| We're
getting our classes in gear...
GHS will be holding
a one-day intensive course for GIS developers
(see sidebar for time, location and price).
The course will teach good foundational
coding and project practices for modern
GIS development.
Why do I need this course?
Today's GIS world is
rapidly evolving away from simple cartography
and AML scripting and into complex programming
and geodatabases. GIS professionals who
do not fully understand the implications
of this shift tend to create brittle solutions
for their clients, break budgets, and fall
behind the learning curve. Projects can
no longer be seen as self-contained mapping
exercises and now, by default, will need
to incorporate good coding and project-management
principles to enable adequate management.
This course provides an understanding of
these fundamentals, and gives a solid base
for further skills development.
What will I learn?
The course will give
a solid grounding in a number of key facets
of development in a project-based environment,
including:
- Client needs analysis
- Source control
- Document control
- Reusable code libraries
- Database design
- Project architecture
- Project transperancy
- Agile methodologies
- Product development
Who will be organizing
and presenting the course?
The courses are a joint
effort of Gray Hill Solutions, Inc., and
Love GIS Consulting. Gray Hill Solutions
has earned a reputation for providing complex
GIS solutions to our clients that are well
managed and easy to turn over (please see
our product
and project
pages for a portfolio of our experience).
Love
GIS is a boutique GIS development firm
based in Seattle. The business provides
consultation on all phases of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) implementation
with specialization in enterprise GIS database
creation and management, sophisticated GIS
application development, and technical GIS
training. Love GIS has extensive GIS application
programming expertise in data conversion,
database design, data development, conflation,
geocoding, quality assurance, graphical
user interface design, and data dictionary
and metadata creation for large spatial
databases.
The instructor will
be S. Reily Love, principal of Love GIS.
Mr. Love is a creative GIS technical professional
with 9 years of diversified consulting experience
and over 15 years of GIS project and personnel
management assignments. He has most recently
provided programming and nation-wide database
development services for Rand McNally (www.randmcnally.com).
Prior to that, he was a consultant for Microsoft
(MS) in the Geography Products Unit, which
developed global databases and software
solutions for various digital mapping products
such as MS Streets, MS Trip Planner, MS
Virtual Globe, MS MapPoint and the map data
used by www.expedia.com. Mr. Love began
his consulting career providing enterprise
GIS database development and programming
for AirTouch Communications and PCS PrimeCo,
which merged with other wireless providers
to become Verizon. |
