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GIS Analyst

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GIS Analysts build, maintain, and interrogate geographic information databases to turn location data into actionable spatial intelligence. In India the role spans government agencies (Survey of India, NRSC/ISRO, National Informatics Centre, CGWB, Forest Survey of India), Smart Cities Mission SPVs, disaster-management authorities (NDMA, state SDMAs), precision-agriculture platforms, and private mapping, infrastructure, and environmental consulting firms. Daily work alternates between importing satellite and survey datasets into ArcGIS Pro or QGIS, writing spatial queries in PostGIS or Python's geopandas, producing publication-quality thematic maps, and presenting spatial findings to planners, engineers, and government clients. A growing share of roles — especially at startups and MNC captives — require cloud-native geospatial tooling (Google Earth Engine, AWS Location Service, Mapbox) alongside traditional desktop GIS, making the career increasingly hybrid between traditional cartography and data engineering.