Andrew Naish

Andrew Naish has been a Java developer for over a decade, working mainly on back end systems. His speciality is coding visualizations using GIS mapping systems like ESRI’s ArcGIS Online. He works for Space-Time Research and is the lead developer for the mapping applications group.

MyGovApp: KML Cruncher

The KML Cruncher is a web service/web page that converts and generalises ESRI polygon shape files into KML format ready for the web. It’s useful for those people who quickly want to move from the ESRI shape file format into KML for web mashups, without the fuss of obtaining heavy weight GIS systems.

KML Cruncher was developed after extensive searching on the Web failed to find a tool like it. It doesn’t look fancy but can save hours of a developers time generalizing polygons.