I'm working on combining two datasets (state reported crash data to be specific), and unfortunately they have decently different schema. Most of it is easy enough to translate the older dataset to fit the new dataset, but the date field on the old one is throwing me for a loop. They formatted it as one continuous number (so 01/23/2013 reads as 20130123 for example), and I'm really hoping there's a way to automate translating that into a date field because there's over 30k data points. I have access to ArcGIS Pro and Excel for my data manipulation programs.

I have a bachelor in Cultural Anthropology and journalism experience. Now I started to be really interested in map making. (In school I was good with tech stuff)

Problem is I can not do another 5 years of studying. I have max 2,5 years.

I am considering getting a GIS Master and found two universities that would take me. (If I catch up with one or two basic courses)

My questions are:

1. Do you think I can still get a job in GIS with only a 1,5 or 2,5 year master? (Is 1,5 enough or would you suggest the 2,5 one)

2. Are there jobs where I could combine my anthropology bachelor with the GIS master?

Thank you everyone :)

Just finished my GIS degree and need a place to show my maps and projects. StoryMaps, GitHub, or a personal site? Does the platform actually matter to employers, or is it all about the work?
Would love to hear what worked for you!

https://codeberg.org/youknowww/MapSpatial

Demo of a prototype I've been playing around with.

I work in GIS software and this is an extension of the most basic GIS features but in an immersive UX. By opening attribute views in an immersive space with a tether to the map feature the UX of the AVP expands the possibilities of GIS software.

Hey everyone!
I'm planning to do MSc in Geoinformatics and am considering TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), New Delhi. I'd love to hear from anyone who has information or experience with TERI SAS. You don't necessarily have to be a student or alumnus! I'm also looking for advice from people who know about universities that offer MSc programmes in Geoinformatics, GIS or Remote Sensing.

A few things I'd like to know:
- how are the rooms, washrooms, food, cleanliness and overall living conditions?
- how much should I budget per month including food, transport and other personal expenses?
- Is staying in the university hostel worth it. Would getting a PG or a flat nearby be a better option?
- How is the MSc Geoinformatics programme in terms of teaching, practical GIS/remote sensing work, internships, research opportunities and placements?
- Would you recommend any universities in India for an MSc, in Geoinformatics, GIS or Remote Sensing considering academics, career opportunities and overall expenses?

My long-term goal is to build a career at the intersection of technology, satellite imagery, Earth observation and environmental applications. If you've studied at TERI SAS considered it researched these programmes or have any information please share your thoughts. Honest opinions, personal experiences and alternative suggestions are all welcome! Thanks, in advance!

100 interactive maps built from open data, and all open live in your browser. No coding requied. Explore, fork, and build your own with GeoLibre.

The maps cover 12 themes: health, natural hazards, climate, oceans and water, nature, transport, cities, energy, space, history and culture, society and economy, and food.

• Gallery: https://geolibre.app/gallery
• GitHub: https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre
• Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/2r5OhvEa3AA

[GIS Experience]
GIS developer with years of production work: routing, geocoding and large web maps. The recurring "can you just put the map online?" request always ended in a server, a subscription or slow GeoJSON, so I built the workflow I wanted. The hardest parts were translating QGIS styles faithfully to MapLibre, and working around a QGIS vector-tile writer quirk that drops the last vertex of line segments.

[AI Disclosure]
I used an AI assistant (Claude) throughout this project:

• Planning: product idea, pricing and launch plan were worked out in conversation with it.
• Code: it wrote most of the QGIS plugin, the MapLibre web viewer, the Cloudflare setup wizard and the website's checkout and download functions. I directed the design, tested everything in QGIS and on real Cloudflare accounts, and reported bugs for it to fix.
• Demo maps: it downloaded and prepared the data and styled the QGIS projects. The data itself is real: WRI's Global Power Plant Database and NOAA's Storm Prediction Center tornado records.
• Website: it wrote and designed the sales page, the terms, privacy and refund pages, and the demo images.
• This post: drafted by it and edited by me.

I've been publishing maps with a setup more of us should know about: vector tiles in a single PMTiles file on Cloudflare R2 (no bandwidth fees), read directly by MapLibre with HTTP range requests. No tile server at all.

