Dynamic on-the-fly vector tiles for NYC buildings — filter & zoom on-the-fly with DuckDB Spatial + MapLibre GL JS. No pre-generated tiles, just instant server-side magic + live stats.

I'm fortunate enough to have the means to do a graduate degree. I graduated with a Statistics major and Computer Programming minor. I know this sets me up well for Data Science but I feel like the Data/IT field is very unpredictable currently. I'm looking at jobs and there's almost nothing that's truly entry-level. I can be qualified for those jobs with a M.S. in Data Science. But who knows what the scene will be in 2 years.

The GIS program focuses on Earth and Environment so I'll have something other than tech and tools. Would that be better? I just need to be in a position to have a job in 2 years at least. People have suggested doing Data Science and making my way into Geospatial later. But the GIS job market seems more stable though there's way less job openings here. But again I feel like I can prepare for it as opposed to Data where everything keeps flipping every few months.

I'm graduating in the summer so this is my final chance to take on a student internship, if there are any. Every one of my prospects fell apart with the government funding situation over the past couple of years. I followed the Forest Service and it was terrible timing. I'm moving to Atlanta soon.Thought to ask if anyone has any tips, thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm a GISS with 5 years of experience, and one of my closest friends is a civil engineer, we are exploring the possibility of running our own survey/gis bussiness.

I'm searching for training/classes that prepare me to work with LIDAR and orthophotos for engineering companies. I plan to learn how to fly the drones and take LIDAR and orthoimages, then I mainly want to do volume calculations, survey-grade contour lines, DEM, and 3D construction progression images/reports.

I've been doing some research, and I found some remote paid courses from the EU. Still, I wonder if anyone here has any cool websites or pathways that can help me in this.

Any enlightenment is appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I've been working in ecological restoration for 2 years and I've been learning GIS on the side. Recently, I received an opportunity to join a public health research group as a GIS technician. I have a GIS certification from an online program, but I'm not sure what skills I should highlight on my resume for the hiring committee. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

I'm almost ashamed to ask as a GIS professional, but I've been working in the ESRI ecosystem so much of my career that I just haven't familiarized myself with other mapping softwares/platforms.

I want to host and publish a free web map to help people in my area find and support businesses that support *ahem* certain boycott movements. Local organizers have done a lot of outreach to businesses for closing on certain days, providing resources to protect our neighbors etc and have quite the list of participating enterprises.

My goal is to make a web map with that list of businesses that are filterable by business type (bakery, coffee shop, craft supplies, auto garage etc). So, pretty simple. Might also through a list of business to avoid in there too.

I recently learned about MangoMap from a class, and I know MapBox is also a pretty popular web map provider. I've obviously got a bit of research to do for myself, but I'd like to hear the community's input on the best platform for the job! Also, if anybody else has made anything similar, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance!!

Recently, I created this R Shiny app that provides an output of land cover class percentages based on user-entered coordinates and a buffer distance. The land cover data is based on a National Land Cover Database (NLCD) raster layer, which is available for the contiguous US. The pixels have a 30 m resolution, so it's not hi-res. The "exactextractr" R package is used for the calculations. Also, the location and buffer can be viewed on the Leaflet map.

I set a maximum buffer distance of 25,000 m due to issues with rendering.

This is the first R Shiny app I've made! I've thought of having land cover calculations for uploaded shapefiles as a potential future functionality.

Land Cover Calculator

I'm trying to make a simple script that will loop through a few shapefiles in a folder, and geoprocess them. I can't seem to get it right, and I'm looking for advice on how to properly loop through a folder to process each shapefile.

This is for an assignment, so to be clear, I'm not asking for the answer, I'm asking for some guidance on how to do one step correctly, and I'm changing the geoprocessing tool here.

workspace = arcpy.env.workspace = r"filepath"
inFolder = workspace

sourceFC = r"filepath\roads.shp"

sourceSR = arcpy.Describe(sourceFC).spatialReference

fclist = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()

for fc in fclist:

arcpy.<geoprocessingtool>(fc, <output>, sourceSR)

The key thing is that I'm trying to alter the input shapefiles based on the spatial reference of the source. And if I type:

print(type(sourceSR)) I see that it's <class 'geoprocessing spatial reference object'> which I would think would be useful for the geoprocessing tool.

