In This Issue 50 Years of Ica General Assemblies 1961-2011 President's Report

www.icaci.org biannual newsletter | number :: numéro 56 | june :: juin 2011 president’s report in this issue Scope Executive Committee 2007 - 2011 This report provides an At the Moscow 2007 General Assembly a new president’s report :: 01 overview of the Executive was elected. The Executive compris- activities of the es: 50 years of ica general International Carto- • William Cartwright, Australia: President assemblies 1961-2011 :: 01 graphic Association for • David Fairbairn, UK: Secretary General & the period of 2007- Treasurer from the editor :: 02 2011. It covers general • Georg Gartner, Austria: Vice President information related to • Pablo Gran, Chile: Vice President (until Executive Committee meetings and undertak- 2010) ica news ings, the structure of Commissions and Working • Zhilin Li, China: Vice President ica executive committee :: 06 Groups, adjunct committees, publications, • Anne Ruas, France: Vice President ica news contributions :: 06 communications, links with sister societies and • Derek Clarke, South Africa: Vice President 15th general assembly of ica :: 07 international endeavours to advance the • Menno-Jan Kraak, The Netherlands: Vice 25 years ago... :: 07 Association and its contributions to the President ica executive committee meets in international cartography and GI Science • Tim Trainor, USA: Vice President orlando :: 09 community specifically and to society in • Milan Konečný, Czech Republic: Past general. President profiles > 02 amy griffin :: 08 comité français de cartographie :: 08 50 years of ica general cartographic perspectives :: 09 reports assemblies 1961-2011 ica commissions :: 10 ica working groups :: 16 cartographic meetings and events :: 18 A report on the first General Assembly of member nation delegates to the ICA, held in Paris from 29 May to 3 June, 1961, was published in the Internationales Jahrbuch für Kartographie (IJK) (International Yearbook of Cartography) printed in Germany in 1961. It deals with the founding of obituaries :: 22 ICA and the subsequent development of the association into a well-governed and established professional international organisation. The text below paraphrases the report in the Yearbook. calendar :: 22 The necessity of establishing not only a regional but also an international exchange of methodical and technical achievements in the field of cartography suggests itself more and more. For this ica affiliate members :: 23 reason Dr Carl Mannerfelt (Sweden) invited experts of different countries as early as 1956 to a working session, the so-called Esselte Conference. In 1958, a second session of this kind was held children’s map gallery :: 24 > 06

ICA President Prof William Cartwright and Prof Pip Forer at the first ICA Regional Symposium on Members of the first Cartography for Australasia and Oceania run in Executive Committee of the conjunction with GeoCart’2010 in Auckland, New International Cartographic Zealand, 2010 | Photography Marney Brosnan Association elected in Paris, 1961 (standing from left): Stéphane de Brommer (France), Dennis E.O. Thackwell (UK), Granville K. Emminizer (USA), Eduard Imhof (Switzerland), Carl M:son Mannerfelt (Sweden), Erwin Gigas (West Germany) and Carlo Traversi (Italy); in the foreground outgoing members of the ‘Committee of Six’: Lewis J. Harris (Canada) (left) and Duncan M. Fitchet (USA) | Photograph courtesy of ICA archives from the editor president’s report cont...

I am really looking forward to ICC 2011 in Paris, which is probably true of anyone who will be there in a couple of weeks time. But what really drives this anticipation, what is behind this excitement? For me, there are at least a few reasons. Catching up with friends, fellow cartographers, is one of the obvious ones. It is a treat to see you all every two years, share news and experiences, have a meal together and simply learn how you are doing. Another is Cartography itself, the treasured discipline I have dedicated my professional life to. A hearty talk about maps, data, projects and a general ICA Executive Committee, Paris, July 2010; (clockwise from left) David Fairbairn, Georg Gartner, Zhilin Li, Anne Ruas, “cartographic gossip” is always interesting, Tim Trainor, Menno-Jan Kraak, Pablo Gran; out of picture Derek Clarke and William Cartwright | Photography William inspiring and reassuring. Yet another is the Cartwright ICA, our own international organisation that The Executive Committee (EC) met formally Crisis Management (Konečný); Mapping Africa serves us all, helping to raise the profile of on seven occasions during 2007-2011. The for Africa (Clarke). our discipline and make us more recognis- locations and dates of the meetings were: Environments: Responsibilities with regard to able (and hopefully appreciated) in today’s • Moscow, Russia, August 2007 the ‘environments’ of ICA were also assigned: world. • Vienna, Austria, February 2008 Science (including Research Agenda) (Kraak); But at a deeper level, there is also a • Santiago, Chile, November 2008 Society (Trainor); Professional Practice (Gran); sense of belonging that makes me eager to • Zürich, Switzerland, June 2009 Education (Li); Art (Gartner). attend. Belonging to a community or – • Santiago, Chile, November 2009 As well, further responsibilities were should I say – a family of cartographers, established for authoring the GIM magazine like-minded people, whose passion and • Paris, France, July 2010 column (Fairbairn), managing the ICA 50th dedication to cartography is shared by all of • Orlando, USA November 2010 birthday celebration event (Ruas) and coordi- us. With this sense of belonging comes • Paris, France, July 2011 nating Workshops (Li). certainty, a certainty we all need in our At the July 2010 EC meeting the Committee The environment of ‘Art’ was added by this daily professional challenges, a certainty stood in silence to respect the memory of Executive Committee. The establishment of the that I am not alone in my thoughts, values, Jacques Bertin, Mannerfelt Gold Medal winner Working Group on Art and Cartography passion and approach to professional and eminent French and international cartogra- formalized the activities of the Art environment. ethics. It is wonderful to belong and feel pher, who had died earlier in the year. The first formal activity of the Working Group secure. I am truly glad and thankful to be As well as the formal EC meetings, a number was a Symposium in Vienna, Austria, 1-2 part of the family of cartographers, be able of ad-hoc EC meetings were held to advance to express myself through the gift of documentation related to the development of February 2008. I was part of the Symposium cartographic creativity and contribute, in a ICA documentation. These were held at: organising team, with ICA Vice President Georg small way, to the work of ICA through my • London, UK, 6-7 September 2009 Gartner (TU Vienna) and Antje Lehn (University various involvements. • Orlando, FL, USA, November 2010 of Fine Art, Vienna). TU Vienna and the This is the last newsletter published • Seattle, WA, USA, April 2011 within the 2007-2011 term of the current At the first EC meeting in Moscow the ICA President William Cartwright and Theoretical Cartography Commission Chair Alexander Wolodtschenko Executive Committee of the ICA, hence it responsibilities of individual Committee in discussions at the ICA Art and Cartography / contains the last President’s Report by Prof members for liaison with ICA Commissions and Cartography and Art Symposium in Vienna, Austria, 2008 William Cartwright. David Fairbairn takes Working Groups were assigned. | Photography Markus Jobst us back to the beginnings of the ICA Commissions: Cartography and Children General Assemblies in his insightful (Konečný); Digital Technologies in Cartographic contribution. In addition, numerous ICA Heritage (Gartner); Education and Training Commissions and Working Groups present (Fairbairn); Generalization and Multiple their most recent reports and a number of Representation (Ruas); Geospatial Analysis and meetings and cartographic events highlight- Modeling (Li); History of Cartography (Gran); ing the truly international scope of our Management and Economics of Map Produc- organisation is traditionally reported on. tion (Clarke); Mapping from Satellite Imagery (Li); Map Projections (Li); Maps and Graphics Igor Drecki | Editor ICA News | ICA for Blind and Partially Sighted People (Fair- bairn); Maps and Society (Trainor); Maps and the Internet (Gartner); Marine Cartography The ica news is published by the Interna- tional Cartographic Association (ICA). (Cartwright); Mountain Cartography (Kraak); National and Regional Atlases (Trainor); President: William Cartwright | RMIT University | Planetary Cartography (Gran); Geospatial Data Australia Standards (Konečný); Theoretical Cartography Secretary General & Treasurer: David Fairbairn | (Kraak); Ubiquitous Mapping (Gartner); Newcastle University | United Kingdom Underrepresented Groups and Cartography Editor ICA News: Igor Drecki | The University of (Clarke); Use and User Issues (Fairbairn); Auckland | New Zealand Geovisualization (Kraak). © International Cartographic Association Working Groups: Art and Cartography (ICA) 2011 (Cartwright); Cartography on Early Warning and

