About the Authors

Mark Bishop

Mark is the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Product Marketing Manager for the MapInfo Stratus product. Mark is an expert in regional issues such as INSPIRE. Other favourite topics of Mark are Web 2.0 (and everything it doesn’t stand for), being voted the best presentation by attendees at the 2008 AGI conference. Mark is also attempting to keep his head in the clouds, and install as little software as possible on his machine.

Got a question for Mark? Feel free to contact him at: mark.bishop@pb.com


Chris McCartney

Chris is the Global Product Manager for PBBI’s Enterprise Web Mapping applications, including MapInfo Stratus. Chris joined MapInfo back in 2004 and has worked in the GIS industry for the past ten years. A strong advocate for GIS and mapping in general, Chris is always happy to talk about any aspect of the industry and where we are going.

Got a question for Chris? Feel free to contact him at: chris.mccartney@pb.com

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