February’s Map of the Month is titled Occupying São Paulo. It received the third jury prize in the category “maps on paper” at the International Cartographic Exhibition at ICC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.
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At the biennial International Cartographic Conferences, ICA organizes an International Map Exhibition, where map products originating from ICA member countries are exhibited. An international jury selects the best entries in five categories.
The international jury this year at ICC2015 was chaired by Kenneth Field (UK), who is also the Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Design. Further jury members were: 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)
Please find the winners of the ICA Map Awards 2015 below:
A comprehensive, detailed and high quality publication exploring all aspects of the Netherlands. The maps are clear, clean and well produced.
An intuitive, digital multiscale map that presents detailed information in a legible and accessible fashion. Interaction is key and design is stylish.
An educational aid to understanding map symbology. A simple approach to teaching map reading techniques and alternative representations.
A combination of spectacular lenticular maps in a beautiful loose-leaf style presentation case. A lavish product with high quality design and production.
A large format oblique view which represents the terrain in an attractive style. The detail invites you to explore. Artistic cartography at its best.
Congratulations to all winners!
All winners will be contacted to be featured in our Map of the Month section over the course of the next two years. For a full list of map products exhibited during ICC 2015, please check the PDF catalogue.
Photos and jury statements provided by Ken Field.
The Barbara Petchenik Competition is a biennial map drawing competition for children. The competition is first organized on a national level. The national winners can then compete in the international round, which takes place during the International Cartographic Conferences. This year at ICC2015, 189 drawings from 38 countries were exhibited. An international jury selected 12 winners in 4 categories. There was also a public vote, in which 287 people participated. Please find the wonderful results below.
Congratulations to all winners! Also a huge thank you to all participating children, their parents, teachers and national organizers.
1st: Adam Paketur (5), Lithuania
2nd: Aleksandra Garkova (5), Bulgaria
3rd: Ruwindya Indraratne (5), Sri Lanka
1st: Andraž Umek (8), Slovenia
2nd: Adristi Hita Andani (8), Indonesia
3rd: Luka H.del Avellano and Luana N.Salazar Harder (8), Mexico
1st: Alexandra Papadopoulou, Maria Katopodi, Christina Louko (12), Greece
2nd: Maria Piątkowska (12), Poland
3rd: Ada Maria Ciontu (11), Romania
1st: Liao Zhiyuan (15), China
2nd: Valentina Sturcz (14), Hungary
3rd: Pan Sin Yi (15), Malaysia
Public vote: 3rd: Pan Sin Yi (15), Malaysia
Members of the jury
The jury members were
Laszlo Zentai and Georg Gartner congratulate the ICA Research Scholars 2015 at ICC2015 in Rio, Brazil. From left to right: Zbynek Sterba, Taien Ng-Chan, Amin Mobasheri, Jiri Pánek, Merve Keskin
ICA Research Scholarships are entitled to foster academic research in the domain of cartography and GIScience, to establish contact between young scientists and ICA Commissions, support young scientists to be able to actively contribute to ICA activities and events and to establish opportunities for young scientists within ICA publications and conferences.
At ICC2015, the ICA Research Scholarships 2014/2015 were awarded to the following five young scientists:
| Scholar | Papers presented at ICC2015 |
| Amin Mobasheri, Germany |
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| Jiri Pánek, Czech Republic | |
| Merve Keskin, Turkey | |
| Taien Ng-Chan, Canada | |
| Zbynek Sterba, Czech Republic |
Congratulations to all scholars!
ICA has its own Anthem! At ICC2015 the Brazilian organizers suprised the participants with the premiere of the ICA anthem, composed and texted from domain collegues of IBGE.
Photo by @RoutledgeGPU
You can listen to a live recording of the ICA anthem here (4.3mb).
A video will follow but please find lyrics and chords available here (music by Márcio Carvalho, lyrics by Aline Milani and Jorge Tadeu):
This gift to ICA will always remind us of a wonderful ICC2015 in Rio de Janeiro!
Georg Gartner
– ICA Past President
In the ICA Awards Ceremony this morning at ICC2015, the following six awards were presented in recognition of contributions to the ICA. Congratulations to all awardees!
From left to right: Trisha Moriarty as representative of David Fraser, José Jesús Reyes Nuñez, Elri Liebenberg, David Fairbairn, Vladimir Tikunov, Corné van Elzakker
The ICA Honorary Fellowship is for cartographers of international reputation who have made special contribution to the ICA. It includes a bronze medal.
The Diplomas for outstanding services to ICA are for colleagues who have made special contribution to the ICA as commission officers or conference organizers.
Overview of ICA Awards presented at ICC2015
More pictures of the award ceremony and the 2nd day of ICC2015 can be found on the ICA Facebook page.
Today, the 27th International Cartographic Conference is opened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
After busy days with nine well-attended pre-conference workshops, the main conference will be opened today. The opening ceremony will also officially open the International Map Year 2015–2016. Dr. Gregory Scott from UN-GGIM will give a plenary keynote on the topic of “Positioning Geospatial Information to Address Global Challenges”.
Later today, also the Technical Exhibition, the International Cartographic Exhibition and the exhibition of the Barbara Petchenik Competition will open. More than 70 oral and poster sessions will follow in the next five days. All abstracts and papers are available on icc2015.org.
First part of the general assembly. Photo by @mappingcenter
ICC2015 also hosts the 16th General Assembly of the ICA. All material and reports for the General Assembly can be found at icaci.org/general-assembly-2015. The first part took place yesterday, the second part – including the voting of the new ICA executive committee, the ICA commissions for the term 2015–2019 and the selection of the place for ICC2019 – will take place on Friday. All results will be published on the ICA website soon after the event.
To share your experiences and to stay up-to-date with everything happening at the conference, please use hashtag #icc2015rio.
Enjoy the conference!
Early bird and author registration for the International Cartographic Conference 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are extended to July 4, 2015.
Make sure you are registered for this festival of cartography!
The Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invite you to a joint Workshop on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015).
The workshop aims at recording examples of current SDI practices with the aim of identifying benefits and challenges of implementing free and open source software for geospatial, geographic information standards and open (spatial) data in an SDI.
Registration is now open! Places are limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Registration will be confirmed by e-mail.
For further information please visit the workshop website or contact the local organisors: Prof. Silvana Camboim, Head of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and Dr. Julia Celia Mercedes Strauch
On behalf of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), we are looking forward to welcoming you to Rio!
Best wishes,
Suchith Anand
The ICA Commission on Atlases, the Joint ICA Working Group and IGU Commission on Toponymy and the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography invite you to a joint pre-conference Symposium on Atlases, Topography and the History of Cartography at the Brazilian Foundation of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in Rio de Janeiro on 19–21 August 2015.
The symposium will include two days of scientific sessions and one day of technical visits to the Fundacao Bibliotheca Nacional and to the Museu Naval.
Contact: Dr. Ana Cristina da Rocha Bérenger Resende (local organizer)
More details will be available soon.