Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He also works in the fields of digital

cartography Cartography (; from , 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and , 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can ...

wireless networking A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks, and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables in ...

, intelligent

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and the

Semantic Web The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable. To enable the encoding o ...

. He was the lead developer of NoCatAuth which is an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (''telecommunication'') between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided transm ...

captive portal A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources. Captive portals are commonly used to present a landing o ...

. Erle grew up in Philadelphia and Springfield, PA and after graduating from Springfield High School in 1995, went on to earn his degree at Temple University. He has created the popular games Balance of Power and Squigby. Schuyler has worked for

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MetaCarta MetaCarta is a software company that developed one of the first search engines to use a map to find unstructured data, unstructured documents. The product uses natural language processing to georeference text for customers in Defense industry, de ...

(where he and Chris Schmidt created OpenLayers), and worked for SimpleGeo until their merger with UrbanAirship.oreillynet.com
/ref> He joined Amateur Radio Digital Communications as Director of Technology in October 2024.

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* Short biography -
http://nocat.net/

Talk on The Democratization of Cartography
given to NUUG in 2006 Living people Free software programmers Erle, Schuyler Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-compu-bio-stub