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University of Fine Art, Vienna were the venues Auditors (redgeomatica.rediris.es/ICA/index.html). Of for this first event of the Working Group. Some The Association was most fortunate to have the particular note is that the first ever Special 70 papers, presentations and installations were services of Hal Moellering (USA) and Nikolay Edition of the newsletter was produced in made at the symposium. Komedchikov (Russia) as honorary auditors. September 2009 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ICA. The Executive Committee thanks both col- Strategic Plan leagues for supporting the Association by The Executive Committee developed a new providing this essential service. ICA Website Strategic Plan for 2011-2019. This document The ICA website (www.icaci.org) was re-de- further develops the 2003-2011 Strategic Plan Publications Committee signed, enhanced and continually developed by Webmasters Felix Ortag and Manuela Schmidt that was adopted at the General Assembly held The ICA promotes the generation of extensive from TU Vienna, Austria. TU Vienna hosted the in Durban, South Africa in 2003. The Strategic publications, generally through its Commissions ICA website. ICA wishes to thank Felix and Plan for 2003-2011 has been used to guide and Working Groups. This activity provides a Manuela for their tireless work that has made the activities of the Association for the past focus for Commissions and Working Groups the ICA website a contemporary conduit of eight years. The new document aims to provide and allows for knowledge about advances in information about the Association and a set of guidelines for the management and contemporary thinking and research to be Cartography in general. We also wish to thank development of the ICA over the next eight disseminated. The publications include books, TU Vienna for supporting ICA by hosting the years. It was developed with inputs from journals and the ICA Newsletter. Commission and Working Group Chairs and The publications committee plays in website and for allowing Felix and Manuela Vice-Chairs. A group consisting of ICA Secretary important role in the Association. It assures that time release to develop and maintain this General & Treasurer David Fairbairn, former ICA relevant publishing ideas are advanced and important communication system for the Secretary General & Treasurer Ferjan Ormeling, formalized through books and related publica- Association. former ICA President Bengt Rystedt and former tions. Ferjan Ormeling (Netherlands) was the ICA President Michael Wood then reviewed the Chair of the Publications Committee. During the Commissions and Working Groups initial document. 2007-2011 term the publishing contract with To achieve its aims the ICA operates through a The Executive Committee will present this Elsevier was terminated by mutual agreement number of Commissions and Working Groups. 2011-2019 Strategic Plan for consideration and a new publishing contract signed with They carry out the general operations of the and approval at the Association’s 15th General Springer Verlag. We acknowledge the long- ICA. These Commissions and Working Groups Assembly in Paris, in July 2011. Once standing contract that ICA had with Elsevier addressed the full range of scientific, technical endorsed by the General Assembly it will form and thank the company for their involvement and social research that is the mark of ICA the basis for developing plans for growing and with Association publications. We look forward activity. They achieve the transfer of knowledge advancing the Association. to a mutually rewarding partnership with about Cartography and GIScience by publishing Springer Verlag. The first project includes books and special editions of journals and Research Agenda on Cartography and GI publishing two volumes of review stream running workshops. As the Commissions and Science papers from the ICC 2011 Paris conference, as Working Groups are a key element in the The ICA Research Agenda builds on the plan part of the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation Association, and their leadership is paramount developed by the last EC and endorsed at the and Cartography series, with special ICA to the success of the groups, it is important to Moscow 2007 General Assembly. The agenda imprint on the cover. provide the complete list of them. Chairs of specifies the areas of research activities that the As well as the book publishing contract, the Commissions and Working Groups are shown ICA has three affiliated journals: Cartographica, ICA addresses, namely: in brackets. CaGIS and The Cartographic Journal. It is • Geographic Information • Commission on Cartography and Children pleasing to note that special issues of The • Metadata and SDIs (Jesús Reyes and Temenoujka Bandrova) Cartographic Journal and Cartographica were • Geospatial Analysis and Modelling • Commission on Digital Technologies in produced for the Paris ICC, including the • Usability Cartographic Heritage (Evangelos Livieratos) best-reviewed papers from the conference and • Geovisualization, Visual Analytics • Commission on Education and Training showcasing the close collaboration that ICA has • Map production (David Fraser) developed with these journals. We acknowledge • Cartographic Theory • Commission on Generalization Of Spatial the importance of having these journals as part • History of Cartography and GI Science Information (William Mackaness and of the ICA ‘family’ and thank the editors of the • Education Sébastien Mustière) journals for their input into disseminating the • Society. • Commission on Geospatial Analysis and work of ICA. The research agenda continues to guide the Modeling (Bin Jiang) In addition, Secretary General & Treasurer activities of the Commissions and Working • Commission on Geospatial Data Standards David Fairbairn provides an article for each Groups. edition of GIM magazine. Along with sister (Antony Cooper) society’s articles, the ICA’s profile is enhanced • Commission on Geovisualization (Gennady Awards Committee by having this publication outlet available. Andrienko and Jason Dykes) The Awards Committee is asked to review • Commission on The History Of Cartography nominations for ICA awards and make ICA News (Elri Liebenberg) • Commission on Economics and Management recommendations to the Executive Committee. The ICA newsletter Editor is Igor Drecki, from During the 2007-2011 term Ramon Lorenzo Of Map Production (Philippe De Maeyer) New Zealand. The ICA publishes a newsletter • Commission on Mapping From Satellite Martinez (Spain) chaired the ICA Awards twice a year in both paper and PDF formats. Committee. Committee members were Elri Imagery (Xiaojun Yang) The newsletter is available via the ICA Web site • Commission on Map Projections (Dan Strebe) Liebenberg (South Africa), Bob McMaster at: www.icaci.org/Newsletter. A Spanish (USA), Miroslav Mikšovský (Czech Republic) • Commission on Maps and Graphics For Blind version of the ICA News (up to No 52, June and Partially Sighted People (Dan Jacobson) and Kira Shingareva (Russia). I would like to 2009) was prepared by the Departamento de thank Ramon and the Awards Committee • Commission on Maps and Society (Chris Ingenieria Topografica y Cartografia of the Perkins) members for their work on behalf of ICA. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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• Commission on Maps and The Internet Kartographie will host the 26th International 50th Anniversary Meeting (Michael Peterson) Cartographic Conference. The conference will A commemorative event to celebrate the 50th • Commission on Marine Cartography (Patricio be held in the city of Dresden, Germany. anniversary of ICA was held on 9 June 2009 Carrasco) and a one-day symposium on 10 June 2009 in • Commission on Mountain Cartography (Karel ICA Regional Symposia Bern, Switzerland. SwissTopo and the Swiss Kriz) At the Santiago EC meeting in November 2009 Society of Cartography supported this event. • Commission on National and Regional discussions were held about the potential role SwissTopo hosted the event at their office in Atlases (Peter Jordan) for ICA Regional Symposia on Cartography. The Bern, the same site where the first ICA meeting • Commission on Planetary Cartography (Kira general ideas about regional symposia were: was held 50 years ago. Vice President Anne Shingareva) • Having an ICA recognition of a regional (not Ruas, assisted by Secretary General & Treasurer • Commission on Theoretical Cartography national) symposium would be valuable both David Fairbairn, coordinated the plans for the (Alexander Wolodtschenko) for the event and for ICA event for ICA and the President of the Swiss • Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping (Takashi • The regional symposia should be in ‘even- Society of Cartography Stefan Arn of SwissTopo Morita) numbered years’ i.e. they should not provided essential support and ensured that the • Commission on Underrepresented Groups compete with the regular ‘odd-numbered event ran smoothly and was successful. Stefan and Cartography (Wiesława Zyszkowska) years’ international cartographic conferences Räber of ETH Zürich contributed an excellent • Commission on Use and User Issues (Corné • There could be more than one regional display - Eduard Imhof & the ICA. van Elzakker) symposia in different locations in any one The symposium provided the occasion to • Working Group on Art and Cartography year present a ‘snapshot’ of the past and current (Sébastien Caquard and Barbara Piatti) • ICA Commissions and Working Groups would activities of the Association. This was done • Working Group on Cartography on Early be actively encouraged to participate in the through formal presentations. The presenters at Warning and Crisis Management (Milan symposia the symposium were: Konečný) • It would be beneficial for the regional • Professor William Cartwright • Working Group on Census Cartography (Tim symposia to be attached to a conference • Stefan Arn Trainor) (possibly a national conference) already • Walter Imhof • Working Group on Crime Mapping (Peter organised • Professor Bengt Rystedt Schmitz) Subsequently, an exploratory regional • Professor Ernst Spiess • Working Group on GIS and Sustainable cartographic symposium for Central and • Jean-Philippe Grelot Development (Vladimir Tikunov) Eastern Europe was held in Vienna, Austria, • Dr Christopher Board • Working Group on Mapping Africa For Africa 16-17 February 2009. It was organised by • Professor Lorenz Hurni (Derek Clarke) Vice President Georg Gartner and hosted by TU • Dr Dietmar Grünreich • Working Group on Open Data Access and Vienna. The symposium proved to be most • Dr Anne Ruas Intellectual Property Rights (Lucia Lovison- successful. 130 scientists and professionals • Professor Menno-Jan Kraak Golob) from 19 countries attended. The symposium • Professor Elri Liebenberg • Working Group on Open Source Geospatial attracted presentations and participation from • Professor Evangelos Livieratos Technologies (Suchith Anand) many central and eastern European countries: • Professor Philippe De Maeyer • Working Group on Tourist Cartography (Yuriy Romania, Germany, Croatia, Turkey, Serbia, • Professor Michael Peterson Artemyev) Austria, Hungary, France, Russia, Czech • Dr Chris Perkins The rich offering by Commissions and Republic, The Netherlands, UK, Poland, • Dr Vanessa Lawrence Working Groups makes for a rich international Slovenia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, FYRO • Dr Jarmo Ratia programme. Executive Committee members Macedonia. Other countries represented were • Dr Fridolin Wicki have endeavoured to attend as many meetings Australia, USA and Brazil. • Dr André Streilein as possible. On the first day a PhD and Masters students’ To all involved – Chairs, Co-Chairs and forum was held. This session allowed for members of Commissions and Working Groups research students to present to an international ICA President William Cartwright delivering the closing – thank you for your work over 2007-2011. audience and to receive critique of their work. address at the 50th anniversary of ICA meeting in Bern, Switzerland, 2009 | Photography Thomas Maag Here, a panel of experts from the ICA commu- Conferences and Meetings nity provided feedback and answered questions The Association holds a General Assembly related to graduate student research pro- every four years and conferences every two grammes. years. Conferences include papers and poster Following the success of the initial sympo- presentations, an international map exhibition, sium, a number of additional symposia were an international children’s map exhibition and a held: technical exhibition. • ICA Symposium on Cartography for Central In August 2007 the 14th General Assembly and Eastern Europe, in conjunction with the and 23rd International Cartographic Conference 3rd International Conference on Cartography took place in Moscow, Russia. In 2009, the & GIS, Nessebar, Bulgaria, 15-20 June 24th ICC was held in Santiago, Chile and in 2010 2011, the 15th General Assembly and 25th • ICA Symposium on Cartography for Australa- International Cartographic Conference will be sia and Oceania, in conjunction with held in Paris in July 2011. GeoCart’2010, Auckland, New Zealand 1-3 The ICA is indebted to the enthusiasm of September 2010 member nations, Local Organising Committees, • ICA Symposium on Cartography for the sponsors, exhibitors and participants for Americas, in conjunction with the AutoCarto making these events so successful. 2010 conference, Orlando Florida, USA In 2013 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für 15-19 November 2010.

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As well as representatives from many ICA Affiliate Members member nations and former Executive The ICA recognizes the support of Affiliate Committee members, it was most pleasing to members. The partnership with these organiza- have four former ICA Presidents in attendance. tions ensures that the work of ICA has a greater They were: reach. The list of Affiliate members is provided • Professor Fraser Taylor, Canada, President of in this Newsletter (see page 23). the ICA from 1987-1995. • Dr Michael Wood OBE, United Kingdom, Sister Societies President of the ICA from 1995-1999 • Professor Bengt Rystedt, Sweden, President The ICA works with sister societies through the of the ICA from 1999-2003 Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies • Professor Milan Konečný, Czech Republic, (JBGIS). The JBGIS is a coalition of leading President of the ICA from 2003-2007 international geospatial societies, of which the ICA is a member. President William Cartwright A special ICA logo was used ICA Commission on Education and Training, in and Secretary General & Treasurer David on all official ICA correspond- collaboration with Bakosurtanal, Workshop on Web ence and presentations Fairbairn represented the ICA on the JBGIS. 2.0 and Cartography in Jakarta, Indonesia, 2010 | during the anniversary year. The JBGIS meets formally once each year and Photograph courtesy of William Cartwright informally when schedules permit. The JBGIS Manuela Schmidt of TU Konečný, who leaves the Executive Committee chair rotates between member societies. The Vienna designed the logo. at the July 2011 General Assembly. Professor chair for 2011 was Mark Cygan, representing Konečný has served the ICA Executive for many the International Map Traders Association. ICA Awards years, as Vice President, President and most has attended all formal JBGIS meetings in: recently as Past President. He has had a major The Association makes awards from time-to- • Beijing, China, July 2008 role in advancing the Association and repre- time to recognize excellence scholarship and • Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009 senting ICA on many international committees, research in Cartography and GI Science. The • Sydney, Australia, April 2010 like the Joint Board of Geospatial Information awardee of the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal, the • Paris, France, July 2011 Societies. Over the last four years, Professor highest award of the ICA in 2009 was As well, ICA has also attended a number of Konečný has chaired the ICA Working Group on Professor Ferjan Ormeling (The Netherlands). informal meetings of the Board. Also in 2009, an ICA Honorary Fellowship was The JBGIS has published a booklet - Best Cartography on Early Warning and Crises awarded to Professor Bengt Rystedt (Sweden). Practices for Disaster Management and Management. This has been a most successful The ICA Diploma for outstanding services to Emergency Response. The ICA has contributed ICA Working Group and, as well as holding ICA was awarded in 2009 to Colonel Juan to the funding and production of this publica- many meetings internationally, the Working Vidal Garcia Huidobro (Chile), Chair of the ICC tion, which was published in July 2010. ICA Group has developed close ties with the JBGIS 2009 Local Organizing Committee. immediate Past President, Professor Milan Geo-information for Disaster Management Konečný contributed to the activities of the (Gi4DM). Professor Konečný has worked Barbara Petchenik Competition JBGIS through its ad-hoc Committee on Risk tirelessly for the ICA and his contributions have The ICA Commission on Cartography and and Disaster Management. progressed the status and profile of the ICA Children promotes and manages this competi- internationally. tion with the help of Dr Peter van der Krogt (the Outreach In Conclusion Netherlands) who processes all entries. At each An important contribution that ICA makes ICC the best of the competition entries are through its international community is outreach It has been my honour to be President of the displayed. Of note is the fact that ESRI Press and technology transfer. Commissions and International Cartographic Association for published the second book Children Map the Working Groups have addressed the full range 2007-2011. I have been privileged to work World, Volume 2 (refer to ICA News No 53, of scientific, technical and social research that with the talented members of the Executive December 2009 for description). The book was is the mark of ICA activity. They undertake the Committee, Commission and Working Group edited by Professor José Jesús Reyes Nuñez transfer of knowledge about cartography and GI members, members of ICA committees and (Hungary), Professor Temenoujka Bandrova Science by publishing books and special colleagues from the ICA international Cartogra- (Bulgaria), Professor Milan Konečný (Czech editions of journals and running workshops. phy and GI Science community. I sincerely Republic) and Jeet Atwal (Canada). Colleagues from the ICA community conduct thank everyone for their support, enthusiastic these workshops on a volunteer basis, generally collaboration and friendship. Member Organisations with the support of the national member I attended my first ICA conference in Perth, Australia in 1984 and since that time I have The ICA is an organization of organizations. The organisation of ICA or the national mapping attended every ICA conference, numerous EC conducts the activities of the Association body. meetings and associated events. These guided by the directions and documentation As well, at each ICA conference the Associa- experiences have contributed to my personal, approved by member organizations at each tion makes available Travel Awards for young academic and scientific development. I thank General Assembly. A most pleasing task of scientists to attend and present. In 2009 seven those who have been part of this experience President has to have been able to attend a awards were made for travel to the ICA over this past quarter century. number of member organisations’ meetings and conference in Santiago, Chile. Young scientists Over the past eight years I have served as conferences. Through this, the President and from Ukraine, China, Poland, Chile, Brazil, Vice President in the 2003-2007 Executive EC members are able to have personal dialogue Argentina and Senegal attended the conference Committee and as President for the last four with colleagues from member organizations and and presented papers under this scheme. years. I look forward to serving the International to gather information about the real needs of Cartographic Association as immediate Past these organizations. I am proud to have led the Tribute to Immediate Past President of President with the 2011-2015 Executive Executive Committee that has been able to ICA Professor Milan Konečný Committee. conduct the affairs of the Association to Before closing, I would like to pay a tribute to advance the strategies of the ICA members. immediate Past President Professor Dr Milan William Cartwright | President | ICA

