Transformation from a "GIS enthusiast" to a GIS administrator - a description of deployment cases carried out in small and medium-sized companies.
09-09, 13:30–14:00 (Europe/Bratislava), B319 (BAT)

The presentation is a summary of practical insights from the last 5 years of GIS Support deployments in small and medium-sized companies. It usually starts with a frustrated call from the so-called "GIS enthusiast" (a QGIS user, often self-taught, who acquires and processes data and creates maps and simple analyses for the company), who is tired of preparing maps in PDF, spreadsheets in XLSX, and constantly answering the same questions. From their perspective, they see how much time their company wastes on poorly organized processes and the risks it exposes itself to. They've tried to train everyone on QGIS, installed databases, but to no avail. They may be contemplating changing companies, but... they decide to make a call.

I am managing director/CEO at GIS Support (gis-support.com)and lecturer of geoinformation at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Associated with spatial information systems since 2005. My career started in ITTI Poznan, where I was involved in telecommunication project as GIS technican. Then I worked in the UN-HABITAT in Kosovo, building databases for municipality development plans. Afterwards, I was designing and building WebGIS applications as 24GIS employee.
Today, I am mainly involved in design and implemention of systems for spatial data management and visualization as well as development of new products of GIS Support.