Web Mapping Presenter: Rob Atkinson

Rob Atkinson is Australia’s leading specialist in Web Mapping. He is a key contributor to ground-breaking research and projects in the Geo-spatial technology sector in Australia and around the world.

Rob Atkinson Chief Technology Officer, Social Change Online Rob pioneered the use of OpenGIS standards, which have been adopted by a number of governments as the official infrastructure standard, including the USA, Canada, the European Union and Australia. Acknowledged as a global authority on distributed data systems and Web Mapping, Rob's high level industry involvement includes: Co-author of OpenGIS Web Map Server and Web Feature Server specifications Member of OpenGIS Catalog Services version 2 revision working group Editor of draft OpenGIS Gazetteer Service Specification Co-author of OpenGIS Web Map Context Document draft specification.

Clients include: National Oceans Office NSW Community Access to Natural Resources Information Murray-Darling Basin Commission NSW Local Government and Shires Association Nature Conservation Council of NSW Queensland Government Natural Resources & Minesv European Commission United States Federal Geographic Data Committee Open Geospatial Consortium