Markus Neteler
Head Of Geospatial
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Neteler is a geographer and open-source GIS leader with 26 years of experience building and advising on remote sensing, spatial analysis, and Open Source WebGIS solutions. As Co-Founder and Senior Consultant at mundialis and co-founder of Esmeralda, he combines entrepreneurship with hands-on technical delivery in satellite data analytics and Big Data geospatial stacks. Longtime GRASS GIS release manager and former project chair, he has shaped the community and codebase while contributing technical documentation to flagship projects like GDAL. His work spans applied research—spatial epidemiology and vector-borne disease mapping—to product-ready GIS services, blending academic rigor (PhD in Physical Geography) with practical consulting and training. Notably, he balances deep technical stewardship of FOSS4G ecosystems with company leadership, making him a rare bridge between research, open-source communities, and commercial geospatial deployments.
26 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physical Geography, PhD Physical Geography at Universität Hannover
German, English, Italian
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Github Skills (6)
gdal10
documentation10
gis9
ogc6
wget6
mapserver6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Aug 2020 - May 2022
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on updating and improving the project's documentation. They revised documentation related to the GRASS GIS driver, streamlining and providing external links. Additionally, they added information about the "actinia" entry and the "mundialis" to the service provider list, improving the GDAL's community resources. Further contributions included updating the documentation for the "gdaltindex" program and "stacta" driver, demonstrating the user's commitment to maintaining clear and up-to-date documentation.
gdalgeospatialrastergeospatial-datavector
mundialis/r.out.rgb
Feb 2022 - Jul 2026
GRASS GIS addon: Exports a RGB rasters as GeoTiff and returns a SLD for the RGB composite
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
geotiffgisrastergrass-gisgrass-gis-addons
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