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William Cartwright | RMIT University | in Chicago on the invitation of the Cartographic 3. Reports of activity were tabled: each Australia Division of Rand McNally & Co. The Esselte member nation was asked to submit a Conference already had elected a Committee national report on its cartographic activity, to Secretary General & Treasurer entrusted with the task to study the problem of be published in a proposed ICA Bulletin. David Fairbairn | Newcastle University | founding an international association for the 4. It was decided to hold a scientific and UK advancement of cartography. Further discus- technical conference lasting 6 days at Frank- sions took place, e.g. upon the occasion of a furt am Main in September 1962. An appro- meeting organised by the German Society of priate invitation expressed by the Head of Vice Presidents Cartography at Mainz in November 1958. A the German delegation, Oberregierungsrat Derek Clarke | Surveys and Mapping | ‘Committee of Six’ was set up there and asked Ermel, was gratefully accepted, and the South Africa to examine the formalisation of an association. German delegation was asked to take charge Georg Gartner | Technische Universität Subsequently the meeting at Bern in June of the organisation for this meeting. The Wien | Austria 1959 was of decisive importance – and this main topics were to be Generalisation, and was commemorated in the special issue of ICA Revision of Maps. The next General Menno-Jan Kraak | ITC | News published in September 2009. It was in Assembly of delegates was scheduled to The Netherlands Bern that delegates of 13 nations decided to take place in London in 1964 following the Zhilin Li | Hong Kong Polytechnic create ICA, a draft of Statutes was submitted for International Congress of Geographers. The University | China examination, and an Executive Committee was invitation from the Royal Geographical set up with Professor Eduard Imhof (Switzer- Society was accepted with applause. Anne Ruas | Institut Géographique land) elected as President and Professor Erwin 5. Suggestions as to setting up Special National | France Gigas (West Germany) elected Secretary-Treas- Commissions: it was suggested to set up Timothy Trainor | US Census Bureau | urer. special Commission charged with the study USA The first General Assembly was held in Paris, of a number of scientific, technical and 29 May – 3 June 1961. It had been organised organisational problems. These topics were Past President in an excellent way by the Comité Français de decided as a) training of experts; b) Techniques Cartographiques. 25 member cartographic bibliography; c) survey of the Milan Konečný | Masaryk University | nations were represented, as well as delegates actual state of topographic and thematic Czech Republic of certain other nations and of scientific mapping of the Earth’s surface; d) determi- organisations who attended as guests or nation and compilation of a technical observers. Professor Troll, President of the dictionary of cartographic terms; e) International Geographical Union (IGU), techniques and equipment for cartographic Editor ICA News represented his organisation, as it was intended drawing; f) recent developments in the field that ICA establish a certain alliance with IGU in of cartographic reproduction techniques; g) Igor Drecki | The University of Auckland due course. The record indicates that several copyright issues. | New Zealand items were dealt with: 6. The election of the Executive Committee for 1. Statutes: these were declared effective, the period 1961-1964 was held: from the having been revised since Bern, 1959. ‘Committee of Six’, President Imhof was Article 3 concerning membership was re-elected, as was Secretary-Treasurer Gigas; specifically highlighted in the IJK report: Dr Mannerfelt (Sweden), Stéphane de “National representation and rules for Brommer (France), and Col Traversi (Italy) ica news Admission: any nation which pursues an were re-elected as members, and were independent cartographic activity can be joined by Brigadier Thackwell (UK) and contributions accepted as a member of the ICA provided Granville K. Emminizer (USA). that it agrees to participate financially in 7. Further miscellaneous activities during the Please send your contributions to supporting the Association and in collabo- meeting were noted: an instructive exhibi- rating actively in its scientific and technical tion of maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale Igor Drecki | Editor ICA News | works. Each nation can only be represented in Paris, dealing primarily with relief [email protected] as a member by one single organisation representation, was opened specifically for which should preferably be the national the ICA, and visits on the 31 May to IGN committee or society for cartography. and on 2 June to the Institut Français du Postal Address Individual persons cannot be admitted as Pétrole were organised for delegates. School of Environment members.” Other visits and a banquet encouraged The University of Auckland 2. Admission of new members: up to the Paris friendly contacts between Assembly partici- Private Bag 92019 meeting the following nations had been pants. Thus, it was hoped that the young world Auckland founding members: Germany, Austria, organisation of cartographers, after having New Zealand Belgium, Spain, USA, Finland, France, Italy, overcome organisational difficulties would focus Norway, the Netherlands, the United its activities on scientific and technical Submission Deadlines Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland. New problems, in an open and effective manner. members admitted in 1961 were Brazil, We hope that the history of ICA since 1961 15 May for June editions Canada, Ireland, Israel, India, Luxemburg, has followed this wish! the Federation of Malayan States, Morocco, 15 November for December editions Iran, Greece, Japan and Portugal, thus David Fairbairn | Secretary General & Treasurer | ICA increasing membership to 25 nations.

06 number 56 | june 2011 ica news 15th general assembly of ica ica news The 25th International Cartographic Conference dar. Reports on the 2007-2011 will be tabled 25 years ago... (ICC) will take place in Paris from 3rd to 8th from all existing Commission chairs, as well as July 2011. This will be the major cartographic from the Executive Committee, President and conference of the year and will bring together Secretary General & Treasurer. Further, each The early days of computer-assisted all international cartographers from every member nation is expected to submit a national cartography featured strongly in the report continent, along with a large number of local report covering 2007-2011 activities. The below. Although computers stayed with us French cartographers and GIS scientists. In General Assembly will be asked to vote on for good, the Euro Carto disappeared... addition to this important highlight in the possible changes to the Statutes and to vote on Igor Drecki | Editor ICA News | ICA development of the discipline of cartography, motions presented by member nations, and by the administration and activities of the ICA for the Executive Committee regarding member- the 2011-2015 period will be determined ship. ICA Newsletter, No 7, May 1986 during this week. This is addressed by the As the General Assembly is the ultimate General Assembly of ICA member nations, each governing body of ICA, it has a duty to examine EURO CARTO IV MEETING, OCTOBER 16-18, represented by a delegate with equal votes. The the accounts and assist the Treasurer in setting 1985, FRANKFURT, FRG first General Assembly of ICA took place in a budget. During the Paris meetings it will be The Euro Carto IV meeting was held at the Paris in 1961, so it is highly appropriate that asked also to consider updates to and give Institute für Angewandte Geodäsie (IfAG) in the 50th anniversary of this meeting sees the opinions on some of ICA’s Guideline docu- Frankfurt. About 75 persons attended from 14 2011 meeting of the General Assembly in the ments, which govern the day-to-day operations, nations. Dr. Walter Satzinger, Director of same attractive French city. as well as its more strategic direction. Updated IfAG, was the organizer of the Conference. documentation on what is expected by ICA The 15th meeting of the ICA General In the first session, 'Computer-assisted from conference organisers, the duties of ICA Assembly will take place in conjunction with Production and Revision of Maps' chaired by officers, the role of national member organisa- the ICC. All member nations of ICA will meet Prof. D. Rhind, four papers were delivered and tions and the nature of their quadrennial on Sunday 3rd July and on Friday 8th July to discussed. The second session, 'Miscellaneous', national reports will be tabled. The updated decide on the governance of the Association, included five papers: two on digital data base Strategic Plan, covering the 2011-2019 period, through the election of a new Executive creation, one on an environmental information will also be presented for discussion. The Committee (including President and Secretary system for the European community, and a Executive Committee has been working on all General), and will decide on the future role of World Digital Data Base for Environmental of these documents recently, and looks to the research activity within the Association by Science. Session three included seven papers General Assembly for confirmation of these voting on the formation or continuation of under the title 'Data Base Applications - Navi- Guidelines. All documentation for the General Commissions, the research-led groups which gation, Hydrology ... Road Data Bases'. Session Assembly can be found on the ICA website at develop the discipline of cartography through a four, entitled 'Modelling of Digital Carto- www.icaci.org/GeneralAssembly. The informa- range of activities and events. graphic Data', included six papers. tion will be available in French also, reflecting ICA Commissions cover all aspects of [...] the ICA’s commitment to its bi-lingual heritage. cartography, and their existence and agendas The Euro Carto series continues to keep the The General Assembly also determines the are promoted on the ICA web site, as well as world abreast of European developments in location of its next meeting, and hence also the regular reports in this newsletter. All cartogra- computer-assisted cartography. The series was location of the 27th ICC (the 26th ICC will take phers are encouraged to contact Commission initiated by D. Bickmore, in 1981, to enable chairs to volunteer their interest in Commis- place in Dresden in 2013). There are two small group of experts to periodically have a sions and participate in the activities. Each competing bids from the western hemisphere forum in which to explore in-depth an issue Commission will present a business meeting in (Brazil and USA) and lobbying will take place affecting cartography. The ICA is pleased that Paris to advertise their activities and summarise during the Paris conference. ICA hopes that the it has been able to support this series and looks their work. General Assembly in Paris will contribute to the forward to its future success. The next meeting, In addition to these elections, the General further advancement of the Association. Euro Carto V, will be held in Paris in late May Assembly has numerous other duties to 1986, under the aegis of the Institute perform, hence its importance in the ICA Calen- David Fairbairn | Secretary General & Treasurer | ICA | [email protected] Géographique National.

9th General Assembly of the ICA in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 1991 | Photography Geoff Aitken ica general assemblies 1961-2011

07 profiles profiles comité français de cartographie www.lecfc.fr amy griffin The history of the Comité Français de Cartogra- Semiology, which include experts who attend Like many people phie (CFC) is closely linked to the history of the forums, hold research seminars, etc. There are who grew up in International Cartographic Association. In fact, also Cartographic Cafés organized by the the United States, the “French Committee of Cartographic Communications Commission for informed I had little Techniques” was founded in 1958, in response amateurs to meet with experts and discuss experience with to the creation of the International Committee of current topics of interest in Cartography. geography in Cartography in 1956, in which France’s active Institutions involved in mapmaking or in the school, though I participation was assumed by Professor Henri History of Cartography or content providers can recall my Gaussen and Ing Stéphane de Brommer. Le regularly support the CFC and contribute to its father reading National Geographic each Bulletin, which was first published in March renown. month from the time I was young. I 1958, provided the CFC with the opportunity of The organisation of the 25th International eventually discovered the academic publishing articles on Cartography and Cartography Conference and the 15th General discipline of geography (and through it, Geomatics in French. And now, its latest issue, Assembly has provided the CFC with the cartography) via a round-about path: taking n° 206 entitled The World of Maps [Le Monde opportunity to present its activities to new that last pesky social science requirement des Cartes], has just been published. partners and to a wider public. This will also be while doing my undergraduate degree at In April 1961, the CFC hosted the ICA’s first the occasion to pay homage to Professor Macalester College. One class soon led to General Assembly and 3rd International Jacques Bertin, winner of the prestigious Carl another and the next thing I knew, I had Cartography Conference in Paris. In 1962, the Mannerfelt Gold Medal in Ottawa in 1999, who decided that a career as a cartographer was Committee changed its name to further develop was an active member of the Comité Français the job for me. its audience and reinforce its notoriety with the de Cartographie for a great many years, before While undertaking a MSc thesis at public-at-large, given the increasing importance he passed away in 2010. Pennsylvania State University I came to the of Cartography in a widening range of fields. Hélène Richard | President | Comité Français de realization that while I enjoyed looking at Today, the CFC has several Commissions Cartographie | France and creating maps, the thing that really got such as History, Communications and me excited was learning about how people The ICC 2011 Local Organizing Committee and the ICA's Executive Committee meeting in Paris, July 2010; the Comité used maps to solve problems and think Français de Cartographie is the main organiser of the ICC 2011 | Photograph courtesy of François Lecordix geographically. Two degrees and a move to Australia later, my work today at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra is directed to understanding the perceptual and cognitive processes we employ while reading maps, both interactive and those taking a more traditional form. I hope that my work will help cartographers to understand how to design the most effective maps for supporting particular goals. In my lab we use a variety of experimental techniques, including eye-tracking and other types of behavioural experiments to study what and how people see when they read maps. My work as a researcher benefits significantly through interacting with researchers from other disciplines such as cognitive science, spatial cognition and information visualization. The ICA, and in particular, its commissions, has played an important role in my development as a cartographer, with many members mentoring me and providing suggestions for improving my work. I’m happy to now be in a position to mentor those starting out myself.

Amy Griffin | Australian Defence Force Academy | University of New South Wales | Australia | [email protected]

Eye-tracking lets us see where map readers look and for how long. The bigger the circle, the longer the map reader looked in that location. In this experiment Anthony Robinson from Pennsylvania State University and I were trying to determine whether leader lines might be an effective substitute for color highlighting used to link dynamic maps and statistical graphics. And they are!

