We would like to inform you about the call for papers for the
ICA Workshop on Street Networks and Transport
which will take place 23–24 August 2013 in conjunction with the ICC 2013 in Dresden, Germany.
Please find all information at the workshop website at https://sites.google.com/site/icaworkshop2013/.
On behalf of the International Cartographic Association I send the best wishes to the Japan Cartographers Association – please find my video greetings below.
Georg Gartner
President of ICA
ICA News 59, December 2012, is now available from the ICA News section.
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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“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:
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/ ]
ICA is proud of having a number of affiliate members. Affiliate membership can be granted to organizations, institutions or companies wishing to support the mission and activities of the International Cartographic Association.
Affiliate members are contributing to the work of ICA in many ways. They participate in commission and working group activities, they participate and exhibit in International Cartographic Conferences, they sponsor and contribute to conferences, workshops, symposia and publications, and they are, first of all,
partners in disseminating information about the importance and progress in cartography.
Given the fact that I have personally found discussions and contributions of the ICA affiliate members often very rewarding I feel obliged to use this first blog entry of 2013 to highlight the importance and role of the ICA affiliate members by thanking them for their ongoing commitment and name all of them here:
ESRI
Intergraph
Ordnance Survey
East View
Ekograf
PPWK
SuperMap
UN Cartographic Section
Wuda Geoinformatics
Bundesamt für Kartographie & Geodäsie
Dubai Municipality
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
Instituto Geográfico Nacional España
Institut Géographique National
Institut Cartografic de Catalunya
National Hydrographic Office
National Land Survey of Finland
Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects, Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers
United States Geological Survey
Association of Polish Cartographers
Centro Argentino de Cartografía
Chinese Cartographic Association (Chinese Taipei)
Indian National Cartographic Association
Land Information New Zealand
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
Faculty of Information Engineering, Wuhan
Moscow State University
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development
Rectas
University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Bulgaria
University of Balamand
We are happy to announce the first Map of the Month for this year: “eAtlas of Global Development” by the Worldbank is a thematic online atlas. It won the first jury’s prize in the category “Educational Cartographic Resources” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2011 in Paris.
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Dear Friends of the International Cartographic Association,
The year 2012 was in many ways a successful year for cartography and the ICA. I want to thank you for your efforts and interest you have taken in the ICA. The Executive Committee is looking forward to working with you in the upcoming year and wishes to express their best season’s greetings.
Georg Gartner
President of the International Cartographic Association
The December 2012 issue of the newsletter of the Commission on Cartography and Children is available at http://lazarus.elte.hu/ccc/newslet/1212.pdf.