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GIS Jobs – What skills do you need?
Article by Christopher Vella-Bone GIS is a highly complicated piece of mapping software that requires a great deal of technical knowledge to operate properly. As a result and coupled with the competitive employment industry we have constructed a list of particular skills that employers look for when offering a position working with GIS. Basic understanding of programming and how it works: A basic knowledge and understanding of general programming practices is an extremely useful tool for anyone hoping to gain a GIS Job. This enables you to understand how programming skills can help you to solve certain problems and errors that may occur within the software. A good understanding of spatial data and algorithms: Any good GIS programmer needs to have an understanding of how spatial data and algorithms function in the software. As a result, this enables the user to familiarise themselves with certain operations and identify in what Read more…
GIS Jobs in the UK
Article by Christopher Vella-Bone Over the past decade there have been major advancements in technology and software. One such advancement is that of GIS. Consequently, the number of GIS jobs in the UK offered by companies is on the rise. This article will help to give you a greater insight into GIS and how you can get a GIS related job. What is GIS? Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a complex technology displaying the digital representations of specific geographic areas. Satellites are a popular method of capturing such images of larger areas e.g. a country or continent. A primary use of GIS is for scientific investigations, examples of which many of us will have seen in motion pictures such as “2012″ and “The Day After Tomorrow.” GIS use spatial patterns to display data on maps. There are three main types, point patterns, line patterns and area patterns. Point patterns can Read more…
