[postgis-users] PostGIS Jobs - UK, Worldwide

[Tomas Lanczos]

Alex,

sorry, it was a misunderstanding from my side :-). I started in the 
opposite direction: MapInfo, ArcView, Sybase ..

I will try to answer Your question, however I'm afraid that this answer 
will be somehow "site specific". What I am trying to do now is to 
develop and implement a potential pollution point source database and 
preliminary risk assessment system for the Slovak environmental state 
administration based on PostgreSQL/PostGIS/Grass/Mapserver. If 
everything will go on a good way in March I can start with the work on 
demonstration level. I had a presentation related to this system on the 
Decision Support for Natural Disasters and Intentional Threats to Water 
Security NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Dubrovnik in April 
2007, the proceedings will be published soon. I could to put the paper 
somewhere to the web or send it to the interested persons, but I am not 
sure about the copyright... So, what can I offer to the customer like 
the state administration? A relatively cheap, reliable and (what is very 
important) a flexible solution. In comparison the proprietary solutions 
are expensive (even the cheaper ones) and "hard tailored", it means that 
the customer should "tailor" himself to use the application - shortly it 
lacks flexibility.

Regards

Tomas

lexner at gmail.com wrote:
> Tomas,
> 
> I do not oppose OGC, quite the contrary I started GIS from PostGIS and 
> qgis, finding them very nice, stable and feature rich. I just didn't 
> find any public job offerings that would require these skills. I'm sure 
> that I must be wrong because the stable and developing community along 
> with many enthusiasts all have to be based on some R&D, scientific and 
> commercial projects worldwide. That's why I asked in this mailing list 
> about your opinions - how and where to get GIS jobs with OGC skills.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
> Tomas Lanczos wrote:
>> 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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