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Cartographic Perspectives, the journal of the accepted peer-reviewed articles; both the print North American Cartographic Information and web versions will continue to be support- Society (NACIS), is an international journal ed. We also are pleased to announce a new devoted to the study and practice of Cartogra- annual, peer-reviewed student paper competi- phy in all of its diversity. It is published three tion with a $1350 prize for the winning entry. times a year and includes peer-reviewed Any peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for research on Cartography and Geovisualization publication in Cartographic Perspectives whose (broadly defined), technical notes and tutorials first author is a student is automatically eligible. on new methods, articles on library collections, We encourage you to submit your work for reviews of books and atlases, and novel maps. consideration in Cartographic Perspectives. All submitted articles are reviewed and returned Your unique cartographic perspective to authors within 4-6 weeks. In the past three deserves to be shared! years, Cartographic Perspectives has an average rejection rate of 65%. All graphics Patrick Kennelly | Editor | Cartographic Perspectives included in accepted articles are published in | USA full color, at no cost to authors. Past issues are available from NACIS website www.nacis.org. We are pleased to announce that Carto- graphic Perspectives is transitioning to an open access format in 2011 with online pre-prints of Recent cover of the Cartographic Perspectives journal

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In November 2010, the ICA Executive from Satellite Imagery and the Commission on Anderson, executive director of CaGIS, Committee held a business meeting in Geospatial Analysis and Modeling. The “AutoCarto has always attracted international conjunction with AutoCarto 2010 in Orlando, Commission on Maps and the Internet and the participation, but to have the ICA Executive Florida, USA. This Cartography and Geographic Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Committee and a record number of ICA Information Society (CaGIS) sponsored Technologies organized a meeting about Online Commissions and Working Groups involved conference was held in conjunction with the Maps with APIs and Map Services. Addition- was tremendously encouraging. The co-loca- American Society for Photogrammetry and ally, the Commission on Map Projection and tion of CaGIS, ICA, ASPRS, and ISPRS creates Remote Sensing (ASPRS). During this meeting, the Working Group on Cartography on Early an atmosphere of collaboration across the hosted by the US National Committee, as the Warning and Crisis Management also held GeoSciences and demonstrates the ability of United States sponsoring body to the ICA, the meetings. CaGIS to provide leadership to this commu- Executive Committee was able to get an update This highly successful conference attracted nity.” on the forthcoming International Cartographic 605 attendees from 39 countries. The ICA was Conference that will occur in Paris from 3-8 a significant contributor to the international Timothy Trainor | Vice President | ICA July 2011, continue work on the revision of the success of the conference. According to Eric organization’s strategic plan, discuss recent Meeting of the US National Committee for ICA, CaGIS Board, and the ICA Executive Committee in Orlando, Florida, USA, improvements to the ICA website (www.icaci. 2010 | Photography Eric Anderson org), begin discussions on the initial plans for Dresden in 2013, and reconnect with friends and colleagues from around the globe. This venue also allowed the ICA Executive Commit- tee to meet and collaborate with leaders from the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. A total of eight ICA Commissions and Working Groups took advantage of the spectacular Orlando, Florida venue to host workshops, symposiums, and meetings. The Working Group on Census Cartography organized a Symposium entitled: Cartographic Advances in Census Data Collection and Dissemination. The Commission on Manage- ment and Economics of Map Production held a workshop on the Management of Geographic Information and Map Production. A meeting about Advances in Sensors and Algorithms for Topographic and Thematic Mapping was co-sponsored by the Commission on Mapping

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2011 Paris Symposium / Workshop – a workshop Maps for the future: Children, Education and the Internet has been organised for prior to the ICC 2011 at the University of Orleans, 30 June – 1 July. The ICA Commis- sions on Cartography and Children, Education and Training, Maps and the Internet and Planetary Cartography along with the Working Group on Cartography on Early Warning and Crisis Management have been confirmed as partners. Jesús Reyes and László Zentai from Hungary are the key organising team.

Publications: CET contributed two discussion papers The Role of International Geomatics Organisations in the Promotion of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by David Fairbairn and David Fraser, and The Changing Face of Cartographic Education and Training by David Fraser, László Zentai and Maria Cecília Bonato Brandalize. ICC 2009 papers – more than ten papers on cartographic education were presented at the ICC 2009 conference in Chile and are now The Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition poster designed by Aneliya Yotova, former participant of the competition from Bulgaria; children’s drawings featuring on the poster were digitised by Jeet Awal from Canada | Image available from the CET website. courtesy of Temenoujka Bandrova ICC 2011 papers – a similar number of papers on education and training have been Cartography and Prague, Czech Republic in 2009 as part of the submitted to ICC 2011 and these will be linked symposium on Cartography and Geoinformatics to the CET website at the conclusion of the Children for Early Warning and Emergency Management. conference. lazarus.elte.hu/ccc/ccc.htm Another face-to-face meeting was organised Review of Cartographic Education and at the ICC 2009 conference in Chile. The Chair Training papers for ICC 2009 Chile and ICC Barbara Petchenik Competition Poster of the CET also contributed to the symposium 2011 France – Commission members reviewed The Future of Maps and the Internet organised the cartographic education and training papers The ICA Commission on Cartography and by the Commission on Maps and the Internet Children is organizing the 10th International presented for consideration for the ICC 2009 and run prior to the conference between 13-15 and 2011 conferences. Commission members Children’s Map Exhibition at the ICC 2011 in November 2009 in Valparaiso. Paris, July 2011. The local organizers are Dr John Kostelnick and Dr Elisabeth Chesneau François Lecordix, Secretary General of the took on the role of reviewers in 2011. Workshops: 2009 Iran Workshop – thirty CET newsletter – a regular newsletter (eCET) French Committee of Cartography (CFC) and participants attended a three week hands-on Jasmine Desclaux-Salachas, Vice President of has been produced in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Workshop on Cartography in Tehran, Iran. The A copy has been sent to all CET commission CFC and Chair of the CFC’s Commission on workshop was presented by David Fraser and Communication and Cartography. The poster members and other ICA commission and Colin Arrowsmith from Australia, László Zentai working group chairs. Back issues can be also announces the 20 Years of Barbara and Antal Guszlev from Hungary and David Petchenik Children’s Map Competition, which found at the CET website. Forrest and Mike Shand from United Kingdom. CET contributions to ICA News and GIM will be celebrated in Dresden, Germany at ICC 2010 Cartographic Workshops – CET used 2013. Magazine – CET contributions and reports were the cartography workshop held in Tehran as a prepared for the ICA newsletter on regular basis The poster is sponsored by the ICA and model for further workshops. Guidelines have distributed to the national children’s map and articles submitted to GIM Magazine during been produced for the workshops. They can be 2007-2011. competition coordinators. The national found at the CET website under the Carto- members and ICA representatives will receive a CET website – the Commission website is graphic Workshops tab. regularly updated by Professor László Zentai so copy in Paris during the upcoming General 2010 Vietnam Workshop – CET held another Assembly. that it remains up-to-date and relevant to workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam members and the International community of between 19-30 July. Presenters included Temenoujka Bandrova and José Jesús Reyes cartographers. Nuñez | Co-Chairs | ICA Commission on Cartography Professor László Zentai (Hungary), Professor and Children | Bulgaria / Hungary Vít Voženílek (Czech Republic), Professor Cartographic Resources: a list of cartographic William Cartwright (Australia) and Manuela resources for those involved in cartographic Schmidt (Austria) education and training has been compiled and 2010 Indonesia Workshop – the city of placed on the CET website under the Carto- Education and Training Jakarta in Indonesia was a venue of yet another graphic Resources tab. The list will grow over lazarus.elte.hu/cet/ CET workshop between 26 July and 6 August. time as more resources are identified. It was facilitated by Professor Ferjan Ormeling Commission Activities 2007-2011 (the Netherlands), Dr Gang-Jun Liu (Australia), Other Initiatives: Biennial Awards on Educa- Professor William Cartwright (Australia) and tional Cartography – the competition aims to Meetings: The ICA Commission on Education Manuela Schmidt (Austria). and Training (CET) held face-to-face meeting in promote good practice in relation to the design

10 number 56 | june 2011 reports ica commissions cont... and realisation of cartographic resources produced in an educational context. A copy of the awards document is available from the CET website. Cartography Island – it is a ‘virtual’ island in the Pacific. On this island is placed information about different aspects of cartography. Go to lazarus.elte.hu/cet/cartography_island/island. htm and take a tour. Generic Guidelines for Continuing Profes- sional Development – the Continuing Profes- sional Development program has been developed by the CET. These guidelines have been placed on the CET website. Generic Attributes of Cartographers – the CET discussed the merit of developing a generic Banner of the GeoViz Workshop held in Hamburg, Germany | Image courtesy of Jason Dykes attributes list for cartography graduates and an initial set of attributes was prepared. years, we have organized a series of activities their development and information exchange. and attracted over 40 members from all over This involves short oral presentations with time Future Plans the world. This commission has conducted allocated for discussion, sessions of just 1 Professor László Zentai has produced a new set three ICA workshops on geospatial analysis and hour’s duration and long inter-session periods of CET Terms of Reference for the coming modeling in the past years, and fourth one is to for reflection, discussion and demonstration. period 2011-2015. David Fraser will step be held this August in Canada. From these New features this year further promoted down as Chair of the Commission on Education workshops’ presentations, we have guest edited these objectives, including sessions of rapidly and Training at the 2011 ICA General Assembly three special issues published with some sequenced mini-talks followed by collective in Paris. If accepted by the General Assembly of international journals: Computers, Environment discussion and a Poster (p)Re-Cycling event ICA, Professor László Zentai (Hungary) will take and Urban Systems (Elsevier), and Environ- designed to make the most of existing resources over as chair for the next four years. David ment and Planning B (Pion), as well as an at which participants showcased posters Fraser will assist him during this time as edited book entitled Geospatial Analysis and presented or to be presented at other meetings. Vice-Chair. Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics Posters hung in the atrium around the circus (Springer). In the mean time, we have tent that housed presentations. They were David Fraser | Chair | ICA Commission on Education organized some joint workshops and tutorials supplemented with interactive demos and and Training | Australia for young researchers. Among several others, installations and enjoyed by all as a focus for we have co-organized one workshop with the ideas and communication over coffee during ICA Commission on Geovisualization, and one the generous inter-session breaks. Colleagues workshop with ICA Commission on Mapping from Paderborn and Barcelona showcased a Geospatial Analysis and from Satellite Imagery. For more and updated multi-touch table that provided plenty of scope Modeling information about this Commission and its for interaction and discussion. activities, please visit the commission website. Key themes at the meeting included novel fromto.hig.se/~bjg/ica/ Taking this opportunity, we would like to invite visualization and interaction with model you to join our Commission should your residuals and parameters, uncertainty, the Six Years of Activities 2005-2011 research have been related to geospatial development of online applications, public Geospatial analysis and modeling has received analysis and modeling. engagement and privacy, new means of increasing attention in the field of geographic representing geospatial phenomena, and design information science and cartography due to the Bin Jiang | Chair | ICA Commission on Geospatial studies in the context of newly available data availability of large amount of geographic Analysis and Modeling | Sweden sets and evaluation. information about cities, the environment and A number of the contributions have been human activities. ICA established the Commis- selected by the organising committee for sion on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling in submission to a special issue of Cartographica. 2007 following from a two-year term as an ICA GeoVisualization Invitations were based upon initial reviews by Working Group 2005-2007. In the past six geoanalytics.net/ica/ the 24-person strong international programme committee and subsequent discussion relating Participants of the 3rd ICA Workshop on Geospatial Workshop in Hamburg, Germany to the scope and quality of the work presented Analysis and Modeling in Gävle, Sweden, 6-7 August at GeoViz. The journal will showcase current 2009 | Photograph courtesy of Bin Jiang GeoViz 2011 took place at Hafen City Univer- sity Hamburg in March. The meeting provided research effort in geovisualization, spatial an opportunity for 84 researchers from diverse analysis and modelling and is planned for locations to present, discuss and develop release as the 4th issue of the 2011 volume of research linking Geovisualization, Spatial Analy- Cartographica. sis and Modelling. GeoViz followed the meeting of the German Participants from 15 countries in Europe, Cartographic Society’s Commission on Asia and North America were treated to 41 Cartographic Research and provided an presentations in the famous HafenCity excellent opportunity for cartographers to University circus tent. These were delivered in demonstrate and discuss geovisualization, just two days through the GeoViz format that is spatial analysis and modelling. The meeting specifically designed to focus on new ideas, was jointly organized by the ICA Commissions > 12

11 reports ica commissions cont... on Geovisualization and Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, with key contributions from Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Gennady Andrienko, Jason Dykes and Jochen Schiewe. Excellent support from the g2lab at HafenCity University, along with branding and local arrangements by Anna-Lena Kornfeld, Christoph Kinkeldey, Tonio Fincke and Beate Weninger made this a special, productive and highly enjoyable meeting for all. Further information about GeoViz, including abstracts and presentation slides, can be found on the Workshop's website www.geomatik- hamburg.de/geoviz.

