Trying to teach myself Arc GIS Pro. Are there any outstanding tutorials on youtube that you can recommend or are they all the same?
I tried coursera but got stuck with the practical side of things. Going to learn up on youtube as much as I can then give it another crack.
The tutorials from Esri will get you started, but for the most part as long as you know what you want to do you can google how and get a fairly decent answer.
Got my bachelor's and masters in GIS
watcha wanna know champ
Can I be your slave and do GIS stuff for you under your instruction?
>degree in map overlays and map projection calibration
What call center do you work for, Patel
Holy kek, nobody is actually dumb enough to get an undergrad and then a master's in GIS. That would be hilarious if there were people that were that stupid though.
Unless you plan on making a professional use of it, why not learn QGIS instead? It’s free and open source and you can do roughly the same thing with it compared to ArcGIS.
I intend on making a job out of it down the line.
Dont
Dead discipline
Yeah? What should I do with my life then?
If you don't have to work to meet your needs, then don't. We aren't on this planet for very long; I'm sure you can find ways to fill your time.
>I'm sure you can find ways to fill your time.
Yeah by studying something interesting that's up my alley that I can make a few bucks on the side.
Not trying to convince you I should study GIS but it does seem like a good fit.
Well, I don't know as much about the job prospects in the field as the other anon seems to, but general coding skills seem like a better bet going forward.
Volunteer, teach, mentor, do something worthwhile for others, idfk, Im just a guy with a shitty GIS job, not a life coach
Open source mapping might be mkre what you are after, but I dont know what those nerds are up to now, I've been too corporate for too long.
What is your salary and how often do you want to have a nice day?
Me every monday through friday at my desk
>Volunteer
I'm trying to hook up with this GIS guy that does stuff for the local hiking club.
wat? Everything is GIS related. Even video game cities are laid out using GIS tools.
Passed fad. Replaced by BIG DATA, which will be replaced by something else soon.
It's all webmaps now, pretty casualized for most things, anybody can make polygons or points and attribute them. Learn to write webmapping tools if you're so interested
>GIS is a fad
you're very dumb.
very.
GIS Monkey here too. One option would be pic related. I had the older "Mastering ArcGIS" book from the same author and it was decent, could even try that out if you can buy it cheap and used.
Other Anons opinions on working directly in GIS have been mixed from what I've seen, I generally don't recommend it. It's better as a tool to add to yourself in some other career that will pay better.
/this on all points.
Get a textbook and just go through the exercises. That will give you enough knowledge and vocabulary to know what to google to figure out how to do things.
They want $140 for that book on amazon. Worth?
you can find it on libgen
Awesome thanks.
>I generally don't recommend it.
I have been on disability for the last 10 years and I'm sick of it. I can't do very much through the week. I work like 10 hours.
Ideally I would be doing freelance stuff on the side.
I have a background in forestry and got a (tiny) bit of experience with GIS in that program, so I sort of already have one foot in the door. Seems like a good fit since I'm on the computer all day anyway.
Respect for picking yourself up, dude.
Thanks. Is there any reason I shouldn't do GIS?
Do you have a community college near you? If you can take an introductory class or two in person it becomes loads easier to teach yourself the rest by Googling stuff. I’d say the couple hundred bucks for a class would be worth it just to get oriented. Also be sure to use Colorbrewer2. Not a skill thing, but it’ll help you make clean maps that really impress people.
>Colorbrewer2
my homie, thank you for suggesting that. I had to self teach myself arc for work since I end up having to make a lot of maps and I always stumble on color schemes.
What I really want is an apprenticeship but I'm not sure if I can handle the work load.
Any way to pirate ArcGIS pro or do you really need a subscription to esri to access it?
I'm sure there is but you get more than just the program. You can download base maps and data and shit and you get credits to buy data and you also get the online version etc.
Any way to do that without spending $800 a year?
The personal use one is like $170 I think.
This is the one I use for a lot of one off personal projects. If you're doing it professionally, just get the full license.
I use QGIS. Base maps are easy to find without a paid database. Arcgis wins for user friendliness though
To anyone who hows, what are the job prospects of GIS? I would love to do freelance on my own. Is that realistic?
>I WANNA BE A CONTRACTOR
hope you have the arcgis pro license fee
hope you have 34k to throw down on a Trimble r12I and 4k for the TSC controller
Hope you have 4 to 30k to throw on a drone with RTK capabilities.
Hope you have connections to get started after buying all that shit
Anon being a contractor in GIS is reserved for rich old dudes
Now get into tye cubicle and start drawing lines and making relationships between features and be a good little GIS piggie
>Hope you have connections to get started after buying all that shit
This would be the main problem.
you know if you have a business plan with reputable figures and decent credit you can get a small business loan for this right?
Starting out freelance is going to be hard. You're going to want to start out working for a city or county government locating fire hydrants or some shit. Sometimes we'd hire temps to digitize maps. It's boring scut work, but it'll get you used to the tools and terminology.
I took a college class on it. Literally just follow the book, it's the same information. I took Amy Rock's class at HSU using this book https://www.amazon.com/Geospatial-Concepts-Nicolas-Malloy-ebook/dp/B09C43VZ2S?ref_=ast_author_mpb
It's only $10 so you should be good to go.
damn, I cut my teeth geocoding water meter locations for a city water department in 2003. I went to Oregon Tech that year to study GIS but back then the first year was mostly surveying, which I hated, so I dropped out and bartended up until the pandemic. Then went to CC and just finished my GIS and UAS photogrammetry certs, going to Oregon State in Spring to finish upper div classes in geography. Hate myself every day for not sticking with it back then when the industry was fresh.
I want to focus on remote sensing. My buddy founded a company in Hood River that is doing quite well, they build custom payloads and do image analysis. I'd love to work for them mapping wildfires. Going to get a minor in natural resources as well and should be done in 2 years.
Trouble is I'm 38 and should probably just kill myself instead, not sure anyone would hire entry level at my age when so many young kids are doing GIS now
>Trouble is I'm 38
That's OK I'm 36 and it seems we are both somewhere around the same path.
my post format was horrid.
Im having a lot of trouble with getting internships, so now Im just trying to build a portfolio from voluneer work. Making maps for engineers w/o borders. In a URISA mentorship program as well which has helped a lot.
Where do you live?
>Where do you live?
Southern Ontario. Would also like to get a volunteer position for the same reason.
get involved with ASPRS/CRSS and URISA. It (and school) is how I got into the mentorship, and that produced the EWB volunteer opportunity, as well as invaluable portfolio/interview advice, networking and an outside perspective. My cert program had a required capstone and they set me up with a community partner which was like a bonus internship (unpaid, natch) but something to put on my resume.
And honestly I'm not sure about Donairland but my community college has a very good geospatial program; if you can do it I would recommend it.. Diverse (in coursework). Got free ArcPro and Creative Cloud, and remote access to ENVI and Agisoft Metashape. I've taken courses in cartography, analysis, python, remote sensing, GPS (field maps/quickcapture/avenza), webmapping, and drone photogrammetry. Daily tutor access has helped a lot and sometimes I just leave the zoom tutor on in the background so I can live vicariously through other peoples problems. Dept head has a blog and posts internship opportunities daily, and our school has NSF grant to pump out a dozen GIS internships a year open only to us, which is helpful.
In short, go to CC, get certs first, then decide what you want to do before going for a BS