Research Officer, University of Edinburgh 1968–69

Head, Applications Section, Experimental Cartography Unit, 1969–73

Royal College of Art

Lecturer, then Reader, University of Durham 1973–1981

Visiting Fellow, International Training Centre, , the Netherlands, 1975

Enschede

Visiting Fellow, 1979

Australian National University

Professor of Geography in the 1982–91

University of London

Dean of departments of Computer Science, Maths & Statistics, Economics and Geography, 1987–91

Birkbeck College

Director General and Chief Executive, 1992–98

Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

Vice-Chancellor and President, 1998–2007

City University London

Chairman, the 2003–08

Statistics Commission

Chairman, Universities UK, Employment Business and Industry Policy Committee

Non-executive director,

Bank of England

Non-executive director, deputy chair (statistical system)

UK Statistics Authority

Data banking of drift borehole records for the Edinburgh area, Rhind D. & Sissons, J.B., HMSO, 1971.

Geology of Durham County ; The buried valley of the lower Tweed, Newcastle upon Tyne : Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1972.

Computer mapping of drift lithology from borehole records, Rhind D.W., HMSO, 1973,  0-11-880609-2

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People in Durham : a census atlas, Dewdney J.C. & Rhind D. (Eds), University of Durham, 1975,  0-900974-38-9.

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Contemporary cartography, Rhind D., London : Institute of British Geographers, 1977.

Geographical networks and automatic data processing, Cox N.J. & Rhind D., University of Durham, Dept. of Geography, 1978.

Making a national atlas of population by computer, Rhind D.W. & Evans I.S., Census Research Unit, Department of Geography, Univ. of Durham, 1978.

Land Use, Rhind D. & Hudson R., Methuen, 1980  0-416-71780-2.

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A Census user's handbook, Rhind D.W., Methuen, 1983,  0-416-30510-5

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Cartographic and remote-sensing digital databases in the United Kingdom, Finch S. & Rhind D.,British Library Research and Development Dept., 1987,  0-7123-3106-9

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Handling Geographic Information: Report of the Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Chorley, Department of the Environment, HMSO, 1987,  0-11-752015-2

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Cartography, Past, Present, and Future: A Festschrift for F.J. Ormeling, Rhind D.W. & Taylor D.R.F., Elsevier Applied Science for International Cartographic Assoc, 1989,  1-85166-336-3

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and prediction, Rhind D., London : South-east Regional Research Laboratory, University of London, c 1990.

Environmental monitoring

Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications (known in GIS circles as the Big Book), Maguire, D. J. & Rhind, D. W., The Geoinformation Group, Harlow, 1991 ISBN 0-582-05661-6

Goodchild, M. F.

Understanding GIS: The ARC/INFO method, Rhind D.W., ESRI, 1992 (6th Ed),  1-879102-07-2

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Postcodes : the new geography, Raper J., Rhind D. & Shepherd J., Longman, 1992,  0-582-09270-1

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Statistics, maps, information and money, Manchester Statistical Society, 1994,  0-85336-127-4

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Framework for the World, Rhind D.W. (Ed), Cambridge, GeoInformation International, 1997,  0-470-24440-2

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Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Applications and Management (aka the Big Book 2), Longley P.A., Goodchild, M. F., Maguire, D. J. & Rhind, D. W. (eds), Wiley, 1999  0-471-32182-6

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Geographic Information Systems and Science, Longley P.A, Goodchild M.F, Maguire D.J. & Rhind D.W., John Wiley & Sons, 2001,  0-471-89275-0

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