Do you want to be Cartographer for the Government?

Cartographer

Job Summary and Qualifications

Would you be interested in:

• 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