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Craig came out of a local government background, where as a spatial planner he received formal training in aerial photo interpretation, photogrammetry and land survey. He has used commercial GIS systems since the 80’s, starting on the simple but very effective Atlas GIS by Strategic Mapping Inc. and later moving on to the infuriating but effective ARC/INFO by ESRI. Now he's a QGIS fan and has used it supporting philanthropic work in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh.
Craig concentrates on mapping in Africa. He appreciates that putting a village on the map may enable residents to be recognised and to receive development support and humanitarian aid. Craig is also very interested in conservation and climate change, so does a lot of mapping of threatened forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in several places in Kenya, such as the Mara reserve and forests and wetlands inland of Lamu town.
In his later working life he did less geography and demographics and turned to management doing Strategic planning, Risk management, Performance management, Budgeting and
===Guillaume Rischard===
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