The 27th International Cartographic Conference and the 16th General Assembly of ICA took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23–28 August 2015.

 

Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference (ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9) can be found here.

 

General Assembly

The conference hosted the 16th General Assembly of the ICA.

Minutes (in English an French)

 

ICA Awards

At the ICA Awards Ceremony at ICC2015 the following awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA.

David Fairbairn	United Kingdom	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Vladimir Tikunov	Russia	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Elri Liebenberg	South Africa	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
José Jesús Reyes Nuñez	Hungary	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
David Fraser	Australia	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Corné van Elzakker	The Netherlands	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA

 

Pre-Conference Activities

Several ICA Commissions were organizing pre-conference events.

Date	Venue	Title	Organized by the Commission(s) on
19–21 Aug	Rio de Janeiro	Symposium on Atlases, Topography and the History of Cartography	Atlases, Toponomy, History of Cartography
20 Aug	Curitiba	Designing and Conducting User Studies	Use and User Issues, Cognitive Visualization
20–21 Aug	Curitiba	Advances in Cartographic Practice in the Classroom and on the Web	Maps and the Internet, Education and Training
21–22 Aug	Rio de Janeiro	Generalisation and Multiple Representation	Generalization
21–22 Aug	Rio de Janeiro	Mapping Ephemeralities / Ephemeral Cartographies	Art & Cartography, Maps and Society
21–22 Aug	Niteroi	Cartography beyond the ordinary world	Cartography and Children, Maps for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Planetary Cartography, Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management
21 Aug	Rio de Janeiro	Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial	Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards, Open Source Geospatial
21 Aug	Curitiba	Envisioning the Future of Cartographic Research	Cognitive Visualization, Use and User Issues, Geovisualization, Map Design
21 Aug	Rio de Janeiro	Towards Evolutionary Cartography from Global Perspectives	Theoretical Cartography, Ubiquitous Mapping

 

Map awards

The winning entries are listed below – some of them will be featured in our Map of the Month section. For a full list of map products exhibited during ICC 2015, please check the PDF catalogue.

Maps on paper	1st – 3D Map Longyearbyen and environs, Norway, details 2nd – Panorama Map of Kanto Mountains & Mt. Fuji, Japan 3rd – Occupying São Paulo – An Augmented City Map, Belgium, details
Atlases	1st – The Atlas of Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands, Netherlands 2nd – Graphical and Statistical Atlas of Switzerland 1914–2014, Switzerland, details 3rd – Atlas of Typical Landform in Western China, China
Digital Products	1st – Project Supra: Real-time Heatmaps from Sports Workouts, Finland, details 2nd – OV-Map, Netherlands, details 3rd – BeCarto 14-18, Belgium
Educational cartographic products	1st – Enjoy the map – Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic 2nd – The Kakamega-Nandi Forests Puzzli, Germany, details 3rd – Collins First Atlas, United Kingdom
Other cartographic products	1st – 3D View of the Beautiful Earth, China 2nd – Belle-Ile: Relief map on demand, France 3rd – Geological Textile, Japan, details
Public vote	3D View of the Beautiful Earth, China

The international jury had the following members:

• Kenneth Field (Chair), United Kingdom
• Derek Clarke, South Africa
• Amy Griffin, Australia
• Anja Hopfstock, Germany
• Lorenz Hurni, Switzerland
• Alexander Kent, United Kingdom
• Takashi Morita, Japan
• Anthony Robinson, USA
• Vit Vozenilek, Czeck Republic
• João Bosco, Brazil (LOC)
• Luiz Henrique Castiglione, Brazil (LOC)

 

Barbara Petchenik Competition

189 drawings from 38 countries were exhibited. All of them will soon be accessible in the Winner Map Collection at the Carleton University Library. 287 people participated in the public vote.

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The jury members were

• Necla Ulugtekin, Turkey, chair
• José Jesús Reyes Nuñez, Hungary, chair of the commission on cartography and children
• Ana Maria Garra, Argentina
• Angelica di Maio, Brazil (LOC)
• Rumiana Vatseva, Bulgaria
• Giedrė Beconytė, Lithuania
• Dariusz Dukaczewski, Poland
• Pilar Sanchez, Spain
• Robert Edsall, USA
• Carla Sena, Brazil, substitute member

 

Commissions at a glance

During ICC 2015 all new and re-elected commission chairs presented their commissions in a speed presentation. You can check out the presentation slides below.

• Art and Cartography
• Atlases
• Cartographic Heritage into the Digital
• Cartography and Children
• Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management
• Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization
• Education and Training
• Generalisation and Multiple Representation
• Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
• GI for Sustainability
• the History of Cartography
• Location Based Services
• Map Design
• Map Production and Geoinformation Management
• Map Projections
• Maps and Graphics for the Blind and Partially Sighted People
• Maps and the Internet
• Mountain Cartography
• Open Source Geospatial Technologies
• Planetary Cartography
• SDI and Standards
• Sensor-driven mapping
• Topographic Mapping
• Toponomy
• Ubiquitous Mapping
• Use, User and Usability Issues
• Visual Analytics

 

Scholarships

The ICA Research Scholarships 2014/15 were awarded to the following five young scientists:

Amin Mobasheri, Germany	Web Mapping of Geo-tagged Shipping Information; Case Study: The LLOYDS Lists Looking for Human Footprint in Nature: Collaborative Mapping for Monitoring of Self-organized Patterns in Human Trail Systems Visualizing Sidewalk Information for People with Limited Mobilities; Cartographic Challenges and Requirements
Jiri Pánek, Czech Republic	ARAMANI – Decision-Support Tool for Selecting Optimal Participatory Mapping Method Emotional mapping and emotional maps as tools for community based decision-making
Merve Keskin, Turkey	A Comparison of Space-Time 2D and 3D Geo-visualization
Taien Ng-Chan, Canada	The Chronotope in Cartography and Montreal Cinema
Zbynek Sterba, Czech Republic	Man-machine Interaction in Real 3D and Pseudo-3D Cartographic Visualization: A Comparative Study

 

Orienteering event

Details and results of the orienteering event on August 26 at Ilha de Fundão can be found in our orienteering section.