After having a couple of weeks off over the Christmas, New Year period I have returned to finish off my internship with EGL.
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Week 6 as a GIS intern
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Beyond SDI – Shared Services
There’s a growing trend in NZ for councils to band together in shared services initiatives. These are occurring between and within regions and offer substantial opportunities to generate both efficiencies and increased effectiveness.
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Week 5 as a GIS intern
This week has gone really quickly. I finished off creating an MXD and MSD for a client who we are creating a new viewer for. I was shown a video that Esri has released on how to design effective amp services. This video was really helpful as it explained things such as MSD’s really simply, and also went into detail about what things could be done to make an MSD run as fast as possible. As well as creating the MSD I also had a brief look at mobile. It was evident very quickly the reasons why I am often told at uni that all layers must have the same spatial reference- one reason being that it isn’t possible to add layers with different spatial references into ArcGIS Mobile. I quite enjoyed the challenge of having to create the MSD so hopefully I may get to do more of that next year.
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Week 4 as a GIS intern with EGL
This past week has consisted of a few tasks that have reinforced ideas that I have briefly covered in my studies. On Monday I continued to work on an MXD which will be used to create a client’s new viewer, I was meant to spend most of this week on that project, however I am waiting for some data so hopefully I will have access to that early next week so I can get on with that project- I’m looking forward to working on this project as I will get a chance to have a look at Mobile Project Centre and also Essentials.
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Week 3 as a GIS intern
The past three weeks have gone so quickly, it’s hard to believe that I have been a GIS intern for three weeks already. This week started off pretty slow with most of my time spent scanning… one bonus of all this scanning is that I haven’t felt so guilty if I don’t go for a run after work as the scanner is upstairs and I have to press scan on my computer downstairs.
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Hiring Time – who we’re looking for
It’s hiring time again. We have an interesting surge of work coming in 2011 with work lined up for customers around the world. Hiring is what makes or breaks a company so it’s something we take seriously.
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Week 2 as a GIS Intern
Kim the Intern
I have just finished my 2nd week as a GIS intern. I spent most of my first week learning what EGL does and some of the systems that they use. This week has been more hands on and I have been involved in various projects.
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Customer Care – myth or reality?
If you look on most organisations websites you will probably find something which eludes towards Customer Service – or even Customer Care explicitly named. Esri has a Customer Care Portal - it is where you can download your software from, monitor support requests, check on your licensing, re-visit training, etc. It is essentially a portal which helps you, the customer, to help yourself.
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Are Basemaps really that exciting?
Interesting Times in GIS
It’s an interesting time to be a GIS professional.
Having lived through the transition of GIS from departmental tool to enterprise asset, we’re now seeing an entirely new phenomenon gathering considerable pace: neogeography. We first saw neogeography when Google Maps emerged and introduced GIS to the masses. It didn’t really of course but it did help my Mum understand what I do. Suddenly maps became relevant to the consumer. And the GIS professional dismissed it as ‘consumer mapping’; irrelevant and scary all at the same time.
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