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.
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.
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