Careers - Industry Information

    A tertiary qualification in Mapping Sciences opens up career opportunities throughout Australia and overseas.
    Skills developed through tertiary study are needed for work on the development and management of resources and infrastructure both locally and world wide.
    Graduates can find themselves working within a great variety of fields. Visit the RMIT Dept. of Land Information site to find out about where some of their past graduates are now working.
    Mapping can be seen as part of the bridge between engineering and science. The Mapping Sciences industry is very diversified and includes working in or being associated with the following areas of government agencies and the private sector.

Using computer systems and equipment for data presentation such as:

Geographical Information Systems (GIS),

Plotting and data management of floods, bushfires, accident reconstruction, natural resource recording and sampling,

Transport system management using satellite data,

Remote Sensing and mapping from space,

Photogrammetry using aerial, terrestrial and satellite images,

Geological mapping,

Land and marine inventories,

Surface modelling for infra structure development,

Multimedia / Internet design and development.

Government Departments such as:

AUSLIG,

Primary Industries,

Lands and Environment,

Mines and Energy,

Harbours and Marine,

Forestry,

Water Resources,

Land Development,

Tourism,

Emergency Services,

Private Surveying and Mapping companies.

These are all associated with Mapping, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in many varied and different ways.

The following list contains links to organisations which fall within the Mapping Sciences field of study. If you know of any other Mapping Sciences organisation that has a web site and isn't listed here please contact us and we will include it in this list.

Ausway - Publishers of the Melways and Sydways street Directories.
Telstra GeoProducts - The publishers of Australia's first In-car navigation database, and the providers of interactive mapping for the White Pages and Yellow Pages online directories.
Lonely Planet Publications - This site covers a lot of information associated with their famous travel guides, and contains clickable maps which allow users to explore at their own pace.
Australian Surveying & Land Information Group (AUSLIG) - AUSLIG produce and supply a great deal of Australia's national topographic mapping, among other services.
Environmental Systems Resource Institute (ESRI) - The developers of the ArcInfo suite of Mapping/GIS software solutions, and the employers of many mapping sciences graduates.
MapInfo - The developers of the MapInfo suite of Mapping/GIS software solutions.
Intergraph - Developers of Mapping/GIS software solutions.

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