About me
I am a swedish guy living in Norway with my wife and son.
I’m educated in forestry and have a dream to some day have a small forest to manage my way.
In my profession I spend most of my time working with different GIS and database related problems.
I have had an intrerest in computors all the time since I had the chance to spend some time with a VIC 20 in 1983 or maybe 84
In autumn 2008 I “found” PostGIS. I became a fan at once. To manage spatial data in database environment is very cool. I get a feeling of very robust, effective and consistent handling. I can use the same query time after time to get comparable result of new data.
PostGIS has also offered me the chance to develop functionality that I have missed in other systems, specially in old Arcview, Avenue environment. The result is the shortestline and closestpoint functions in PostGIS 1.5
Now, my last project has been PostGISonline, a site for trying learning and showing the capablities of PostGIS.
For the future I hope to learn more and be able to contribute to PostGIS and other GIS related open source projects.
My contact info:
Nicklas Avén
e-mail: nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no
phone: +47 45467580