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[JRF]

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[David Medeiros]

If you cannot find what you need in the library collection, our map technicians can quickly design versatile custom map symbols for your project.

What's a "map technician"?

[Charles Syrett]

What's a "map technician"?

Back in the mists of time, when I worked as a cartographer in the Ontario government, there were two kinds of workers there: "cartographers" and "technicians". The cartographers (usually male, and many imported from the Ordnance Survey in UK), did the compilation, design, and project control. The technicians (almost exclusively female, and trained in-house) were the ones who scribed the maps, peeled the peelcoats, and opaqued the negatives. Technicians were not allowed to advance and become cartographers, unless they went to school and earned some sort of diploma or degree in cartography. This was a source of frustration for some of the technicians, who felt that after some years there they had developed skills that surpassed those of the incoming cartos!

I'm sure Jolan is using the term "technician" very differently, though. These icons actually look pretty good.

Charles Syrett
Map Graphics
http://www.mapgraphics.com