Jason Dykes | Co-Chair | ICA Commission on GeoVisualization | UK

History of Cartography www.icahistcarto.org/

Workshop in Paris, France Victor Levasseur’s map of Africa, 1856 | Image courtesy of Elri Liebenberg The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography plans a one-day Workshop at the presenting an exhibition from 21 June until 21 EOGC2011 Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in August 2011 on Carnets de Route des The 3rd International Conference on Earth Paris (Richelieu-site) on Saturday, 2 July 2011. Explorateurs d’Afrique (African Explorers’ Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2011) The Programme will comprise of the following: Itineraries). The exhibition will be open daily was successfully held in Munich, Germany, • A demonstration by Dr Alastair Pearson of from 09:00 to 20:00, admission free. For more 13-15 April 2011. The EOGC2011 was hosted Portsmouth University, UK, of the capability information, visit BNF’s website at www.bnf.fr. by the Technical University of Munich, with a and potential of the software package sponsorship from the ICA Commission on MapAnalyst developed by Dr Bernhard Jenny Elri Liebenberg | Chair | ICA Commission on the History of Cartography | South Africa Mapping from Satellite Imagery and three of the Kartographisches Institut, ETH Zürich additional international professional societies, and known as “The Map Historian’s Tool for including ISPRS, IAG, and ISDE. Dr Xiaojun the Analysis of Old Maps” Yang and Dr Jonathan Li served as co-chairs of • A presentation by Dr Paul van den Brink of Mapping from Satellite the EOGC2011 Scientific Committee. In the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, addition, Dr Yifang Ban (Sweden) and Dr Julian on The Internet as a Resource for Carto- Imagery Smit (South Africa) served on the Committee. bibliographic Research mailer.fsu.edu/~xyang/ica/ The EOGC 2011 major themes covered a wide • A presentation by Lucia Lovison-Golob on the range of topics such as global geodetic The Exploration of African Cartography at the Publication observing systems, land changes, natural Afriterra Foundation; the speaker is Project hazards, geospatial data processing for global Director of the Afriterra Foundation, a The Earth Observations and Remote Sensing change studies, among others. A total of nine non-profit cartographic library and archive in for Environmental Management and Hazard technical sessions were held. A selected Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Chair of Mitigation special issue published by the IEEE collection of papers that were presented at the ICA Working Group on Open Access Data Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth and Intellectual Property Rights Observations and Remote Sensing in March Participants of theEOGC2011 Conference sponsored by • A visit to the Map Department where a 2011 is one of the four major publications the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery in Munich, Germany | Photograph courtesy of Xiaojun Yang selection of particular maps of Africa related to the 2nd International Conference on relating to the colonial period, from the Earth Observation for Global Changes BNF’s collection, will be presented and (EOGC2009) sponsored by the ICA Commis- commented on sion on Mapping from Satellite Imagery (see Attendance of the Workshop will be open to ICA News No 54). It was edited by Dr Xiaojun everybody, including persons who have not Yang and Dr Jonathan Li, Chair and Vice-Chair registered for the main Conference, and of the ICA Commission on Mapping from attendance will be free. Prospective attendees Satellite Imagery. This volume includes seven should please contact the Chair of the ICA papers selected from more than twenty Commission on the History of Cartography Elri submissions that have been peer reviewed Liebenberg at [email protected] before according to the established criteria. These 15 June 2011. papers cover urban impervious surface mapping, soil moisture retrieval, urban heat Exhibition island intensity simulation, coastal water dynamics, flood mapping, and subsidence To coincide with the main ICA Conference, the estimation. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) will be

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EOGC2011 will be included in a book to be Internet was leading to a major change in the and Jeppesen Marine, with special participa- published by Springer. way maps are distributed and used. tion of the ICA President Prof William Cart- The beginnings of maps and the World Wide wright, discussed several ideas to publicize and Other Events Web can be traced to 1993 and the introduc- disseminate information about the Commis- tion of Mosaic, the first web browser that sion’s work, particularly with regards to the big The Commission sponsored another confer- incorporated graphics. Since 1999, the Maps changes that Electronic Nautical Cartography ence, the 2011 Joint Urban Remote Sensing and the Internet commission has sponsored will bring worldwide. The meeting provided an Event, that was successfully held in Munich, annual meetings, co-sponsored sessions at introduction to the objectives and goals of the Germany, 11-13 April 2011. In addition, the meetings with other commissions and CMC and detailed different issues such as the Commission is sponsoring another important organizations, and presented a number of new IHO S-100 standard, ECDIS use, event: LIDAR & RADAR 2011 – the Interna- workshops in different parts of the world. In e-navigation and the CMC Chair’s future plans tional Symposium on LIDAR and RADAR addition, the work of the commission has led to for the Commission. We have provided support Mapping, Nanjing, China, 26-29 May 2011. two books: to the Maps and Internet Commission’s meeting Xiaojun Yang | Chair | ICA Commission on Mapping • Maps and the Internet (2003) Amsterdam, held in Valparaíso immediately prior to ICC from Satellite Imagery | USA Cambridge: Elsevier Press; re-published 2009 in Chile; one of our Chilean members 2006 as paperback presented a paper Official Nautical Chart: • International Perspectives on Maps and the Development of a Standard. We have also Internet (2007) Berlin: Springer Verlag provided support to the 3rd International Maps and Society A third book with the title Online Maps with Conference on Cartography and GIS, held in APIs and Mapservices is in preparation and will Nessebar, Bulgaria in June 2010, although no Recent Activities be published later this year. member of CMC attended due the earthquake Annual meetings of the commission for the and tsunami that struck Chile in February In the eighteen months since the ICA Confer- past four years took place in Warsaw, Poland, 2010. We participated actively in reviewing ence in Santiago, Chile, the ICA Commission Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA, Valparaiso, papers for the ICC 2009 and ICC 2011. on Maps and Society has organised three Chile, and Orlando, Florida, USA. The meeting We have continued to contribute to the work meetings. Jörn Seemann (Brazil) organised two in Shepherdstown was co-sponsored with the of FIG/IHO/ICA Board on Standards of thematic sessions focusing on Cartographic Commission on Ubiquitous Cartography. The Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and History and Histories, at the 3rd International meeting this year in Orleans prior to the ICC in Nautical Cartographers. Our representatives are Symposium on the History of Cartography, Paris is co-sponsored with the ICA Commission Dr Lysandros Tsoulos (Greece, current Chair of University of Texas at Arlington, USA held on Cartography and Children, Education and the Board) and Mr Ron Furness (Australia). The 10-13 October 2010. Training and Planetary Cartography, and the Board have also been updating new editions of On 16-17 June 2011, the Commission is ICA Working Group on Cartography on Early the publications Standard of Competence for participating in the Mapping Ecologies of Place Warning and Crisis Management. Nautical Cartographer (S-8) and Standard of Workshop, to be held in the Centre for Cultural The commission serves a unique role in Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors (S-5), Research in the University of Western Sydney. bringing together specialists in maps and the which can be downloaded from the Interna- Chris Perkins, Commission Chair, is giving one Internet – both in the technical development tional Hydrographic Organization (IHO) website of the two keynotes at this meeting. For details and map user domains. It also promotes www.iho.int/. These publications will be of see www.commarts.uws.edu.au/mappinge- workshops around the world that bring the great interest to those who teach or take cologies/. techniques of Internet mapping to a larger courses related to hydrography and nautical And prior to the ICA Conference in Paris we audience. Applied workshops have been held cartography. The representatives of CMC have have organised a full day Workshop in in Cuba, Colombia, Germany, India, Iran, attended the following meetings: conjunction with the ICA Working Group on Art Malaysia, and the United States. • Sydney, Australia in 2008 and Cartography, focusing on mapping The current Co-Chairs are Michael Peterson • Genoa, Italy in 2009 practices, in the context of map art, participa- (USA) and Georg Gartner (Austria). • Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 2010 tory mapping and community mapping • New Orleans, USA in 2011 initiatives. This workshop featuring 15 papers Michael Peterson | Chair | ICA Commission on Maps We have continued to actively encourage our is scheduled for 2 July, and will be held at the and the Internet | USA International Geographical Union (IGU) Institute of Geography, 191 rue Saint Jacques, colleagues to participate in the CoastGIS 2009 Paris 6e. For details see artcarto.wordpress. Conference in Itajai, Brazil and the CostGIS com/. 2011 in Oostende, Belgium planned for Marine Cartography September 2011. Mr Ron Furness is our Chris Perkins | Chair | ICA Commission on Maps and www.shoa.cl/ica/ Society | UK representative at these meetings.

Commission Activities 2007-2011 Patricio Carrasco | Chair | ICA Commission on Marine Cartography | Chile Since the 14th General Assembly of the ICA in Maps and the Internet Moscow in August 2007, the ICA Commission maps.unomaha.edu/ica/ on Marine Cartography (CMC) worked to strengthen and enhance the commission’s Mountain Cartography programme of activities, in line with the Terms Maps and the Internet Commission www.mountaincartography.org/ of Reference of the CMC. At the beginning of becomes 12 2009 a newer and improved CMC website was The Maps and the Internet Commission was created, with links to nautical cartography and Workshop in Borsa, Romania established at the 1999 ICA General Assembly other interesting sites. The International Cartographic Association in Ottawa, Canada. The commission was During the ICC 2009 in Santiago, representa- (ICA) Commission on Mountain Cartography established from the recognition that the tives from Croatia, USA, France, Turkey, Chile held its seventh biennial workshop in > 14

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Participants of the 7th ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop held in Borsa, Romania | Photograph courtesy of Karel Kriz

Borsa, Romania, on 1-5 September 2010. Website: Thanks to Alexander Pucher from the The Sighetu Marmatiei Extension of Babes- National and Regional University of Vienna, Austria, the Commission Bolyai University organized the workshop at the Atlases website has been established and regularly Hotel Paltinis, located at the base of the Rodnei www.univie.ac.at/cnra/ maintained. It remains, of course, a permanent Mountains – at 2303m, the highest spot in the task to develop it further and publish especially Oriental Carpathians. Borsa, situated in Commission Activities 2007-2011 an inventory of atlases. An important step in Maramures in the extreme north of Romania, is this direction is going to be the pre-ICA home to 29,000 inhabitants. Mineral springs, “Cook Book” for Atlas Editors: Following many Conference workshop of the Commission in mountaineering, and skiing are popular tourist successful years of Timothy Trainor’s chairman- Paris, 1-2 July 2011, where new atlases and attractions and activities in the region. ship, the chair of the Commission passed on to atlas revisions will be presented. The Commis- Staying at a small hotel, booked exclusively Peter Jordan at the ICA General Assembly in sion plans to publish information about these for the workshop, facilitated professional Moscow in 2007. The main goal of the atlases on its website. interaction members of our group. The Commission in the past four years was to workshop hosted 39 participants from 11 elaborate and, if possible, publish a “cook Meetings and Workshops: Significant mile- countries: Austria, Switzerland, Germany, book” for atlas editors. While the editorial board stones of the Commission work are most Greece, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Argen- has been established, a detailed list of contents certainly the meetings and workshops. Besides tina, the United States, and Romania. The set up (after intensive discussions), authors for the usual business meetings in the framework attendees represented an array of professions, all chapters found and several chapters of the ICA Conferences in Moscow and from academics, practicing cartographers and completed, the book still lacks some important Santiago, two Commission workshops in map designers to glaciologists, all bound by a contributions and cannot thus far be complet- Timişoara (Romania) and Yogyakarta (Indone- common interest in mapping mountains. ed. However, prospects are good and it should sia) stand out in this context. The workshop themes were broadly be finished relatively soon in the next four-year 2008 Workshop in Timişoara, Romania, organized around mountain mapping and term. 9-13 September – this was a joint meeting with geospatial information retrieval. The program the Working Group on Exonyms of the United Organisers of the ICA Commission on National and featured three kinds of presentations: long Regional Atlases Workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Nations Group of Experts on Geographical presentations (10 minutes), short presentations Photograph courtesy of Peter Jordan Names (UNGEGN) hosted by the West and demos (6 minutes), and posters. The 26 University of Timişoara. It covered the topic of presentations were organized into the following geographical names and their different modes themes: of use, as well as the general structure of the • Mapping and GIS applications for mountain “cook book”. 48 colleagues from 18 countries regions attended the workshop. UNGEGN experts • Relief mapping and visualization contributed especially to the discussion on • Tourist mapping projects – good practice geographical names. During the workshop guide essential progress was made with regards to • 3D mapping defining the structure of the “cook book”, which • Topographic mapping will contain 10 chapters. For most of the • Visualization, animation and new techniques chapters authors were found. Further information on the workshop as well 2010 Workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as about commission activities can be found at 20-21 October 2010 – the meeting had been the Commission's website. organised by the National Coordinating Agency for Surveying and Mapping, Indonesia, and our Karel Kriz | Chair | ICA Commission on Mountain Commission in cooperation with the Faculty of Cartography | Austria Geography of the Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, the Indonesian Cartography

