Why GIS Professional Certification Matters To All of Us

would bewilling to read? And, why have I spent so much of my time on this topic in the past fewyears? While I suspect I cannot fully answer the Þrst question, my response to the secondis simply OItOs importantO.Ten years ago, Michael Goodchild and I published an article (Goodchild and Kemp1992) to discuss what we at the time called the dreaded A-word — accreditation — thoughwe considered this broadly to include the issue of certiÞcation. It was a subject thatfrequently emerged in forums where we were discussing the recently published