After a long wait, we can finally welcome our Esri Technical Consultant, Devona Naude, who has made it to our fair shores from South Africa. It’s a big move uprooting your whole family, but Devona with her husband and two children, have taken to the change of culture and climate like pros. Having worked in local government in […]
We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Esri Solutions Architect. Do you have the following skills? Necessary Attributes: At least 10 years commercial experience in the GIS industry including within the utilities space At least 7 years commercial experience with Esri Knowledge of the software development life cycle including Waterfall and Agile methodologies Strong communications, analytical and […]
Spatial Data Science – What is it? What is data science, and what is a data scientist? Blog mini-series by Phil Donovan, GBS Spatial Data Scientist Data science is a term that has burst into many of our lives, both in IT and everyday conversations over the last few years. It is a buzz word […]
A warm welcome to Peter who has joined our team as a Business Analyst and Project Manager. Peter’s first taste of GIS came while working in Germany where he produced navigational approach charts for the aviation industry. On returning to New Zealand it wasn’t long before he was off overseas again working as a BA consultant on […]
NZ Esri User Conference 2019 featuring Vlogs from the GBS team The NZ Esri User Conference 2019 (NZEUC) – the largest annual gathering of the NZ GIS community – is a must-attend event to hear first-hand about the strategic Esri direction and technical advances in GIS for 2020 and beyond. With the uptake of Cloud […]
San Diego Esri User Conference , 2019 The annual San Diego Esri User Conference took place this year from July 8th – 12th. In previous years we’ve blogged retrospectively about our key learnings and take-aways from the event, but this year we are keeping ahead of the curve with a series of ‘vlogs’ to discuss […]
GBS Korea has now been operational for a year. Over that time, we have faced some challenges and broken some new territory with GBSK now starting to get some solid traction. GBSK has completed some small projects and is now undertaking some larger projects as we build our expertise and credibility. Below are 5 key […]
GBS welcomes Phil – our new Spatial Data Scientist who trained in geography and GIScience at the University of Auckland and received his MSc (Geography) by modelling the impact of minimum parking requirements on urban development using cellular automata. Phil’s professional experience has principally been in the ‘social’ fields such as Public Health, Transport, Economics and has developed multiple […]
Welcome to Jorn who joined GBS in June 2019. Jorn’s academic and international work experience across government departments makes him the ideal candidate to fulfill the role of Esri Technical Consultant for GBS. Jorn is passionate about making sustainable GIS processes and analyses with Python. Consequently, his goal is to gain more knowledge in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) each […]
This month, we celebrate the first birthday of Waahi, our web-based geospatial viewer solution which is based on Esri’s Web AppBuilder. As early as July 2016, a few like-minded colleagues and the GBS directors got together to identify a gap in the local government market where clients needed an easy mechanism to share, access and […]