ICC 2021 International Cartographic Association

The 30th International Cartographic Conference took place in Florence, Italy, 14–18 December 2021.

Conference website

ICC2021 in numbers

630 participants from 53 countries, whereof 49% in presence
Papers: 563 presentations, 80 sessions
2 keynote speeches + 4 special sessions
International Map Exhibition: 410 maps and related objects from 32 ICA members
International Children’s Map Competition: 178 maps from 32 countries
210 participants for the Opening reception
100 participants for the Gala Dinner
27 scholarships for young researchers

For more information and statistics, see the ICC 2021 final presentation.

ICC2021 in images

Browse through our picture gallery to get an impression of ICC 2021 or reminisce about your visit.

Monday, December 13 – Pre-conference workshops &
Opening of the International Cartographic Exhibition

Tuesday, December 14 – Opening Ceremony

Wednesday & Thursday, December 15-16

Friday, December 17 – Conference Dinner

Saturday, December 18 – Closing Ceremony

Photos by Stephan Wondrak – thanks!

ICC2021 in videos

Selected videos can be found on the Youtube channel of the ICA.

Proceedings

The proceedings can be found here:

Advances of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2084: Volume 3, 2021
Proceedings of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2092: Volume 4, 2021
Abstracts of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2106: Volume 3, 2021

Two issues of the International Journal of Cartography were dedicated to the 30th ICC:

Volume 7, Issue 3 (2021)
Special Issue: International Cartographic Conference 2021, Florence, Italy. Part 1
Volume 8, Issue 1 (2022)
Special Issue International Cartographic Conference 2021, Florence, Italy. Part 2

The program can be viewed as PDF.

ICA Awards

At the ICA Awards Ceremony the following awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA and outstanding contributions to the field and science of cartography:

Ulrich Freitag	Germany	Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal
Alan MacEachran	United States	Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal
Georg Gartner	Austria	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Lysandros Tsoulos	Greece	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Vladimir Tikunov	Russia	ICA Honorary Fellowship
Paola Zamperlin	Italy	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Margherita Azzari	Italy	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Gilberto Fumarola	Italy	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA
Manuela Schmidt	Austria	Diploma for outstanding services to ICA

Pre-Conference Activities

As at every ICC, several ICA Commissions were organizing pre-conference events for the 30th ICC in Florence.

Date	Title	Organized by the Commission(s) on
Oct 28	Challenges and Opportunities of Cartography and GIS Education: in the Classroom and in the Cloud	Education and Training
Dec 2–3	Cartography connecting schools	Cartography and Children \| Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Dec 13	Sharing cartographic knowledge	SDI and Standards \| Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization \| Open Source Geospatial Technologies \| Geospatial Semantics
Dec 13	Immersive Cartography / Cartography for Immersive Environments	Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization \| User Experience
Dec 13	24th ICA Workshop on Map Generalisation and Multiple Representation	Map Generalisation and Multiple Representation
Dec 13	Geospatial approaches to combating Covid-19	Geospatial Analysis and Modeling \| Location-based services
Dec 13	Disaster risk reduction (DRR) progress for cartography in Big Data era	Early Warning and Crisis Management
Dec 13	Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologists	History of Cartography
Dec 13	Visualization of Dynamic Phenomenons and Processes on Web Maps	Maps and the Internet
Dec 13	Workshop on Geospatial Semantics	Geospatial Semantics
Dec 13	Map Design for Atlases	Atlases \| Map Design

Map awards

For a full list of map products exhibited during ICC 2021, please check the PDF catalogue.

