Margo Atkinson

Margo Atkinson has been with the Center for Geospatial Solutions at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy since 2023, currently in the role of Manager, Research & Analysis. She specializes in taking spatial processes to more reproducible, comprehensive, and growth-ready forms. As a project incubator, Margo has worked with policy and data specialists to increase the analytical rigor of spatial dataset creation and spatially informed project scoring systems. With a particular focus on the social and physical infrastructure that shape our communities, Margo’s core motivation is to increase social equity in policy and metrics through data tool access and new ways of understanding the world we live in.


Sessions

11-05
15:30
30min
Opening Up Urban Form and Development Trends
Margo Atkinson

The Center for Geospatial Solutions rewrote their formerly proprietary-based tool that identifies informal settlements and predicts where future building may occur. Using open source packages in Python, they decreased run time and increased usability across user skill levels.

Transition to FOSS4G
Regency Ballroom B