Congratulations to the ICA scholarship awardees at ICC2019 and pre-conference workshops

The goal of ICA Scholarships is to stimulate young scientists or professionals to direct their careers toward fundamental studies in the fields of Cartography and GISciences. The following scholarships were awarded for participation in the ICC2019 and pre-conference workshops.

Scholars at ICC2019

Scholar	Title of paper / poster
Nargiz Safaraliyeva, Azerbaijan	Teaching basic map concepts in three countries: Azerbaijan, Hungary and United Arab Emirates
Malak Alasli, Morocco	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)
Shyamantha SUBASINGHE, Sri Lanka	Urban Growth: From pixel to reality
Dr. Alena Vondráková, Czech Republic	TouchIt3D: Technology (not only) for Tactile Maps \| The Specifics of Cartographic Semiology in Tactile Maps
Ashna Kareem Zada, Iraq	Testing Maps for Visually Impaired People in Kurdistan
Jagadish B, India	Deriving Multiple Representation Database: A Model Generalisation Approach
Lukasz Halik, Poland	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
Márton Pál, Hungary	Digital cartography for geoheritage: turning an analogue geotourist map into digital \| Possibilities of high precision GPS data in autonomous driving
Nikola Yonov, Bulgaria	School Atlas with Augmented Reality
Radek Barvir, Czech Republic	The Specifics of Cartographic Semiology in Tactile Maps \| TouchIt3D: Technology (not only) for Tactile Maps
Pongpichaya William Limpisathian, USA/Thailand	Representations of Place in the Human Brain
Ivan Evgenyevich Fokin, Russia	The automation of processes of atlas mapping \| Methods and algorithms for creation of structural schemes of rivers
Nick Lally, USA	Mapping dynamic, non-Euclidean spaces \| Interactive & Multiscale Thematic Maps: A Preliminary Study
Xiao Huang, USA/China	Linking picture with text: tagging flood relevant tweets for rapid flood inundation mapping
Carolyn S. Fish, USA	Emotional responses to climate change map framing using facial emotion recognition technology
Harrison Cole, USA	Toward Accessible Hazard Mapping: Tactile Risk Maps and Disaster Preparedness
Laure De Cock, Belgium	Linking perception to decision point complexity for adaptive indoor wayfinding support
Maja Kalinic, Germany/Bosnia-Herzegovina	Floating Car Data and Fuzzy Logic for classifying congestion indexes in the city of Shanghai
Ross Thorn, USA	How to Play with Maps

Scholars at pre-conference workshops

Scholar	Workshop	Title of paper / poster
Aytaç YÜRÜKÇÜ, Turkey	History of Cartography and the Topographic Mapping	How East and West Cartographic Studies Influenced the Most Important 16th Century Ottoman Cartographer of Piri Reis and His World Maps
Dr. Lei ZOU, USA	LocBigData 2019	Leveraging Location-Based Social Media for Smart Emergency Management
Christian RÖGER, Germany	LocBigData 2019	Visualizing the Complexity of Crossings using Star-Plot Maps
Wangshu WANG, Austria	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	Towards a Functional Ontology for Mobile Map Applications

From left to right: Márton Pál, Nick Lally, Pongpichaya William Limpisathian, Radek Barvir, Malak Alasli, Dr. Alena Vondráková, Shyamantha Subasinghe, Ashna Kareem Zada, Harrison Cole, Maja Kalinic, Laure De Cock, Carolyn S. Fish, Nikola Yonov, Lukasz Halik, Ivan Evgenyevich Fokin, Jagadish B, Xiao Huang

From left to right: Christian Röger (pre-conference), Wangshu Wang (pre-conference), Nargiz Safaraliyeva (ICC), Dr. Lei ZOU (pre-conference)

Left: Aytaç YÜRÜKÇÜ, Pre-conference; Right: Ross Thorn, ICC

Congratulations to all scholars!

