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This chapter addresses two related issues in contemporary cartographic education: how we should teach and train the increasingly broad range of subject matter which characterises the discipline of cartography today (i.e. what is the scope of cartographic education); and how many should be taught to be cartographers (i.e. what is the scale of cartographic education). A personal interpretation is attempted of these two issues and it is concluded that a well-researched ‘Body of Knowledge’ can assist in determining the scope of education; and that significantly more effort needs to be directed towards manpower planning in and for the cartographic industry to ensure a meaningful focus for such educational provision.
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Fairbairn, D. (2014). Issues in Cartographic Education: How and How Many?. In: Buchroithner, M., Prechtel, N., Burghardt, D. (eds) Cartography from Pole to Pole. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32618-9_33
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