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Association, the Indonesian Geography Association and the Association of Geographers Theoretical Cartography of the Gadjah Mada University. Very helpful rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~wolodt/tc-com/ was Diah Kirana Kresnawati from the National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping, Seminar in Kyiv, Ukraine who acted as the principal local organizer. The On 18 March 2011, the ICA Commission on meeting was composed of two sessions, a Theoretical Cartography and the Institute of workshop titled Atlases as Expressions and Ecological Safety of the National Aviation Carriers of Space-related Identity (20 October), University held the 5th Seminar Cartography, and a seminar titled The Strategic Role of Maps Cartosemiotics and Ecological Safety in Kyiv, in Development (21 October). The meeting was Ukraine. Co-organizers of seminar were also used as an occasion to present Volume II Alexander Wolodtschenko (Germany) and of the National Atlas of Indonesia. More than Oleksadr Zaporozhets (Ukraine). Participants of the 6th Cartosemiotic Seminar in 150 participants came to a larger part of the Cartographers, geographers, surveyors, Vilnius, Lithuania | Photograph courtesy of Alexander Workshop from the local university and other ecologists and computer scientists from Wolodtschenko parts of Indonesia. The whole event received a Belarus, Germany, Poland, Russian Federation is an interesting and important question for wide attention in Indonesian media. and Ukraine presented and discussed a variety cartography today. of cartographic, ecological, cartosemiotic and

Other Events: The Commission also co-organ- information technology papers in two oral Alexander Wolodtschenko | Chair | ICA ized some other meetings and conferences, sessions. It was a 1-day seminar providing a Commission on Theoretical Cartography | Germany such as the 3rd Conference of the Adriatic productive exchange of diverse opinions and Forum in Vienna, Austria, 23-24 September positions on classical and technological 2010. The main focus of this meeting was cartography. A selection of papers will be regional development and regionalisation in the published in the e-journal , Vol 4, 2011. www.univie.ac.at/icacomuse/ conference was mainly attended by geographers, atlases, as means of representing Seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania regional development, were on the agenda. The Workshops in London, UK The ICA Commission on Theoretical Cartogra- conference attracted 85 participants from 15 Just like all other Commissions and Working phy together with the Lithuanian Cartographic European countries. Its proceedings will be Groups of the International Cartographic Association organised the 6th Cartosemiotic published in the ISR-Forschungsberichte book Association, over the past few months the ICA Seminar entitled Competences in Modern series, edited by the Institute of Urban and Commission on Use and User Issues has been Cartography on 8 April 2011 in Vilnius, Regional Studies, Austrian Academy of preparing for the biennial highlight of the ICA Lithuania. Sciences. calendar – the 25th International Cartographic The seminar was held in the Conference Hall Conference in Paris, France. of Carolina Hotel. Local organizers were Giedre Future Plans We are looking forward to some interesting Beconyte and Algimantas Cesnulevicius. After sessions with oral presentations focussing on Prior to the 25th International Cartographic greetings and keynote presentation entitled use, users and usability. These sessions already Conference in Paris, the ICA Commission on Towards the development of body of knowledge start at the beginning of the conference week National and Regional Atlases organises a for the domain of cartography by Georg and they are usually scheduled in Room 242a. 2-day Workshop on Friday and Saturday, 1-2 Gartner, Vice President of ICA, the seminar As usual, there will also be an open meeting of July 2011, on national, regional, city, thematic continued its proceedings in three paper the Commission to which everybody with an and school atlases at the Institut Géographique sessions and a poster session. Students and interest in use and user issues in cartography National (IGN) Saint Mandé in Paris. academics from Austria, Belarus, Germany, and geoinformation processing is invited. We This workshop is conceived as a sequence of Latvia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, USA and will bring you up-to-date with our recent short presentations of new atlases, recent atlas Lithuania had an opportunity to present results achievements and future plans, for instance editions and instalments or functional improve- of their research. Selected papers will be those related to the planned Commission book ments and extensions of electronic atlases. The published in the Lithuanian journal Geography. publication on methods and techniques of use, workshop is open for all types of atlases The next 7th Cartosemiotic Seminar is planned user and usability research. published from 2009 onwards (in exceptional for 2013 in Vilnius or Kaunas. Two days prior to the start of ICC 2011, the cases also older publications are welcome). Commission organizes a pre-conference Presenters will be invited to place their Seminar in Paris, France workshop on User Issues in Public Transport presentations at the Commission website after On 1 July 2011, the Commission organises a Geoinformation, which will be held on 1 and 2 the workshop. We are happy to say that many pre-ICC 2011 Seminar at the Institut July 2011 at IGN in Paris (Saint-Mandé), papers have been submitted and the workshop Géographique National (IGN) in Paris (Saint- France. This is going to be a special workshop promises to provide a comprehensive survey Mandé). It will be the last seminar of the with not only presentations and demonstra- over the recent atlas production worldwide. Commission in the current term 2007-2011. tions, but also with a real “dive” into the Paris’ The workshop is free to attend and open to After 12 years of leading the Commission, public transport system. Isn’t this an appropri- all interested parties. For attendees not Alexander Wolodtchenko decided to step down; ate warm-up for ICC 2011? All information presenting a paper, no formal registration is it will be his last seminar as a Commission about this workshop is available through the required. For a detailed programme of the Chair. Commission’s website where you can also workshop, please contact Peter Jordan at peter. The 2011-2015 term will see a new Chair register. [email protected]. and possibly a generation change in the Corné van Elzakker | Chair | ICA Commission on Peter Jordan | Chair | ICA Commission on National Commission. Quo vadis theoretical cartography Use and User Issues | The Netherlands and Regional Atlases | Austria in the second decade of the 21st century? This

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and Risk Management. Current Chair of the ICA Working Group on Cartography on Early Warning and Crisis Management (CEWCM), Professor Milan Konečný, first elaborated on the need for cartography and GIScience communities to be actively involved in this area at the 2nd International Conference on Early Warning (EWC II) in 2003. Following this, the ICA was the first member of the Joint Board of Geo- graphic Information Societies (JBGIS), which started to deal with the problem. The topic of Early Warning and Crisis Management was also incorporated into the 2005 Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the ICA. At Participants of the Art and Cartography workshop “Mapping” Environmental Issues in the City: Arts and Cartographic the 13th General Assembly of ICA held in A Cross Perspectives during a field activity in Montréal, Canada | Photograph courtesy of Sébastien Caquard Coruña, Spain, it was agreed to establish a Geoinformation and Cartography series. working group on CEWCM which continues its Art and Cartography Hopefully, this book co-edited by Sébastien activities to this day. artcarto.wordpress.com/ Caquard, Laurene Vaughan and William Between 2008-2011, CEWCM organised Cartwright will be available for the ICC 2011. many activities all over the world, which were Workshop in Montréal, Canada regularly reported on in the ICA News. However, little is known about a network of In September 2010, the ICA Working Group on Upcoming Events other well established events with a focus on Art and Cartography organized a workshop enti- The Art and Cartography Working Group will Early Warning and Crisis Management tled “Mapping” Environmental Issues in the also be active during the conference in Paris. (EW&CM). Here are just a few examples: City: Arts and Cartographic Cross Perspectives. On top of the regular paper sessions, we will • Biennial Cartography and GIS conferences in This workshop aimed to encourage and explore propose two events. First, we organize a Bulgaria (Borovets, Nessebar and planned for the interactions between cartographers, artists, workshop in collaboration with the Commission Albena) with European Union seminars on designers and any other area of ‘arts’ (poets, on Cartography and Society. This workshop EW&CM with participation of cartographers writers, dancers, gamers) who work in the entitled Mapping Processes and Practices: from all over the world various aspects of mapping. Arts, Maps and Society will take place at the • Annual GeoSiberia conferences in Novosi- The goal of the Montréal workshop was to Institute of Geography on 2 July 2011. At the birsk, Russia, with regular seminars and expose cartography to the mapping from the moment we have 17 presentations scheduled. workshops devoted to EW&CM arts – and vice versa. In order to reach these For more details see artcarto.wordpress. • Biennial AutoCarto conferences in USA goals, the workshop was designed to facilitate com/2011/05/09/workshop-paris-july-2nd- (Shepherdstown WV, Orlando FL), featuring the production of diverse spatial representations 2011-program/. workshops on EW&CM of a specific database. This database has been Secondly, Barbara Piatti is organizing an • Special EW&CM events in Czech Republic compiled during the winter 2010 by students experimental walk / drift in entitled Exploration (Brno, Prague, Karlovy Vary) of the Diploma in Environmental Assessment des frontières invisibles dans Paris – cartog- • Special conferences and seminars covering (Department of Geography, Planning & raphes et artistes en promenade dialogique, in EW&CM themes in China (Wuhan, Beijing, Environment) at Concordia University, Mon- collaboration with some Parisian artists. This Fuzjou) and other Asian countries (Indonesia, tréal. The data collection and data analysis was activity will take place on 4 July from 17:00 to Malaysia, India) part of a course entitled Geographic Informa- 22:00 and will provide a unique opportunity for Some very special events included: tion Systems for Environmental Impact cartographers to interact with artists in a • January 2009 – a Joint Symposium of Assessment (ENVS663). This database stimulating and informal context. This activity CEWCM with the JBGIS Gi4DM Cartography includes data relative to health issues, will be followed by an aperitif. People interested and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and socio-demographic profiles, air quality and in this experimental walk should register via Emergency Management in Prague, Czech industrial release in Montréal. [email protected] since the Republic, organized as a part of activities International scholars, students and artists number of places is limited. associated with the Czech Presidency of were then invited to submit proposals describ- European Commission (ICA News No 52, ing projects somehow inspired by this data- Sébastien Caquard and Barbara Piatti | Co- 2009, p 14) base. During three days between 8-10 Chairs | ICA Working Group on Art and Cartography | September 2010, 16 artists, cartographers, Canada / Switzerland Professor Milan Konečný, Past President of ICA answering designers, and media practitioners internation- questions after his keynote address at GeoSiberia 2009, ally (Canada, USA, Europe, Australia, New Novosibirsk, Russia | Photograph courtesy of Milan Zealand) have developed their own project and Konečný contributed to the development of others. For Cartography on Early more details about the workshop, please visit Warning and Crisis mappingworkshop.wordpress.com. After the workshop, authors have been Management invited to finalize their project into scientific and artistic contributions. The diverse disciplinary Working Group Activities 2007-2011 explorations that emerged from this workshop For a number of years the ICA has been active are in the process of being published by in the area of Early Warning and Crisis, Disaster Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in

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• May 2009 – the China-EU Early Warning successful symposium included topics on ODAIPR on 1 July 2011, in Paris at the ICA and Emergency Management Seminar census mapping techniques to support data Conference. The full-day ODAIPR Workshop entitled Challenges, Best Practices, Perspec- collection and thematic and reference mapping will take place at the Bibliothèque National tives; the CEWCM was represented by its to support data dissemination. de France, Richelieu, Salle des Commissions Chair, Professor Milan Konečný, while the and will include the following speakers, Chinese partner by the National Chinese Timothy Trainor | Chair | ICA Working Group on among others: Professor Pang Xiao Ping School for Public Administration, now China Census Cartography | USA (China), Dr Raisa B. Yakovleva (Russia), Academy of Governance Director Michael Bergman (Germany), • June 2009 – as a part of the AGILE 2009 Professor D.R. Fraser Taylor (Canada), Dr conference, a workshop GI@earlywarning Clare Hadley (United Kingdom), Dr Antony was organized by Martin Breunig, University Open Data Access and Cooper (South Africa), Ed Parsons (Google), of Osnabrück and Wolfgang Reinhardt, Intellectual Property and Lucia Lovison-Golob (USA). The goal of University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, the workshop is to present issues relative to Germany; CEWCM Chair Professor Konečný Rights ODAIPR for geospatial professionals and gave a presentation entitled Cartography and sites.google.com/site/odaipr/ cartographers in each speaker country, Geoinformatics in Early Warning and including the latest developments in policies, Emergency Management: How to enhance Working Group Activities 2007-2011 procedures, and activities of organizations the role of individuals? The ICA Working Group on Open Data Access such as INSPIRE, as well as to discuss • November 2009 – two sessions in the and Intellectual Property Rights (ODAIPR) was possible way to foster best practices among International Cartographic Conference established in Moscow, Russia, in August 2007 geospatial professionals and cartographers program in Santiago, Chile were organized by at the 23rd International Cartographic Confer- and to identify activities promoting capacity CEWCM ence. building among different countries and In addition, CEWCM initiated and partici- Since its establishment, the ODAIPR has organizations. pated in many publications. made progress in several ways, including the • Members of the ODAIPR have been active in A proposal for a new ICA Commission in following: conducting research in the ODAIPR field and Early Warning and Crisis Management will be • The ODAIPR has grown from three members in publishing articles and making presenta- tabled at the General Assembly of ICA in Paris. to about ten members from different tions. To learn more about the activity of The proposed Co-Chairs are Professor Milan countries around the world and with different each ODAIPR member, please contact us Konečný (Czech Republic) and Dr Christopher types of expertise directly, or please attend the workshop in Lienert (Switzerland). If approved, the • The ODAIPR established a web site with the Paris on 1 July 2011. Commission plans to continue the work of the goal of increasing both visibility among current CEWCM, participate in the activities of cartographers and participation from Workshop in Paris, France JBGIS and collaborate with other similar professionals involved in the geospatial and The ODAIPR Working Group is active in interest groups from around the world. cartographic fields recruiting expert participants from different

