ICC 2023 International Cartographic Association

The 31st International Cartographic Conference and 19th General Assembly took place in Cape Town, South Africa, 13–18 August 2023. The conference theme was “Smart Cartography for Sustainable Development”.

Conference website

Proceedings

The proceedings can be found here:

Advances of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2084: Volume 4, 2023
Proceedings of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2092: Volume 5, 2023
Abstracts of the ICA, eISSN 2570-2106: Volume 6, 2023

An issue of the International Journal of Cartography was dedicated to the 31st ICC: Volume 9, Issue 3 (2023)

The program can be viewed as PDF.

General Assembly

The conference hosted the 19th General Assembly of ICA. Details can be found here.

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:

Cynthia Brewer	USA	Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal
Derek Clarke	South Africa	ICA Honoarary Fellowship
Lynn Usery †	USA	ICA Honoarary Fellowship
Peter Jordan	Austria	ICA Honoarary Fellowship
Morena Letsosa	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
Serena Coetzee	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
Thabisile Rambau	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
Maroale Mimi Chauke	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
Janusha Singh	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
S’lindi Mhlongo	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services
Zelda Coetzee	South Africa	ICA Diploma for Outstanding Services

Pre-Conference Activities

Several ICA Commissions were organizing pre-conference events:

Date	Location	Title	Organized by the Commission(s) on …
Aug 11	Colophon Room, SANBI Centre for Biodiversity Conservation	OGC Standards for making geospatial data, maps and charts findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable	SDI and Standards
Aug 11	CD: National Geospatial Information	Other Cartographies	Art and Cartography
Aug 12	University of Cape Town – Geomatics	tbd	Cartography in Early Warning and Crises Management (CEW&CM)
Aug 12	Stellenbosch University, Chamber of Mines Building	Cartographic and Geospatial Information Education: Transformation in the Era of AI	Education and Training \| Open Source Geospatial Technologies \| Working Group Cartographic Body of Knowledge
Aug 12	Stellenbosch University, Chamber of Mines building	Joint Workshop on Cartography Connecting Schools	Cartography and Children \| Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Aug 12	Stellenbosch University, Chamber of Mines Building	Workshop on Cartography and AI (MapAI)	Visual Analytics \| Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization
Aug 12	The Capetonian Hotel	Symposium on Location-based Big Data and GeoAI 2023 (LocBigDataAI 2023)	Location Based Services \| Geospatial Analysis and Modelling \| Working Group on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies
Aug 12	University of the Western Cape – New Life Science Auditorium and Foyer	Storytelling with Geographical Visualization	Topographic Mapping
Aug 12	The Westin Cape Town	Visualization of Dynamic Phenomena and Processes on Web Maps and Ubiquitous Mapping (Part II)	Ubiquitous Mapping \| Maps and the Internet

Map awards

For a full list of map products exhibited during ICC 2023, please check the PDF catalogue.

Maps on panels	1st: Jan Mayen—Quaternary Geological Map, Norway 2nd: The World—Great Discoveries, Great Britain 3rd: Development of Cologne City Centre, Germany Popular vote: Lacquer Land, Mountain and Sea, People’s Republic of China
Charts on panels	1st: 3398 Durban, South Africa 2nd: DE46 River Elbe, Belum to Krautsand, Germany 3rd: Thunersee Seekarte, Switzerland Popular vote: Thunersee Seekarte, Switzerland
Atlases	1st: National Atlas of Korea, Republic of Korea 2nd: De Boeck Atlas, Belgium 3rd: Israeli Online Statistical Atlas, Israel Popular vote: National Atlas of Korea, Republic of Korea
Story Maps	1st: Blue Calico Map: Old Streets of Qingdao, People’s Republic of China 2nd: Dante’s Inferno, Czech Republic 3rd: As Spoken and Speaking, Czech Republic Popular vote: Dante’s Inferno, Czech Republic
Digital Products	1st: Geostatistics Poland, Poland 2nd: GISrael CARTO Database, Israel 3rd: Eduard App, Switzerland Popular vote: Cadastral Map Online, Austria
Educational cartographic products	1st: Map on the Floor, Croatia 2nd: Paper Braille Globe, Republic of Korea 3rd: Interactive map of “Africa”, Ukraine Popular vote: Paper Braille Globe, Republic of Korea
Other cartographic products	1st: Maps for Colour Blind and World Braille Map, Republic of Korea 2nd: Woodcarving Terrain Model of Wanzhou Urban Area, People’s Republic of China 3rd: MAPshirt, Slovakia Popular vote: Woodcarving Terrain Model of Wanzhou Urban Area, People’s Republic of China

The international jury had the following members:

Thabisile Rambau
Eva Luévano Orta
Andrés Arístegui
Thomas Schulz
Ian Muehlenhaus

Barbara Petchenik Competition

176 drawings from 32 countries were exhibited. All entries can be viewed here.

