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

• Investigate how cartography can contribute to global Sustainable Development.
• Promote the use of appropriate cartographic techniques and visualization for a responsible communication on Sustainable Development.
• Organize to achieve this objectives appropriated on-line and/or in-person interactions such as (digital) workshops, meetings, …
• Communicate not only with cartographers, but with all the stakeholders, through a dynamic web-page about Cartography and Sustainable Development.

Chair: Philippe De Maeyer
Ghent University
Department of Geography
Belgium
e-mail: Philippe.DeMaeyer@UGent.be

Chair: Andrés Arístegui
National Geographic Institute of Spain (IGN)
Ministry of Development – Government of Spain
Spain
e-mail: aaristegui@mitma.es

• 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:
Igor Drecki, editor of the ICA News
The University of Auckland Library
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
e-mail: idre002@aucklanduni.ac.nz

• 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

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