Gary Gale

Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Ovi Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group.

Prior to Nokia, he was the lead at Yahoo's Geo Technologies group in the UK, releasing GeoPlanet and Placemaker and providing geo services. He speaks at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, #geomob, mashup*, the British Computer Society, WhereCamp EU, the Location Business Summit and FOWA.

Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.