Karsten Vennemann
Principal And GIS Consultant at TERRA GIS LTD
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKarsten Vennemann is a Principal and GIS Consultant with over 10 years of experience applying open-source and commercial GIS to environmental protection, conservation planning, and sustainable development. As founder and principal scientist of TERRA GIS Ltd, he designs and implements web and desktop GIS solutions, teaches GIS, and supports spatial databases and web mapping for NGOs and developing-country partners. His background in geography and soil science informs practical work on land-use, soil and groundwater remediation, and natural resource atlases from West Africa to the Pacific Northwest. Fluent in German, English, French and Spanish, he combines technical programming (ArcObjects, desktop scripting) with strong cartography and applied research skills. He is known for translating complex spatial analyses into usable decision-support tools and e-learning resources. Beyond consulting, he champions open-source GIS approaches to advance social justice and sustainable resource management.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Soil Science, MS, Soil Science at University of California at BerkeleyMS, Geography, MS, Geography at University of Stuttgart, Germany
German, Spanish, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
geospatial10
animation9
font-awesome9
maps8
openlayers8
javascript8
core-module7
css7
geolocation7
gis7
spatial7
nested6
recursion6
php6
json6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
karstenv/webmapping-with-qgismapserver-workshop
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:133 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
karstenv/dynamic_layers_qgis
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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