Little story about myself
I am a fan of cities, environment, maps and information technology, thanks to the efforts of my family I completed my studies to turn my passion into a profession.
During my studies there were no courses to become a developer, but to “read” cities I start to follow some neighbors engineers. learned the possibility of analyzing cities through digital cartography, databases and programming languages, as well as GIS software. I became the point of reference for my fellow students, but also for professors who often invited me to explain my elaborations during courses around the university.
In the 2004/05 academic year I photographed street atlases of cities and composed images with CorelDraw to have a detailed base map for projects and public aerial map pixels only allowed you to understand where there was a road and where the urban boundaries to leave space for fields and forest. In fact, military maps were only updated every 10 years and access to updates was not allowed for me. I thus understood that in the following years this sector would have developed a lot and I followed my passion to study and apply everything related to GIS to the territory.
When I was living in Italy life was pleasant and thanks to my skills I always had a good salary, but I understand that I have to join a cutting-edge team in order to work on innovative and useful projects for the environment and the territory. So without any certainty, I started following the work in various European cities and now it’s time for Tel Aviv.
When I was young, I loved building Lego models, often without following the manual and maybe this put me in a different situation to try once again to change my life. In fact, before studying Territorial Planning, my passions were hiking in the mountains, repairing and modifying bicycles and motorcycles, I thought I wanted to open a mechanical workshop…
… but then I started using my sister’s PC, where I had installed a version of SimCity. In this way I learned to the manage the mechanics of a game, to design with Autocad and to create small websites in HTML and Flash.
I’m confused about the correct timeline of my internet discovery, but I have some references like these: in Google photo I have a 1997 image of a wallpaper of Hokuto no Ken and I assume that from that moment I have always archived so rigorous multimedia content; in 2003 I used a chat to communicate with my friends, because I was on Erasmus in Lisbon. I started using GMail in 2008, in 2010 I started editing OpenStreetMap maps and in 2011 I joined Wikipedia to edit some articles and in 2012 I started talking about GIS on my YouTube channel.
The experience outside of Italy and the actively participation in forums, in particular on GIS helped me understand how to think differently in the GIS world. I was a loyal user of a blog called “ESRIdipendente”, a very popular in Italy, since about 2007/08 and I noticed that the same request for my intervention, as at university, was also happening here.
I liked responding to other users and sometime I received direct messages to try to solve the most difficult requests. I was very proactive and invited various users to experiment with maps and the web. Unfortunately, however, when I started asking questions and looking for solutions with a higher level, I could not find real answers. So I entered other non-italian IT forums, but I always found users a little more rigid towards me, because my questions were formulated by a “non-IT” mode. So over the years I have learned to compare myself on these forums, without interacting, but simply by reading and interpreting the various discussions that other users had. So I learned to use Linux, databases, virtual machines and various programming languages. I started to divulge everything I was learning in the GIS forums. During my university studies I started to have some clients on GIS projects, with a lot of n Excel spreadsheets and Access “databases”. I discovered that sharing my knowledge meant finding new customers. In fact, before starting my YouTube channel, I started traveling around Italy to tell and teach the value of digital maps. I’ve always had positive feedback with people meetings and with my YouTube channel, reaching customers with increasingly interesting projects.
In recent years I have consolidated the experiences acquired:
- providing a complete management of geospatial data
- supporting the development of WebGIS applications
- coordinating the development of GIS projects
- creating training courses for GIS users
- testing and delivering projects
I believe that the study and implementation of SEO techniques, Analytics and the W3C standard are important in my professional career. I consider these tools the reference point for all types of data, from generation to use for other purposes. Any reference to the projects that I have worked on, they always had connections to the logic expressed in these tools. I am fascinated by the fact that data can be used on the web and the users themselves continuously generate data, which further contributes to the generation of new useful information in the real world.
Like many other geek/nerds in this period I started following the Web3 and the blockchains, where I recognized that I have many technical gaps, but following some projects such as Cardano, Secret Network and Solana helps me. I discovered the user side of these innovative tools and how being able to interact with them. In addition to the interest in these projects technologies and the high economic risk of crypto-trading, I was impressed by the flow of communities of some NFT projects. In these projects where the words #scam, #rug #moon, #wagmi have taken on real meaning for each user.
I saw an engagement mechanism that I have never found anywhere.
Obviously, they are often simple scams, but the communities that work are full of ideas, projects that can be followed from the start, they create and publish reliable and powerful tools for analyzing data, such as dune.com
I learn a lot from My clients work in the industry supermarket networks, insurance, banks, logistic, transportation, public administrations and I learn a lot from their projects, but my GIS/Urban planner solution are inspired on international companies project and I would like to work for them, but I have very few references to be able to work in one of these companies.
What I am looking for today is a company that uses GIS to manage the territory as the main tool to create and manage information, which allows me to work in a team of professionals who apply their skills, where there are growth prospects and above all that I allow you to continue contributing to open-source and open-data communities.