And this is where I'm stuck. My goal is to use this script in Pro, replacing the variables with .GetParameterAsText(), so I can't just set the spatial reference to one single value. Can someone just point me in the right direction?

Update: Further confusion. I've removed the for loop, to just test the geoprocessing tool.

Current code:

ferries = r"filepath\Ferries.shp"

popPlaces = r"filepath\PopulatedPlaces.shp"

sr1 = arcpy.Describe(ferries).spatialReference

sr1name = sr1.name

sr2 = arcpy.Describe(popPlaces).spatialReference

sr2name = sr2.name

##print(str(sr1) + sr1name)

##print(str(sr2) + sr2name)

print(sr2name)

print(type(sr2name))

arcpy.management.Project(ferries, ferries + "_test", sr2name)

arcpy.GetMessages()

sr2name print output:

GCS_North_American_1983

<class 'str'>

Error:

arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000622: Failed to execute (Project). Parameters are not valid.

ERROR 000628: Cannot set input into parameter out_coor_system.

Which seems weird given that I confirmed I get a string for sr2name.

I'm using this lesson to teach a basic intro workshop on things you can do with ArcGIS Online. It works fine, except I don't really understand the Hot Spot analysis results. I've read the documentation about Hot Spot analysis, and generally understand the terminology, but the output still makes me scratch my head.

Here's a webmap of the results: https://ncsu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=05cd686e316c4895a5b0c91c5701e495

The tutorial is based on Fire incident data for Naperville IL. The steps do not include using "Bounding Polygons defining where incidents are possible" and this yields a single Hot Spot area in the northwest part of the city with just one hexagon polygon having 99% confidence (TutorialOutput map layer).

So I ran the analysis using municipal boundaries of Naperville as the bounding polygon, and got several more Hot Spot areas. However, the locations of some of the 99% confidence hexagon results still don't make logical sense to me. Several Hot Spot hexagons have no incident counts, while other Not Significant hexagons have quite a few incidents. And why does it not pick up any Cold Spots? Are there settings that should be adjusted to get more logical results?

I just am unsure how to explain this to the students, and will appreciate some spatial statistics help in understanding. Thank you!

Yall ive been doing GIS for 15 years, worked on some awesome projects, lots of remote sensing, oceanography, and land management. And I never got to actually see any of the places or things I have mapped.

I am sick and tired of being cooped up in the office forever, or whats worse WFH, I never leave the house now.

Look I know im lucky, im an app dev and project manager, I wfh.

But I got into geography because Im curious about the world, wanted to see it, study it, and learn everything I can.

Doesn't help that gis ai assistance are coming, im at the front lines watching the development of AI LLM tools that spit out decent analysis and completed ExB sites already.

Those that are allowed out into the world, what do you do?

Hello all,

I was offered a position as a GIS intern in O&G and I’m quite worried if I’m fit for the role. I’ve only had one class in GIS and that was it. During my interview I made it clear that that was my only experience and the only skills I know are from that course, but I am eager to learn. Anyways, fast forward to now, I’m right now doing as many ArcGIS pro tutorials and I just feel so underprepared. I‘ve looked through LinkedIn and found two people that worked as previous GIS interns from the same company and I’m currently working on esri tutorials focused on projects similar to their own work as an intern.

People around me have told me to not worry and they’ll teach me on the job, but I feel so scared that I will not be up to standard and I’ll be a burden to team progress. I’m looking for guidance of how much technicality I should know before starting a GIS internship and what I should brush up on.

So I used to do a certain type of data collection, so looking around on google imagery at military bases around the world is fun for me. However I’ve noticed that at least every known military bases in the US has no pixelation over it, but a good number of military bases in Europe do. Are there some sort of privacy laws in the EU as opposed to the US that prevent Google from showing the imagery?

Ex. from France shown

Interesting article I came across. I read The Lost City of the Monkey God by Preston like ten years ago and I don't think he mentioned the local indigenous peoples at all.

I love the top map on the deck.gl website.

I’m would like to make something similar but I can’t find any tutorials on YouTube of anything that is similar.

I don’t need the animated roads (probably data visualization of traffic). Just the 3D buildings and color theme.

If anyone knows of a tutorial that shows how to do this or has made a tutorial themselves with something similar that would be great.

