Map Yourself a Great Future

From engineers and real estate agents to farmers and scientists, GIS helps people make better decisions. GIS Technicians use highly specialized technology skills and computer-based tools to map, manage, analyze, display and model spatial information.

As a GIS Technician, you could be mapping out evacuation routes for emergency services organizations, developing economic pattern studies for policy planners, creating a visual market analysis for businesses looking to expand, making weather pattern maps for storm tracking, or mapping bike paths and community trails for a city-wide greening project. 

GIS is used in a huge variety of industries – many you wouldn’t expect – such as insurance, agriculture, health care, law enforcement, environmental studies, geology, engineering, planning, business, transportation planning, market research, political science, utilities, and much more. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination!

Your skills in applying information from many different sources to solve problems along with your knowledge of computers, patience for meticulous and detailed work, and ability to visualize spatial relations and interpret maps and graphs will put you and your career on the map.

Want to find out if this career is for you? Check it out on the web at http://www.acinet.org/, and select Occupation Information.