Individual Professional Practice in the Company

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to go through the practical work training that was carried out in Tieto Czech s.r.o. during a time period of 50 days. The tasks for the training were to find public WMS and statistical data sources from Finland as well as to develop a GIS web application. The most focus in the thesis is given for the development of the GIS web application, which was developed using free and open source software. The application itself was done using web technologies and it utilized GeoServer and PostGIS database for spatial data. The results of the thesis are the experience gained from the application development and the results from the final assessment of the application. The results imply that the application development was a good introduction to GIS and that the gained knowledge can be leveraged in future projects as well.