About Pete

Peter Fraser. Peripheral Visionary, GIS pastoralist, and convert to Rest First Development.

SpatialMedia is the commercial face of Peter Fraser. My real face is above -albeit slightly obscured..
For the record, I live New Zealand (think beaches and open space), in the fine city of Auckland (think gridlock).

I work at home as much as I can.
Certain sections of SpatialMedia code were written by my kids, who are one and three, and the rest is me.

I don't blog. I'll get around to blogging sometime, but here links below to a couple of pages that give you and idea of what I'm up to.

I work on what I like to call "popular GIS" (Geographic Information Technology -but you know that already). I'm interested in wide, non-expert audiences doing non-trivial things with GIS. Not surprisingly then, I work mostly on web GIS, with some mobile stuff. I tend to do experimental work with 100% SpatialMedia products, and commercial work for ESRI sites (who run our clients and middleware against ESRI servers).

My particular bent is the concept of content-centric as opposed to application-centric GIS. Just as the command line gave way to the GUI, I see applications dissolving into content.
To the extent that people are task-oriented, this content amounts to Wizards -vast teams of Wizards. To the extent that people want to tell stories, this content is interactive documents, or perhaps something more experiential.

I am particularly interested in what is between these extremes. Sometimes I talk about "computing as dinner theatre".

Career as Accident. How I got started on this project.

A curious drive that changed how I think about GIS and well, reality.

Past attempts. 1995 onwards..

I'm also a bit disappointed (and worried about) the lack of Java technology to match Microsoft WPF/E amd XAML.
I'm working on a slowly evolving document about why Java should be interested in what Microsoft are up to.

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	Peter Fraser. Peripheral Visionary, GIS pastoralist, and convert to Rest First Development. SpatialMedia is the commercial face of Peter Fraser. My real face is above -albeit slightly obscured.. For the record, I live New Zealand (think beaches and open space), in the fine city of Auckland (think gridlock). I work at home as much as I can. Certain sections of SpatialMedia code were written by my kids, who are one and three, and the rest is me. I don't blog. I'll get around to blogging sometime, but here links below to a couple of pages that give you and idea of what I'm up to. I work on what I like to call "popular GIS" (Geographic Information Technology -but you know that already). I'm interested in wide, non-expert audiences doing non-trivial things with GIS. Not surprisingly then, I work mostly on web GIS, with some mobile stuff. I tend to do experimental work with 100% SpatialMedia products, and commercial work for ESRI sites (who run our clients and middleware against ESRI servers). My particular bent is the concept of content-centric as opposed to application-centric GIS. Just as the command line gave way to the GUI, I see applications dissolving into content. To the extent that people are task-oriented, this content amounts to Wizards -vast teams of Wizards. To the extent that people want to tell stories, this content is interactive documents, or perhaps something more experiential. I am particularly interested in what is between these extremes. Sometimes I talk about "computing as dinner theatre". Career as Accident. How I got started on this project. A curious drive that changed how I think about GIS and well, reality. Past attempts. 1995 onwards.. I'm also a bit disappointed (and worried about) the lack of Java technology to match Microsoft WPF/E amd XAML. I'm working on a slowly evolving document about why Java should be interested in what Microsoft are up to.
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