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Benjamin Lewis
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Benjamin G Lewis

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Mr. Lewis is system architect and project manager for WorldMap, an open source infrastructure that supports collaborative research centered around geospatial information. Before joining Harvard, Ben was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania, where he led the company in adopting platform independent approaches to GIS system development. Ben studied Chinese at the University of Wisconsin and has a Masters in Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. After Penn, Ben worked at the U.C Berkeley GIS Lab, started the GIS group for the transportation engineering firm McCormick Taylor, and coordinated the Land Acquisition Mapping System for the South Florida Water Management District. Ben is especially interested in technologies that lower the barrier to GIS access.

Emerging Technologies Environmental Sciences Spatial & Geographic Information Systems World Wide Web & Web Science

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Harvard University

Work details

Geospatial Technologies Manager

Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
Institute for Quantitative Social Science

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  • Answers 1
May 21, 2018
Enhancing discovery in spatial data infrastructures using a search engine
Paolo Corti, Athanasios Tom Kralidis, Benjamin Lewis
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.152
October 3, 2016 - Version: 7
Implementing an open source spatio-temporal search platform for Spatial Data Infrastructures
Paolo Corti, Benjamin G Lewis, Athanasios Tom Kralidis, Ntabathia Jude Mwenda
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2238v7

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accepted How does HHypermap compare to other SDI search tools?