David Edwards-May Author

David Edwards-May is an internationally recognised waterways development consultant, cartographer, publisher and writer. David is the editor of our uniquely comprehensive and detailed Practical Navigation pages and PDF downloads, developed from his Imray book ‘Inland Waterways of France’ and based on our parallel experiences of navigating, exploring and investigating thousands of kilometres of French rivers and canals. Resident in Grenoble and fluent in English, French, Italian and German, David initially worked for specialist consulting engineers SOGREAH from 1976 before founding his own waterways consultancy. He is the author of nearly 100 study reports on issues of inland waterway development, principally in France but also throughout Europe on behalf of the EU including recent commissions in the UK (waterway funding) and Finland