Mr Andrew Young CGeog (GIS)
Employer Name
Arcadis Consulting
Biography
Andrew is currently Regional Director GIS and Geospatial for Arcadis and manages GIS teams in Bristol, London and Guildford. He previously worked in Oman and Qatar, managing geospatial elements of the Oman National Spatial Strategy and the GIS and master data elements of the Ashghal Highways and Drainage asset management system. He also spent a number of years as Chair of the Regional Chairs Address Group and the local authority representative on the Authority Executive Group for the National Address Gazetteer (NLPG). Andrew has been involved with GIS since 1995 when he developed a passion for Geographic Information whilst developing a GIS in Durham City Council. His involvement with gazetteers began with the inception of the National Land and Property Gazetteer in 1999 and he has played a major role in its development and evolution up to 2014 when he moved to Qatar. Andrew has presented on GIS and asset management, the use of gazetteers and geographic information, has given state of the nation Gazetteer addresses at the GeoPlace conference and has written a technical blog on addressing and spatial information called Addressing Everything.