Ed Parsons (born September 26, 1965) is a London-based Geospatial Technologist and tech evangelist at Google.
He is working to evangelise geospatial data for commercial application and consequently, to improve the usability and efficiency of location based tools at Google.
He is credited as being one of the core proponents of Google Street View.Parsons is a registered member of the Royal Geographical Society and he has been employed at Google since 2007.
He is a supporter of the relatively new concept of Neogeography.
In 2015, he was appointed co-chair of the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group, a collaboration between the Open Geospatial Consortium and World Wide Web Consortium along with Kerry Taylor from the Australian National University.