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Enterprise GIS Made Easy
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(164 ratings)
834 students
Created byMichael Miller
Last updated 11/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • What enterprise GIS is and how it works
  • How enterprise GIS can benefit your organization
  • How to set up a PostGIS database on a hosted server for only a few dollars per month
  • How to access that data from QGIS, ArcGIS, and other clients

Course content

7 sections24 lectures4h 25m total length
  • Introduction6:09
  • What is enterprise GIS?6:29
  • What is a server? What is a client?9:56
  • More about database servers16:37

    Discover how modern database servers use robust, secure, sequel-based querying to support millions of users, store tabular and spatial data, and enable spatial analysis with extensions like Postgres sequel.

  • Files vs. Client-server7:13
  • Who needs enterprise GIS?7:58

Requirements

  • A basic understanding of desktop GIS software
  • A desire to expand your skill set into enterprise GIS

Description

Many GIS Professionals start their careers as GIS users with an education in other fields.  They may be very good at cartography and spatial analysis and other GIS specific tasks but lack the IT background needed to understand and implement a multi-user, enterprise GIS.

As a result many smaller organizations struggle as they grow and find themselves needing multi-user access to their data from multiple locations.  They frequently find themselves unable to edit shared data because of file-locks and other issues or put their data at risk by storing it on cloud-drives.  Many of them know that enterprise solutions exist but commercial solutions are very expensive and they don't have time to understand all the open-source tools that are available.

If this rings true to you, please consider taking this course. I explain how an open-source GIS enterprise works, what software you need to get started, how to start an instance of PostGIS on a hosted server for a few dollars per month, how to load your data into that hosted database and set up user accounts to control access, and how to connect to your data from a variety of sources including commercial desktop GIS software.

Who this course is for:

  • GIS Professionals with a solid understanding of desktop GIS that have interest or need to move into an enterprise GIS system to provide multi-user access, from multiple locations, on multiple platforms.