Working Groups 2019-2023

• To facilitate NMAs for their second transformation in the big data era.
• To promote NMA alignment to the United Nations' new Integrated Geospatial Information Framework.
• To network geospatial researchers who are interested in the digital transformation of NMAs.
• To organize sessions and workshops for exploring related issues on new ways of mapping, AI/machine learning, new maps/data services in a cloud/mobile environment.
• To communicate, disseminate, and publish as appropriate the efforts and findings of the Working Group through various communication and publication channels.

Website of the Working Group on the Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies

Chair: Bin Jiang
Division of GIScience
Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development
University of Gävle
SE-801 76 Gävle
Sweden
e-mail: bin.jiang@hig.se
personal website

Vice-chair: Juha Oksanen
Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Geoinformatics and Cartography
National Land Survey of Finland
Finland
e-mail: juha.oksanen@nls.fi

• Demonstrate how cartography is an effective tool to illuminate gaps, evaluate challenges and identify solutions faced at different (spatial and administrative) scales (or levels of geography and government) in terms of cartographic design, production and data management (missing data).
• Illustrate, curate and share effective cartographic communication techniques for Sustainable Development initiatives for economic, environmental, educational and social phenomena.
• Actively seek to encourage participation in the Working Group from researchers and practitioners in the African, Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, and those from Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which are currently underrepresented among our ICA membership. We commit to host at least one event in the African region during the term. We also seek, insofar as possible, to also open participation through electronic means, in workshops by using technologies such as Zoom to live cast and record events to improve access for those who cannot physically travel.

Chair: Britta Ricker
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
Utrecht University
Utrecht
The Netherlands
e-mail: b.a.ricker@uu.nl
personal website

• Review current terms related to cartography and propose new terms and updated definitions to current terms as appropriate.
• Investigate Body of Knowledge for related sciences and consider those parts relevant to CartoBoK.
• Identify the core knowledge and concepts of Cartography (what a cartographer should know) and associate those in connection with related sciences/disciplines. Involve ICA Commissions in the work.
• Evaluate and include findings from the revised research agenda and other future trends documents.
• Present a conceptual model for the organization of CartoBOK at ICC in Florence. Get acceptance of the model to carry on with detailed framing of CartoBoK.
• Collect, review, and publish individual contributions to the CartoBoK and develop a procedure for updating and refining the CartoBoK to make it a dynamic, living document. This process should be carefully handled by an editor.
• Keep the Cartographic community updated on the progress in the development of CartoBoK through a web-site. Eventually the Body of knowledge for Cartography will be communicated through this web-site.

Website of the Working Group on the Cartographic Body of Knowledge

Chair: Terje Midtbø
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway
e-mail: terjem@ntnu.no

1. ICA Archives
   • to identify, assess, organise, digitise and preserve ICA records and documents held at various locations around the world
   • to recommend strategies for discoverability, accessibility and storage of ICA archives
   • to recommend management solutions concerning ICA records
   • to actively search for new documents relevant to ICA history
   • to record, document and preserve oral history concerned with ICA
2. ICA Chronicle
   • to research and document the history of ICA
   • to develop foundations for the knowledge base concerning ICA
   • to publish results of the work undertaken (ICA News, journal articles, etc)
3. ICA Hub
   • to provide support and expertise to ICA community (Committees, Commissions, ICA members) relating to Association's history and heritage
   • to answer general enquiries concerning ICA and its history
   • to recommend strategies for sustaining institutional knowledge into the future

Website of the Working Group on the History of ICA

Chair (2019-2023):
Igor Drecki †, editor of the ICA News
The University of Auckland Library
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand

• Exchange with ICA commissions, the ICA working group on “Body of Knowledge” and regional cartographic communities
• Categorize contemporary cartographic research topics according to an inclusive principle
• Analyze the impact of new technologies on cartography and vice versa
• Collect and reflect on review papers in different topic categories along with contextual information
• Identify emerging topics with cartographic initiatives or active participation

Chair: Liqiu Meng
Chair of Cartography
Technical University of Munich
Germany
e-mail: liqiu.meng@tum.de

Vice-Chair: Temenoujka Bandrova
University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
Bulgarian Cartographic Association
Bulgaria
e-mail: tbandrova@abv.bg

• Review work to date on guidelines for ethical conduct and practices in cartography and closely related fields. This may include codes of ethics, codes of conduct, and principles for ethical practices, among others.
• Use the reviewed materials, and other resources as necessary, to articulate a set of basic guiding principles that reinforce ethical behavior and practice in cartography, focusing first on mapmaking, and in particular, the making of maps that are meant to support decision making (as opposed to maps for advertisement, propaganda, and such.)
• Develop guidelines that arise from and are justified by the basic guiding principles that help direct and assess a mapmaker’s decisions. These guidelines should reinforce the making of maps that convey their message accurately, justifiably, and thoroughly and, as such, can be taken to be reliable information sources.
• Identify resources created or endorsed by cartographic practitioners or professional organizations that relate to the guidelines and provide a better understanding of and/or practical experience with the skills needed for ethical mapmaking.
• Distribute all of the above in an open access format (distributed online and free of access charges or other barriers).
• Promote community involvement in the development of guidelines and collection of resources, paying special attention to opportunities to expand or update existing materials due to technological advancements or societal changes.
• Assess additional areas within cartography for which principles and guidelines for ethical conduct and practices are also justified (the business of maps and map preservation and curation, for example).

Chair: Aileen Buckley
ESRI
Redlands, CA
USA
e-mail: abuckley@esri.com