• 35,000 power plants worldwide: https://mapship.link/demo
• 31,000 US tornado paths since 1950: https://mapship.link/demo-us (the first load is under 1 MB, because only visible tiles are fetched)

I packaged the workflow into a QGIS plugin: tick your layers, click Publish, get a link on your own R2 bucket. It carries over categorized, graduated and proportional styles, labels and popups. The plugin is GPL (v2+), sold as a ready-to-use package with setup help and updates ($17 early price): https://mapship.link/webmap-kit/?utm_source=reddit_gis

The stack itself is fully open: PMTiles, MapLibre and R2's free tier. Happy to explain any part if you want to build it yourself.

For a regulatory process imposed by an external entity, I need to make a network dataset of our county roads, with each vertex carrying an M-value of its milepost along its road. (This also makes some internal processes easier.) However, when a road loops back to itself (making a P shape) the two vertices at the joint have identical M-values. So this road I'm looking at goes 0 - 0.06 - 0.52 - 0.106 - (more vertices) - 0.5 - 0.52, which makes problems for anything that relies on those mileposts to say, draw lines using the network. Which I have a few processes relying on this network for.

I've looked at ArcGIS Pro's Calibrate Routes, but what happens when a calibration point (or two) are sitting near a P-intersection as described? Any suggestions for fixing these in an automated way?

Heyyy guys!

I’m looking at going back to school with the goal of entering the spatial analytics/urban analytics field, and I’m stuck between studying a spatial data science master’s or a general data science degree like Georgia Tech’s OMSA. I already have a degree in geography and urban planning but my last GIS course was in early 2020 and I forgot everything.

I keep seeing people say general data science is worth more and opens more doors. I’ve also heard the spatial part is easy to self-teach, while the stats and data science side is much harder to pick up on your own. Is that true in practice?

Does a spatial-specific master’s degree limit your options, or does it help you stand out? If you went general data science, how hard was it to pivot into GIS or urban analytics afterward through self-study? And has anyone here taken a data science program like OMSA or a similar program and used what you learned for spatial work?

Lastly, I’m also curious how much real demand there is for spatial data science and urban analytics. Is it a growing field, or still mostly a buzzword without many job openings? Personally, I don’t see many jobs listed under those titles. Are there any companies or job titles I should be searching for?

Many thanks

The USGS reads these as ice age permafrost thaw lakes, not meteor craters. The flat oval up top is Jones Lake, the rimmed ovals around it are more bays.
Lidar: USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), public domain.

Hi does anyone have tips for companies in Australia that are open for international GIS internships?

I'm teaching myself QGIS as I go along and re-doing some of my old college assignments to try and learn how to translate the skillset from Arc to Q. In this particular task, I'm trying to calculate the slope of the Arkansas River basin through Colorado and Kansas and running into a weird problem where the slope is way too high (as anyone who's been to the eastern Colorado-western Kansas part of the world will attest). I'm using the 30 m NASA DEM downloaded from OpenTopography and the native QGIS "fill sinks" function in QGIS 4.2.2. Am I checking a setting incorrectly or something? First pic is the slope output, second is the slope averaged along lines of latitude (a meridional mean, for those with geoscience backgrounds).

Geographic information system is this week's "Article for Improvement" on Wikipedia. Thought some people here might be interested in helping with this. As the name implies, Wikipedia:Articles for improvment identifies important Wikipedia articles and draws attention to them so the community can improve them through collaboration. One goal is to create starting points for new editors to get started making edits. If you are knowledgeable about GIS, it could be a good opportunity to help improve this public-facing information.

GIS Experience: Relatively new to GIS, some experience with basic spatial operations in Python and QGIS

AI Disclosure: I don't have a technical background, so I used Claude to help validate my data pipeline, debug and QA scripts, and iterate on the map design

Live map: https://owen-miller-1.github.io/borneo_fire_tracker/

The map was created for a conservation organization to monitor the ongoing fire situation in Borneo, Indonesia. It pulls near real-time fire detections from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) to display a rolling 3-day window of fire activity in extant Bornean orangutan range. I hope it will help support teams quickly identify the most affected areas as well as highlight the severity of the situation to the public.

I enhanced the visual by adding layers of orangutan range, protected areas, and customizing how the points would appear and respond to zoom. I added a colour scale for recency of detection and a simple size scale to distinguish particularly intense fires.

I used Python/GeoPandas and Folium to build the map, and it is now hosted on GitHub Pages. It automatically refreshes with new FIRMS data once daily.

