# My name is Roger, and I'm a graphaholic. "Hello, Roger!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Introduce-Yourself\ **Created:** [July 15, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/my-name-is-roger-and-im-a-graphaholic-hello-roger/21696 "2020-07-15T15:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rwdunn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/rwdunn/32/12706_2.png) [@rwdunn](https://community.neo4j.com/u/rwdunn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/my-name-is-roger-and-im-a-graphaholic-hello-roger/21696/1 "2020-07-15T15:49:53Z")
My name is Roger Dunn, and I recently found Neo4j when it showed up as an ad in one of my Gmail boxes. I am glad it did. I have had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and made several mistakes constructing and querying my graphs. I have impressed co-workers with what I have imported from our master database and displayed as cool pictures. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I have worked for just under 25 years as an application programmer. Some work I did for the public education sector, but the majority of my work has been for local government, creating in-house products that fill a need. My job has helped me get to know employees in development services, engineering, the court, police, fire, public works, and the recorder's office. My main development platform has been Delphi, and am just getting into Visual Studio, C#, .NET Core, and all that jazz. I am also the City's GIS (Geographical Information Systems) expert. I have helped the City create and maintain GIS layers that represent assets, boundaries, and tasks. I regularly do presentations at state-wide GIS conferences to other GIS users. I have a lot of contacts and friends in the GIS industry, but not so many in the programming industry. GIS is a marriage of art and math, and I just love it. I'm excited to see what Neo4j can do with our GIS. In my personal life, I enjoy playing Magic: the Gathering with friends and on-line. I am a certified Level 1 judge and limit myself to judging Prerelease tournaments at my local game store. I also enjoy playing D&D with my twin sons and their friends, but it's hard putting in the time to prepare for game sessions with everything else I do. I have a wife, three kids, and two dogs (mother and daughter shorkies). I enjoy listening to 50's and 80's music and Broadway show tunes. I am currently watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![clem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/clem/32/4364_2.png) [@clem](https://community.neo4j.com/u/clem)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/my-name-is-roger-and-im-a-graphaholic-hello-roger/21696/2 "2021-01-18T19:01:39Z")
Welcome! You might be interested in this Geospatial thread: > [@Why is this geospatial search so slow?](https://community.neo4j.com/t/why-is-this-geospatial-search-so-slow/31952/): > > Hello, I have, what i think is a relatively straightforward cypher query that is unexpectedly slow: MATCH (potential\_user:GraphUser) WITH potential\_user, distance(point({srid:4326, x:-140.0312186, y:39.33233141}), potential\_user.location) as distance WHERE potential\_user.is\_banned=false AND potential\_user.is\_paused=false AND potential\_user.is\_invisible=false AND potential\_user.profile\_complete=true AND distance \< 100000 RETURN count(potential\_user) There are only about 120K GraphUser n… ---
**Author:** ![clem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/clem/32/4364_2.png) [@clem](https://community.neo4j.com/u/clem)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/my-name-is-roger-and-im-a-graphaholic-hello-roger/21696/3 "2021-01-18T19:22:10Z")
And this too: > **[Building Spatial Search Algorithms for Neo4j - Neo4j Graph Data Platform](https://neo4j.com/blog/building-spatial-search-algorithms-neo4j/)** > > Learn about spatial graphs and how Craig Taverner, Senior Software Engineer at Neo4j, built Spatial Search Algorithms based on his work with Stef van der Linde.