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Map of the Month 4/2013: Hong Kong Street Map Series
Map of the Month 3/2013: Columbus E-Learning

Introducing the ICA-OSGeo Lab Network

After discussing with our lab members, I am pleased to inform that we now have the official name and also a short acronym for our network of Open Source geospatial laboratories: ICA-OSGeo Lab Network is the official title of the network and OSGL as the acronym to be used for the url, domain name, etc.

The official full title highlights and brings together two communities – the ICA and the OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) – in our common aim to support the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centers across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. We started establishing the network of labs globally with the ICA-OSGeo MoU initiative.

Individual labs (those already established and those in future) are free to select the names they wish. For example, the lab at UNMC is called Open-source Geospatial Research Lab, at NCSU it is OSGeo Research and Education Laboratory (OSGeoREL), it is Open Source Geospatial Lab in Newcastle University, etc. That will also give individual nodes the flexibility to select the name for their lab that they want under a joint lab network umbrella.

We are also working to create a dedicated website and mailing list. In the meantime, visit the OSGeo page on education intiatives for details.

We would like to thank the whole OSGeo and ICA community for the strong support and helping spreading the message of our education initiative.

Best wishes,
Dr Suchith Anand

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April’s Map of the Month is a black and white map of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Street Map Series

We are happy to announce the Map of the Month for April: “Hong Kong Street Map Series” by the Survey and Mapping Office of Hong Kong. It received the first jury’s prize in the category “Maps and Plans of Towns and Urban Areas” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.

Zoom in and get more details here!

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March is here with Columbus E-Learning as the Map of the Month

Columbus E-Learning

We are happy to announce the Map of the Month for October: “Columbus E-Learning” by Liber is a Swedish learning tool for children, which received the second jury’s prize in the category “Educational Cartographic Resources” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.

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SOMAP News: Workshop 2013 and SOMAP book available

Dear colleagues!

Please allow me to bother you with news of the ICA Commission on Map Production and Geobusiness – some SOMAP news for 2013:

  1. somap_buchcover_jobst_v01_klThe book on Service-Oriented Mapping 2012 is available in the webshop of our publisher.
  2. We will have a joint commission activity before the International Cartographic Conference 2013 in Dresden.
    We call for participation in the 16th Generalisation Workshop jointly organised by the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation and the ICA Commission on Map Production and Geo-Business. The workshop will be held in Dresden, Germany, 23–24 August 2013, prior to the International Cartographic Conference. Participation and attendance at the two day workshop requires submission of research papers or position papers.
    Key dates are:

    • 15 March 2013: deadline for submission of short papers (limit 3000 words, and 8 pages including figures)
    • 25 April 2013: notification of acceptance of paper for presentation (& invitation)
    • 15 August 2013: deadline for submission of revised papers
    • 23 and 24 August 2013: Workshop Please register via mail (office@cartography.at) or at the commission website

All the best greetings from Vienna,
Markus Jobst

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February’s Map of the Month is the hydrographic map Port de Djibouti

Port de Djibouti

We are happy to announce the Map of the Month for February: “Port de Djibouti” by the French Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency. It received the second jury’s prize in the category “Hydrographic or Maritime Navigation Charts” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.

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Barbara Petchenik Competition 2013

“The World at my Fingertips – Remains a Puzzle” by Hayden Livingstone, New Zealand, age 15. Winner in the age group 12–15 years in 2011.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the International Cartographic Association and the Commission on Cartography and Children, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Barbara Petchenik Map Competition 2013, an event created with the aim of promoting the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children.

In 2013, the ICA will commemorate the “first” 20 years of the competition with some changes made in interest of improving the development of this biannual international award. The new theme for the 2013 competition is “My place in today’s world” and for the first time the entries can be nominated in four age groups: under 6 years, 6–8 years, 9–12 years and 13–15 years. Winning entries selected at national level will be displayed in the International Exhibition to be held during the 26th ICC in Dresden, Germany from 25–30 August 2013. An international jury will select the best entries by each age group. There will also be a public vote open to all participants for a dedicated public prize.

For more detailed information about the competition, please visit the website of the Commission on Cartography and Children.

Yours sincerely,
Georg Gartner (President of the ICA)
José Jesús Reyes Nunez (Chair of the Commission on Cartography and Children)

 

Updates as of 22 January 2013:

 

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Invitation to joint symposium “Sharing Knowledge”

Pre-Conference Symposium to ICC2013
23 August 2013 @ the Dresden University of Technology, Germany

The ICA Commissions on Cartography and Children, Education and Training, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People and Planetary Cartography have the pleasure to invite you to a one day joint symposium on August 23.

The aim of the symposium – as expressed by the title – is to give an opportunity to the members of the four commissions (and participants in general) to share and learn about the research in the topics covered by the commissions during the last years. This will be a one-day programme divided into four sessions, each of them dedicated to one of the participating commissions.

The Call for Papers is open until April 26.
Please visit the symposium website for more information: http://lazarus.elte.hu/jointsymposium2013/
If you have any question in relation to the event, please contact José Jesús Reyes Nunez.

[ More pre-conference events and activities can be found at http://icaci.org/icc2013/ ]

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