Tim Waters
Geospatial Consultant & Director
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Waters is a geospatial consultant and developer with 17 years’ experience delivering open-source mapping and digital humanities projects for clients including Google Research, Leeds City Council, Public Records Office Victoria, and Wikimedia. As director of Waters Geospatial and long-time OpenStreetMap contributor, he builds practical tools—most notably the MapWarper map georeferencing platform—that bridge historical research, GIS, and web mapping. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, GIS servers (MapServer/GeoServer/ArcGIS), and JavaScript mapping libraries with a knack for translating archive and museum needs into reproducible, open solutions. Tim's practice mixes consultancy, teaching and community organising (mapping workshops and parties), reflecting an uncommon blend of scholarly curiosity and product-focused delivery. Based in Leeds, he brings a sustained commitment to open data, psychogeographic inquiry, and making complex spatial histories accessible online.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (distinction), MSc (distinction) at University of LeedsBSc, BSc at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (149)
tiles10
wps10
underground10
historical10
ruby10
openstreetmap10
offline-maps10
tms10
postgis10
mosaic10
posgresql10
wms10
geofence10
geotiff10
mediawiki-extension10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
timwaters/whoots
Jul 2010 - Jan 2019
WhooTS is a WMS to Google/OSM Tiles proxy
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 8 years 7 months
wmsproxytilesosm
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