{"id":39,"date":"2006-11-07T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/how-did-you-get-started-in-gis\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T13:13:26","slug":"how-did-you-get-started-in-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/how-did-you-get-started-in-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"How did You get Started in GIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a <a title=\"neat article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directionsmag.com\/article.php?article_id=2299&#038;trv=1\">neat article<\/a> from <a title=\"Directions Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directionsmag.com\/\">Directions Magazine<\/a>.  Great article on how someone got a start in GIS, technology and the like with a great internship.  This got me thinking about how I got started in GIS.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing <a title=\"undergrad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/\">undergrad<\/a> with a geography degree, I found myself woefully underemployed.  In 1997, I decided to move to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and pursue GIS, as I thought it would combine the desired technical skills to make myself marketable, as well as my love for maps and travel.  Within a couple of months, I had an internship at <a title=\"Natural Resources Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/\">Natural Resources Canada<\/a> (now that&#8217;s a story!) which had me working on aerial photo selection in the map library to start.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, I was right in the GIS thick of things, building a GIS database from the ground up and publishing it to the web.  The <a title=\"Ground Control Database\" href=\"http:\/\/geodiscover.cgdi.ca\/gdp\/search?action=entrySummary&#038;entryType=productCollection&#038;entryId=28&#038;entryLang=en\">Ground Control Database<\/a> was my first real project which allowed me to apply the power of GIS, and, in my case, expose me to the world of GIS and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>So how did you get started in the geospatial \/ GIS field?  I find this interesting because our field brings people from so many disciplines and backgrounds.<\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.css\" \/>\n<!--[if lte IE 8]>\n  <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.ie.css\" \/>\n<![endif]-->\n<script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.js\"><\/script>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">#map39 { width: 300px; height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"map39\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  var map39 = L.map('map39').setView([43.6711, -79.610367], 10);\n  L.tileLayer('http:\/\/{s}.tile.osm.org\/{z}\/{x}\/{y}.png', {\n      attribution: '&copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/osm.org\/copyright\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> contributors'\n  }).addTo(map39);\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a neat article from Directions Magazine. Great article on how someone got a start in GIS, technology and the like with a great internship. This got me thinking about how I got started in GIS. After finishing undergrad with a geography degree, I found myself woefully underemployed. In 1997, I decided to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geospatial","category-open-source","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}