An overview over the ICC2017 Pre-Conference Workshops

Many ICA commissions use the days before the ICC conference for dedicated workshops on their fields of research. This year, the following workshops will take place:

Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History – Names – Atlases

• Date: June 28–30, 2017
• Location: Library of Congress (Madison Building) in Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: History of Cartography, Toponymy, and Atlases
• Deadline for submissions: February 15
• Website

Meeting on Maps & the Internet, Ubiquitous Mapping and Education & Training

• Date: June 30 & July 1
• Location: The campus of William and Mary University in Williamsburg, VA
• Involved commissions: Education and Training, Maps and the Internet and Ubiquitous Mapping
• Deadline for submissions: April 30
• Website

Mapping Tools for Non-Mapping Experts: Incorporating Geospatial Visualization Tools in Libraries

• Date: July 1
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commission: Cartographic Heritage into the Digital
• Website

Different Fields – One Cartography

• Date: July 1
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: Cartography and Children, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People and Planetary Cartography
• Deadline for submissions: April 21
• Website

Supporting sustainable development with geoinformation management and modern maps: things you hardly consider

• Date: July 1
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commission: Map Production and Geoinformation Management

Workshop on Maps & Emotions

• Date: July 1–2, 2017
• Location: George Washington University, Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Art and Cartography and Topographic Mapping
• Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2016
• Website

Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures, Standards, Open Source and Open Data for Geospatial (SDI-Open 2017)

• Date: July 1–2, 2017
• Location: George Washington University, Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the SDI and Standards
• Website

Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation

• Date: July 1–2, 2017
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: Generalisation and Multiple Representation, second day in cooperation with Geospatial Analysis and Modeling and Location-based Services
• Deadline for submissions: March 24
• Website

Symposium on Location-Based Social Media and Tracking Data

• Date: July 1–2, 2017
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commissions: Geospatial Analysis and Modeling and Location-based Services, second day in cooperation with Generalisation and Multiple Representation
• Deadline for submissions: March 1
• Website

Critical Review on Using Developable Surfaces in Map Projections Theory & Standardization in Map Projections

• Date: July 2
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commission: Map Projections

Disaster Management, Big Data, Services and Cartographic Representation

• Date: July 2
• Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
• Involved commission: Cartography in Early Warning and Crises Management

Preserving Map Production Methodology Information

• Date: July 2, 10am
• Location: Congress center, Washington, DC
• Involved commission: Atlases
• Contact and details: Philippe de Maeyer and Eric Losang

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