Maps on panels	1st: La Réunion, France 2nd: Regional Map of the Canary Islands, Spain 3rd: Central Tokyo: 10,000 Topographic Map «Central Tokyo» in commemoration of the enthronement of His Majesty the Emperor, Japan Popular vote: ROU-MP1: The Topographic Plan of Aluniș Estate – property of the Bazau Diocese, Romania
Charts on panels	1st: Aeronautical chart, Finland 2nd: Puerto de Santander 4011 INT 1852, Spain 3rd: Fox Islands Thorofare – Stand-in point to Birch Island, United States Popular votes: Augusta Harbour, Italy Hand cut depth model of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom Approach to Cagliari, Italy
Atlases	1st: The Atlas of Unusual Borders, United Kingdom 2nd: State of Israel – 70 years of Statistics, Historical Statistical Atlas 1948-2018, Israel 3rd: Atlas of the Invisible, United Kingdom Popular vote: National Atlas of Hungary – Society, Hungary
Digital Products	1st: 3D Map Aosta, Italy 2nd: The migrations of the American South, 1790-2010, United States 3rd: Edugeo – Module Minetest/Kidscode for education on natural risk, France Popular vote: Swisstopo Vector Tiles, Switzerland
Educational cartographic products	1st: Thematic Mapping: 101 inspiring ways to visualize empirical data, United States 2nd: Geoexplorer, Spain 3rd: Magnetic Hand-painted Map of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Popular vote: Mini-map of the World 1:100 Mio., Germany
Other cartographic products	1st: Geographical atlas of Belarus for the blind and visually impaired, Poland 2nd: L´Histoire de la Belgique en 100 cartes anciennes, Belgium 3rd: The vividness of cartography – Andermatt and Matterhorn, Switzerland

The international jury had the following members:

Margherita Azzari
Thomas Schulz
Mark Wigley
Jesús Reyes
Nicola Gabellieri
Andrés Arístegui

Barbara Petchenik Competition

178 drawings from 32 countries were exhibited. You can still do a virtual tour of the exhibition here. All entries can be viewed here.

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Ivayla Lazarova (5), Bulgaria, < 6 years, 1^st place

Elzė Marija Jakubėnaitė (4), Lithuania, < 6 years, 2^nd place

Lyyti Kalakoski (5), Finland, < 6 years, 3^rd place

Alfonsina Valdez Galli (7), Argentina, 6–8 years, 1^st place

Yang Se-Ha (7), Republic of Korea, 6–8 years, 2^nd place

Pavol Rybár (8), Slovakia, 6–8 years, 3^rd place

Matvei Pilko (10), Israel, 9–12 years, 1^st place

Magda Oswald (12), Croatia, 9–12 years, 2^nd place

Barnaby Blampied (11), Turkey, 9–12 years, 3^rd place

Angela Waiman (15), Indonesia, 13–15 years, 1^st place

Elmira Sabanchieva (13), Russia, 13–15 years, 2^nd place

Daniela N. Villacrés Ribadeneira (14), Ecuador, 13–15 years, 3^rd place

Pijus Jokubaitis (15), Lithuania, Creativity Award

Alfonsina Valdez Galli (7), Argentina, Public vote

The jury members were

José Jesús Reyes Nunez, Hungary – Chair
Ana María Garra, Argentina
Temenoujka Bandrova, Bulgaria
Naeema Al Hosani, United Arab Emirates
Catherine Njore, Kenya
Pilar Sánchez-Ortiz, Spain
Dariusz Dukaczewski, Poland
Riccardo Morri, Italy
Carla Sena, Brazil and Monika Kopecka, Slovakia – Substitute Members
Peter van der Krogt, The Netherlands – International Coordinator

Scholarships

ICA scholarships help early career scientists or professionals in cartography and GIScience to participate in official ICA events. Altogether, 25 scholarships were awarded to young scientists at the 30th ICC.

