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