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AI GIS analyst

Reviews data quality and produces maps using spatial analysis. Maintains GIS databases and enters data using coordinate geometry.

Ari Stewart“I review data quality and produce maps using spatial analysis.”An example character, not a real person.
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GIS analyst · What it does

Three tasks it takes off your hands

  1. Review existing or incoming data for currency, accuracy, usefulness, quality, or completeness of documentation.
  2. Produce data layers, maps, tables, or reports, using spatial analysis procedures or Geographic Information Systems.
  3. Enter data into Geographic Information Systems databases, using techniques such as coordinate geometry or keyboard entry.
Where these come from

The tasks of “Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians” (O*NET 15-1299.02), as O*NET lists them:

  • Review existing or incoming data for currency, accuracy, usefulness, quality, or completeness of documentation.
  • Produce data layers, maps, tables, or reports, using spatial analysis procedures or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, equipment, or systems.
  • Enter data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases, using techniques such as coordinate geometry, keyboard entry of tabular data, manual digitizing of maps, scanning or automatic conversion to vectors, or conversion of other sources of digital data.

GIS analyst · Tools and industries

It works in the tools you already use

  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • JavaScript
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Azure software

Industries it fits

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Role facts from O*NET 31.0 Database (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), CC BY 4.0), written in our words. Sources and credits

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