On August 25, 2020, Don Anderson, a founding partner of ActiveG, passed away after a fight with cancer.
Don was a GIS industry visionary. From his brilliant mind came the world’s first GIS software component for embedding GIS maps into business applications. This innovation was the technical foundation for ActiveG. His efforts were recognized at the 2013 IBM Pulse Conference when his work won “Best Of Show” for software embedding GIS maps into mobile software.

ActiveG Supreme Commander, Don Anderson (left), accepts the 2013 IBM Tivoli Best of Show award from IBM’s Mark Register.
Don was well-known for his eccentric humor, unbridled curiosity, and his personable decency and integrity. Over many years, he and his wife, Sondra–who preceded him in death by 6 years, donated untold volunteer hours serving adults and young people through their responsibilities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He said he solved one of the most challenging technical problems he’d ever faced while replaying over and over the song “Last Train Home” by the Pat Metheny Group.
Now that he’s taken his last train home, he will be sorely missed.
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