• The ODAIPR established in 2009 a survey countries and disciplines in the geospatial and Milan Konečný | Chair | ICA Working Group on that was circulated mainly among three main Cartography on Early Warning and Crisis Management | cartographic fields and in assessing the Czech Republic geospatial organizations – Open Geospatial ODAIPR community needs and prioritizing its Consortium, International Cartographic activities. We are very proud of the ODAIPR Association, and Map Librarians worldwide Workshop that we have organized in July 1, mailing lists – as well as to other geospatial 2011, in Paris where researchers and experts Census Cartography professionals from different research centers, universities, • The ODAIPR completed the analysis of the cartography.tuwien.ac.at/ica/workinggroups/ and companies will participate and share their survey results in 2010 and plans to submit census/ experiences. The workshop is open to all in 2011 the article Open Data Access and registrants to the 25th International Cartograph- Intellectual Property Rights for Cartography: Symposium in Orlando, Florida, USA ic Conference, although we would appreciate Survey Results for publication to the receiving in advance an acknowledgement to In October of 2010, the Census Cartography Cartography and Geographic Information [email protected]. We also encourage Working Group took advantage of a beautiful Science journal. The survey identified priority people to participate to the ODAIPR Survey, Orlando, Florida location to bring together areas where the International Cartographic which will be accessible at sites.google.com/ statistical agency staff and census data users to Association should focus its energy, while site/odaipr/. share data collection and dissemination avoiding replicating activities already ongoing techniques and challenges. The mission of the in other organizations. The survey also Lucia Lovison-Golob | Chair | ICA Working Group on Census Cartography Working Group is to share identified experts in the field of geospatial Open Data Access and Intellectual Property Rights | USA and exchange information on mapping and cartographic access and intellectual methodologies that support censuses and property rights who are willing to share their statistical surveys, encourage the use of new knowledge and/or participate in discussions technologies and approaches supporting about ODAIPR Open Source Geospatial census mapping, and serve as a forum for • The ODAIPR plans to distribute a follow-up Technologies census cartographers and organizations that survey in late 2011 in order to assess the cartography.tuwien.ac.at/ica/workinggroups/ promote census mapping activities. In support evolution of the products and services census/ of this mission, the Census Cartography needed in the ODAIPR field for cartogra- Working Group held a Symposium titled phers. We encourage all interested profes- Cartographic Advances in Census Data sionals to participate in the survey, which Working Group Activities 2007-2011 Collection and Dissemination in conjunction will be located at the ODAIPR web site. The ICA Working Group on Open Source with AutoCarto and ASPRS 2010. This • The ODAIPR has organized a workshop on Geospatial Technologies was established > 18

17 reports ica working groups cont... in December 2007 with the aim to promote open source, open standards and open the major goal is to promote cooperative multi-national holistic research in free and open data geospatial technologies research between OSGeo developers and the source geospatial technologies in order to make 2. to provide platform to network and academia. The academic track is the right accessible the latest developments in open develop ideas for future collaborative work forum to highlight the most important source tools to the wider cartographic commu- in open source GIS research challenges and trends in the nity. The WG attempts to enhance the usage of 3. to understand current developments in domain, and let them became the basis for free and open source geospatial tools among open source GIS an informal OSGeo research agenda. It will the cartographic community worldwide, 4. to act as a focus for open source, open foster interdisciplinary discussions in all especially for education. It is very important to standards, open data GIS research aspects of the geospatial and free and open have open source GIS and standards based For more details, please visit www.opensource domains. It was organized in a way to solutions (OGC, ISO TC 211) to achieve sourcegis.org.uk. promote networking between the partici- widespread application of geotools at grassroots • Involved in establishing Erasmus IP GIS pants, to initiate and favour discussions level especially in developing countries. Open OPENSOURCE Summer School: The regarding cutting-edge technologies in the source GIS provides accessibility, low cost Summer School in Open Source GIS is field, to exchange research ideas and to solutions and lowers the entry barriers for the organized jointly by the Geographical promote international collaboration. use of geospatial technologies for all. The Information Systems and Remote Sensing • Open Source GIS Walk-in Workshops @ICC working group works to promote the usage of Centre (SIGTE) of the University of Girona 2011: The ICA Working Group on Open professional and technical standards (ISO TC (Spain), the Lahti Center of Aalto University Source Geospatial Technologies will be 211, OGC) for the development of free and School of Science and Technology of the running three day Open Source GIS walk-in open source geospatial software. Currently over Aalto University (Finland), the Center for sessions (13:30 – 15:30) at ICC 2011 on 200 people from various countries are Geospatial Science (CGS) of the University of 5th, 6th and 7th July. This event is organ- interested in the WG activities. Nottingham (UK) and the Institute for ized by Dr Barend Köbben (ITC Netherlands). Key achievements include: Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques More details at kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/ • Established the highly successful Open (IRSTV) from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes ICA-OSGEO-workshop. Source GIS UK Conference Series: The (France). For more details, please visit www. • Establishment of Open Source Geospatial OSGIS conference series has a strong sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010. Lab: The establishment of the Open Source international focus and takes a holistic • Involved in International Open source Geospatial Lab under MoU with the Open approach in bringing together speakers and Geospatial Research Symposium (OGRS Source Geospatial Foundation is a key delegates from government, academia, 2009), Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, initiative for supporting the development of industry and open source communities. High France open-source geospatial software technolo- profile speakers from all over the world are • Involved in FOSS4G 2009 Academic Track: gies, training and expertise in the UK. More invited for giving presentations and running In addition to the OSGeo Foundation, the ICA details at www.osgeo.org/node/1071. hands-on workshops for the conference Working Group on Open Source Geospatial series. The key aims of OSGIS conference Technologies is proud to support and help in Suchith Anand | Chair | ICA Working Group on Open series are: the organisation of the Academic track for Source Geospatial Technologies | UK 1. to hear presentations from government, FOSS4G 2009. The academic track acted as academic, industry and policy makers on an inventory of current research topics, but reports cartographic meetings and events

The eight awardees at the National Chidren’s Map Competition Award ceremony at Kauri Park Primary School in Children’s Map Contest Auckland, New Zealand | Photography Lesley Murphy in New Zealand

In July 2010, the New Zealand Cartographic Society (NZCS) gave me a short nine months to organise New Zealand’s contribution to the International Barbara Petchenik Children’s World Map Award. Unfortunately for New Zealand, the timing of this is not very practical for our normal school year, which finishes in early December and the following year doesn’t start back until the first or second week into February. In practical terms, this left 4 months for organising the competition, prizes, publicity, etc and a short 2 months to get participation by school children, and even then we might not meet the deadline of 1 April exactly. This being only the third National Barbara Petchenik Children’s map competition run here in New Zealand and the first since 2007, there

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“lesson” about maps and mapping involving all the children, across their varied ages (5-12 Children’s Map Contest years old). We presented 8 year old Veryan in Bulgaria Straight with a prize for her effort in creating a map called The World News, which placed On 21 March 2011, an award ceremony and third in the 5-8 age category, and was also sent exhibition of Bulgarian children maps was held onto the ICA competition. We also awarded 10 in the National Museum Earth and Man in year old Eli Moore for his third placed (equal) Sofia, Bulgaria. For the second time, the effort in the 9-12 age category, called We Are competition was organized by the National All Connected Somehow. Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geogra- New Zealand children contributed another 4 phy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences entries to the ICA competition, two from each of (NIGGG-BAS) under the leadership of Prof Dr the 9-12 age category and the 13-15 age Rumiana Vatseva, Head of Department of category. Among the entries forwarded to the Geography, NIGGG-BAS. The Association of ICA are The World At My Fingertips - Remains Bulgarian Schools Abroad helped a lot with pro- A Puzzle by 15 year old Hayden Livingstone motion and propagation of the competition, from Tauranga Boys College, who won first especially its President Prof Dr Boian Koulov, place in the 13-15 age category in the National Research Director of the NIGGG-BAS. competition and a map called Globe Trotting Is The co-organizer of the competition was the Getting Easier by 12 year old Aimee Elliott from University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Aquinas College in Tauranga, which won first Geodesy (UACEG) with assistance from Prof place in the 9-12 age category. Peter Penev, Vice Rector of UACEG and Prof Veryan Straight (centre) and Eli Moore (right) from We are very grateful to sponsors and Temenoujka Bandrova, Co-Chair of the ICA Makara Model School in Wellington, New Zealand, organizers of the National Competition for a Commission on Cartography and Children. winners of the National Chidren’s Map Competition; with range of quality prizes and various resources Geoff Aitken, President of the New Zealand Cartographic The sponsorship and support was provided Society (left) | Photography Michelle Cooper they provided: Critchlow Ltd, Map World, by the National Geographic KIDS Bulgaria, Geographx (NZ) Ltd, Land Information New DataMap Europe Ltd, and ESRI Bulgaria. Media was a lot of ground work to do setting up Zealand, Terralink International, Astra Print, support was provided traditionally by the sponsors, posters, mail-outs, websites, New Zealand Defence Force and The University National DARIK Radio. The contest was also certificates and prizes for both schools and the of Auckland. announced on the following website www. children themselves. In the end, we received a grand total of 142 abgschool.org. A few short weeks ago, all this time and maps from 9 different schools (out of 2,500 or 123 drawings of Bulgarian children between organisation culminated in two presentations at so schools) throughout New Zealand. This just 6 and 15 years old from 13 places in Bulgaria schools, local to our NZCS committee members sets the goal to beat for the next time this as well as from London, Chicago, Valencia and - one in Auckland and the other in Wellington. competition runs in 2013. Xativa participated in the competition, some for Kauri Park School in Birkdale, Auckland were the first time, like the Bulgarian schools in the hosts of our NZCS Vice President, Igor Michelle Cooper | New Zealand Cartographic Society Chicago, Valencia and Xativa. As in previous Drecki and our Treasurer, Lesley Murphy who | New Zealand years, many art schools participated in the also represented one of our sponsors, the > 20 Geospatial Intelligence Organisation of the New The 7th Bulgarian Children’s Map Competition exhibition and award ceremony in Sofia, Bulgaria; (from left) Temenoujka Zealand Defence Force. Local press came along Bandrova, Milan Konečný, Rumiana Vatceva, awarded children, Boian Koulov and Peter Panev | Photography National to record the event, and printed a fine article in Geographic KIDS Bulgaria the local newspaper the following week. Igor and Lesley presented seven 6 year old children from Kauri Park School with a first place prize in the 5-8 years old age category: Ashton Coromandel, Luka Misur, Breanna Keating, Mya Alesana, Yana Morales, Ella Sutton and Kira wan Niekerk, for their joint effort in creating a world map called We Are The Children of the Future, which has been forwarded onto the ICA competition. They also presented the second place prize in the 5-8 age category to 8 year old Brandon Longman for creating his map called We Are All Connected. The second presentation was held at a small rural school just out of Wellington, Makara Model School, who were the host of our NZCS President, Geoff Aitken and a committee member and national competition organiser Michelle Cooper. Makara Model School only has 20 students, so this was a big deal to them. They welcomed us with a traditional Maori welcome – a Powhiri – and sang songs for us. Then Geoff did a fantastic interactive

