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ICA Reports 2015–2019 ICA Reports 2015-2019 2 ICA Reports 2015-2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS ICA Officers 2015–2019 ............................................................................................................................. 4 President’s report .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Secretary General’s report ......................................................................................................................... 16 Treasurer’s report ....................................................................................................................................... 18 Auditors’ report .......................................................................................................................................... 23 Publication Committee report .................................................................................................................. 24 Commission on Art and Cartography ..................................................................................................... 26 Commission on Atlases ............................................................................................................................. 28 Commission on Cartography and Children ............................................................................................ 31 Commission on Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management .......................................... 35 Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital ....................................................................... 45 Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization .................................... 47 Commission on Education and Training ................................................................................................ 50 Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representations ........................................................... 55 Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling .............................................................................. 57 Commission on GI for Sustainability ...................................................................................................... 59 Commission on the History of Cartography .......................................................................................... 64 Commission on Location Based Services ............................................................................................... 69 Commission on Map Design .................................................................................................................... 75 Commission on Map Production and Geoinformation Management ............................................... 79 Commission on Map Projections ............................................................................................................. 86 Commission on Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People .................................... 92 Commission on Maps and the Internet ................................................................................................ 100 Commission on Mountain Cartography ............................................................................................... 101 Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies .................................................................... 105 Commission on Planetary Cartography ................................................................................................ 106 Commission on SDI and Standards ...................................................................................................... 108 Commission on Sensor-driven Mapping .............................................................................................. 112 Commission on Topographic Mapping ................................................................................................ 117 Commission on Toponymy .................................................................................................................... 122 Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping ................................................................................................... 127 Commission on Use, Users, and Usability Issues ................................................................................ 133 Commission on Visual Analytics ........................................................................................................... 138 Working group on Marine Cartography ............................................................................................... 141 3 ICA Reports 2015-2019 ICA Officers 2015–2019 Executive Committee: o President: Menno-Jan Kraak (The Netherlands) o Secretary-General and Treasurer: László Zentai (Hungary) o Vice-President: Sara Fabrikant (Switzerland) o Vice-President: David Forrest (Great Britain) o Vice-President: Yaolin Liu (China) o Vice-President: Pilar Sánchez-Ortiz Rodríguez (Spain) o Vice-President: Monika Sester (Germany) o Vice-President: Lynn Usery (USA) o Vice-President: Vít Voženílek (Czech Republic) o Past-President: Georg Gartner (Austria) Commissions: Commission Chairperson Art and Cartography Sébastien Caquard (CAN) Atlases René Sieber (SUI) Cartographic Heritage into the Digital Evangelos Livieratos (GRE) Cartography and Children Carla Sena (BRA) Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management Milan Konečný (CZE) Cognitive Visualization Amy Griffin (AUS) Education and Training David Fairbairn (GBR) Dirk Burghardt (GER) 2015–2017 Generalisation and Multiple Representations Guillaume Touya (FRA) 2017– Geospatial Analysis and Modeling Xiaobai Angela Yao (USA) GI for Sustainability Vladimir Tikunov (RUS) History of Cartography Imre Josef Demhardt (USA) Location Based Services Haosheng Huang (CHN) Map Design Kenneth Field (GBR) Map Production and Geoinformation Management Peter Schmitz (RSA) Map Projections Miljenko Lapaine (CRO) Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People Alejandra Coll (CHL) Maps and the Internet Rex Cammack (USA) Mountain Cartography Dušan Petrovič (SLO) Open Source Geospatial Technologies Silvana Comboim (BRA) Planetary Cartography Henrik Hargitai (HUN) SDI and Standards Serena Coetzee (RSA) Sensor-driven Mapping Jonathan Li (CAN) Topographic Mapping Alexander Kent (GBR) 4 ICA Reports 2015-2019 Paulo Menezes (BRA) 2015–2017 Toponymy Peter Jordan (AUT) 2017– Ubiquitous Mapping Masatoshi Arikawa (JAP) Kristien Ooms (2015–2018) Use, User and Usability Issues Robert Roth (USA) 2018– Visual Analytics Anthony C. Robinson (USA) Working groups: Working group Chairperson Body of knowledge Georg Gartner (AUT) International Map Year Bengt Rystedt (SWE) Ron Furness (AUS), Marine Cartography Lysandros Tsoulos (GRE) Committees: Committee Chairperson Award David Fairbairn (GBR) Derek Clarke (RSA) and Tim Statutes Trainor (USA) Publication Monika Sester (GER) Honorary Auditors elected for the 2015–2019 term: o Harold Moellering (United States) o Swarna Subba Rao (India) ICA News editor: o Igor Drecki (NZE) Editors of the International Journal of Cartography: o William Cartwright (AUT) o Anne Ruas (FRA) Webmasters: o Felix Ortag (AUT) o Manuela Schmidt (AUT) 5 ICA Reports 2015-2019 President’s report Introduction As soon as location is involved maps will come into action. Maps allow us to compare tangible physical phenomena such as hours of sunshine, or intangible human phenomena such as level of education amongst different locations. They allow us to see geographical processes evolving over time such as land use changes. The map has moved beyond the static window to the world, and become an interactive, mobile, dynamic and collaborative interface between a human, groups of people, and the dynamically evolving environment. We only can comprehend the mapped data effectively if the maps are attractive, and well designed. In other words, maps that matter should raise interest, be engaging, instantly understandable, and relevant to society. It is the discipline of Cartography that aims to realize and facilitate this.The International Cartographic Association (ICA), founded in 1959, has as its aim is to promote the discipline of Cartography internationally. It offers its expertise and knowledge of technological developments to other organizations via events, meetings workshops, and publications. Its activities happen through the work of its Commissions and Working Groups, that deal with a wide range of topics that cover nearly the whole discipline. Together we are faced by all kind of societal and technological development with often are both a challenge and opportunity for our discipline. To name a few at the time of writing: artificial intelligence, big geo data, real time data structures, cloud infrastructures, data driven visualizations, augmented and virtual reality. As cartographic community, together with related sciences we are well places to face these and future new developments. Governance In the period 2015-2019 the Executive Committee (see also https://icaci.org/executive- committee/) was composed of: o Sara Fabrikant (CH) vice-president o David Forrest (UK) vice-president o Georg Gartner (A) past-president o Menno-Jan Kraak (NL) president o Yaolin Liu (CN) vice-president o Pilar Sanchez-Ortiz Rodriguez (SP) vice-president o Monika Sester (D) vice-president o Lynn Usery (US) vice-president o Vit Vozenilek (CZ) vice-president o Laszlo Zentai (H) secretary-general 6 ICA