Hi there,

I've been a Rip van Winkle the last few years in GIS, but will soon be buying a GPS enabled mobile phone so will hit the ground running mapping routes in the Bavarian Alps where I wander every weekend with my family.

I'm a very old fart in GIS terms, got my MSc in GIS in 1990 from Leicester under the tutelage of Dave Maguire now at ESRI. I've taken GIS around the world, to Saudi Arabia where I lived five years, on to Mongolia where I met my GIS practising wife.

The last few years I have been buried in childcare duties as a stay at home Dad, but I am little freer now I have more time, they are older. I now live in Germany as a Brit expat. Look forward to getting back into this subject.

I'm a fluent German speaker, but for the Germans here - leave my grammar alone - its probably crap!