ICC 2017

The 28th International Cartographic Conference took place in Washington, D.C., USA, 2–7 July 2017.Conference website

Proceedings

The proceedings can be found at www.proc-int-cartogr-assoc.net (Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, Volume 1, 2018, eISSN: eISSN 2570-2092).

The program can be viewed as PDF and in an interactive version.

Extraordinary General Assembly

The conference hosted an Extraordinary General Assembly of the ICA.

ICA Awards

At the ICA Awards Ceremony at ICC2017 the following awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA:

William Cartwright	Australia	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Anne Ruas	France	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Timothy Trainor	USA	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Igor Drecki	New Zealand	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Aileen R. Buckley	USA	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Cynthia A. Brewer	USA	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Matthew Rice	USA	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
June 28–30	Washington, DC	Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History – Names – Atlases	History of Cartography, Toponymy, and Atlases
June 30 & July 1	Williamsburg, VA	Meeting on Maps & the Internet, Ubiquitous Mapping and Education & Training	Education and Training, Maps and the Internet and Ubiquitous Mapping
July 1	Washington, DC	Mapping Tools for Non-Mapping Experts: Incorporating Geospatial Visualization Tools in Libraries	Cartographic Heritage into the Digital
July 1	Washington, DC	Different Fields – One Cartography	Cartography and Children, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People and Planetary Cartography
July 1	Washington, DC	Supporting sustainable development with geoinformation management and modern maps: things you hardly consider	Map Production and Geoinformation Management
July 1–2, 2017	Washington, DC	Workshop on Maps & Emotions	Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Art and Cartography and Topographic Mapping
July 1–2, 2017	Washington, DC	Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures, Standards, Open Source and Open Data for Geospatial (SDI-Open 2017)	Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the SDI and Standards
July 1–2, 2017	Washington, DC	Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation	Generalisation and Multiple Representation, second day in cooperation with Geospatial Analysis and Modeling and Location-based Services
July 1–2, 2017	Washington, DC	Symposium on Location-Based Social Media and Tracking Data	Geospatial Analysis and Modeling and Location-based Services, second day in cooperation with Generalisation and Multiple Representation
July 2, 2017	Washington, DC	Critical Review on Using Developable Surfaces in Map Projections Theory & Standardization in Map Projections	Map Projections
July 2, 2017	Washington, DC	Disaster Management, Big Data, Services and Cartographic Representation	Cartography in Early Warning and Crises Management
July 2, 2017	Washington, DC	Preserving Map Production Methodology Information	Atlases

 

Map awards

The winning entries are listed below – some of them will be featured in our Map of the Month section.

Atlases	1st: The National Atlas of Korea, Republic of Korea 2nd: Tactile Atlas of Switzerland, Switzerland 3rd: Grand Topographic Atlas of Catalonia 1:25,000, Institut Cartografic i Geologic de Catalunya Public vote: Swiss World Atlas 2017 Ed., Switzerland
Digital Products	1st: Minecraft® on Demand, France 2nd: Augmented Reality App Swissarena, Switzerland 3rd & Public vote: Atlas of Switzerland Online, Switzerland
Educational cartographic products	1st: genderATlas goes school, Austria 2nd: Historical Atlas of Poland for blind and visually impaired, Poland 3rd & Public vote: 3D Relief of Czechia, Czechia
Other cartographic products	1st: Psychogeography in the age of the quantified self, Germany 2nd: Canal Full Map Long Scroll, China 3rd: Canton Berne – 3D printed Terrain Model, 1:25,000, Switzerland Public vote: Canal Full Map Long Scroll, China
Charts on panels	1st: Zhenghe Navigational Chart with an Ancient vs. Modern Comparison, China 2nd: Stavanger Harbor with Seaward approaches (chart no. 455), Norway 3rd: IFR Enroute Low Altitude - Alaska L-1, Esri Public vote: VFR Aeronautical Chart of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
Maps on panels	1st: Relief MASSIF DU MONT BLANC, France 2nd: The Olivine Wilderness, New Zealand 3rd: Jenny Lake Hiking Map, USA Public vote: Blue and White Dream, China

The international jury had the following members:

• Kenneth Field (Chair), United Kingdom
• Margaret Pearce (Organiser), USA
• Antoni Moore, New Zealand
• David Fairbairn, United Kingdom
• Paulo Menezes, Brazil
• William Cartwright, Australia
• Lorenz Hurni, Switzerland
• Dirk Burghardt, Germany
• Dušan Petrovič, Slovenia
• Serena Coetzee, South Africa
• Rosemary Wardley (LOC), USA

 

Barbara Petchenik Competition

193 drawings from 34 countries were exhibited. All of them will soon be accessible in the Winner Map Collection at the Carleton University Library.

