13 Facts About Ed Parsons

Ed Parsons was born on 26 September 1965 and is a London-based Geospatial Technologist and tech evangelist at Google.

Ed Parsons is working to evangelise geospatial data for commercial application and consequently, to improve the usability and efficiency of location based tools at Google.

Ed Parsons is credited as being one of the core proponents of Google Street View.

Ed Parsons is a supporter of the relatively new concept of Neogeography.

Ed Parsons is a British citizen who graduated from the Kingston Polytechnic in 1987 with a BSc in Geography.

Ed Parsons joined Ordnance Survey in 2001 as the organization's first Chief Technology Officer and played an instrumental role in moving the course of the organization from mapping to geographical information and went on to become the youngest director of IT.

Ed Parsons left Ordnance Survey in December 2006 and he was offered a job by Google.

Ed Parsons set up his own company Open Geomatics, a strategic consultancy firm focused on the geospatial technology tracking and Neogeography.

In 2010, Ed Parsons received an honorary PhD in science from the Kingston University in recognition of his contributions to the field of GIS and to the university.

Ed Parsons oversaw the coordination of Google Maps and Historypin in 2012 in an initiative to recover lost photographs and document the Royal appearances of the Queen on an interactive map of the world provided by Google Maps.

In December 2015, Ed Parsons was invited to deliver a keynote address at the GSDI World Conference in Taiwan.

Ed Parsons is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

In 2017 Ed Parsons was appointed as visiting professor at University College London in the Department of Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.