5. Other related schools, institutes, and establishments, private or governmental,
which provide cartographic training incidental to their basic mission or trade.
Established cartographic departments
Among the nations reporting only three have universities which award academic
degrees which are specifically identified as being in the field of cartography. The
Federal Republic of Germany's Staatliche Ingenieurschule für Bauwesen, Abtei
lung Landkartentechnik, Berlin, and the Staatsbauschule, Akademie für Bau
technik, Abteilung Kartographie, München, grant degrees of 'Ingenieur für Kar
tographie' and 'Graduierter Ingenieur für Kartographie'. The United States of
America's George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and the Southern
Illinois University grant degrees in Geodetic and Cartographic Science, and
Cartography respectively. Moscow University, Soviet Union, graduates carto-
geographers at several levels including advanced graduate.
Other nations, notably France through its Ecole National des Sciences Geo-
graphiques provide under governmental sponsorship, intensive training leading to
academic degrees in Cartography fully equivalent to that of universities. Much of
this training is given at a postgraduate level or is entered upon at undergraduate
level after university preparation.
There is a heartening trend toward enlarging the number of institutions with
recommendations from such sources as the Cartography Subcommittee of the
British National Committee for Geography of the Royal Society for the establish-
ment of bachelor and advanced degrees in cartography.
There is little present danger in educating more cartographers at this level than
the profession can absorb, anywhere in the world. In most nations the hardest task
is attracting enough men and women to these specialized academic programs to
fill the current need. In the Soviet Union recruitment is planned by the State in
keeping with its needs; many other countries suffer from a lack of thoroughly
qualified professional cartographers.
Engineering and geographic departments with cartographic majors
More than half of the nations reporting have institutions which offer extensive
educational training at the university level in cartography (although they may not
call it that) as part of an engineering, geographic, earth science, or surveying
program. The training received at these institutions, though not as specialized as
the cartography-identified training, is generally more than an adequate basis for
the development of the professional cartographer. The leading cartographers of
the world have, of necessity, sprung from these ranks.
Engineering and geography departments with cartography minors
With few exceptions, all nations reporting have universities and Colleges offering
cartographic or cartographic-related subjects taught as supportive or contributive
to another discipline. This applies principally to geography, but is quite evident in
engineering, geodesy, geophysics, and other earth sciences. The training received
does little more than acquaint the Student with the basic concepts of cartography
and provide him with some of the rudimentary skills. 1t is this group, the largest
numerically, to which must be applied the conversion (to cartographer) process so
ably done by governmental and private map and chart producers. Painful at times.
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