I have been lucky enough to organize a GIS Day ‘09 career event at the university of Washington, joined by Harvey Arnone of city of Seattle, Marty Balikov of ESRI Olympia and Dane Springmeyer, freelance geospatial developer. The discussion was titled “What are the essential skills to succeed as a GIS Analyst”, and I have compiled some notes to help with all aspiring GIS Professionals out there. Feel free to add more details in the comments section as you see fit.
Oct 02
Many people out there insist that Google Maps and Google Earth is killing the GIS industry. I had a number of students circulate that idea with me, always wondering if there is still a future for GIS. In a short simple answer, Google Maps/Earth is not a GIS, and GIS will be around for the foreseeable future.
May 06
A problem students often have when discussing typography related to cartography is the issue of readability vs. legibility. While this is not an attempt to cover the relevant literature, I do intent to provide examples to enable people to distinguish between the two. Continue reading »
Apr 02
There has been a lot of work related to Participatory or Public Participation GIS (P*GIS I guess) in the academia. There are numerous examples of people doing amazing work introducing GIS outside the confines it was residing thus far. From getting community organizations to use GIS, to getting every day people to perform GIS analysis for various purposes, P*GIS has seen tremendous work thus far. We have indeed reached a stage in which a single component of GIS has become participatory, but more remain. Continue reading »
Mar 25
Coming from various discussions I have had in the GIS and ESRI Users groups in LinkedIn, I decided I should write a log entry describing the three technologies that people discuss frequently, without differentiation between them: the geoweb, web mapping and web GIS. While there are multiple definitions of the three, mine defines the three based on their functionality, differentiating them and drawing clear distinctions. Continue reading »
