This month’s ICA Map of the Month is a map based on a satellite image and depicts the Parc National des Virguna.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the first jury prize in the category “Maps based on satellite images and remote sensing”.
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November brings a new Map of the Month – a beautiful Canadian map of the polar region
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the Atlas of Canada International Polar Year Circumpolar Map, issued by the Atlas of Canada Program.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the first jury prize in the category “Thematic Maps”.
Get more information and zoom in on the map!
Category: General News
October’s Map of the Month is online – a French topographic map of Wallis
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the Carte de Randonnée 4901 Wallis, issued by the National Geographic Institute of France (IGN).
At the last ICC in Chile it won the second jury prize in the category “Topographic Maps”.
Get more information and zoom in on the map!
Category: General News
The beautiful Map of the Month September is online – it’s the US Census Atlas
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the Census Atlas of the United States by the Commerce Deptartment of the US Census Bureau.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the second jury prize in the category “Globes and Atlases”.
Get more information and have a look at the map! We have some nice zoomable pages of the atlas!
Category: General News
August’s Map of the Month is online – a geological map of the Pyrenees
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the entitled Carte Géologique des Pyrénées. Despite the French title it is bilingual: French and Spanish. It was published by the institutes of minerology and geology of France and Spain.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the second jury prize in the category “Thematic Maps”.
Get more information and have a look at the map!
Category: General News
Map of the Month July is online – it’s an ineractive atlas made in Chile
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the entitled CD-ROM Geografía Universal Interactiva by the Military Geographic Institute of Chile.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the first jury prize in the category “Digital Products (Maps and Digital Images)”.
Get more information and have a look at the map!
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Map of the Month June is online: Panamap Manhattan
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the Panamap Manhattan by Urban Mapping, Inc. It shows three themes on a single map by using a clever layer printing technology.
At the last ICC in Chile it won the second jury prize in the category “Others: Cartography belonging to other themes”.
Get more information and have a look at the map!
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Map of the Month May is from France and combines nautical and terrestrical maps
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the map SCAN Littoral® chart of the golfe du Morbihan (Brittany). It was published as a joint project between the French Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM) and the French National Geographic Institute (IGN). It consists of a seamless merging of SHOM’s nautical charts and IGN’s terrestrial maps. At the last ICC in Chile it won the second jury prize in the category “hydrography or maritime navigational charts”.
Get more information and have a look inside at the ICA website!
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April’s Map of the Month is online: Portolan Charts
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is the map colletion Portolan Charts – The Medieval Representation of a Ploughed Sea (Les cartes portolanes. La representació medieval d’una mar solcada). It was published by the Inst. Cartogràfic de Catalunya. At the last ICC in Chile it was the “winner of the public vote”.
Get more information and have a look inside!
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Second Map of the Month is online: The National Atlas of Spain
This month’s ICA Map of the Month is The National Atlas of Spain (1986–2008): Facsimile digital version. The digital atlas was published by the National Centre of Geographical Information and the National Geographic Institute of Spain and won in the category “Digital Products (Maps and Digital images)” at the last ICC in Chile. Have a look at it!
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