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Anja Schwarz (4), Germany, < 6 years, 1^st place

Huang Enze (5), People's Republic of China, < 6 years, 2^nd place

Manuela Diez Marin (5), Spain, < 6 years, 3^rd place

Odilia Kinar Kanyamaheswari (8), Indonesia, 6–8 years, 1^st place

Kseniya Belaya (7), Russia, 6–8 years, 2^nd place

Alan David Perugachi Neira (7), Ecuador, 6–8 years, 3^rd place

Olivér Emmert (11), Hungary, 9–12 years, 1^st place

Anaya Cherian (11), Canada, 9–12 years, 2^nd place

Shubham Sen (12), India, 9–12 years, 3^rd place

Nela Korčušková (14), Slovakia, 13–15 years, 1^st place

Meiran Nadjar (13), Israel, 13–15 years, 2^nd place

You Chobi (15), Republic of Korea, 13–15 years, 3^rd place

Tan Iro (13), Malaysia, Creativity Award

Kseniya Belaya (7), Russia, 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
Thabisile Rambau, South Africa
Carla Sena, Brazil and Silvia Marinova, Bulgaria – 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.

Name	Country	ICA event	Date	Title of paper / poster	Sum in €	Sum in $
Carmelo Ignaccolo	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Exclusionary tales on Beirut’s spaces of craftsmanship: tracing forms of enduring inequities through historical cartography and geolocated archival images		300
Timothy J. Prestby	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	In Maps We Trust		600
Esther Akoto Amoako	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Associations Between Spatial Patterns of 2020 Covid-19 Case Rates and Zip Code Level Residential Burglary (2019-2020) in Chicago, Illinois		600
Binbin Lin	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Mapping the temporally evolved geographic disparities of public perceptions of COVID-19 through social media		300
Nakul Gupta	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Spatial analysis of city-level weather and investor sentiments to study their impact on stock prices of dual-listed companies \| Automating conversion of remote sensing images to human readable map images using generative AI	600
Wojciech Dawid	POL	ICC2023	08/2023	Generalization of the digital elevation model for the purposes of military passability maps development	600
Zulfa Nuraini Afifah	IDN	ICC2023	08/2023	Diet Map: Participatory Mapping Application for Specific Diets	500
Jagadish Boodala	IND	ICC2023	08/2023	Addressing the unresolved proximity conflicts during the generalization of buildings using CartAGen	500
Lucy Roberts	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Creating a Global Historic Maritime Trade Model Using a Least-cost Surface Analysis		300
Joynal Abedin	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Mapping the geographically and temporally evolved flood risks in the contiguous United States	600
Chelsea Nestel	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Mapping Across the Curriculum: Cartographic Theory for K-8 Education		300
Lily Houtman	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	At the Intersection of Mobile Thematic Cartography and Data Journalism		600
Márton Pál	HUN	ICC2023	08/2023	Setting standards for cemetery spatial databases – a case study in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Eger, Hungary \| Geosite database of the High Gerecse Hills (Hungary): with cartographic and GIS-based methodologies \| Preparing the geodiversity map of Hungary in line with the UNESCO SDGs \| Using drone photogrammetry for establishing a 3D geosite model application	1000
Zihan Liu	DEU	ICC2023	08/2023	The Potential of VGI and Traffic Flow Generation. Model for Solving the Traffic Sensor Location Problem	150
Azile Mdleleni	ZAF	ICC2023	08/2023	The challenge of co-operative governance of addresses and address data in Mankweng and surroundings in Limpopo, South Africa \| What moderates the terrain reversal effect in shaded relief maps?	900
Zhaoxu Sui	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Endonyms or Exonyms: How map purpose, data source, and map language impact place naming on maps		300
Miloš Basarić	SRB	ICC2023	08/2023	Automatic Extraction and Placement of Building Point Vector Data from Aerial Imagery for the 1: 25 000 Topographic Map Production	300
Gabrielle Silva Gardim	BRA	ICC2023	08/2023	Spatial Analysis and Geovisualization of Scoropion Accident in Brazil: its Relation with Climate and Urbanization	900
Théo Szanto	FRA	ICC2023	08/2023	Making the Minecraft® on demand project open-source and ex- tensible by the community	600
Nuzhat Tabassum Nawshin	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Design Recommendations for Map-based Storytelling in Augmented Reality: A Preliminary Study		150
Yanan Wu	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Modeling of emergency incident with GPS trajectory data using random forest algorithm		300
Alicia Adelle Iverson	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	An introduction to (C)art Therapy: Sketch mapping workshops for early teens as a case study in Post-Representational Cartography		600
Edina Hajdú	HUN	ICC2023	08/2023	Geosite database of the High Gerecse Hills (Hungary): with cartographic and GIS-based methodologies	600
Roya Habibi	IRN	ICC2023	08/2023	Dealing with spatial heterogeneities to discover spatiotemporal event behaviour	900
Morteza Karimzadeh	USA	ICC2023	08/2023	Characterizing Spatial Accessibility of COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Sites using Dasymetric Mapping and GIs		600
José Pablo Ceballos Cantú	AUT	ICC2023	08/2023	Understanding Relevance in Maps through the use of Knowledge Graphs	600