WhereGroup — Mapbender GIS Product (1M+ Users)

WhereGroup GmbH · Bonn, Germany · Mar 2014 – Feb 2018
Role: Senior GIS Software Developer (employee)
Product: Mapbender — OSGeo geoportal framework

Highlights

• Delivered spatial data solutions for public-sector clients (employer: WhereGroup) serving 1M+ users
• Built vis-ui.js and Digitizer — adopted across Mapbender deployments
• Contributed to mapbender/* and WhereGroup/* OSS repos (print, search, layersets, SpatiaLite)
• Products under WhereGroup: Mapbender core, Meldemax (Mapbender-based PoC), tooling (routing, Solr, SpatiaLite, …)
• Client deliveries (examples): Deutsche Bahn FLIMAS (DB S Immobilien), EBW Mapbender, municipal geoportals (Frankfurt, Rostock, RVR, …)

Key modules

Module	Role
mapbender-digitizer	Spatial editing module (344 commits)
mapbender-print	Print module (~457 commits)
mapbender-starter-search	Search integration (~399 commits)
dbsimm-flimas	Deutsche Bahn GIS / FLIMAS (Solr, Symfony)
ebw-mapbender	EBW client Mapbender
frankfurt-geoportal	Frankfurt geoportal
meldemax	WhereGroup product (Mapbender PoC)

GitHub activity

~2,900+ commits on mapbender/* and WhereGroup/* via eSlider GitHub account — employer OSS work.

Tech stack

PHP · Symfony · PostgreSQL/PostGIS · SpatiaLite · JavaScript · Solr