connecting software developers and system operators across disciplines like oceanography and cryospheric science. He designs global terrain basemaps built entirely from open data and open-source stacks (GDAL, QGIS, PostGIS, MapServer) that are already used by ESA services. A former web developer and World Bank geospatial consultant, he blends hands-on scripting and geoprocessing with project management and domain expertise in climate and population modelling. Colleagues know him as an open-source evangelist and practical problem-solver who moves complex geoscience workflows into production.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mag. rer. nat., Geography, Geoinformation, Cartography, Mag. rer. nat., Geography, Geoinformation, Cartography at University of ViennaAkademisches Gymnasium Salzburg
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (102)
mapbox-gl10
wps10
wgs8410
gdal10
geodata10
android-js10
geography10
polygons10
data-files10
rendering10
geopandas10
openmaptiles10
pyramid10
rasterio10
tile-server10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ungarj/mapchete_testdata
Jan 2018 - May 2021
testdata for mapchete
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
testingmapchetetestdata
ungarj/label_centerlines
Nov 2015 - Jun 2022
python tool to extract smoothed centerlines from polygons
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 years 8 months
polygonspythonpython-tool
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