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by artie_effim
2499 days ago
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HA! My wife is a cartographer (for the past 15 years) and it is a dying career. Her company is in its death knells and there is little hope of getting a design job these days, it's all GIS and barely any artistic design work nowadays. This is all nice to know, but there won't be but a few cartographers in 20 years. |
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Yeah, processing LiDAR, GPS-tracks and other sort of GeoData using GIS in our days is very handy and mostly decreased needs in "old-school" cartographers.
But, in the future "old-school" cartography would be some sort of art, such as B&W film photography now.
Also, painting using pencil & paper still popular by artists and now old technique mostly combined with draw in image editors, but last not fully replace pencil & paper. So, I'm not sure that now there are only 20 artist who use pencil & paper around the world.
Number of such professional artist really decreased in last 20 years, but PC and mobile image editors give chance to draw art for many users, that not paint before or lack experience with pencil & paper.