Workshop on historical maps, atlases and toponymy, Leipzig, Germany, August 2013

As a pre-conference event of the 26^th International Cartographic Conference which will take place in Dresden, 25–30 August 2013, three ICA commissions/working groups (on Atlases, on the History of Cartography, on Toponymy) have organized a workshop on historical maps, atlases and toponymy at the Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography [Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde], Schongauer Straße 9, Leipzig, Germany, 22–23 August 2013. This workshop is conceived as a sequence of paper presentations with a focus on the function and use of place names on historical maps and in all kinds of atlases (ranging from scientific to school atlases and from macro-regional and national atlases to city atlases). All papers will be presented in the plenary with members of all three commissions/working groups present.

You need not be a member, corresponding member or associated expert of one of our WG/commissions to take part. Every person interested is very welcome. No registration fee is requested. So far we have 20 papers in the programme, among them presentations by Christopher Board, Ferjan Ormeling and Ernst Spiess.

The workshop is conveniently scheduled for Thursday and Friday before ICC Dresden starts on Sunday and will last from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday and 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on Friday with a social dinner on Thursday evening and the offer of guided tours in small groups to the famous geographical and cartographic library of the hosting institute at various times.

For detailed information please contact
Peter Jordan, Chair of the Commission on Atlases
Elri Liebenberg, Chair of the Commission on the History of Cartography
Paulo de Menezes, Chair of the Working Group and IGU Commission on Toponymy

Category: Atlases, Commission News, History of Cartography, Toponymy

Tag: Germany, ICC, ICC2013, workshop

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:

The book on Service-Oriented Mapping 2012 is available in the webshop of our publisher.
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

Category: Commission News, Map Production and Geoinformation Management

Tag: cfp, Germany, ICC, ICC2013, publications, workshop

ICA Workshop on Street Networks and Transport 2013

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/.

Category: Commission News, Geospatial Analysis and Modeling

Tag: cfp, Germany, ICC, ICC2013, workshop

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 https://icaci.org/icc2013/ ]

Category: Cartography and Children, Commission News, Education and Training, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Planetary Cartography

Tag: cfp, Dresden, Germany, ICC, ICC2013, workshop

Invitation to workshop “Eye tracking: why, when, and how?”

Pre-Conference Workshop to ICC2013
23 (noon)–24 (all day) August 2013 @ the Dresden University of Technology, Germany

The ICA Commissions on Cognitive Visualization, Geovisualization, and Use and User Issues cordially invite you to participate in a hands-on workshop on how to efficiently and effectively collect, analyze, and make sense of eye movement data in empirical user studies. We will work hands-on with real eye-trackers and real data during the workshop, and discuss issues in the group.

This workshop is intended to bring together a broad mix of researchers interested in eye movement data collection methods, ranging from the eye tracking novice who might wish to learn more about this empirical technique, to the seasoned eye tracking expert who wishes to share advanced analytical approaches with other like-minded empirical researchers. Part of the program will use parallel tracks to meet the needs of both novices and experts, and a ‘data challenge’ will form a key component of the meeting.

We thus encourage various avenues for involvement in this hands-on workshop, and call for the following contributions:

Short papers involving …
- Case studies and applications
- Work in progress reports
- Open problems
- Demos and tools
- Novel analysis techniques and methods
Responses to our data challenges:
The organizers have provided real eye-tracking datasets, together with analytical tasks. The datasets and their descriptions are available here:

We expect your abstract containing a statement of interest, including the type of proposed contribution (ca. 1 page, PDF or MS Word) by February 1, 2013. Please send your contributions to: icacogvis@geo.uzh.ch (Subject: ICC13). Notifications of acceptance: March 1, 2013.

Participation cost: 40 EUR (lunch on the first and second day are included in the workshop fee)

Further details about workshop, registration etc. will be published here: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/icacogvis/activities.html

Further questions can be directed to the commission chairs: Sara Fabrikant, Gennady Andrienko, and Corné van Elzakker

Category: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, User Experience, Visual Analytics

Tag: eye tracking, Germany, ICC, ICC2013, workshop

CET Workshop Opportunities

GIS/Cartography workshops have been successfully organised and conducted in Iran (2009), Indonesia (2010) and Viet Nam (2010), by the CET, on behalf of the International Cartographic Association. An outline of the workshop conditions and format can be found at http://lazarus.elte.hu/cet/workshop/overview.pdf

It may be that such a workshop would benefit GIS officers, cartographers and students in your country. I would like to know if you are interested in co-organising a workshop in your country in 2012 (or 2013) at a mutually acceptable time.

The workshops can be held in up to three, one week, parts. Each part is presented by two people, ideally in a computer laboratory, allowing for hands-on practical exercises to be undertaken by all participants.

Contact: David Fraser, Chair of the Commission on Education and Training
david.fraser@rmit.edu.au, http://lazarus.elte.hu/cet/
Skype: fraseratrmit

Category: Commission News, Education and Training

Tag: workshop

Mountain Cartography Workshop in New Zealand in September

The next Mountain Cartography Workshop will be held in New Zealand near Taurewa, adjacent to the Tongariro National Park south of Auckland (North Island) between 1 and 5 September 2012.

The theme of the Workshop is Mapping Mountain Dynamics: from glaciers to volcanoes, in recognition of the unique natural environment of the host country New Zealand. The Workshop will focus on current developments in mountain cartography and present state of the art approaches to cartographic representations in large scale topographic mapping, symbolization and map design, as well as discuss technological issues, map use and links with Location-based Services (LBS).

Abstract submissions are welcome on any topic relating to mountain cartography, large scale topographic mapping, visualization of mountainous landscapes and artistic renderings and representations of terrain, and covering work of an academic and/or professional nature. Further details can be found on the invitation page.

Category: Commission News, Mountain Cartography

Tag: cfp, New Zealand, workshop

Meetings and workshops of the ICA Commission on Atlases in 2012

The following meetings and workshops are organized or co-organized by the ICA Commission on Atlases in 2012:

“National Atlases in the Formation of the Global Information Space”, 5^th All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “National Mapping”

September 13-14, Kiev (Ukraine)

Venue: Kiev House of Scientists, Kiev, Volodymyrska str., 45А

Organizers: National Committee of Geographers of Ukraine, Ukrainian Geographical Society, ICA Commission on Atlases, Ukrainian Cartographic Association, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Geography), State Scientific and Production Enterprise “Kartographia”

Topics: Characteristics of national and regional atlases of different countries of the world, modern conceptual approaches to the creation of national and regional atlases, problems of information reflection and coordination of thematics of border regions maps, Software and technology of creation of paper and electronic versions of Continue reading →

Category: Atlases, Commission News

Tag: Austria, China, meeting, Ukraine, workshop

GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time

The ICA commission on GeoVisualization announces a CfP for the workshop “GeoVA(t) – GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time” at GIScience 2012 and a special issue of the Information Visualization journal. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is May 1, 2012.

For details, please check http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2012. We are looking forward to your contributions.

Category: Commission News, Visual Analytics

Tag: cfp, workshop

“National Atlases in the Formation of the Global Information Space”, 5th All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “National Mapping”

“National Atlases in the Formation of the Global Information Space”, 5^th All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “National Mapping”