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<\/p>\nAnd who is this pissed-off GIS guy?<\/p>\n
The future \u2018angry GIS user\u2019 is usually a young person who learned a little about GIS during their studies (sometimes even very well). They went to work for a company where GIS was not used (at most, work on geoportals + Excel). The future \u2018angry GIS user\u2019 first widened their eyes and said, \u2018But this can be done completely differently!\u2019. <\/p>\n
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And so he did. He installed QGIS, learned how to use it on YouTube or Udemy, cleaned up the data, created some projects, and showed them to his colleagues. He became a GIS specialist. <\/p>\n
Everyone was very pleased and agreed that QGIS is the way to go!
\nThe GIS specialist organised an internal training session, showed everyone QGIS, and… it began.<\/p>\n
It turned out that the barrier to entry for people who are not familiar with GIS is too high (data formats, coordinate systems, etc.). The training did not catch on.<\/p>\n
It was agreed that the GIS specialist (mostly in addition to their normal duties) would be a one-person GIS department, preparing data, creating maps (in PDF, of course!) and summaries (in xlsx, of course!). And so the GIS specialist began to receive a few, then dozens of emails a day asking for information on whether there was a local zoning plan for a given area, whether it was a floodplain, or asking for a \u2018quick map\u2019 to be made for a presentation… <\/p>\n
Anger begins to build up. It often turns into frustration… <\/p>\n
How does this story end?<\/p>\n
Ending #1: The GIS guy leaves (because he’s fed up with his job) and leaves the company in disarray. A variation on this ending is that the GIS guy stays and takes the company hostage. I don’t know which is worse. <\/p>\n