GIS & Cartography: the Latest Best Opportunity to Bridge the Chasm

In the final weeks of grad school, I asked a seemingly natural, innocent question of a classmate– “What kind of job are you looking for, something in GIS?” <with contemptuous snarl> “GIS? I’m a cartographer.“ And so it goes:  cartographers are the artists and we GIS people are mere data drones.  But there are a […]