Cartographer

Job Summary and Qualifications

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Enhancing your expertise in mapping and map design to create maps that guide over 500,000 field enumerators in collecting Census information
Developing sophisticated high volume automated map production systems
Preparing a wide variety of specialized maps and cartographic files displaying geographic and statistical data for public dissemination
Contributing to improving the practice of cartography through participation in the work of professional organizations

What you need to know:

Their background includes 24 semester / 35 quarter hours in geography or related fields. Cartographers usually possess majors in cartography that include 30 semester hours/45 quarter hours in cartography and related sciences such as those listed below of which at least 6, but no more than 15 hours were in mathematics.

Principles of Cartography
Principles of Map Design
Maps and Map Use
Problems in Cartography
Computer Mapping
Computer Science
Geography
Economic Geography
Cultural Geography
Photogrammetry
Land Surveying
Statistics
Urban Studies and Urban Planning
Physical Geography
Remote Sensing
Geology
Meteorology
Anthropology
Quantitative Methods in Geography
Transportation Networks
Urban Climates
Applied Climatology
Astronomy
Physical and Geological Oceanography
Geophysics
Climatology

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