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The jury members were

• Pilar Sánchez-Ortiz Rodríguez, Spain – Chair
• Ana María Garra, Argentina
• Paulo Menezes, Brazil
• Temenoujka Bandrova, Bulgaria
• Dariusz Dukaczewski, Poland
• Necla Ulugtekin, Turkey
• Naeema Al Hosani, United Arab Emirates
• Rob Edsall, USA
• Carla Sena, Brazil and Jesus Reyes, Hungary – Substitute Members
• Peter van der Krogt, The Netherlands – International Coordinator

The Creativity Award was presented by the ICA Commission on Art and Cartography.

 

Scholarships

Name	Country	ICA event	Date	Title of paper / poster	Sum in €
Julia Mia Stirnemann	CHE	ICC Workshop on Maps & Emotions	07/2017	Viewpoints evoke emotions	400
Javiera Advis	CHL / GER	ICC Workshop on Maps & Emotions	07/2017	LINESCAPES: virtual and real experiences of cities	400
Sébastein Biniek	FRA	ICC2017	07/2017	Designing typefaces for maps. A protocol of tests.	1000
Mateusz Pitura	POL	ICC2017	07/2017	Hebrus Valles - The Mars Exploration Zone Map	1000
Vit Paszto	CZE	ICC2017	07/2017	Crowdsourcing Mapping and Participatory Planning Support System: Case Study of Brno, Czech Republic | Playing with maps – using geogames in geography field-courses | Reflective 2D visualization of 3D objects using cartographic projection	1000
Yvette Bevis	RSA	ICC2017	07/2017	Expert opinions on using the third dimension to visualise wind speed uncertainty for wind farm planning	1000
Jelena Glisovic	SRB	ICC2017	07/2017	The First Special Military Map Printed in Serbia	1000
Katrin Glinka	GER	ICC2017	07/2017	Psychogeography in the age of the quantified self — Mental map modelling with georeferenced personal activity data	1000
Syed Attique Shah	TUR	ICC2017	07/2017	A Framework for Enhancing Real-time Social Media Data to Enhance Disaster Management Process	1000
Olawale Oluwafemi	NIG	ICC2017	07/2017	Effect of Sediment-Hosted Disseaminated Gold Deposit Mining on the Landscape of Itagunmodi-Igun Basin, SW. Nigeria	1000
Shahmy Said	MAS / GBR	ICC2017	07/2017	Classifying the Diversity of Bus Mapping Systems; Mapping Landslides Susceptibilty In a Traditional Northern Nigerian City	1000
Lanfa Liu	CHN / GER	ICC2017	07/2017	Feature learning for soil property mapping using Vis-NIR spectroscopy	–
Song Gao	USA	ICC2017	07/2017	Identifying Geographic Features through Map Interpretation: A Case Study of Craters Using Controlling Variables	100
Bosse Amber	USA	ICC2017	07/2017	For the Essentially Subjective Elements of Cartography, 1953-1995	100
Annita Lucchesi	USA	ICC2017	07/2017	HÓHTA’HANÉ: MAPPING GENOCIDE & RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN NATIVE AMERICA	100
Andreas Keler	GER	ICC2017	07/2017	Towards Traffic Bottleneck Visualization - Combining Traffic Congestion and Complicated Crossings	100
Jorge Chen	USA	ICC2017	07/2017	Rapid integration of indoor and outdoor coordinate reference systems using 3D point cloud data	100
Jiri Pánek	CZE	ICC2017	07/2017	Crowdsourcing Mapping and Participatory Planning Support System: Case Study of Brno, Czech Republic | Playing with maps – using geogames in geography field-courses; Reflective 2D visualization of 3D objects using cartographic projection | Psychophysics: The Foundation of Cartography | Research on Automatic Generation of Map Symbols based on Cognitive Semantics Analysis | Exploring visual cognition efficiency in map handling ability based on the eye movement experiment	100
Michele Denner	RSA	ICC2017	07/2017	Assessing a potential solution for spatially referencing of historical aerial photography in South Africa	100

 

Orienteering event

Details and results of the orienteering event on July 6 at Fountainhead Regional Park can be found in our orienteering section.