Paul Naylor
Summary
👤
SeniorPaul Naylor is a Senior Geospatial Consultant and long-time cartographer leading the GeoDataViz team at Ordnance Survey, where he champions high-quality data visualisation and cartography across products and services. With nearly three decades of mapping experience and 11+ years in senior roles, he designs new geospatial products, creates custom maps and marketing material, and advises public and private sector clients on visualisation and product generalisation. He regularly presents, hosts workshops, and publishes papers on cartography, and serves as Vice-President and Programme Chair of the British Cartographic Society. Paul combines hands-on cartographic production skills (from 1:25,000 maps upward) with strategic consultancy, ensuring visual clarity and usability while influencing product specifications across the organisation. Active in outreach, he maintains a public portfolio and blogs about map craft, reflecting a rare blend of traditional map-making craft and modern geodata visualization leadership. Based in Southampton, he brings institutional knowledge of national mapping coupled with a practical focus on communicating complex spatial data.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
stylesheets10
district10
topography10
mapbox-gl-js9
mediawiki-extension9
overpass-api9
openstreetmap9
cartography9
geography9
ufo8
geo8
open-data8
css8
progressive-enhancement8
data-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OrdnanceSurvey/OS-MasterMap-Highways-Network-stylesheets
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Cartographic stylesheets for OS MasterMap Highways Network
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
stylesheetscartographyopen-dataoverpass-apiopenstreetmap
egil1978/egil1978.github.io
May 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:327 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.