Category: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, General News, History of Cartography, Location Based Services, Topographic Mapping, User Experience, Visual Analytics

Tag: ICC2019, ICC2019 workshop, Japan, scholarships

New venue for Pre-ICC Workshop on Abstraction, Scale & Perception

The ICA Commissions on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization and on Generalisation and Multiple Representation, are pleased to invite you to a one-day workshop on 15th July 2019, with several sessions of talks, a demo session and a brainstorming session to finish the day!

Please be careful, the location has change: It will be held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) – Room “Venus” (7th Floor) – 9:00–16:30.

For more information on the workshop visit: icc2019abstraction.wordpress.com

If you want to join us, please register here.

Category: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, Multi-scale Cartography

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

New venue for Pre-ICC workshop SDI-Open 2019

The ICA Commission on SDI and Standards is very glad that the SDI-Open 2019 pre-conference workshop (Monday, 15th July 2019) is now easily to reach from the ICC conference.

The new location is Room Mars, Miraikan – National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. More details can be found here and on OpenStreetMap.

Registration is still possible here.

The updated and extended programme is ready for download.

Category: Commission News, Map Production and Geoinformation Management, Open Source Geospatial Technologies, SDI and Standards

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

Invitation to Pre-ICC Workshop on Role and structure of national place-name boards

The Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy cordially invites you to the ICC pre-conference workshop “Role and structure of national place-name boards” Tokyo, 15th July 2019.

Program

14.00–14.15: Opening – Peter JORDAN (ICA Chair, Joint Commission)
14.15–14.45: Poland’s national place-name commissions – Maciej ZYCH (Warsaw)
14.45–15.15: Korea Committee on Geographical Names. Achievements and challenges – Sungjae CHOO, Hyo Hyun SUNG (Seoul)
15.15–15.45: Austria and StAGN (German-speaking countries) – Peter JORDAN (Vienna)
15.45–17.00: General discussion and closing

Venue: Room “Mercury”, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), 2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo

Organizers: Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy represented by Peter JORDAN and Kohei WATANABE

Time: Monday, 15th July 2019, 14.00-17.00

Free admittance (no registration for the International Cartographic Conference requested)

Conference language: English

Peter JORDAN, Cosimo PALAGIANO
(Co-chairs Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy)

Category: Commission News, Toponymy

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Invitation to Pre-ICC Workshop on Map Projections

The Pre-Conference Workshop on Map Projections will be held on Sunday, 14 July 2019, 16:00-19:00 local time, in Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd. premises which is located three-minute walk from Exit A1 of Jimbocho Station on TokyoMetro Hanzomon line, Toei Shinjuku line or Toei Mita line. The latitude and longitude of the place is about 35 deg 41 min 40 sec and 139 deg 45 min 20 sec.

Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd is a leading company that publishes school atlases and textbooks on geography. The website of Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd is https://www.teikokushoin.co.jp/en/information/ A map and nearest station information are available on this site.

If you will be able to actively participate at the Workshop, with a short lecture or presentation, please let me know.

Everybody is welcome!

Thank you,
Miljenko Lapaine
Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Projections

Category: Commission News, Map Projections

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

Invitation to Pre-ICC Workshop on Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other

The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping take pleasure in inviting you to their jointly organised workshop held before the 29th International Cartographic Conference on 15 July 2019.

Location: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Room Uranus

Programme

The workshop programme is provisional and might be subject to change. Check the workshop website for updates.

10:00–10:15 Walk in with coffee/tea
10:15–10:30 Opening address by the organizers

Session I – Eastern Cartographic Practices and their Echo in the West

10:30–11:05 World image of early modern Japan, Professor Hirotada Kawamura
11:05–11:40 Early modern maps of Japan as sources of Western cartography of East Asia during the 18th and 19th century, Professor Shigeru Kobayashi
11:40–12:15 Early Chinese Bronze Ritual Vessel Cartography: How Trees, Mounds, Spirals, and Ponds Were Used to Document Early China’s Landscape, Bruce Jones

12:15–13:30 Lunch break (on your own)

Session II – From Tradition to Modernity: Diverse Cartographic Cultures in India

13:30–14:05 Cartographic history of India: Mapping India from the early modern ages till 20^th century, Ankita Medhi
14:05–14:40 The role of cartography in tiger conservation of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, India, Bhanwar Vishvendra Raj Singh

