Arjen de Korte Geo-ICT
Let's put you on the map!

ABOUT ME

I'm an independent geospatial software developer based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I enjoy helping companies and organisations to present their geographic information on a map and manage it in an efficient way.

I enjoy working both with technology as well as with people. My ideal working environment is transparent, non-hierarchical, cooperative and internationally oriented. I enjoy using my skills to contribute to the fields of environmental sciences and sustainable development. I strongly prefer working with open source (GIS) software and open standards.

I am pragmatic, have eye for detail and strong analytical insight, but I also look at the big picture. I believe that technology should in the end be applicable and serve all people who work with it.

I have good writing skills, I'm a good listener and I communicate in a friendly and calm way. I enjoy making technology understandable to the people who work with it. Finally I'm always looking for ways to develop myself professionally and personally.

Services

GIS Software Development

I can help you develop your geospatial (web) applications. I can work with various programming languages and tools on both client and server. I strive for simple and efficiently designed software that is easy to work with.

Technical Consultancy

I can help you design your application or geographical data management process. I enjoy thinking about the usability of applications, finding efficient ways of working and interacting with users and stakeholders.

Communication & Support

I can help you make technology understandable to users and stakeholders using my good writing and communication skills. I am proficient in both Dutch and English.

 

Javascript - the browser based programming language for creating interactive web pages and applications

HTML 5, CSS3 - the building blocks of modern web development

React, Vue.js, npm, Webpack - libraries and tools for creating modern interactive web applications with Javascript

OpenLayers - full featured open source Javascript mapping library

C#, ASP.NET - platform and programming language for creating web applications by Microsoft

PHP - the web's most popular programming language

MySQL - the web's most popular database

PostgreSQL/PostGIS - the reliable open source (spatial) database

Mapserver - open source web map server

OpenStreetMap & tools - community edited world map and tools

ArcGIS online - ESRI's toolkit for building online GIS applications

GeoServer - the standards compliant geospatial data server

OGC and metadata standards - standards for exchanging geographical (meta)data

Git, Github, Subversion - version control systems

SCRUM - software development process, the agile way

Projects

A selection of projects I've worked on:

Web application for panoramic and satellite images

Cyclomedia

Cyclomedia provides highly detailed panoramic images of the public space as well as aerial photography. I have worked with their team to design and develop a new web-based application for viewing and analysing these images (Javascript, React.js, OpenLayers).

Web map viewer for soil information system

Nazca IT Solutions

For Nazca IT Solutions I have built a web map viewer and integrated it into their soil information system Nazca Bodem (OpenLayers, Javascript, ASP.NET/C#).

City council online GIS platform

City of Rotterdam

I have worked on extending and improving the city council's web-based GIS system for the City of Rotterdam (Javascript, OpenLayers, ExtJS, C#, ASP.NET MVC).

OpenStreetMap server

Organic Vectory

I have installed and configured a server for Organic Vectory with all OpenStreetMap data of The Netherlands (Ubuntu Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Ruby on Rails).

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QMaps

QMaps

I was a software developer, architect and shareholder at startup company Qmaps, a platform for publishing, sharing and viewing online maps (Javascript, OpenLayers, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, CartoDB, HTML5/CSS). Together with the co-founders, we participated and presented at accelerator programs Seedcamp Barcelona and hub:raum Berlin.

SeaDataNet / GeoSeas

MARIS

SeaDataNet and GeoSeas are large EU projects for creating an geographic data infrastructure for marine scientific data. I have created web services for this project (ASP.NET, SOAP, Mapserver) as well as user interfaces (Javascript), introduced OGC standards (WMS, WFS, CSW), and provided technical input, documentation and user support.

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Humboldt

MARIS

Within the Humboldt project I have installed and configured a CSW server (GI-cat) and built a web based client for it (Javascript), set up a WFS server (Geoserver) and contributed to technical documentation.

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INSEA

MARIS

For the INSEA project I have built a web based GIS portal (Javascript, ASP.NET, C#, Mapserver) that displays data from an ecological model (raster data) on a map. The source data consists of a NetCDF file or an OpenDAP server.

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Soil Information System Nazca

CSO Environmental Consultants

At CSO Environmental Consultants I have worked on the development of their web based soil information system Nazca. Some aspects I have worked on are developing a new data model (Oracle Spatial), creating a module for importing and exporting XML file in the SIKB standard format (ASP.NET/C#, NHibernate, XSLT), and developing the GIS viewer (Flash/ActionScript).

Contact me

Want to get in touch? Don't hesitate to contact me. I'd be happy to hear from you!

Arjen de Korte Geo-ICT

+31 6 455 445 16

info@arjendekorte.nl

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