Nelson Gonçalves
3D Generalist Mapmaker Educator
Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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Top SchoolNelson Gonçalves is a 3D generalist, mapmaker and educator based in Viseu, Portugal, with over 11 years of professional experience and a teaching career spanning back to 1998. He combines freelance studio work with part-time academic roles at Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, applying digital technologies to 3D design, cartography and cultural heritage projects. Nelson’s practice spans diverse styles and tools, and he frequently bridges practical site-based work with remote production workflows. His long tenure in higher education underpins a strong pedagogy for training practitioners in technical and creative skills. Notably, he pairs master-level study with decades of hands-on mapmaking, making him equally at home interpreting historical data and delivering contemporary visualizations.
11 years of coding experience
Master, Master at Universidade do MinhoLicentiate, Licentiate at University of Évora
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (103)
image-stitching10
homography10
meshroom10
computer-vision10
3d-reconstruction10
intrinsics10
geometry10
photogrammetry10
blender10
google-earth10
texturing10
colmap10
structure-from-motion10
stereo10
addon10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nafergo/nafergo.github.io
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:531 commits, 165 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
nafergo/pav-dir
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
a web directory with links for Free/Open Source Software for Archaeology and Heritage work.
Contributions:183 commits, 2 PRs, 182 pushes in 4 months
heritagearchaeologyweb-directorydirectorylinks
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