14:40–15:00 Coffee break

Session III – Between the Old and The New World: A Cartographic Encounter

15:00–15:35 How East and West Cartographic Studies Influenced the Most Important 16^th Century Ottoman Cartographer of Piri Reis and His World Maps, Aytaç Yürükçü
15:35–16.05 Jesuit View of Americas: A Cultural Encounter in the New World, Mirela Altić
16:05–16:15 Closing remarks

Map Exhibitions

Two exhibitions concerned with the history of cartography are being held during the ICC in Tokyo. The first is an exhibit at the National Diet Library (NDL) located in the central part of Tokyo. On display are seven sets of maps which were selected from the collection of NDL as notable examples of Japanese early modern maps. Second is a special exhibition of maps of Japan by Sekisui Nagakubo (1717-1801) focusing on the role of his maps in the transition of the Western geographical image of Japan when they were brought to Europe. The exhibit is being held at the Koga Historical Museum, Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Both exhibitions are announced on the ICC homepage as Technical Visits on Wednesday 17 July as T-Course B. For more information on the exhibitions see http://www.icc2019.org/technical_visits.html

Please find more information on the workshop website: history.icaci.org/tokyo-2019

Category: Commission News, History of Cartography, Topographic Mapping

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

Call for Participation for the Pre-ICC Workshop Reclaiming Through Mapping: The Olympic Sites of Tokyo

The ICA Commission on Art & Cartography invites you to participate in their Pre-Conference Workshop “Reclaiming through Mapping: Olympic Sites of Tokyo.” Some of these spaces, including the main conference venue, are on reclaimed land or artificial islands in Tokyo Bay built out of waste landfill. This workshop investigates the question of how place is constructed and mapped, using an experimental methodology developed by the artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit, who will lead a participatory mapping walk in Tokyo that looks to uncover the layers of urban development history of the 2 Tokyo Olympics and the high-growth (1964) and post-growth (2020) periods they represent. This interdisciplinary workshop uses hybrid spatial and sensory ethnography and intermedial approaches to map a site and distinguish the layers of time, history, materiality, and digital city-image. Participants will be asked to contribute to the final multi-media strata-map of Tokyo’s Olympic sites.

To begin this two-day workshop, we will meet at the Tokyo Metropolitan University for short presentations to contextualize our experimental and sensory mapping methodologies, before continuing the discussion on the trains while heading towards the Toyosu fish market for lunch (45min from Akihabara). We will then visit the nearby construction site of the Athlete’s Village on Harumi Island while we give some background on the area, and spend some time mapping the site. On the second day, we will meet at one of the 1964 Olympic sites to further explore mapping methodologies before heading back to Tokyo Metropolitan University to share results. The data collected will help answer the following research questions: How does the official Olympic narrative affect the sites? How do experimental cartographies work to investigate how place is constructed?

Registration

The workshop is open to everyone with an interest in sensory mapping art practices and experimental cartographies. Registration is required and is free of charge. Please note that it is not necessary to be registered for the main ICC conference (which requires fees) to be able to attend the workshop.

For more information or to register, please contact Taien Ng-Chan taien [at] yorku.ca or Sharon Hayashi hayashi [at] yorku.ca. Please include a short bio and indicate your interest in the workshop.

Category: Art and Cartography, Commission News

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

Invitation to Pre-ICC Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures, Standards, Open Source and Open Data for Geospatial (SDI-Open 2019)

SDI-Open 2019, the pre-conference workshop on spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial will be held on 15 July 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, immediately before the 29th International Cartographic Conference. The workshop is jointly organized by the Commission on SDI and Standards, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the Commission on Map Production & Geoinformation Management.

Mr Reese Plews from Japan, who chairs the ISO/TC 211 Terminology Maintenance Group, will make a special contribution with a presentation about the standardization and harmonization of geospatial information terminology in ISO standards, including the maintenance of a multi-lingual register of terms.

