Howard Butler

Howard Butler is the founder and president of Hobu, Inc., an open source software consultancy located in Iowa City, Iowa that focuses on point cloud data management solutions. He led the creation of the Cloud Optimized Point Cloud specification, is an active participant in the ASPRS LAS Committee, helps lead the PROJ and GDAL projects as Project Steering Committee member, is a contributing author to the GeoJSON specification, and the 2023 recipient of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.