Careers in Geoinformatics
In todayās data-driven environment, there are growing opportunities to specialize as a GIS professional and to enrich other career paths with geospatial tools and skills such as data visualization, spatial analysis and decision making.
- Analysts and technicians: Analysts make sense of data to support decision-making. Technicians often participate in data collection, digitization, and analysis.
- Data scientists: Data scientists use GIS to incorporate spatial data into their analysis. They find insights that can be used for market analysis, urban planning, logistics, and more.
- Developers: Developers use GIS to build location services and mapping capabilities into products, solutions, apps, business systems, and websites.
- Environmental engineers: Focused on sustainability and balancing environmental and economic needs, these engineers use GIS to analyze and manage environmental data.
- Cartographers: Cartographers and photogrammetrists work closely with GIS to create accurate, interactive, visually appealing maps, and can go beyond mapping into analysis.
- Communications professionals: Maps are a visually compelling way to communicate plans and gather feedback from groups such as city councils, business leaders, or the public.
- Civil engineers: GIS helps civil engineers ground their designs in real-world context, integrating design and construction data from BIM and CAD with digital maps.
- Surveyors: Surveyors use GIS to compare real-world landscapes with land records and aerial imagery, inputting information digitally while in the field collecting data.
- Planners and designers: Planners can use GIS to create informed, sustainable development, modelling what designs for buildings or indoor spaces would look like in the real world.
- Researchers and scientists: From oceanographers to conservationists and climate scientists, GIS underpins virtually all scientific disciplines to help us better understand our world.
- Consultants: Consultants add GIS to their toolbox to support organizations with one-time or ongoing projects that require geospatial intelligence and GIS expertise.
- Project managers: Project managers use GIS to consolidate project phases and their associated information in one place, optimizing resources and timelines.