The 29th International Cartographic Conference and 18th General Assembly took place in Tokyo, Japan, 15–20 July 2019.

Conference website

#icc2019tokyo in Numbers

• 950 participants from over 75 countries
• Papers: 750 presentations, 150 sessions
• 4 keynote speeches + 2 special sessions
• International Map Exhibition: 385 maps and related objects from 30 countries
• International Children’s Map Competition: 188 maps from 33 countries
• 22 booths for Technical and Commercial Exhibition
• 400 participants for the Opening reception
• 250 participants for the Gala Dinner
• 50 grants for young researchers

Proceedings

The proceedings can be found here:

• Advances of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2084: Volume 1, 2019
• Proceedings of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2092: Volume 2, 2019
• Abstracts of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2106: Volume 1, 2019

The program can be viewed as PDF.

General Assembly

The conference hosted the 18th General Assembly of ICA. Details can be found here.

ICA Awards

At the ICA Awards Ceremony at ICC2019 the following awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA:

Evangelos Livieratos	Greece	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Miljenko Lapaine	Croatia	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Takashi Morita	Japan	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
July 10–12	Beijing, China	Geospatial and Cartographic Education – Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities	Education and Training
July 11–12	Beijing, China	User Experience Design for Mobile Cartography: Setting the Agenda	Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization | Location Based Services | Visual Analytics | Use, User and Usability Issues
July 12–14	Akita, Japan	Future Internet and Ubiquitous Cartography 2019	Maps and Internet | Ubiquitous Mapping
July 13–14	Tokyo, Japan	Reclaiming through Mapping: Olympic Sites of Tokyo	Art and Cartography
July 13–14	Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan	Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Challenges for Cartography in Big Data Era	Cartography for Early Warning and Crises Management
July 14	Tokyo, Japan	Atlases and Infographics	Atlases
July 14	Tokyo, Japan	Map Projections	Map Projections
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Abstraction, Scale & Perception	Cognitive Visualization | Generalisation and Multiple Representation
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other	History of Cartography | Topographic Mapping
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Cartography for Specific Users	Cartography and Children | Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People | Planetary Cartography
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Location-based Big Data 2019	LBS | Geospatial Analysis and Modelling
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Role and Structure of National Names Boards	Toponymy
July 15	Tokyo, Japan	Spatial Data Infrastructures, Standards, Open Source and Open Data for Geospatial (SDI-Open 2019)	SDI and Standards | Map Production & Geoinformation Management | Open Source Geospatial Technologies

Map awards

The winning entries are listed below. For a full list of map products exhibited during ICC2019, please check the PDF catalogue.

Atlases	1st: National Atlas of Hungary, Hungary 2nd: Graphical Statistical Atlas of Switzerland 1897–2017, Switzerland 3rd: Atlas of Poland's Political Geography, Poland
Digital Products	1st: Politics of Remembrance 1945–2015, Austria 2nd: Caydence, United Kingdom 3rd: Water Rhyme in Gusu, China
Educational cartographic products	1st: Cartography. USA-Esri 2nd: TouchIt3D Tactile Maps, Czech Republic 3rd: Statistical Maps: Data Elaboration and Presentation, Poland
Other cartographic products	1st: Map Data Provision Products, Japan 2nd: Transparent Globes, China 3rd: 3D model of Domnica Cave, Czech Republic
Charts on panels	1st: The map of Northern Sea Area, China 2nd: Tokyo Wan, Japan 3rd: Abords et port de I'île Saint-Pierre, France
Maps on panels	1st: Fimbulheimen in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Norway 2nd: Ecological Area Map of the Estuary Wetland of Dagu River, China 3rd: The Melbourne Map, Australia
Public vote	Water Rhyme in Gusu, China

The international jury had the following members:

• Co-chairs: Kenneth Field and Ian Muehlenhaus
• Temenoujka Bandrova
• William Cartwright
• Serena Coetzee
• Igor Drecki
• David Fairbairn
• Georg Gartner
• Amy Griffin
• Anja Hopfstock
• Lorenz Hurni
• Antoni Moore
• Dušan Petrovic
• Hiroshi Une
• Nonoko Tsukada

 

Barbara Petchenik Competition

188 drawings from 33 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
• Temenoujka Bandrova, Bulgaria
• Simon Catling, Great Britain
• Koji Ohnishi, Japan
• Dariusz Dukaczewski, Poland
• Necla Ulugtekin, Turkey
• Naeema Al Hosani, United Arab Emirates
• Carla Sena, Brazil and Jesus Reyes, Hungary – Substitute Members
• Peter van der Krogt, The Netherlands – International Coordinator

