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Spatial Data Visualisation Please send your data for registration and abstracts to the organiser no later than July 31, 2006. Promotion of New Publication Organising Committee and Geoinformation journal, No. 5 Stanislav Frangeš, president Conference Hiking tour Dražen Tutić, secretary Tea Duplančić-Leder Cartography, Geoinformation and We would like to invite you to a one-day trip to Miljenko Lapaine the Medvednica Mountain, with an introduction to Robert Paj Spatial Data Visualization its basic geographic and geological characteristics, Zvonko Biljecki a lecture on GPS application in mountaineering September 15-16, 2006 and cartography, and a lunch at a mountain house. Address of the Organiser CALL FOR PAPERS Registration Fee Croatian Cartographic Society Kačićeva 26 Please make your payments of 120 € until August 10000 15, 2005, or after that date 140 €, to the Croatian Co-organisers Cartographic Society's account at Zagrebacka Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb banka: 2500 1613618 SWIFT ZABA HR 2X. tel.: +385 1 46 39 231 Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia Please send the payment information to the fax: +385 1 48 28 081 organisers. Requested auspices [email protected] Croatian Academy of Engineering The registration fee includes: conference University of Zadar materials, the attendance to all conference www.kartografija.hr State Geodetic Administration sessions, to the promotions, to the map exhibition, as well as to the tour with a lunch Requested sponsors Company for d.d. Geofoto d.o.o. Zagreb Tourist Office

Location Faculty of Geodesy, Kačićeva 26, Zagreb, Croatia

At the 12th General Assembly of the International Conference Themes Invited Lectures Cartographic Association (ICA), held in Durban, South Africa, the ICA Strategic Plan for the • Spatial data visualisation Mirjanka Lechthaler, Vienna University of period 2003-2011 has been adopted. The Strategic • Cartography, geoinformation and visualisation technology, Institute for Geoinformation and Plan, which is available at the Internet site Cartography: www.icaci.org includes the following definitions: today and tomorrow Spatial Data Visualisation at the Vienna • Visualisation and GIS Map is a symbolised representation of a University of Technology geographical reality, representing selected features • GPS and cartography and characteristics, resulting from the creative Dušan Petrovič, University of Ljubljana, • Spatial databases effort of its author's execution of choices, and is Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy: designed for use when spatial relationships are of • National spatial data infrastructure Spatial Data Visualisation in primary relevance. • Internet Brankica Malić, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cartography is the art, science and technology of • Multimedia University J. J. Strossmayer, Osijek: making and using maps. • Terminology Factors Affecting Cartographic Visualisation

By organizing this conference, the Croatian • Remote sensing Ivan Landek, State Geodetic Administration, Cartographic Society would like to contribute to Zagreb: the development of geoinformatics, cartography, Spatial Data Visualisation in Digital geography and all related fields. This time, special stress is put on spatial data visualisation. Environment The Conference program, the abstracts and A picture is worth a thousand words, goes an old presentations will be published on a CD and Tea Duplančić Leder, Hydrographic Institute proverb, giving a simple answer to the question of prepared for the first day of the Conference. Best of the Republic of Croatia, Split: need of visualisation. Spatial Data Visualisation is Conference lectures will be suggested for Data Visualisation in Maritime Cartography publication in Croatian and English languages in the ability to represent or conceive space in form of pictures. the Kartografija i geoinformacije (Cartography and Geoinformation) journal. Zvonko Biljecki, Geofoto, Zagreb: CROTIS Modern cartographic visualisation encompasses digital cartography and computer graphics. Concerning quality, it is a significant change of Company for Photogrammetry, Zagreb: visual representation in almost real time, which A Practical Example of Spatial Data improves better understanding of lots of spatial Visualisation data. Concerning quality, it is the possibility of quicker and cheaper production of a wide range of Gisdata, Zagreb: cartographic products. Spatial Data Visualisation and GIS