11.30.2012

Huffington Post Popular News: Meet Ed Parsons, Google Maps' Man Behind The Curtain

Ed Parsons is Google’s chief geospatial technologist, responsible for evangelizing the “what," “how” and “why” of Google's mapping activities.


The former, and first, chief technology officer of the U.K. Ordnance Survey -- the U.K. equivalent of the mapping division of the U.S. Geological Survey -- Parsons says mapmaking is in his DNA.


“The day after my departure [from the U.K. government] was announced, Google called to see if I was interested in working for them,” Parsons wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. “The impact Google has had on the mapping industry made the answer a bit of a no-brainer.”




Read More...

More on Video







via Google News

No comments:

Post a Comment