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Héctor García

From a 196€ office to have customers all over the world. Let´s keep growing with illusion and new projects

We are in the 5 Continents

Posted at 19/08/2016 by Héctor García

Geographica´s Team in 5 Continents

196€, that was. 196€ is what cost us our first rental office for Geographica. I fantasized outrageous but it smelled and it gave me some embarrassment that nobody came.

Now we pay much more and with pleasure, because it means that we have grown, learned, failed, dreamed and realised a lot of projects. Projects which fortunately and with effort have led us to the 5 continents.

I have imagination and I always thought that with time, we could have customers in Europe, LATAM and perhaps the United States. But I did not raise me that I may also come from Africa, Asia and Australia.

It is a hyper-connected world and everyday it is getting more and more. A fabulously crazy world full of opportunities that is making us learn and grow from this corner of the planet.

What have we learned from each of the 5 continents?

5 Continentes

We always talk with industry peers about the differences between continents and although generalizations often fail, we are interested and we enjoy with them. I take this opportunity to discuss them here:

Europe: Fragmented. Each country is a different story and usually protectionism predominates. The level of knowledge is very high and respect as well. Lack of some “blood” and ambition.

United States: Immediate. No matter -almost- where you are, what matter is what you offer. We seem more than I thought. Practical and global mindset. Anecdote: we have a client who pays us by Paypal amounts that already are several thousand Euros. It takes an average of 30 minutes after receiving the invoice. Incredible.

Africa: So close and yet so far. It is another pace, you need to get used to it. They are addressing problems skipping steps. There are people with plenty of eager and gradually they are growing. Many resources and infrastructure are lacking.

Asia: We have just touched really, but it is colossal. Ambition and technology are everywhere.We bring them knowledge and imagination.

Latin America: Diversity, gigantic countries, extreme. Large projects and high-level resources (human and financial) coexist with gaps in basic needs. There are many opportunities. High level of understanding.

Australia: Giddy. Constant movements, they create and close business as usual. They make us commissions overnight. Also very practical. Few but good.

In short, life is an evolution. It is a search for something unknown and we often need to get tangible things that we can evaluate.

In our case, we can measure that before we were paying 196 Euros for renting and worked on local projects; now we pay much more and work on the 5 continents.

However, I advocate the intangible: we are happy and we will continue growing and feeling the excitement and the thrill of closing more and more successful projects. That is what we want, what moves us, what we dream. Go on!

Geo-thanks you

 

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Posted at 19/08/2016 by
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The beginning of a beautiful friendship

Carto & Geographica: the beginning of a beautiful friendship

Posted at 19/10/2015 by Héctor García

A few months ago we started officially to work as partners with Carto’s fantastic team. In the first call, they defined us like “Hardcore GIS” and lovers of design and usability. Great, we like to see ourselves like that as well.

As anyone engaged in the spatial technology field, we had been following closely its progress and strategy. And today we can say that it’s really a great pleasure to provide services to our customers with products like Carto. It would be unfair to speak only of the product; It is thanks to a powerful team that makes thinks settled from the outset.

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Each Carto success is celebrated almost like ours. It is the success of talent, a way of seeing life, the world and technology. A success that benefits everyone and for which we will continue to fight. http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/10/with-23m-from-accel-and-salesforce-cartodb-will-bring-mapping-to-the-masses/

Some people ask us if we are not rivals. Of course not! We are complementary, Carto is an excellent product we use for many of our developments. We design and deliver geospatial solutions and use many technologies (Carto, Google Maps, MapBox, QGIS etc.).

These technologies are a blessing for people like us, allow us to provide better solutions, but our work is still infinity. Every company, every organization need customization, they need to view maps but also understand the spatial component to BI, Big Data, Machine Learning, etc. We put this all together and display results through products as Carto.

We have completed our first project together (FIWARE Map http://map.fiware.org/actors/smes) for Ogilvy and soon we will announce some really big projects that we are working on.

On with the show!

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Posted at 19/10/2015 by
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Time, the best master.

Geographica have a new web

Posted at 04/05/2015 by Héctor García

We evolve, hope you like it.

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1.- First period; 2007 – 2008

What were we doing? SVG and Flash viewers. Desktop was dominated by ArcGIS and SmallWorld. Clients still asked for paper maps.

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Our first logo.

Clients = Local companies and administrations

2.- Second period; 2008 – 2012. Open Source and Design explode within Geographica. We chose PostGIS, QGIS, MapServer, R and GDAL. We made Java and HTML5 viewers, we used GM, OSM and OGC. We developed and released our first apps for iOS and Android. We succesfully finished our first geographic management dashboards.

Clients = Administrations, European Projects, National private companies and Scientific institutions.

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3.- 2012 – 201?. Growth stage. Data (at last!) start winning the battle. We do GIS and Data Science. We use Hadoop, Spark, Node.js, Python, SciPy, Maply, CartoDB, Mapbox, Docker, gscope. A new, fascinating and funny era.

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Clients = National and international private companies, national and international institutions, university and scientific organizations.

Where are we going? To create more things, with more people, in more countries. We really want to keep working, creating jobs from here for the whole world. We would make it if we continue taking care of the most important thing; our team, which has been, is and will be the key of Geographica.

Geographica: we are growing and evolving

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