GIS analyst

About the Position

We are seeking a GIS Analyst to join our team in Brussels, Belgium for a 4-month project from July 27, 2026, to November 30, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a functional analysis for a renewed platform.
• Investigate modern components for building a new Cartesius.be platform.
• Explore ways to reuse multilingual metadata with minimal changes.
• Determine how partners can independently upload metadata to the portal.
• Define how end-users can search and visualize the collection.
• Assess the necessary infrastructure and architecture for potential solution scenarios, including cost estimates for licenses, development, and maintenance.
• Develop a detailed functional analysis for the chosen scenario and present it to the partners.
• Build a prototype showcasing a user-friendly interface and multilingual metadata upload capability.

Requirements

• Skills:

  • GeoNetwork: Confirmed
  • ESRI: Confirmed
  • GIS: Confirmed
  • GIS data types: Confirmed

• Languages:

  • English: Nice to have
  • Dutch: Active knowledge
  • French: Active knowledge

About the Company

Cartesius.be is a geographic portal for old maps, plans, landscapes, and aerial images, featuring a search functionality based on geographic footprints and keywords, scale, and time. It includes the digitized collections of the Royal Library, the State Archives, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, and the National Geographic Institute (NGI). The NGI manages the central portal.

The platform is set up as a catalog where the four partners upload their metadata. It includes a viewer for georeferenced maps and aerial images and a search functionality (by geographic footprint and keywords, scale, time). The images that are not georeferenced are offered via viewers from the four institutions.

The components that make up the current Cartesius.be platform are outdated. The goal is to develop a new version of the current Cartesius.be platform in the short term, while retaining its catalog function. The task involves conducting a functional analysis for a modernized platform. This involves examining:

• Which modern components can be used to build a new Cartesius.be (current or new ESRI components) versus alternatives such as GeoNetwork?
• How can multilingual metadata be reused with minimal changes to existing metadata?
• How can partners independently upload metadata to the portal?
• How can end-users search and visualize the collection?
• What infrastructure and architecture are needed for the possible solution scenarios, with an indication of the cost of licenses, development, and maintenance?
• Once the scenario/solution is chosen, the solution should be detailed in a functional analysis and presented to the partners.

It is expected to build a prototype for a limited part of the desired functionality, primarily showcasing a user-friendly interface and enabling the upload of multilingual metadata.