Monday, August 24, 2009

SWARS Spatial Analysis, The Book (2)

The Start...

The difference between an experienced GIS Analyst and a GIS technician, in my view, is that a technician does mostly the mechanical work as told to, while an Analyst knows how to create a complete solution in order to answer a question. Well, that has not much to do with the "Core Purpose" of this document, but it is something you should think about if you want to advance forward personally.

To conduct the spatial analysis for SWARS successfully, and to make your job as the GIS specialist a bit easier along the way, you should and need to get involved early in the process instead of shying away.

A good place to start is to get a clear understanding of what SWARS is about. I listed a number of websites from other states' SWARS projects in this blog post. Check out a few of those. Read how they described SWARS. Yes, these are not the most interesting page-turners. But believe me, the exercise is quite helpful.

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