 

Scholarships

Name	Country	ICA event	Date	Title of paper / poster	Sum in €
Aytaç YÜRÜKÇÜ	TUR	History of Cartography and the Topographic Mapping	07/2019	How East and West Cartographic Studies Influenced the Most Important 16th Century Ottoman Cartographer of Piri Reis and His World Maps	200
Dr. Lei ZOU	USA	LocBigData 2019	07/2019	Leveraging Location-Based Social Media for Smart Emergency Management	200
Christian RÖGER	DEU	LocBigData 2019	07/2019	Visualizing the Complexity of Crossings using Star-Plot Maps	200
Wangshu WANG	AUT	Joint Pre-Conference Workshop of the ICA Commission on Use, Users, and Usability, the Commission on Cognitive Visualization, the Commission on Location-based Services and the Commission on Visual Analytics	07/2019	Towards a Functional Ontology for Mobile Map Applications	200
Nargiz Safaraliyeva	AZE	ICC2019	07/2019	Teaching basic map concepts in three countries: Azerbaijan, Hungary and United Arab Emirates	1000
Malak Alasli	MAR	ICC2019	07/2019	Toponyms’ contribution to identity: The case study of Rabat (Morocco) | Static Risk Mapping of Forest Fires - In the case of the Province of Chefchaouen (Morocco)	800
Shyamantha SUBASINGHE	LKA	ICC2019	07/2019	Urban Growth: From pixel to reality	700
Dr. Alena Vondráková	CZE	ICC2019	07/2019	TouchIt3D: Technology (not only) for Tactile Maps | The Specifics of Cartographic Semiology in Tactile Maps	600
Ashna Kareem Zada	IRQ	ICC2019	07/2019	Testing Maps for Visually Impaired People in Kurdistan	600
Jagadish B	IND	ICC2019	07/2019	Deriving Multiple Representation Database: A Model Generalisation Approach	500
Lukasz Halik	POL	ICC2019	07/2019	Teaching of geographical space relations for cartography - Academic Outdoor Station in Poznan (Poland) | Workflow for 3D geovisualization of the data obtained with the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Augmented Reality | The visualization of the use of land on the basis of the dynamics of the pedestrian movement from the interval UAV imaging | Measuring user preferences in virtual reality (VR): 2D versus 3D urban geovisualizations of topographic data	500
Márton Pál	HUN	ICC2019	07/2019	Digital cartography for geoheritage: turning an analogue geotourist map into digital | Possibilities of high precision GPS data in autonomous driving	500
Nikola Yonov	BGR	ICC2019	07/2019	School Atlas with Augmented Reality	500
Radek Barvir	CZE	ICC2019	07/2019	The Specifics of Cartographic Semiology in Tactile Maps | TouchIt3D: Technology (not only) for Tactile Maps	500
Pongpichaya William Limpisathian	USA / THA	ICC2019	07/2019	Representations of Place in the Human Brain	400
Ivan Evgenyevich Fokin	Russia	ICC2019	07/2019	The automation of processes of atlas mapping | Methods and algorithms for creation of structural schemes of rivers	400
Nick Lally	USA	ICC2019	07/2019	Mapping dynamic, non-Euclidean spaces | Interactive & Multiscale Thematic Maps: A Preliminary Study	400
Xiao Huang	USA / CHN	ICC2019	07/2019	Linking picture with text: tagging flood relevant tweets for rapid flood inundation mapping	400
Carolyn S. Fish	USA	ICC2019	07/2019	Emotional responses to climate change map framing using facial emotion recognition technology	300
Harrison Cole	USA	ICC2019	07/2019	Toward Accessible Hazard Mapping: Tactile Risk Maps and Disaster Preparedness	300
Laure De Cock	BEL	ICC2019	07/2019	Linking perception to decision point complexity for adaptive indoor wayfinding support	300
Maja Kalinic	DEU / BIH	ICC2019	07/2019	Floating Car Data and Fuzzy Logic for classifying congestion indexes in the city of Shanghai	300
Ross Thorn	USA	ICC2019	07/2019	How to Play with Maps	300

 

Commission reports

During ICC 2019, the commissions presented posters of their activities in the 2015–2019 term:

• 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
• Marine Cartography
• Mountain Cartography
• Open Source Geospatial Technologies
• Planetary Cartography
• SDI and Standards
• Sensor-driven mapping
• Topographic Mapping
• Toponymy
• Ubiquitous Mapping
• Use, User and Usability Issues
• Visual Analytics

Orienteering event

Details and results of the orienteering event on July 19 at KIBA Park can be found in our orienteering section.