19 reports cartographic meetings and events cont... competition. All drawings are of very high standard and merge cartography and art very well. The ICA Past President Prof Milan Konečný was invited for the award ceremony where he greeted and congratulated the winners. In his address he appreciated the role of Bulgarian cartographers and their inspiration and ideas that enrich the Barbara Petchenik Contest at the global level. All attending children were invited to visit the Earth and Man National Museum expositions. The National Geographic KIDS Bulgaria will published an article about the 7th Bulgarian Competition within the Children’s World Map Contest Living in a Globalized World in its May 2011 edition. Participants of the Early Warning and Crises, Disaster and Emergency Management Workshop organised by ICA, SSGA and ISDE during GeoSiberia 2011, Novosibirsk, Russia | Photograph courtesy of Milan Konečný Temenoujka Bandrova | University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy | Bulgaria more than 100 participants from 15 countries. Gottfried Konecny from Germany and Prof The theme of the event proved to be very Ammatzia Peled from Israel delivered excellent popular and “magnetic” as many newcomers and current presentations. Prof Shunji Murai and people using maps and GIS in their daily from Japan contributed another interesting GeoSiberia 2011 work, such as builders and decision makers paper concerning the first Japan experiences took part in the workshop. Mr GM Nigmetov after the tragic earthquake and tsunami disaster The 7th International Exhibition and Scientific from the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies (including update on the nuclear power station Congress GeoSiberia 2011 was held in and Elimination of Consequences of Natural in Fukushima). His and other papers were Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 27-29 April Disaster of Russian Federation delivered a included in the workshop proceedings prepared 2011. The congress covered 6 main topics in keynote address Monitoring of Individual by Svetlana Dyshlyuk and Argina Novitskaya. 19 technical sessions with more than 610 Seismic Risk. Prof Milan Konečný, Chair of The event confirmed that the ICA and sister presentations, and attracted more than 1500 CEWCM, talked about Early Warning and Crisis organizations took the right approach in participants. Management Research Agenda. devoting more attention to early warning and One of the key activities was a 2-day The main objective of the workshop was to crisis management processes which influence International Workshop on Early Warning and showcase the interaction of cartography, lives of millions of people over the world. Crisis, Disaster and Emergency Management surveying and geoinformation technology in Cartographic and geoinformation methods have organised by the Siberian State Academy of early warning and crisis management situa- still a big potential to be applied even further to Geodesy (SSGA) in Novosibirsk, ICA Working tions. As an example, the integration of remote improve the quality of decision making and Group on Cartography on Early Warning and sensing data from small and micro satellites response in such critical situations. Novosibirsk Crisis Management (CEWCM), and Interna- with the Glonass/GPS/Galileo data for exact event also confirmed the leading role of the tional Society on Digital Earth (ISDE). The location of crises situations and real assess- ICA’s CEWCM in organising a network of organisers prepared a rich program attracting ment of damages, the 3-D models of potentially important events related to early warning and dangerous objects and disaster processes, and crisis management and highlighting the Supporting organisations of GeoSiberia 2011 Conference laser scanning was demonstrated. Also the influence of cartography in disaster situations in in Novosibirsk, Russia | Photograph courtesy of Milan potential of European Union directives such as many parts of the world. Konečný the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Milan Konečný | Past President of ICA | Czech Information in Europe) give new possibilities for Republic cooperative decision making and disaster mitigation. Special attention was given to municipality security, security of food, monitoring of deformations of constructions (e.g. Toponymy and ICA bridges), as well as monitoring of natural objects. These topics were part of 24 presenta- Toponymy can be briefly defined as the science tions on the first day. of place and geographical names, and is in The second day was devoted to the creation a sense a sub-discipline of onomastics, the of SDI in Russia and potentials of its usage in science of proper names in general. It lies early warning and crises management situation. at the intersection of several acknowledged The most interesting papers dealt with disciplines, notably linguistics, geography modeling of possible threats (floods, fires, land and cartography, but is also recognised in the slides), as well as ecological impacts on historical, cultural and juridical research. inhabitants. 19 papers were presented together The United Nations (UN) recognised the with 8 posters. significance of geographical names standardiza- A mixture of world leading scientists and tion as early as 1960, when it established an representatives of ISPRS, FIG and other expert group in this field – the United Nations organizations was greatly appreciated. Prof Group of Experts on Geographical Names

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(UNGEGN) – one of just six active permanent Gustave Rylander, Ann Goulette, Bonnie Jones, expert groups within UN. Many countries have Kathryn (Ford) Thorne, Gebeyehu Mulugeta, also recognised the subject’s significance by Dawn Carlson, Jennifer (Ware) Blanchard, Amy establishing national or regional boards on Lobben, Alison (Philpotts) Feeney, Lisa Dygert, geographical names. Within the International and Yali Li. Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), toponymy is also attracting increasing interest Michael Peterson | University of Nebraska, Omaha among researchers and practitioners. | USA It is certainly an advantage to have UNGEGN and ICOS which facilitate interdisciplinary discussions and work in the toponymy field. But it would also be beneficial to establish Brazil ICA 2015 toponymy fora within the International Geographical Union (IGU), as well as the The Sociedade Brasileira de Cartografia, International Cartographic Association (ICA) Geodésia, Fotogrametria e Sensoriamento and encourage engagement of geographers and Remoto (SBC) (Brazilian Society of cartographers in this field. Cartography, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and For cartographers the role and function of Judy Olson (centre) surrounded by some of her graduate Remote Sensing) has been a long-time member advisees: (from left) Michael Peterson, Amy Lobben, place names on maps will certainly be of Cindy Brewer and Ann Goulette | Photograph courtesy of of the ICA. The Society is one of the bidders for interest. Equally important would be to raise Michael Peterson the 16th General Assembly of the ICA and 27th the awareness of the meaning of place names International Cartographic Conference. The and to further disseminate scientific methods of Society’s bid for the conference proposes that it place names representation on maps. Judy Olson Retires is to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between At the occasion of the 26th UNGEGN 21-26 June 2015. Session in Vienna, 2-6 May 2011, a group of Former ICA Vice President Judy M Olson and They have worked with the Rio Convention & cartographers and geographers including Helen former chair of the US National Committee Visitors Bureau and the Prefeitura da Cidade do Kerfoot, UNGEGN Chair, and Georg Gartner, for the ICA, has retired as Professor from Rio de Janeiro (City of Rio de Janeiro), Vice President of ICA, met to discuss the Michigan State University. Educated at the Secretaria Especial de Turismo do Município do establishment of a joint IGU/ICA Working Group University of Wisconsin-Madison under Arthur Rio de Janeiro, TurisRio – Companhia de on Toponymy. Robinson, Judy held positions at the University Turismo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (The State All interested in the idea of forming a joint of Georgia, Boston University and Michigan of Rio de Janeiro Tourism Authority), and the IGU/ICA toponymy forum are requested to State University where she served as chair Brazilian Tourism Board in preparing their bid. express their interest and support by emailing between 1989-1994. She served as editor of The Society will formally present their proposal Peter Jordan at [email protected]. The The American Cartographer (1977-1982), at the 15th General Assembly of the ICA in upcoming ICA’s International Cartographic and President of the Association of American Paris on Sunday, 3 July 2011. Conference in Paris, as well as the IGU Geographers (1996). The Society runs their Brazilain conference in Regional Geographic Conference in Santiago, Her work for the ICA extends back to 1980 different locations in Brazil. The conferences Chile, 14-18 November 2011, will offer good when she was US Deputy Delegate to the ICA attract many diverse and interesting contribu- opportunities to meet and develop this initiative meeting in Tokyo. Following this, she served as tions. Members of the Sociedade Brasileira de further. The first meeting will be organised at chair of the US National Committee for the ICA Cartografia, Geodésia, Fotogrametria e the International Cartographic Conference in from 1985-1988 and again from 1999-2003. Sensoriamento Remoto will be at the Paris Paris by Peter Jordan, who coordinates the She was Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Conference this July supporting the bid and input into this project. Venue and date will be and Spatial Data Use from 1987-1991, and a answering any questions about the Society and forwarded to all who expressed their interest corresponding member from 1992-1995. Brazil in general. and support. Appointed as Vice President of the ICA beginning in 1992 to complete the term of William Cartwright | President of ICA | Australia Peter Jordan | University of Vienna | Austria Barbara B Petchenik, she was elected to serve another four-year term by the General Assembly Aerial view of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Photography Riotur Multilingual road signpost nearby Tarvisio, Italy | in 1995. Photography Peter Jordan Judy taught courses in thematic cartography, quantitative methods, map production and map design. Her main interests continue to be in quantitative mapping and the psychology of maps. Her publications have dealt with map complexity, two-variable maps, the use of color in mapping, designing maps for people with defective color vision, map projections, and multimedia in geography. Her recent work has examined the cartographic use of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Judy instilled a commitment in her students in service and teaching and care about work and writing. Judy’s graduate advisees are: Michael Peterson, Robert Kerrigan, Ronald Eastman, Denis White, Cynthia Brewer,

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Prof Kretschmer’s fields of activity. She was From 1952 to 1956 he studied at the faculty Ingrid Kretschmer active within the Austrian Cartographic of Geodesy and Cartography at ETH in Zürich, 22.02.1939 – 22.01.2011 Commission from the beginning of her Switzerland, where he received his degree (Dip. academic career. She worked on numerous Ing. ETH). In 1957 he was released from the The long-time map exhibitions at international conferences IDF and started teaching at the Israeli Techno- president of the and on the organisation of cartographic logical Institute (Teknion) in Haifa, Israel. He Austrian Cartographic historical conferences. She was member of the quickly attained the post of Associate Professor Commission, editorial board and corresponding member of and was appointed the head of the Department academic teacher the editorial staff of Kartographische Nach- of Geodesy and Cartography in the Faculty of of generations richten (Cartographic News). For more than 25 Civil Engineering. of cartography years she worked on Bibliographia Cartographi- In 1972 he was appointed Full Professor in students at the ca and was member of the Imago Mundi Board the Faculty of Geography at Tel Aviv University. University of Vienna of Directors since 1993. He worked until his retirement in 1991 when and outstanding Between 1997-2004 she was president of he became Professor Emeritus till his death on cartographic the Austrian Geographic Association and 4 April 2011. From 1988 to 1991 he was researcher Ingrid Kretschmer has passed away. worked tirelessly in preparing the 150th chairman of the Israeli Cartographic Associa- Ingrid Kretschmer was born in Linz, Austria, anniversary celebration of the association in tion. on 22 February 1939. Her academic career 2006 including the edition of the celebration Over the years, Professor Yoeli was invited for began in 1966 as university assistant at the bulletin. Due to her excellent achievements for Sabbaticals to many academic institutes and Institute of Geography, University of Vienna the association, she was appointed honorary universities throughout the world, including Switzerland (teaching and researching at the under supervision of Erik Arnberger. She president of the association in 2006. Already in ETH Zürich and the Zürich University), worked as university lecturer at the Institute of 1995 she became honorary member of the Australia (at RMIT), England and USA. In Geography and Regional Research of the German Cartographic Association, from which addition, he worked as a consultant to well University of Vienna till her retirement in 2004. she received its highest award, the Mercator known cartographic firms in Switzerland, Ingrid Kretschmer dedicated her whole life to Medal, on 13 October 2004. Sweden and Scotland. cartography both at university and scientific Ingrid Kretschmer died in Linz on 22 January He published many papers in all major associations. She was a constant contributor to 2011, one month before her 72nd birthday. international cartographic journals. His book, the Cartography and Geoinformation teaching The funeral took place at Meidling cemetery in Cartographic Drawing With Computers, the first during the long vacancies of the professorship Vienna. Austrian, German and international in its kind, was published by the University of of geography and cartography in the Institute. cartography lost an adorable person, who Nottingham, UK in 1982. Besides the administrative duties, Ingrid dedicated herself and her whole life to Professor Yoeli’s contributions to Cartography cartography. We will miss her wealth of Kretschmer dedicated herself to education, in and GI Science are respected by the interna- knowledge and energy. The Austrian Carto- which the history of cartography, thematic tional academic and professional Cartography cartography and school cartography were her graphic Commission lost one of its outstanding and GI Science communities. The awards he specialisations. Many graduates remember the members. received in Israel and internationally for his exactness and rigorous attention to the correct research reflects the esteem in which he was Georg Gartner | Vice President of ICA | Austria usage of professional terminology, which was held globally. characteristic of Prof Kretschmer. The International Cartographic Association The scientific work of Prof Kretschmer extends its sincere sympathy to Professor Yoeli’s consists of 282 publications about fundamental widow, Agnes, his family, friends and col- issues and the history of cartography, as well Pinhas Yoeli leagues. as collaborations in editorial work. The most 01.07.1920 – 04.04.2011 important among the numerous publications William Cartwright | President of ICA | Australia are Wesen und Aufgaben der Kartographie – The International Topographische Karten (Character and Duties Cartographic Associa- Text modified by Prof William Cartwright, President of of Cartography – Topographic Maps) in the tion is saddened to ICA, from the original version provided by Prof Yoeli’s family. encyclopedia Die Kartographie und ihre hear of the passing of Randgebiete (Cartography and its Peripheral Professor Pinhas Areas) together with Erik Arnberger (1975), Yoeli. In 2005 Prof Lexikon zur Geschichte der Kartographie Yoeli received an (Lexicon of the History of Cartography) together Honorary Fellowship with Johannes Dörflinger and Franz Wawrik from the International calendar (1986) and Atlantes Austriaci in cooperation Cartographic Associa- with Johannes Dörflinger and Helga Hühnel tion. june 2011 (1995). From 1977 to 1997 she was editor of Prof Yoeli was born on 1 July 1920 in 26-01 July: XII National Cartography the Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Bayreuth, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to Week | Buenos Aires | Argentina | www. Österreich (Annual Geographic Report of Israel (then British mandatory Palestine) and, centroargentinodecartografia.org/xiisnc.html Austria) and from 1996 to 2004 she was in 1938 he volunteered into the Israeli 30-01 July: Joint ICA Symposium | Maps co-editor of Wiener Schriften zur Geographie pre-state army, the Hagana. He later headed for the Future: Children, Education and und Kartographie (Viennese Writings in the Topography Department. In 1948, he Internet | Orleans | France | lazarus.elte.hu/ Geography and Cartography), founded by established and commanded the Cartography jointsymposium2011/ Ferdinand Mayer. