Every once in a while, there is an article on Flipboard or some social site highlight the top ten reasons to code or something similar. As Geogeeks, we share a rather complex relationship with programming in general, a lot of new companies and organizations are starting to use location data in ways “traditional” GIS hasn’t, which means that a majority of Geospatial jobs today require some level of expertise in programming, application development and software management.Learning GIS Programming, your way!
Learning to create awesome twitter maps, creating that personal routing algorithm or simply to help increase your career opportunities, everyone has a different reason for wanting to improve their programming skills and everyone has a different way of learning, which brings me to the idea behind this post – “What is your favourite way to learn coding for Geospatial applications?”.
What is your favourite way to learn coding?: The Survey!
Programming for location-based applications is not any different than coding for some other project but the truth is, we think there is a dearth of* interesting location data based tutorials and getting started guides and data is king, so why not put our hypothesis to test with the larger community