Other presentations on the program cover topics, such as international geospatial information standards and interoperability, UN-GGIM Europe and GeoSTAT requirements for spatial data integration, academic SDIs and open science, open source components for service-oriented mapping, and supply chains.

The day is concluded with an interactive and collaborative mapping session in OpenStreetMap. Delegates should bring their own laptops! Details, including a link for registration, are available on the website of the Commission on SDI & Standards at http://sdistandards.icaci.org/

The detailed program can be found on https://sdistandards.icaci.org/program-sdi-open-2019/.

Category: Commission News, Map Production and Geoinformation Management, Open Source Geospatial Technologies, SDI and Standards

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop

Announcement of the Pre-ICC Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Challenges for Cartography in Big Data Era

The Commission on Cartography for Early Warning and Crises Management (CEW&CM) is organizing a pre-conference activitiy of ICC2019 in Tokyo and Tsukuba on July 13–14, 2019.

Structure & Topics

Saturday, July 13, 10:00–18:00, Tokyo, Kokusai Kogyo co., Ltd., Conference Hall

Research Agenda of Cartography for DRR
Public and private partnership in the field of cartography to realize DRR

Subtopics:

2D&3D dynamic visualization for disaster process display
Interactive visualization method based on the disaster mechanism model
Spatial cognition and map design for indoor emergency mapping

Sunday, July 14, 11:00–17:00, Tsukuba, GSI, Museum Conference Hall

Innovation of geospatial information technology to cope with disaster
International cooperation in cartography for DRR
New trends in Cartography for DRR

Subtopics:

Maps for decision support system
Smart cartography
Adaptive cartography
UX-design
Virtual Geographic Environment

Participants are also invited to propose topics connected with activities of our commission as well as topics of the Tokyo and Tsukuba workshop.

Organization of the event

On Saturday July 13 the workshop in Tokyo will be held with the kind help of one of the leading surveying and mapping companies Kokusai Kogyo Ltd. which will provide their conference room and personally endorsed our event by its Chairperson and CEO Ms. Sandra WU. Keynote presentation on behalf of the company will be focused on the role of the private sector for tackling disasters.

On Sunday July 14th Workshop will be held in the Museum building of the Geospatial Information Authority (GSI) of Japan, endorsed by Mr. Shigenobu KAWASAKI, GSI Director General. The keynote will be oriented for the role of GSI in disaster solving activities.

Instructions about transport to both places is available on the workshop website.

Abstracts

Information about abstracts formats are available on the workshop website. All abstracts will be blind-reviewed and the best of them will be recommended as papers for high quality journals.

Contacts

Ms. Dr. Xianghong Che, secretariat of CEW&CM;
Mr. Prof. Milan Konecny, commission chair

Category: Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management, Commission News

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Announcement of the Pre-ICC Workshop Cartography for Specific Users

The Commissions on Cartography and Children, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People and Planetary Cartography have the pleasure to invite all interested colleagues to participate in our Joint ICA Workshop on Cartography for Specific Users, to be held in Tokyo, Japan on July 15, 2019.

General Information

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) is the venue of the Joint ICA Worshop on Cartography for specific users.

Participation in the event is free, but registration is needed. The registration can be made on the event website.

Deadlines

Deadline for the submission of papers and abstracts with registration form: April 22, 2019
Notification of the authors: May 6, 2019
Deadline for the submission of the registration form (without full paper, only participant): June 10, 2019

Organizing Committee

Carla Cristina R. G. de Sena, Chair, ICA Commission on Cartography and Children (Brazil)
José Jesús Reyes Nunez, Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Cartography and Children (Hungary)
Alejandra Coll Escanilla, Chair, ICA Commission on Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People (Chile)
Waldirene Ribeiro, Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People (Brazil)
Henrik Hargitai, Chair, ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (Hungary)
Irina Petrovna Karachevtseva, Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (Russia)

Please find more information on the workshop website: icaworkshop2019.elte.hu. Do not hesitate to contact the organizers if you have any question or need more information.

Category: Cartography and Children, Commission News, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Planetary Cartography

Tag: ICC2019 workshop, Japan, pre-conference workshop