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Letter from the GUEST Editors
LETTER FROM THE GUEST EDITORS This special mountain cartography issue of Cartographic Perspectives features papers by members of the Commission on Mountain Cartography, a special interest group of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The commission focuses on a range of issues related to the mapping of mountains—peaks, cliffs, scree, glaciers, and various other types of rough terrain. Mapping such extreme places presents challenges. For example, standard mapping techniques often do not apply, and collecting good geospatial data of high mountains is an ongoing challenge despite technology advances. There also is a cultural aspect to mountain mapping. Many mountain dwellers live under the threat of gravity-induced natural hazards, from avalanches to mudslides to damn bursts, which maps can help them better understand and deal with. But mountains have also long been a source of inspiration for those who visit and map them alike, prompting cartographic innovation. The well-known maps of Heinrich Berann, Richard Edes Harrison, Eduard Imhof, Hal Shelton, and Bradford Washburn highlight just some of the contributions by those engaged in mountain cartography to the profession as a whole. Most papers that follow are a sampling of those presented at the 2008 Mountain Cartography workshop at Lenk, Switzerland. Since its founding in 1999, the Commission on Mountain Cartography has held biannual workshops at various mountain venues. To date these have included the Austrian Alps (2000), Mount Hood in the USA (2002), the Spanish Pyrenees (2004), the Julian Alps of Slovenia (2006), the Swiss Alps (2008), and the Carpathian Mountains of Romania (2010). The workshops have attracted an increasing number of presenters, reaching almost 60 participants at the last two workshops in 2008 and 2010. -
Swiss Cartography Awards
Research Collection Edited Volume National Report – Cartography in Switzerland 2011–2015 Publication Date: 2015-08-23 Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000367892 Rights / License: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted This page was generated automatically upon download from the ETH Zurich Research Collection. For more information please consult the Terms of use. ETH Library NATIONAL REPORT Cartography in Switzerland 2011 – 2015 NATIONAL REPORT Cartography in Switzerland 2011 – 2015 This report has been prepared by the Swiss Society of Cartography (SSC) and eventually submitted to the 16th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August 2015. Front cover Editor Stefan Räber Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, 1 2 3 4 ETH Zurich (Chair of Cartography) Publisher Swiss Society of Cartography SSC, August 2015 cartography.ch Series 5 6 7 8 Cartographic Publication Series No. 19 DOI 9 10 11 12 10.3929/ethz-b-000367892 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 City map, Rimensberger Grafische Dienstleistungen 11 Geo-analysis and Visualization, Mappuls AG 2 Geological map, swisstopo 12 City map Lima, Editorial Lima2000 S.A.C. 3 Statistical Atlas, Federal Statistical Office (FSO) 13 Trafimage, evoq communications AG 4 Overview map, Canton of Grisons 14 Züri compact, CAT Design 5 Hand-coloured map of Switzerland, Waldseemüller 15 Island peak, climbing-map.com GmbH 6 Matterhorn, Arolla sheet 283, swisstopo 16 Hiking map, Orell Füssli Kartographie AG 7 City map Zurich, Orell Füssli -
Ica 1959-1984
25 YEARS INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION 1959-1984 The first twenty-five years of the International Cartographic Association compiled by Ferdinand J. Ormeling Sr. International Cartographic Association/Association Cartographique Internationale Printed at ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands TABLE OF CONTENTS List of photographs and maps Preface (H. Fullard) Acknowledgements FOUNDATION AND CONSOLIDATION The early years Participants, Esselte Conference, 1956 Opening Address, First General Assembly, 1961 (E. Imhof) Participants, First General Assembly, 1961 First Provisional and Executive Committees 1956 1984 CONFERENCES Twelve conferences in retrospect Conferences, themes and venues EXHIBITIONS Twenty-five years of map exhibitions Exhibitions, themes and venues COMMISSIONS Commission activities Commissions, working groups and terms of reference PUBLICATIONS Review of publications Publishers and editors IYC 1961-1985 Publications Committee 1974-1984 ICA and related publications NEW RESPONSIBILITIES Third World Policy The ICA Seminar in Wuhan 1981 (Wuhan Technical University) India and the ICA (G.C. Agarwal) EXTERNAL RELATIONS Affiliation with IGU Relations with other sister organisations CARTOGRAPHIC PERIODICALS Cartographic periodicals in the world in the mid 1980’s (K.A. Salichtchev) DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTORS TO ICA CM. Mannerfelt (O.W. Hedbom) E. Imhof S. de Brommer (Comité Français de Cartographie) E. Gigas (R. Bôhme) D.E.O. Thackwell (H. Fullard) K.A. Salichtchev (B.V. Gutsell) A.H. Robinson (US National Committee for ICA) E. Meynen O.W. Hedbom H. Fullard R. Böhme MESSAGES FROM SISTER ORGANISATIONS International Cartographic Association – 25 years (F.J. Doyle) Greetings from ISPRS (G. Konecny) Cartography and Geography (Walther Manshard) Greetings from IGU (P. Scott) About the interaction between geodesy and cartography (V. Peevsky) Greetings from FIG (Ch.H. -
