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ICA News Nouvelles de I’ACI Number 39, December 2002 Numéro 39, Dècembre 2002 http://www.icaci.org International Cartographic Association Association Cartographique Internationale The Society for Cartography and Geographic Information Science ICA Executive Committee ICA Executive Takashi Morita Michael Peterson Vice-president Maps and the Internet Committee Department of Civil Engineering [email protected] Bengt Rystedt Hosei University Kira Shingareva President 3-7-2 Kajinocho, Koganei-shi National Land Survey Planetary Cartography 184-8485 Tokyo Japan SE-801 82 Gavle, Sweden [email protected] [email protected] University of Gavle SE-801 76 Gavle, Sweden Sjef van der Steen Alberta Auringer Wood [email protected] Map Production Vice-president [email protected] Ferjan Ormeling Memorial University of Newfoundland Secretary-General St.John's, Newfoundland Dr A.F.Tatham Faculty of Geographical Sciences Canada A1B 3Y1 Maps and Graphics for Blind and Visually Utrecht University [email protected] Impaired People P.O.Box 80115 [email protected] 3508 TC Utrecht Michael Wood Vladimir Tikunov The Netherlands Past-president Education and Training [email protected] Department of Geography University of Aberdeen [email protected] Elphinstone Rd, Kirsi Virrantaus Timothy Trainor Vice-president Aberdeen AB24 3UF, Scotland National and Regional Atlases Helsinki University of Technology United Kingdom [email protected] Department of Surveying [email protected] P.O.Box 1200 Robert Weibel FIN-02015 HUT Generalisation Finland ICA Commission Chairs Jacqueline M. Anderson [email protected] [email protected] Cartography and Children [email protected] Alexander Wolodtschenko Milan Konecny Theoretical Cartography Vice-president Roger Anson [email protected] Department of Geography Publications Faculty of Science, Masaryk University [email protected] Kotlarska 2 Please send contributions to: 611 37 Brno Eva K.-Blum A/Prof Graciela Metternicht, Editor, Gender and Cartography Czech Republic [email protected] ICA News [email protected] Department of Spatial Sciences Christopher Board Curtin University of Technology Li Li History of Cartography GPO Box U 1987, Perth 6845 Vice-president [email protected] National Geomatics Center of China Western Australia State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Tim Davis Email: [email protected] 1 Baishengcun Zi Zhu Yuan Census Cartography Fax: +61-8-9266 2703 [email protected] Beijing Ftp: alpha.cage.curtin.edu.au P.R.China Ron Furness Login and pwd: [email protected] Marine Cartography engftp Directory: /graciela/ICA/incoming [email protected] Elri Liebenberg Vice-president Lorenz Hurni University of South Africa Mountain Cartography Department of Geography and [email protected] Cover: ‘Save the Earth’ by Leon van Rooyen Environmental Studies (15 years) from South Africa. One of the Serge Le Blanc P.O.Box 392 entrances of the 2001 Barbara Petchenik Mapping from Satellite Imagery Pretoria 0003 Children’s Global Map Competition, 20th [email protected] South Africa International Cartographic Conference, [email protected] Alan MacEachren Beijing, China. Visualisation and Virtual Environments Robert McMaster [email protected] Vice-president Department of Geography Harold Moellering University of Minnesota Spatial Data Standards 414 Social Sciences Building [email protected] 267-19th Avenue South Mineapolis, MN 55455 Ammatzia Peled United States WG Incremental Updating and Versioning [email protected] [email protected] ICA NEWS December 2002 Dispatches Editorial which will be held in Durban, South Africa. mountains of Bishkek to the islands of The organisation is well underway with the Greece. As reported by Manfred he end to another busy year is responses to the call for papers now being Buchroithner, member of the ICA rapidly approaching. The last six reviewed by the ICA Commission Chairs. Commission on Mountain Cartography, ICA months have seen some of our T National representatives are reminded joined the celebration of the year 2002 as the Dispatches Executive Committee members representing ‘International Year of the Mountains’, by the Association at significant events such as that nomination of candidates for President, sponsoring the Seventh International the World Summit on Sustainable vice-President, Secretary General and Symposium on High Mountain remote Development held in Johannesburg last Commission Chairs for the period 2003- Sensing Cartography held in the Kyrgyz August; the International Scientific Council 2007 are now open. Republic last July. We also welcome two on Global Mapping; the UN Geographical Some important issues, such as the new new affiliate members: ESRI and NavTech Information, and Joint Boards of the Spatial ICA Strategic Plan and a proposal for technologies. Information Societies. individual memberships will be discussed Lastly, as a reminder, after your Furthermore, last August members of the during the ICC 2003. As they will shape the Christmas shopping list and the New Year ICA Executive Committee met with the future of this Association, it is very commitments are over, do not forget to mark Local Organising Committee of the 21st important that Commission Chairs, ICA in your diary the week of the 10 to 16 International Cartographic Conference, to National Representatives, and individuals August 2003, with a big word saying ‘ICC discuss the progresses and organisation of express their views and contribute to the 2003 Durban’. We look forward to seeing this event, which is significant to the whole formulation of a Society that best reflects the you there! cartographic community. As reported by interests of all Cartography and Geographic ICA Vice-President Alberta Auringer Wood, Information Science professionals. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and all the Executive Committee had a good This issue of the newsletter contains a the best for 2003. preview of the beautiful coastal setting good mixture of Cartography-related events Graciela Metternicht selected for this forthcoming Conference, held in locations ranging from the high Editor ICA officer Attention to all current and former ICA officers and Commission Chairs: Archiving reminder candidacies Assist us in making a record for the future about ICA activities. Please send all your National ICA representative bodies original correspondence, minutes of meetings, commission reports, print copies of electronic can nominate ICA officers (for President, mail or web pages, etc, when you are through with your term of office or when you do not Secretary General, Vice President or need them any longer to: Commission Chairs) by sending both a Documentation Centre of IGN letter and an e-mail message to the 6 avenue Blaise Pascal Secretary General, Ferjan Ormeling, Cité Descartes 77 455 Marne-la Vallée CEDEX 2 before March 10, 2003 (5 months before FRANCE the next General Assembly in Durban, They should be gathered together in subject files contained in boxes (roughly 25 X 33 X August, 2003) with the following data: 12) and accompanied by a typed list of their contents, or preferably, a text-file transmitted by • Name of the candidate, post applied diskette or email*. Please stamp or label the documents or files indicating that ICA is the for owner of the materials. Make sure that the packaging is of sufficient quality to ensure the safety of the documents during transport. • Short curriculum vitae, with data on These materials shall be processed at a comprehensive level, i.e. the processed item cartographic or GIS training and comprises the archive box; the detailed contents within shall not be indexed. However, if a professional experience typed contents list is provided, it can be scanned and converted to text file (OCR), which will • Involvement in national cartographic be entered into their catalogue record for the archive box. Thus, it will be possible to retrieve a society and in ICA box containing a document description, since their system allows full text retrieval. • Written declaration by the candidate The Documentation Centre will also archive and catalogue any published documents such as proceedings of commission meetings or special conferences. Please forward any such that he will serve, when elected. publications to the same address as shown above. • These data will be incorporated on the Any questions, contact Alberta Auringer Wood <[email protected]>, ICA Vice President ICA homepage after March 10, under (Canada) or Francois Borel <[email protected]> of the Centre. ‘nominations’. The Documentation Centre of the IGN does not have the wherewithal to list and describe these documents, which will have to be done by the sender. ICA NEWS December 2002 1 ICA Executive Committee Meeting International Marine Cartography, Mountain Cartography, conference, Saturday, August 16, will have Gender and Cartography, Visualization and the second General Assembly, followed by a Cartographic Virtual Environments, and Cartography and Closing Ceremony and a meeting of the new Association (ICA) Children. It was noted that Commission Executive Committee. Some suggestions Chairs should take steps very soon to have regarding the plenary session speakers were EC Report Executive Committee their Commissions proposed again by their considered. For the technical sessions, it was Meeting Report country, if they wish to have them continued, noted that there should be four papers in 90 and that Chairs need to be nominated, as minutes with 30 minutes break between The meeting of the ICA Executive well. The President remarked that he liked sessions in the mornings and afternoons. If Committee was held from August 1-7 in guidelines for cartography for web maps, to there were going to be Commission meetings, Durban, South Africa. The primary purpose be included on the ICA web site. it was hoped that they would be in the was to review the site for the 2003 mornings so that the EC members could conference and discuss plans and progress The tentative schedule for the meeting attend, since the EC meetings would be in the with the Local Organizing Committee (LOC).