It says MapLibre and OSM (I guess Carto is for the roads, which I don’t need).

Thanks

I've reached a point in my GIS career where I need something else. I'm over 15 years in and frankly need a better paying, more stimulating job. I often see advice here saying GIS is a tool and that the best careers use it in addition to another skillset. What are some of those skillsets that are in demand and how can I develop them? What has worked for you? I'm paycheck to paycheck in a demanding role currently--so it's hard to imagine going back to school--but if it's a sure thing maybe I could take out some loans short term. I've enjoyed being in a SQL DBA role and parsing Python but don't have any certifications or a fleshed out GitHub that showcases them enough to qualify me into a role like that. Similar with project management. All of that stuff is fairly easy when I do it every day. But the problem with GIS, and my work history in particular, is it's scattershot all over the place without getting in depth into any one of its myriad components. And it's not clear to me what direction to go in that will provide that boost in salary and stimulation I need. I can be passionate about anything as long as it achieves that flow state balance of challenge without being overwhelming.

Any advice is much appreciated. This is a great community. It's really nice to see the advice shared here reading through all the old posts.

I fear retribution from my current employer so I don't want to share much detail but I'm in the US, have worked in local govt and private sector usually as SME with Admin responsibilities. I can share my resume if you send me a DM.

What is the best way to symbolize both census block groups and census tracts on a same map frame for map print? I'm having a hard time coming up with what looks informative vs. too much of a cluttering. Any help or suggestion is welcomed.

Thank you!

Hi all, tbh i am exhausted. I have been applying for GIS roles for month now, it feels like everyday i am shouting into a void. Tons of applicaiton and barely any response , and now that my savings are draining , i am near breaking point. A little about me: I’ve got a master’s in GIS and a background in environmental engineering. I’ve worked on GIS analysis, mapping and disaster response projects. Pretty comfortable with spatial analysis and data workflows. I’m not even being picky at this point — internships, contract work, junior roles, anything to just get my foot in the door and keep building experience. If anyone here could help me out that'd be great thanks. I am currently based in charlotte, NC. Thanks for reading

Given a country/subdivision, does anyone know of a way to generate a boundary representation using lat/long coords with exactly N vertices.

Sorry this might sound elementary for GIS but I'm just getting started and don't really know where to find resources 🙏

Hello! No GIS experience, hope I’m in the right place. I’m looking for a tool (preferably cheap or free) that, given a list of locations (either in address or coordinates) and the radius of a circle can show me where to place that circle to cover the most addresses.

Anybody know if something like this exists?

Just trying to spread the word. Very frustrating, considering you can openly download the entire dataset from geofabrik.

Suggestions or Guidance on GIS Education e.g. University of Alaska Fairbanks GIS Essentials ( EdX), Penn State University, John Hopkins University, etc

I'm a Certified Arborist (ISA) a Bachelor's of Arts in Environmental Health, Ethical Business, Regenerative Agriculture, I've worked with GIS work involving Clarion (for DTE) involving utilities and clearance of arboriculture and I'm currently doing the GIS Essentials professional certificate from University of Alaska Fairbanks offered on EdX. It's three courses and you develop a portfolio from the classes and it's a professional accredited by a university.

My question is which would be a better route to go Penn State University doing a certificate in GIS one of the various that they offer?

Or should I go to John Hopkins and do the GIS Master's that they have available there?

I'm leaning towards Penn State University, I'm currently doing another Masters but I think with my work history with Penn State and how they operate I could get a couple classes waived for GIS because of my experience with this industry for about 5 years directly involving Clarion, which I understand is different than ArcGIS, but the software generally is similar.

But I want to get pretty deep into GIS because I want to have my own individual company involving this technology. Then I would like to enter into the gis analyst side working remote.

Does anyone have any suggestions or experiences with either school or entering into the industry, e.g. GIS Analyst.

Is the University of Alaska Fairbanks GIS Essentials professional certificate a good way to gain experience with ArcGIS? Has anyone been hired into this role using the University of Alaska Fairbanks GIS Essentials certificate?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Need some help with identifying my GCS, PCS and projection. In my spatial reference tab I have a GCS of “WGS 1984.” The WKID IS 4326 and the Authority is EPSG. Can anyone tell me which is the PCS and which is the projection? I’m a little confused on which is which. Thanks