Bernardo Salazar
Bernardo Salazar is the founder of UrbanDataLabs, a civic data practice focused on practical GIS, decision-ready data, and right-sized analytics for public agencies, emergency management teams, nonprofits, and civic organizations. His work sits at the seam between geospatial tools and public-sector operations: field data systems, operational map packets, data-quality audits, workflow design, and handoff practices that help teams use maps under real constraints. He is especially interested in open-source geospatial tools that reduce overbuild, expose data problems, and make public-sector mapping systems more understandable, maintainable, and useful.
Sessions
Wildfire planning often maps fuels, structures, and evacuation zones while missing stored chemicals. This talk shows how open-source geospatial workflows can connect Tier II inventories, WUI fire risk, responder safety, runoff concerns, and pre-incident planning.
Emergency map ecosystems sprawl quickly: dashboards, web maps, portals, feeds, and field apps. This talk demonstrates a local-first Civic GeoShell pattern that inventories, creates handoffs, and routes failures instead of building yet another operating-picture dashboard.
Rural GIS is often framed as a capacity problem. This talk reframes it as resilient design, showing how open-source tools, offline packages, lightweight metadata, and handoff workflows help maps survive thin staff, weak signal, and sparse data.