Department of Civil Service

Description:

The GIS Program (GPO) is responsible for developing, maintaining and disseminating GIS data. Major data programs including:

Orthoimagery
Elevation
Tax parcels
Civil Boundaries
Streets
Addresses

Much of the data development work includes coordination with local governments as well as the federal government, universities and private companies. The GPO also maintain a spatial data warehouse and application to support emergency response and law enforcement. In addition, the GPO is responsible for coordinating GIS across NYS Government. As Part of the responsibility, the GPO maintains a GIS clearing house and data sharing cooperative. The most recent initiative of the GPO is to develop a consolidated infrastructure called ShareGIS that will also for the consolidation of multiple GIS services across the State of New York. The GPO also provides GIS support for emergency response.

Tasks include but not limited to:

Spatial data quality analysis
Data editing and maintenance
Map design and compilation
Python (and other) scripting
GIS workstation support
Image processing and analysis
GIS software including:
ArcGIS Desktop; Open Source tools

Skills:

Information Management

Data Modeling

System Integration

Development Methodoligies

Web Technologies

Internship Areas: Information Technology