This article is part three of a series on creating your own open-source GIS architecture.

This article is a follow-up to my tutorial on deploying an open-source GIS architecture on AWS. In this post, I will discuss managing your GIS architecture. The good news is that managing the geodatabase is much less complicated than setting it up, and the tools in QGIS make database management tasks super easy.

I have worked in GIS for 20 years at a large public university and currently for a mid-sized municipality. One of the things that always frustrates me about working in GIS at a large organization is the difficulty involved in accessing new technologies and data. I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a GIS server of my own that I could experiment with and create proof concept projects and build my skills.