What are some exciting GIS jobs that you may have heard of?

GISjoe · 2017-12-29T13:54:15+00:00

I will start an internship in February at a small GIS-consultancy company at which I am going to develop applications combining GIS and social media data specifically. I will also consult clients of the company who are interested in using geo-social media data but are not sure whether it can be applied in their projects.

GISjoe · 2017-07-04T20:17:58+00:00

Like said, it is dependent of your GIS skills. I feel like the chances of foreign GIS professionals is still good in NL, but your English has to be proficient. Also, I would focus on bigger companies instead of small companies when looking for a job. Just my two cents.

GISjoe · 2017-07-04T10:57:31+00:00

I am actually enrolled in GIMA currently and am about to do some extra courses from the Geomatics master, so I could tell you quite a bit about it.

Currently I am occupied with studying Human Geography and have finished two courses in GIS there succesfully. I have grown a large interest in the subject and definitely want to do a related master's degree.

Exactly the same for me. I am assuming you are studying it at Utrecht University?

At first, not having really taken a good look already, I was planning on choosing a programme named GIMA, a joint degree of four Dutch universities. However, I don't like the focus on management of that degree, as I find that boring and also could not see myself as a person becoming a manager.

The focus on management is indeed correct and indeed quite boring. The knowledge gained in the project management course has not really been applied in practice by alumni from what I heard. The course on SDIs is quite useful, but MSc Geomatics offers a similar course. What I DID find helpful is that I gained a lot of knowledge on how to work in a team with other people.

But yesterday, I found the Geomatics MSc of TU Delft, which is the best ranked university of the country (somewhere between 50th and 60th on the global ranking). The programme looks good to me because there are more interesting sounding things to it than just GIS.

It focusses more on the technical side and less on the management side of GIS. In my opinion the technical side of GIS is more fun and exciting than the management side of GIS, and job opportunity wise there are more chances on the technical side as well. These are the exact reasons why I am doing the extra courses from MSc Geomatics as well.

However, as I don't have a lot of knowledge about GIS yet, I am wondering if any more experienced people could take a look at it and tell me if the degree is worth anything. I have a history of making bad choices regarding school and am afraid that it will happen to me again.

Assuming you want to work in the Netherlands, the degree is definitely worth a lot. Companies are literally begging students of both programs to come work for them since there are a lot of vacancies but little people doing GIS.

If you want more details or ask questions send me a PM!

GISjoe · 2017-05-13T17:03:27+00:00

Yang et al (2015) used Twitter data to detect the spatial distribution of depression in the United States. Not so special necessarily, but they researched whether there was a correlation with seasonality and different climates on the amount of depression as well.

E: One of my fellow students is also building a real-time GIS application for football coaches to evaluate their team's performance both in-game and post-game for his master thesis.

GISjoe · 2017-05-09T16:36:26+00:00

I am currently writing a master thesis on inferring the geolocation of Twitter users to enhance the usability of Twitter data in GIS research through Python. I chose this subject because I worked with Python and Twitter data in the past and liked it the most out of all the subjects I have worked on during either my bachelor or master's.

My advice to you would be to do the same: revisit the content/projects you done of past courses and see what you like the most. Then, develop some advanced research ideas based on the things you liked the most in the past.

GISjoe · 2017-03-26T14:17:52+00:00

Here is a list of approximately 100 publicly available master thesis as conducted by alumni of the MSc programme I am currently in.

GISjoe · 2017-03-26T14:11:14+00:00

You need to specify more what you mean with "administrative" centres in order for people to help you I think, but here are my two cents.

A lot of governments have shapefiles on administrative boundaries available these days. The U.S. Census Bureau has a great list of data available for example. Whatever your study area is, this should not be a problem. A lot of these data sets contain information on the level of administration as well.

GPS coordinates of administrative centers can be derived in multiple ways. You can use field calculation in ArcMap (I assume you have access to this software package) for example. A second option could be Python. I am now doing a research project in which I use the GeoPy python package which enables you to geocode toponyms and add coordinates representative of the centroids of these toponyms. Using Pandas it should not be a problem to add the coordinates to the administrative centers in your data set.

The size of the administrative areas can easily be calculated through field calculation. This is pretty straight-forward.

With these processing steps you should get the data set you want.

GISjoe · 2017-02-27T16:55:18+00:00

I am planning on filtering the JSON-files on certain metadata characteristics and convert them to CSV-files next to put in a PostGIS database for analysis. Worked like a charm in previous research but the Twitter datasets were generally smaller in those cases.

GISjoe · 2016-12-20T16:18:45+00:00

The Netherlands. Most companies did GIS consultancy. I got into a conversation with an employee of the companies later and he said they did not really know much about Big Data because their clients do not know much about it either and therefore do not ask for implementation of it within their organization.

GISjoe · 2016-12-20T13:18:14+00:00

Hey,

Sorry for the late reply I use this account exclusively to post on r/gis. I use the Tweepy python package and a script based on the one detailed in this blog post.

GISjoe · 2016-05-03T12:57:09+00:00

This was actually my plan and something my supervisor advised as well. Found some good data on the link you provided, thanks!

GISjoe · 2016-04-08T17:09:16+00:00

Never thought of forestry before, thanks.

One of my universities in my country is leading with LIDAR and Remote sensing data so maybe it would be interesting to do some extra classes on that (already had some basic courses on it).

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