Mr David Watt CGeog

Biography

Memo: David has been a geospatial analyst working at the Defence Geographic Centre, Ministry of Defence since 1986. He specialises in geographic analysis, initially operational research into the content and quality of civilian and military topographic mapping and then geographic data collection, initially over the British Isles then Asia Pacific regions. He now heads a team of six in the Africa, Middle East & Antarctica region of the MOD Geospatial Library. David has a BA (Hons) in Geography from Newcastle Polytechnic and Diploma in Cartography from University of Glasgow. David has been active in the British Cartographic Society since 1987, participating in Map Curator and Historical Military Mapping Group events and has been a Council member since 1997. He joined the Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey mapping in 1986 and was its Publications Manager between 1991 and 1997. He also has an interest in cartographic ephemera and the Soviet Cold War mapping of the United Kingdom.