[postgis-users] PostGIS Jobs - UK, Worldwide

Tomas Lanczos lanczos at t-zones.sk
Thu Jan 10 09:52:32 PST 2008


lexner at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As a GIS industry newcomer, I'm in process of prioritizing my research 
> steps, selecting tools and technologies that would be mostly essential 
> and relevant for future job search.
> 
> Concerning client software it is quite simple - without ArcGIS you'll 
> definitely would be out of range. But server mapping has several 

I am sure that postgis/grass/qgis(or openjump) users are not missing 
ArcView any more.

> possibilities - whether to focus on spatial databases - mostly Oracle 
> Spatial or PostGIS, or to look for server middleware like 
> GeoServer\MapServer or Oracle MapViewwer. I'm from Oracle space, so 
> their products are mostly familiar to me.
> 
> I like PostGIS for its simplicity, free availability and great community 
> support. I've already made some demo stands with uDig\qgis with PostGIS 
> backend and tuned GeoServer to work with PostGIS layers. But the 
> question is - are there serious business demand for OpenGIS profies? 
> monster.co.uk, reed.co.uk and gis-jobs.co.uk return no (zero) jobs with 
> postgis keyword.
>
> What whould you suggest?

Well, while the common opinion will be that "without ArcGIS You'll 
definitely would be out of range" it will be no better.

regards

Tomas

> Thanks and best regards,
> Alex
> 
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