We are happy to announce the Map of the Month for November: “452 Oslo Havn” by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service is one map sheet in a set of 45 harbour maps. It received the first jury’s prize in the category “Hydrographic or Maritime Navigation Charts” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.
Zoom in and get more details here!
The paper submission deadline and the paper acceptance notification date for the ICC 2013 in Dresden have been extended. Please find the new dates on our ICC 2013 page or directly at the ICC 2013 website.
Accordingly, the deadline for ICA Travel Awards for ICC 2013 was extended – please find the details on our ICC 2013 page.
We are happy to announce that we digitized three older ICC proceedings and made them available on our publications page. We now have all the proceedings online since 1993. The new ones are:
We would like to thank the Swedish Cartographic Society, the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya and the German Society of Cartography for allowing this use and Sigita Grīnfelde for the indexing work.
We are interested to hear in the comments below if these proceedings are of any help for you.
ICA commission chair Evangelos Livieratos has been appointed Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change in the new Greek government!
He has been a Professor of Higher Geodesy and Cartography at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with several published articles on cartography in international journals.
ICA is pleased to announce that Washington, D.C. in the USA has been selected for being the venue of the International Cartographic Conference 2017!
The International Cartographic Association invites students, young cartographers and enthusiasts to express their vision on modern cartography through the development of a video.
What is the role of cartographers and how does cartography relate to daily life situations?
Do you have an opinion on that? Then express it in a video and get the chance to win 300 €!
Please submit your video until 10 June 2012 according to the following guidelines:
The International Cartographic Association invites students, young cartographers and enthusiasts to express their vision on modern cartography through the development of a video. What is the role of cartographers and how does cartography relate to daily life situations? Do you have an opinion on that? Then express it in a video and get the chance to win 300 €!
Please submit your video until 1 June 2012 according to the following guidelines:
PS: After the recent ICA website relaunch, some of you (those who accessed the page with the www. prefix) experienced a broken website – we are very sorry for that. The problem should be fixed by now. Please let us know if you encounter further problems.
The call for organizers for the 28th International Cartographic Conference is open until 30 April 2012. Please find more details in the Call Document at the ICC 2017 section!
The ICA wishes you happy holidays! We are loooking forward to successful cooperations in 2012!
Nearly all 28 ICA Commissions were represented in last week’s commission chair meeting in Vienna, Austria. The meeting took place November 24–25 at the Vienna University of Technology and included an intense two day workshop. The photos taken by Eszter Simonné Dombóvári during the event are now online at https://picasaweb.google.com/icaci.org
