Stace Maples
Assistant Director Of Geospatial Collections & Services, Stanford Geospatial Center
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolStace Maples is an experienced geospatial technologist and leader with 11 years in higher-education GIS program management and over a decade building interdisciplinary spatial research services at Stanford and Yale. As Assistant Director of Geospatial Collections & Services at Stanford, he coordinates GIS, cartography, metadata, and geospatial development efforts—bridging research needs with tools like Esri, QGIS, GeoBlacklight and IIIF/Mirador. A certified SCRUM Product Owner and self-described “Geospatial Swiss Army Knife,” he blends technical delivery, workshop-based education, and hands-on project consulting from photogrammetry applications to outbreak response mobile tools. His background in archaeology, remote sensing, and field survey design gives him a rare mix of domain expertise and data-modeling rigor that informs scalable research workflows. Based in Palo Alto, he’s also a radio DJ, reflecting a creative communication style that helps translate complex spatial problems to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Geographic Information Sciences / Remote Sensing, M.Sc., Geographic Information Sciences / Remote Sensing at The University of Texas at DallasB.Sc., Anthropology; Archaeology; Latin American Studies, B.Sc., Anthropology; Archaeology; Latin American Studies at Southern Methodist UniversityGeographic Information Sciences; Archaeology, Geographic Information Sciences; Archaeology at University of North TexasGraphic Design, Graphic Design at East Texas State University
Spanish
Github Skills (152)
mass10
wps10
gdal10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
qgis10
tms10
geolocation10
shapefile10
system-information10
location-services10
geotools10
gis10
editor9
ogc9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mapninja/Tutorial-Geocoding-Crash-Course
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
StanfordGeospatialCenter/Map4Nepal_Resources
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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