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ICA News Nouvelles De I'aci ICA News Nouvelles de I’ACI Number 34, June 2000 Numéro 34, Juin 2000 http://www.icaci.org Editorial Cartography and GIS, who reports on the One of the challenges facing the ECAI scope and guidelines for submission of project team is the development of a set of he first issue of the New Millennium! papers to this journal, that might be of cartographic symbols that is applicable to the ICA News has began a new ‘digital’ special interest to the African Cartographic considerable range of topics and subject era, as the Newsletter can now be Dispatches T community. areas that ECAI addresses. This will require accessed and downloaded from the ICA Lastly, as the 20th International Home Page (www.icaci.org) as an Adobe the assistance of professionals from many Cartographic Conference is well underway, I PDF file. However, we will continue disciplines including archeologists, have included a reminder of forthcoming producing and distributing the hardcopies as historians, geographers, sociologists, and deadlines for travel awards and the call for has been done so far. many others. It is our intention to produce a papers. This issue contains a variety of set of symbols that can be utilized for two I wish a good summer break to our contributions from our very active Secretary- purposes. First of all, we intend to colleagues of the northern hemisphere, and General and several Commission Chairs. Of standardize the way in which map data is look forward to receiving your contributions special interest is the report by Jacqueline viewed through TimeMap, the ECAI map for the ICA 35 News, next November. Anderson on the results of a survey interface. Second, it is our hope that the conducted amongst developing and ECAI project can assist in the establishment Graciela Metternicht developed nations contributing to the of symbology guidelines where none Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Award. currently exist, as is the case in many subject The information would assist the ICA ICA News goes areas. These guidelines will be made Executive in the formulation of rules and Spanish available through the ECAI webpage to guidelines for future competitions. An Thank you to the efforts of Miguel Bernabé anyone interested in producing aesthetically interesting insight into the activities and and the enthusiastic group at the Department pleasing and cartographically appropriate some thoughts of the ICA Secretary-General of Topography and Cartography of the maps. and President is reported in an interview by Madrid Polytechnic University (Universidad We would like to request that you Corné van Elzakker, from the Division of Politécnica de Madrid), the colleagues of support our efforts to develop a standardized Geoinformatics, Cartography and ICA can now access a Spanish version of the symbolset by submitting to the ECAI Visualization at ITC, in The Netherlands. ICA News via Internet at Cartographic Subcommittee any collection of The conference reports section includes http://www.mercator.org/ica/INDEX.HTM. map symbols that you believe are currently highlights from the 15th United Nations I agree with Miguel’s comments ‘The layout utilized, or that should be utilized within Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia it´s a bit different, but the contents are the your subject area. Please submit the symbol and the Pacific, attended by the ICA same! Congratulations to Miguel and his set(s) to the Cartographic Subcommittee President, the 2nd Geomatica 2000, hosted in group. Coordinator, Kevin Mickey either via email, Cuba, and the 28th Symposium International fax, or regular mail. Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Request for Please note that we prefer to receive your Environment which was held in Cape Town symbol sets in a digital format, but will last March. A section illustrating the role of Cartographic Symbol gratefully accept paper as well. In addition, ICA in global projects such as the Digital Sets we would like to request that you clearly Earth, GSDI, and Global Mapping is The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative identify the intended meaning of each presented by Milan Konecny, ICA Vice- (ECAI) is a collaborative project, which will symbol. We would appreciate your President. combine global mapping, imagery, and texts. submission no later than May 31, 2000. If A ‘special feature’ section, of short ECAI is dedicated to the low-cost or no-cost you would like to obtain more information articles that will be of interest for the dissemination of a wide range of information about the ECAI project, we encourage you to cartography community worldwide, has been using distributed database and Internet GIS visit the project website at introduced. This first note is a brief techniques. http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/ecai/. You may discussion on the information contents of ECAI constitutes a new dimension in also send email for additional information to Cartography courses advertised via Internet, academic research and international [email protected]. prepared by Charles de Jongh, a Cartography collaboration. ECAI Atlas Teams of area student at the University of Utrecht (The specialists, in conjunction with ECAI Kevin Mickey, Quality Assurance Manager Netherlands). A section on recent Technical Teams, are producing an The Polis Center, Indiana University at cartographic literature has been introduced as interactive electronic atlas of the world from Indianapolis well. It features two special issues of which selected data from regions, eras, and 1200 Waterway Boulevard, Suite 100 Computers&Geosciences, containing recent disciplines can be instantaneously accessed. Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 materials on visualization and cartographic ECAI’s distributed database is built around Fax: (317) 278-1830 modelling and a short note from Richard time-enabled GIS and a common server- Email: [email protected] Olomo, Editor of the Nigerian Journal of based metadata catalogue. ICA NEWS December 1999 1 Meeting the ICA’s Top Executives t the 11th General Assembly of the Positions from January 1, 2000: gradually, this gives the other editors an ICA in Ottawa new persons were Head of research National Land Survey opportunity of phasing me out. ICA’s Top Executives Top ICA’s Aappointed to the two top positions in of Sweden (30%). What is and has been your involvement with the Executive Committee of the Association: Adjunct professor of Geosciences esp. international societies related to cartography Dr Bengt Rystedt (Sweden) is the new Information technology at the University of and/or geoinformatics (other than the ICA)? President and Dr Ferjan Ormeling (The Gävle, affiliated to the University of Uppsala [BR] Member of the steering committee for Netherlands) is the new Secretary General (30%). the European GIS conferences 1991-95. and Treasurer. The purpose of this interview Head of the department of technology at is to introduce our new top executives to the the University of Gävle (40%). [FJO] From under the ICA roof it has been ICA community at large. my privilege to co-operate with commissions [FJO] I started work for 8 years as atlas Please tell us where you live and work on education from the FIG and the ISPRS editor for a cartography firm in the and in which ways people may contact you and thereby see how we are beset by similar Netherlands, Wolters-Noordhoff, and [BR] I live and work in Gävle, a town of problems and have the same opportunities. some 70 000 inhabitants, 180 km north of concentrated there on small-scale thematic Stockholm at the coast of the Baltic Sea. cartography. I still spend most of my research What has been your involvement with ICA up in that field, be it now electronic, with to now? Private address: sidelines such as geographical names and [BR] ICA conferences attended: 1974, 1982, Krikonvägen 21 SE-806 36 Gävle copyright. In 1969 I got a position at Utrecht 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 and +46-26-101722 University where I still work, and since then 1999. Office addresses: National Land Survey SE-801 82 Gävle I have been trying to catch up with the more 1987-91 Chair of the National Atlas +46-26-633429 large scale aspect of the profession and map Commission. University of Gävle SE-801 76 Gävle production. Apart from atlas work in Utrecht 1991-95 Chair of the National and +46-26-648844 we also engage in data quality research, so in Regional Atlas Commission. E-mail addresses: [email protected] the more theoretical aspects of map use. In 1995-99 Vice President. [email protected] 1985 I was appointed to the chair of 1997 Secretary General of the Organising cartography in Utrecht University. Committee of the ICA conference in [FJO] Although it is bad for my stamp Stockholm. collection, E-mail is the most convenient way What is and has been your involvement with [FJO] The first ICA conference I attended to reach me: [email protected] national cartographic (or other related) was in Amsterdam in 1967. I was still a I work at the Faculty of Geographical societies? student then, and I was hired for inserting Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box [BR] I am a long time member of the delegates’ mail in their pigeonholes, and in 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. Swedish Society for Anthropology and the meantime listen in to the papers being Geography, the South-Swedish Society of What would be your current definition of presented. Since then I have only skipped 3 Geography and the Swedish Cartographic 'Cartography'? ICA meetings: New Delhi (1968), Ottawa Society. In the latter one I started a GIS [BR] Communication of geospatial (1972) and Warszawa (1982). I started my section in 1984 and chaired that until 1997. information in visual form. commission work at the lowest end of the Secretary General of the organisation [FJO] I have been drifting away from scale in 1976 as a documentalist for the joint committee for the 1997 ICA international communication-oriented definitions.
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