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Skills that raise your pay

• Python

  Automating the boring parts of map production is the first thing that makes you valuable.

• SQL (structured query language) and spatial databases

  Where the data actually lives once an organization grows past a folder of files.

• Web mapping

  Building the interactive map a whole department uses, rather than making a static one on request.

• Remote sensing

  Satellite and aerial imagery analysis, used in agriculture, forestry and disaster response.

• Drone piloting

  A Federal Aviation Administration remote pilot certificate lets you collect your own imagery.