Dir of Prod
Factual Inc
Tyler Bell (@twbell) leads Factual's product initiatives in global place data and contextual audience platforms. He is a former archaeologist of late Roman and early medieval Europe, with a research focus on GIS and anisotropic cost surfaces. Tyler led Product for Yahoo's Geo Technologies Group and received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He has broad interests in open source and place-based information systems. Tyler opines occassionaly on data- and geo-technologies for O'Reilly at http://strata.oreilly.com/tylerb