About the Author

Mark Lewin has been developing, teaching, and writing about software for over 16 years. His main interest is web development generally and web mapping in particular. Working for ESRI, the world's largest GIS company, he acted as a consultant, trainer and course author and frequent speaker at industry events. He has subsequently expanded his knowledge to include a wide variety of open-source mapping technologies and a handful of relevant JavaScript frameworks including Node.js, Dojo and JQuery. 

 Mark currently teaches ArcGIS Server development for Geospatial Training LLC (http://www.geospatialtraining.com) and is the author of the Google Maps API:Get Started course for Pluralsight (https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/google-maps-api-get-started).

He blogs about web map development at http://www.appswithmaps.net and can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @gisapps.