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Competency overview

This portfolio is organised around 13 core GIS competencies.

The overview shows the current state of the portfolio. A competency is marked as demonstrated only when the corresponding work has been completed and the available evidence supports the capability described on the competency page.

Current status

# Competency Status
01 Data sourcing & inspection Demonstrated
02 Data cleaning Pending
03 Projections & datums Pending
04 Digitizing Pending
05 Topology Pending
06 Geometry & attribute QA Pending
07 Spatial analysis Pending
08 Data integration Pending
09 Raster basics Pending
10 Cartography Pending
11 Database management Pending
12 Delivery Pending
13 Diagnostics Pending

Demonstrated competencies

01 — Data sourcing & inspection

This competency covers the ability to work with new spatial datasets, inspect their structure and content, and identify relevant data-quality or structural issues.

Remaining competencies

The following competencies are part of the portfolio framework but have not yet been demonstrated in the published evidence:

  • 02 — Data cleaning
  • 03 — Projections & datums
  • 04 — Digitizing
  • 05 — Topology
  • 06 — Geometry & attribute QA
  • 07 — Spatial analysis
  • 08 — Data integration
  • 09 — Raster basics
  • 10 — Cartography
  • 11 — Database management
  • 12 — Delivery
  • 13 — Diagnostics

These competencies will be added progressively as the supporting work is completed and verified.

How to read the competency pages

Each published competency follows the same general structure:

  1. What I am able to do — the practical capability demonstrated.
  2. Professional knowledge — the concepts relevant to the competency.
  3. Evidence — the work supporting the capability.
  4. Quality and verification — how the work was checked.
  5. Evidence boundaries — what the evidence does and does not demonstrate.
  6. Professional capability demonstrated — a concise evidence-based statement.

The detailed technical material is kept separately in Technical Evidence so that the main competency pages remain focused on professional capability rather than becoming a record of individual commands or procedures.

Portfolio status

The portfolio is under active development. The competency framework is fixed, while the evidence is expanded progressively.

The status shown above reflects the current stage of the portfolio and will change as additional competencies are completed and verified.