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leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
maps are super duper cool



gis tools are decidedly not super duper cool

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leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

Elder Postsman posted:

most of my last gis job (i was there for 7 years) was creating configuration files for our internal tools, building ETL jobs in FME, writing documentation, and dealing with india. people who looked at my resume were all "hmm i don't see much gis experience here". it was v. frustrating and as much as i like maps and it being the family business going back 3 generations and all, i'm glad i'm in a different field now.

I ran into pretty much the exact same problem. worked for years building in house gis tech, including a pretty darn good in-house web map client (before the current open source stuff was worth a drat), building custom map servers, lots of raster/vector/postgis janitoring, and so on but my resume didn't say "ArcGIS" so nobody gave a drat.

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