Mr Jeremy R Jones CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Corporate GIS Team Leader Employer: Cardiff Council Memo: Jeremy is the Corporate GIS Team Leader for Cardiff Council and has an MSc in GIS by distance learning from Salford University in 2003. Jeremy has been heavily involved with all things GIS since its introduction to the Council 1993. With a background in Civil Engineering he worked primarily in the Highways, Transportation and Land and Property arenas until 2000 when he became the Corporate GIS Team Leader and the GIS function was absorbed into a centralised IT. The position gave Jeremy the opportunity to coordinate the Authorities fragmented development and formulated the GIS Strategy for Cardiff. As Local Street Gazetteer (LSG) Custodian for Cardiff Jeremy has promoted the use of the NLPG as its core address database linking to back office systems. Jeremy has worked hard to promote the advantages of geographic information and the open use of data across the Authority, most notably in Cardiff Schools running inset days for geography teachers on 'Geography through IT' and the development of a searchable metadata browser in accordance with INSPIRE containing over 500 Council Corporate Datasets.