Māris Nartišs
Senior Researcher at University of Latvia
Latvia
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Top SchoolMāris Nartišs is a Senior Researcher and PhD geographer with 18 years of experience developing custom GIS analysis tools, spatial data management and web-publishing solutions while co-founding SunGIS. He combines academic teaching and research in Quaternary geology and geomorphology with hands-on software development, contributing backend fixes and stability improvements to the widely used open-source QGIS project. Based in Latvia, he translates GIS desktop software to Latvian and offers practical GIS consulting, bridging scientific insight with production-ready tooling. Known as a free/libre software enthusiast who occasionally wears an entrepreneur’s hat, he brings deep domain expertise in glacial landform processes alongside robust engineering skills.
18 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Geography, 9 (excellent), Bachelor's degree, Geography, 9 (excellent) at Latvijas Universitate / University of LatviaDr. geog., Geography, Dr. geog., Geography at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian, Russian, Polish, German
Github Skills (10)
wms10
geographical-information-system10
gdal10
c-language10
ras10
gis10
cprogramming-language10
raster10
cmake9
opencl8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS
Jun 2019 - May 2022
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Māris's commits primarily focus on improving the functionality and stability of the QGIS software. They are involved in fixing bugs related to the GDAL provider, specifically addressing issues with loading rasters from compressed files and accessing subdatasets. Furthermore, they contributed to extracting data from WMS-C TileSet layers, enhancing the provider's capabilities. They also bumped minimum Proj version and fixed a segfault related to OpenCL support.
geographical-information-systemgisqgis
marisn/gdal
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
GDAL is an open source X/MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
licensedgeospatialrasterdata-formatsgeospatial-data
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