GIS Technician vs GIS Analyst vs GIS Developer

Thank you, as someone said earlier, one of the problems we face is that even though we are many times making GIS developer solutions for massive data processing/analysis, too often we still get paid as a GIS tecnhician... Cheers from Colombia.

Yes, that was helpful, thank you! I would love to hear more.

Excellent comparison! Great job!!!

Great video! It feels like these titles can be all over the place and expectations in job descriptions often don't align with the actual title (at least in my limited experience), so this clarification was incredibly helpful! Cheers from Hungary.

Currently majoring in GIS in University, this is incredibly helpful and informative! Thank you!

Thank you so much. Im so glad i found this channel. Im starting college this fall and its been very hard to hear experiences and guides from people in the industry.

Great video!! I learned a lot about the different GIS titles which I think is very helpful for me in knowing what direction I want to go with this career path. I have an AA degree in interdisciplinary studies and I took two ArcGIS Pro classes with Liberty University which I enjoyed very much. Keep up the good work!!

Thanks man, this video cleared some of my confusion.

i mapped floodplains for FEMA in my first GIS role....every day...all day.

Great video!

Thanks for the helpful info!

Well put.

Well said Franchyze923! I have worked through all these roles and now running a full Esri Enterprise Solution. I find these positions sort've like the structure of a University: GIS technician being your 1st year and discovering then GIS Analyst is your specialization and the GIS Developer being your Masters. I would like to share something I've gone through with valuing your self worth and skills while going up the ladder. A lot of employers don't understand the monetary value in each of these skill sets, unfortunately I am running an enterprise solution while being valued as a Technician and this is on me and I know it but want to share that you should never under value your skills. Cheers.

Nice explained. So yes as a GIS dev it's quite funky with all the languages , my experience was typically QGIS/python & postgis , arcgis/unity/server side maths & algorithms/csharp , web/js/js and uhm.. POSTGIS( so database language)... , finally a bit C++ indeed with GDAL suite . But in my experience, i come from the dev world not the GIS world, i could not develop anything if i had not tried the GIS technician part to understand the data handling logic, and I had to pierce a few GIS analyst brains ( AND topographs, AND geologists, the analyst customers in my case) in order to look how they analyse spatial data thingies. My conclusion would be it can only be a plus if you have a little touch of all the different roles you brightly described , plus don't forget to delve seriously in some languages if you go GIS dev...

Thank you it was very helpfull. ❤❤🎉🎉

Hi bro I am a Mechanical Engineer from India right now working as Gis Telecom Designer we use Spatial Net , AutoCAD, Small World PNI

That was interesting to hear, it sounds nice to do just one of these, as a freelancer I do all three at the same time. Digitize something, use remote sensing data, make the analysis and build a web app. It was very similar at one of my previous jobs, I was expected to do everything. Perhaps that counts for very small companies that cant afford to have an employee in each of these departments yet.

Thankyou im studying this now as a second career im half way through I 55 years old is this too old to begin a new career in GIS. I guess what I’m asking is how long do I have to be in the field to gain valuable experience or the jobs come right away

Thank you for such a clear explanation! But I am not sure where I can put myself on this scheme. Since I've mastered programming in Python several years ago, my job was mostly to write plugins or scripts for my collegues to solve many simple tasks we have. Usually it was a task for a week or two and I had no time for making it well. And, at least for the first year, I had no knowledge, either. Can I call myself a GIS Developer if nothing I made is published anywhere out of the company? (Quite an important question when I start looking for a new job!)

Does anyone know what assistant GIS means? What kind of work they do