GIS: The Maturation of a Profession

Obermeyer, Nancy J.

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“…Geospatial professions cross boundaries of the geospatial industry sectors and overlap one another (Dibiase, 2012). In this context, it is also discussed whether it is a profession or not (Obermeyer, 1994;Obermeyer, 2007;Dibiase, 2012). All the way, it is an undeniable fact that the need for GIS education/training and qualified personnel in the sector is considerably increasing.…”

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“…UCGIS remarks that much of the debate on the necessity of GIS professional certification has arisen due to semantic misunderstanding, and is often confused with certificates, which are given by the higher education institutions (UCGIS, 2017). Professional certification focuses on the evaluation of the qualifications of GIS practitioners (Obermeyer, 2007). Accordingly, the first attempt to introduce a certification program, namely Certified Mapping Scientists, GIS&LIS, came in 1991 from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) (Mathews and Wikle, 2017).…”

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Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

Çabuk

2019

Lnternational Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) certification has become one of the assets enabling the recognition of the knowledge, skills and competencies of the persons working in a wide range of jobs and projects. Regarding this fact, the General Directorate of GIS, Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, was involved in the process of national vocational standards and qualifications development for GIS related jobs between 2013-2016. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to explain the process and give information about the results of the research projects and collaborative works realized in order to develop national vocational standards, vocational qualifications and a certification system for GIS Operator (Level 4) and GIS Specialist (Level 6). The overall process was mostly realized in collaboration with the Earth and Space Sciences Institute of Eskisehir Technical University (former Anadolu University), as well as other participants from various institutions, and continued along with two supplementary research projects that were aimed at the development of a comprehensive certification system for the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. The research projects comprised the stages of detailed analysis and evaluations about the administrative, legal and technical requirements in accordance with the national vocational qualifications system and ISO/IEC 17024 standard, and were followed with the development of an integrated software to manage all the stages of the vocational certification, online examination, question bank development and quality assurance system. The results are believed to be valuable and triggering inputs for the development of other necessary vocational standards and qualifications for GIS related jobs, raise awareness for the necessity of vocational certification and help improve the context and quality of the GIS training/education curricula in the country.

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Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

Çabuk

2019

Lnternational Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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“…The analytical capabilities of geographical information systems are evolving, and range from visual to exploratory and modelling methods (Pfeiffer and Hugh-Jones, 2002). Obermeyer (2007) commented that the field of geographic information systems is maturing as a profession. Geographical information systems provide spatial and themed queries (relating to bands of values of a given set of variables across a geographical area) that are not typically provided by other forms of information systems.…”

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The evolution of geographical information systems for fire prevention support

Higgins

Taylor

Francis

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Fire Safety Journal

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Geographical information systems (GIS) provide visual map based analysis and reporting of information implemented in map layers. Geographical information systems evolve by incorporating new and enhanced means of analyzing and presenting location based information. In this paper we examine the evolution of a geographical information system for fire prevention support that evolved through transitions of the underlying approach to analysis of dwelling fire risk over a six year period 2007 to 2013. The novel theoretical contribution of this paper is the examination of the evolution of GIS analysis and modelling approaches, and in the specific context of fire and rescue services, the examination of the evolution of a fire prevention support GIS.

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“…GIS experts are supposed to be aware of these limitations. Moreover, they presumably have skills to transform, emphasize, eliminate, summarize, exaggerate, and enlarge entities in geographic representations and to obey scaling rules [32,33]. However, Virtual Globes allow any reasonably computer-literate person to make a map or other geographic representation regardless of his/her understanding of spatial concepts.…”

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“…Next to an educational mandate, the challenge is therefore to bring together industry and API programmers in order to set rules, guide users, develop and ensure standards and ground geographic information ontologically, to list some major future tasks. Obermeyer [33] reflects on the maturation of GIS into its current status as a true profession and develops a code of ethics predicting that it will be important to uphold certain professional ideals.…”

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Virtual Globes: Serving Science and Society

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Virtual Globes reached the mass market in 2005. They created multi-million dollar businesses in a very short time by providing novel ways to explore data geographically. We use the term “Virtual Globes” as the common denominator for technologies offering capabilities to annotate, edit and publish geographic information to a world-wide audience and to visualize information provided by the public and private sectors, as well as by citizens who volunteer new data. Unfortunately, but not surprising for a new trend or paradigm, overlapping terms such as “Virtual Globes”, “Digital Earth”, “Geospatial Web”, “Geoportal” or software specific terms are used heterogeneously. We analyze the terminologies and trends in scientific publications and ask whether these developments serve science and society. While usage can be answered quantitatively, the authors reason from the literature studied that these developments serve to educate the masses and may help to democratize geographic information by extending the producer base. We believe that we can contribute to a better distinction between software centered terms and the generic concept as such. The power of the visual, coupled with the potential of spatial analysis and modeling for public and private purposes raises new issues of reliability, standards, privacy and best practice. This is increasingly addressed in scientific literature but the required body of knowledge is still in its infancy

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GIS: The Maturation of a Profession

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Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

The evolution of geographical information systems for fire prevention support

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