Summary
Linda Karlovska is a GIS developer, Ph.D. candidate in Geomatics at CTU Prague, and GRASS Project Steering Committee member who specializes in scalable vector tile solutions for large, dynamic cadastral datasets. With seven years of professional experience at the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping, and Cadastre, she leads the design and supervision of a new ETL infrastructure for cadastral data processing. An active open-source advocate, she has contributed to the GRASS geoprocessing engine, improved its GUI through Google Summer of Code projects, and co-founded MapGeeks to build practical GIS tools. In January 2025 her team released a QGIS plugin for loading the Czech Republic’s JVF digital technical map format, translating national data standards into usable workflows. Balancing research and production work, she now spends most of her time focused on family while continuing to steer community-driven GIS development. An unexpected strength is her ability to bridge academic research, national mapping standards, and hands-on ETL implementation into robust, user-friendly tools.
7 years of coding experience
Czech Technical University in Prague