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[ceicher]

Hi All,

I stumbled upon this link today: http://www.careervoy...erging-main.cfm

There's quite a bit here, but what I found interesting:

1 - Geospatial Technology is one of just two emerging industries they choose to highlight.

2 - there's a great (my opinion) simple description of what GIS is: http://www.careervoy...hnology-gis.cfm

3 - there's a list of "In-Demand Occupations" which includes Cartographers (though they're lumped together with Photogrammetrists). Projected growth seems pretty good here.

There's a whole lot more, including salary info and growth predictions until 2016 by state...

... and finally, it looks like they need a video of a cartographer at work. Maybe someone here can help ; )

-Cory

[David Medeiros]

Hi All,

I stumbled upon this link today: http://www.careervoy...erging-main.cfm

There's quite a bit here, but what I found interesting:

1 - Geospatial Technology is one of just two emerging industries they choose to highlight.

2 - there's a great (my opinion) simple description of what GIS is: http://www.careervoy...hnology-gis.cfm

3 - there's a list of "In-Demand Occupations" which includes Cartographers (though they're lumped together with Photogrammetrists). Projected growth seems pretty good here.

There's a whole lot more, including salary info and growth predictions until 2016 by state...

... and finally, it looks like they need a video of a cartographer at work. Maybe someone here can help ; )

-Cory

Interesting links, thanks.

You know if they want some video of cartographers at work they could contact CSAA (now AAA of N. California). They shot us a few times in the past, of course they always got the guys doing scribe coat and prepping film! Even though we were mostly doing digital cart. Oh well.

[David Medeiros]

Bummer, looks like they closed the link for some reason. That was really good information. Did anyone here download any of it?

[Rob]

negative. couldn't find a google cache of it either. did look interesting though.

[Gretchen Peterson]

Reviving an old thread here...I found this on the U.S. Dept. of Labor site about Geospatial Technology being a High Growth Industry.

http://www.doleta.go...ial_profile.cfm