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!
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Invitation to the ICC2015 Pre-Conference Workshop SDI-Open 2015
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.
- Date: 20–21 August 2015
- Venue: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Workshop website
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
Invitation to the ICC2015 Pre-Conference Symposium on Atlases, Toponymy and the History of Cartography
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.
Updates on the Joint ICA Symposium on Cartography Beyond the Ordinary World
The organizers of the Joint ICA Symposium on Cartography Beyond the Ordinary World decided to extend the deadlines as follows:
- Submission of abstracts: 10 April 2015
- Notification of authors about acceptance: 23 April 2015
- Submission of full papers and abstracts for posters together with the registration form: 26 May 2015
- Arrival of registration form (for participants only) and payment: 10 June 2015
The ICA Commissions on Cartography and Children, Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired People, Planetary Cartography and Cartography for Early Warning and Crisis Management invite all of you to participate in this event. More detailed information can be found on the symposium website: niteroi2015.elte.hu
The event will be held in the Institute of Geosciences of the Fluminense Federal University in Niteroi (Brazil) during the 21st and 22nd of August, 2015 and it is organized within the International Map Year as well as the activities previous to ICC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.
Looking forward to meeting you in Niteroi next August!
On behalf of the four participating commissions and local organizers,
Jesus Reyes
Updates on the ICC 2015 Pre-Conference Workshops at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil
As announced earlier, the ICA commissions on Use and User Issues, Cognitive Visualization, Geovisualization and Map Design invite you to the following pre-ICC2015 workshops at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil on 20 and 21 August 2015:
- Workshop / training on “Designing and Conducting User Studies”
- Workshop “Envisioning the Future of Cartographic Research”
The website cartografia.ufpr.br contains all the information you may need about the two workshops and also offers facilities to register for one or both workshops in Curitiba. We would like to ask you to register a.s.a.p. but, in any case, before 1 July 2015. Registration for our workshops will only be possible through this website. It is also important to know that you will have to book your travels and overnight accommodation yourself. The website provides information to help you with this.
Invitation to another ICC 2015 Pre-Conference Workshop at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil
Joint workshop of the ICA Commissions on Education &Training and Maps & the Internet
All are encouraged to make travel plans in August 2015 which include the pre-conference Joint Workshop of the Commissions on Education & Training and Maps & the Internet. The main International Cartographic Conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro from 23–28 August 2015. The joint workshop will be presented in a more informal environment in the university city of Curitiba from 20–21 August 2015.
This meeting will present an opportunity for cartographers from Brasil, and those from around the world to discuss and present developments at the interface between contemporary internet technologies and current educational practice. It will be held at the Federal University of Parana (a progressive, hi-tech, institution with an excellent reputation for cartographic education). Commission members, professors Claudia Robbi Sluter and Maria Brandalise from the Department of Geomatics will host this meeting in their home institution.
The meeting will overlap another joint ICA Commission meeting (by the ICA Commissions on Use & User Issues, Cognitive Visualization, Geovisualization and Map Design) in the same venue, allowing for attendance at both. Onward travel to the ICC in Rio de Janeiro will be easy. The meeting will be free to attend, and we encourage all cartographers who have an interest in developments in cartographic/geospatial science education, and in Internet Mapping, to contribute.
Contributions in the form of short presentations are sought on the following topics:
- Teaching about the Internet in Cartographic Education
- Using the Internet for Cartographic Education
- Educational material: Content and delivery
- Educational overview
More information can be found on the workshop website: lazarus.elte.hu/cet/announcement.htm
Welcome to Curitiba!
Invitation to ICC 2015 Pre-Conference Symposium at the Fluminense Federal University in Niteroi, Brazil
The ICA Commissions on Cartography and Children, Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired People, Planetary Cartography and Cartography for Early Warning and Crisis Management have the pleasure to invite you to participate in our Joint ICA Symposium entitled “Cartography Beyond the Ordinary World”. The event will be held in the Institute of Geosciences of the Fluminense Federal University in Niteroi (Brazil) during the 21st and 22nd of August, 2015 and it is organized within the International Map Year as well as the activities previous to ICC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.
More detailed information can be found on the symposium website: http://niteroi2015.elte.hu
All the colleagues involved in the organization of the event hope that the symposium will be an excellent occassion to exchange opinions and experiences about the common points in the work of our commissions. One of our main aims is to bring an opportunity to connect the international academic research and educational community with the Brazilian scientific potential in each of our research fields to foster a professional, constructive and innovative dialogue. It is open not only for commission members, but for all those colleagues across the wide spectrum of research, teaching and other activities covered by the world of cartography.
Looking forward to meeting you in Niteroi next August!
On behalf of the four participating commissions,
Jesus Reyes
Invitation to ICC 2015 Pre-Conference Workshops at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil
The ICA commissions on Use and User Issues, Cognitive Visualization, Geovisualization and Map Design invite you to the following Pre-ICC2015 workshops at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil on 20 and 21 August 2015:
Workshop / training on “Designing and Conducting User Studies”
- Date: 20 August 2015
- Co-organized by the ICA Commissions on Use and User Issues and Cognitive Visualization
- More information on the workshop website
Workshop “Envisioning the Future of Cartographic Research”
- Date: 21 August 2015
- Co-organized by four ICA Commissions: Cognitive Visualization, Use and User Issues, Geovisualization, Map Design
- More information on the workshop website
Update: The website cartografia.ufpr.br contains all the information you may need about the two workshops and also offers facilities to register for one or both workshops in Curitiba. We would like to ask you to register a.s.a.p. but, in any case, before 1 July 2015. Registration for our workshops will only be possible through this website. It is also important to know that you will have to book your travels and overnight accommodation yourself. The website provides information to help you with this.
President’s Blog: Rio is prepared!
The deadline for submitting papers for the upcoming International Cartographic Conference 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, has passed. We are excited to see that an unexpected high number of submissions have been received!
Now the Scientific Committee under the chairmanship of Prof Claudia Robbi Sluter (University of Parana) will look into the quality of the submissions by reviewing every single entry. With this a selection of submissions to the various publication media including Journals, Book and Proceedings will be proposed and authors will get feedback on how they can improve their submissions. Altogether we all can expect a great programme with exciting contributions and sessions, which fits into the impression the Executive Committee just recently got, when they visited the site of the conference and Rio de Janeiro. Our Brazilian Colleagues are working hard, professional and committed. Also the website of the City Administration of Rio de Janeiro is reporting about the visit: ICC 2015 is seen as the highlight for the city inbetween the World Soccer Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games 2016!
Make sure your company, your institution and of course yourself is present at next year’s ICC 2015!
– Georg Gartner
Category: President's Blog
Invitation to ICC Workshop MAPPING EPHEMERALITIES / EPHEMERAL CARTOGRAPHIES
The ICA commissions on Art & Cartography and on Maps and Society are co-organizing a workshop entitled MAPPING EPHEMERALITIES / EPHEMERAL CARTOGRAPHIES in Rio de Janeiro, August 21-22, 2015 (prior to ICC2015). This workshop aims to bring together artists, scholars and students from cartography, geography, the humanities and the arts who are interested in exploring further the relationships between maps and ephemeral dimensions of places.
The deadline to submit proposals for this workshop is December 15, 2014.
Please find more details here: