User:David Mountain

David Mountain is co-founder and Technical Director of Placr (placr.co.uk). Placr have developed the Transport API (transportapi.com) serving live and scheduled train and bus data.

David's expertise lies in the overlap of geographic information and mobile location-aware computing. David's role requires technical skills including programming (Ruby, Python, PHP, Java), spatial databases (PostGIS and MySQL spatial), web app frameworks (Ruby on Rails).

David was awarded a PhD (Exploring Mobile Trajectories) from City University London in 2006 and worked for 10 years in the giCentre at City University London as a researcher and lecturer publishing extensively. In his free time, David likes running, surfing, cold water swimming.