A Bibliography of Geomorphometry
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOMORPHOMETRY WITH A TOPICAL KEY TO THE LITERATURE AND AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC FORM by Richard J. Pike Open-File Report 93-262-A 1993 This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government Menlo Park California 94025 CONTENTS Page Abstract 3 Introduction 3 Land-surface quantification 5 The problem 5 Toward a solution 6 Morphometry demystified 7 Current practice 9 Implementation 16 The bibliography 17 Background 17 Purpose and scope 18 Subsets of the main list 19 Amendments 21 Acknowledgments 22 Bibliography 23 ILLUSTRATIONS Table 1 Goals and applications 4 2 Topical key to the literature 10 3 The DEM-to-watershed transformation 20 Figure 1 Cognate disciplines 8 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOMORPHOMETRY WITH A TOPICAL KEY TO THE LITERATURE AND AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC FORM by Richard J. Pike ABSTRACT A compilation of over 2100 references provides one-source access to the diverse literature on geomorphometry, the quantification of land-surface form. The report also defines the discipline, describes its scope and practice, discusses goals and applications, and identifies related fields. The bibliography documents the current, computer-driven state-of-art of geomorphometry and furnishes the historical context for understanding its evolution. Most entries address at least one of ten aspects of the science its conceptual framework, enabling technology, topographic data and their spatial ordering, terrain attributes in vertical and horizontal domains, scale dependence and self-organization of topography, redundancy of descriptive parameters, terrain taxonomy, and the interpretation of land-surface processes. -
Cartography in the Twentieth Century
emerged as a true academic discipline, nurtured within geography departments with strong research agenda and well-established graduate programs. In the mid-1980s, when academic cartography in North America reached its maximum growth, the effect of the emerging disci- A pline of geographic information systems/science (GIS/ GISci) had not yet been felt. This fourth period was an Academic Paradigms in Cartography. era of transition, when cartography became increasingly Academic Cartography in Canada and the integrated within GIS curricula, the number of academic United States positions in cartography declined, fewer students were Academic Cartography in Europe educated as thoroughly in thematic cartography, and what came to be called geovisualization made map read- Academic Cartography in Canada and the United ing and analysis highly interactive. States. This entry traces the emergence of the discipline at a handful of geography departments in the fi rst six The Incipient Period decades of the twentieth century and the evolution of The incipient period runs from the very early part of distinct paradigms, mostly in the last four. It condenses the century to the early 1940s, when much of the carto- a much longer exploratory essay focused on the United graphic activity in North America was focused on a few States (McMaster and McMaster 2002) and is enhanced individuals with a strong interest in thematic mapping. by information on related developments in Canada. The most prominent are Goode, Erwin Raisz, and Rich- Four major periods can be identifi -
Directory 2011–2015
International Cartographic Association Association Cartographique Internationale Directory 2011–2015 1 Published by the International Cartographic Association ©2011. Cover photo: ICA Executive Committee and commission chairs (2011–2015), composition by Manuela Schmidt. Parts of this material are reproduced on the ICA web site at www.icaci.org: any other reproduction of the contents of this directory is forbidden. Please send all additions, corrections and modifications to the Secretary General & Treasurer ([email protected]). 2 Introduction to the International Cartographic Association ......................................................... 5 Section I – Strategic Documents ............................................................................................... 7 Strategic Plan ................................................................................................................................ 9 Research Agenda ........................................................................................................................ 33 Section II – Statutes and By-Laws .......................................................................................... 49 Statutes and By-Laws ................................................................................................................. 51 ICA Foundation for Supporting Cartography and Geographic Information .............................. 60 Section III – Operational Guidelines ...................................................................................... 61