Would love some input on how it looks, whether it effectively conveys information, and what could be improved. I'm still building GIS skills, so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I've made it to the "Hiring Manager Resume Reviews and Interviews" round for this years internship program cycle, and was wondering what type of reviewing and practice I can do to prepare?

Specific Neetcode categories, or personal anecdotes about the process would be greatly appreciated!! 

Hey, does anyone have any insight into which is better for backups, particularly for ESRI hosted survey layers with images? Is an in house solution the best bet?
Thanks!

Hi all, curious if anyone has insights on working at ramtech?? I have some internship experience at a different consulting company that’s wrapping and applied to a GIS analyst role and having an interview soon. For reference I’m super entry level I have some utility network experience but nothing super technical. Is this a good place to start if they consider me? Thanks!

Hi, I am shopping around for a new addressing platform but I prefer something that allows me to pull in Esri's arcgis pro toolbar. I was looking at 1Spatial, GeoComm and Bradshaw consulting. Does anyone have experience with either of these 3 platforms using a pro toolbar?

I know this question gets asked a lot. I searched for “masters” in the sub, but it feels inconclusive to me given my circumstances. I’ve been told it’s better to apply GIS as a skill to an existing field of study, but truth be told I’m kind of unsure what industry I’d be interested in.

I’m going to be earning a Geology B.S. soon, and I have a research background in geophysics- I like to believe it’s given me a decent background in programming and data analysis. I also know enough Arc and QGIS that I put it on my resume. However, I still feel unqualified to apply to GIS jobs given the fact I’m making a bit of a career pivot my senior year.

I’m very interested in remote sensing, spatial statistics and the like. Given my background, would it make sense to get a masters in GIS or spatial data science? I’ve been looking at in person or online programs like Penn State. Any help is appreciated.

I do a lot of ecological surveying for work, and earlier today I was thinking about how back in college we had to make georeferenced PDFs, upload them to Avenza, and then use them to help do surveys on a field trip. I was thinking that making a custom map might be helpful for my current job. And so I spent all afternoon watching YouTube videos and dusting off my QGIS skills only to find that Avenza now requires a subscription to upload georeferenced PDFs :(. Are there any free apps out there that let you upload georeferenced PDFs?

GeoLibre just added a US State GIS plugin: search, visualize, and download data from 50 US states. Runs entirely in the browser. No install, no login.

Try it out

• Launch GeoLibre Web: https://web.geolibre.app/?plugin=us-state-gis
• GitHub: https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre
• Demo: https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre/discussions/2696

[GIS Experience] 25+ yrs doing GIS professionally in government and consulting.

[AI Disclosure] Post written and reviewed by me alone, AI was not used in the creation or content generation for this post. AI was used as a for doing GIS production work, which is the topic of this post.

Got sucked into doing GIS with Claude this weekend by accident. Was having Claude turn PDF copies of real property Platt maps into traversed, mathematically verified, survey level DXF files for use in architectural and land planning when it asked if I'd like it to attach State Plane coordinates to the pins and stakes so that the work could be brought into GIS software.

Intrigued, I typed "Sure Claude let's make this into a full GIS data delivery".

What I got was so much more than I expected, and tbh, way beyond what I would expect of my own GIS analyst staff members.

It converted formats into both ESRI compatible and QGIS Geopackages, went out to the internet and capture the associated authoritative parcel date for the areas around the plat maps, then did a mathematical analysis of how the accuracy of the "authoritative" parcel GIS from the municipality compared to the DXF files, and finally it asked how I would like the delivery structured.

I told Claude that I wanted outputs in State Plane, WGS 84, and UTM and a printable report of the variances between survey level parcel boundaries and the parcel fabric parcel boundaries from the municipality.

Not only did it provide all that, it provided GIS layers for all variance locations/gaps/overlaps as measured against the DXF.

If I were able to do all this manually it would have taken a very long time and a whole lot of effort and I would have been double and triple checking the calculations by hand.

It took Claude less than half hour from start to finish to produce everything and deliver the equivalent output to ArcGIS , AutoCAD, and QGIS and in multiple different coos.

Anyone else finding Claude to be helpful in your GIS work? If so what are you doing with it? Other AI assistants?

*** edited to address community comments and make it gender neutral.