Name	Country	ICA event	Date	Title of paper / poster	Sum in €
Rebeca Merino del Río	ESP	ICC2021	12/2021	Historical Cartography Analysis For A Design Of Cultural Itineraries In The Lower Guadalquivir	700
Andong Ma	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Computationally-Efficient Sequential Feature Extraction For Single Hyperspectral Remote-Sensing Image Classification	260
Timothy Prestby	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Characterizing Storytelling In Covid-19 Cartographic Journalism	700
Nicholas Lally	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Direct Manipulations Of Cartographic Space For Expressive Cartographies	260
Edina Hajdú	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	The Digital Cartographic Reconstruction Of The 1897 ‘Mátra Guide’ (Hungary)	700
Márton Pál	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	Automatic Vectorization Of Rectangular Manmade Objects: A Case Study Applying Opencv And Gdal On Uav Imagery \| Where To Hike? – Mobile Application For Guiding Tourists In The Bükkalja Region, Hungary \| Geodiversity Mapping Of The Bakony–Balaton Unesco Global Geopark, Hungary	1000
Gergely Vassányi	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	Automatic Vectorization Of Point Symbols On Archive Maps Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network	1000
Lourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Measuring Closest Water, Sanitation, And Hygiene Facilities In Unhoused Communities Of Los Angeles, Usa	700
Gene Trantham	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Focus On Orientation To Represent Terrain	300
Lois Park	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Reimagining Measures Of Spatial Access To Health Care In Low- And Middle-Income Countries: Using Road Network Analysis To Validate Self-Reported Perceptions Of Geospatial Barriers	700
Jakub Koníček	CZE	ICC2021	12/2021	Mapping, Synthesis And Visualization Of Czech Dialects \| Approaches For Infographics Evaluation In Maps	1000
Jessica Kate Hepburn	GBR	ICC2021	12/2021	How Do Decision Makers Interact With Geospatial Data? An Eye Tracking Study	260
Malak Alasli	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	Dual Naming As A Mechanism To Recognize Multiple Identities; Casablanca Or Ad-Dar Al-Bayda	1000
Harrison Cole	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Thematic Tactile Cartography: Evaluating Tactile Mapping Techniques For Novel Applications	700
Yanan Wu	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Where And Why There: Location Analytics Of Routine Occurrences (Laro) With A Case Study On Traffic Accidents	300
Chelsea Nestel	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Aesthetics In Cartographic Epistemology	500
Dávid Gerzsenyi	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	Frmod, A Python Tool For Statistical Landslide Susceptibility Assessment	1000
Pavel Ugwitz	CZE	ICC2021	12/2021	Building A Virtual Cartographic Museum	700
Ondřej Kvarda	CZE	ICC2021	12/2021	Usability Of Building Information Modeling (Bim) For Generating Virtual Geographic Environments (Vges)	700
Lei Zou	USA	ICC2021	12/2021	Revealing The Geographical Disparities Of Global Covid-19 Awareness And Its Health Effects Through Social Media	260
Julian Huiber	AUT	ICC2021	12/2021	A Set Of Criteria For Evaluating Map Application Design In A Mobile Environment	260
Marc Schulz	AUT	ICC2021	12/2021	A Set Of Criteria For Evaluating Map Application Design In A Mobile Environment	260
Veronika Flóra Kiss	HUN	ICC2021	12/2021	The Sense Of North	700
Niédja Sodré de Araújo	BRA	ICC2021	12/2021	Perspectives About Implementation Of Colour Codes On Maps Accessible To Blind People	150
Katarzyna Słomska-Przech	POL	ICC2021	12/2021	Historical Atlas Of Poland 2.0 – Over 140 Years Of Joint Work Of Historians And Cartographers	700

ICA Scholarship Awardees 2021, together with ICA President Tim Trainor and Secretary-General Thomas Schulz

Further awardees from ICC2021 (from left to right): Andong Ma, Jess Hepburn, Jakob Konicek, Marc Schulz, Nick Lally

Orienteering event

The ICC2021 orienteering event took place on December 18, 2021 at Piazzale delle Cascine, Firenze.

Advanced course – 3.6km, 17 control points
Males

NameCountryTime

1	Dušan Petrovič	Slovenia	16:28
2	Mátyás Gede	Hungary	18:47
3	Maximilian Gartner	Austria	19:24

Females

NameCountryTime

1	Dojana Snopkova	Czech Republic	23:32
2	Bigi Velia	Italy	30:56

Map of the course

ICC 2021

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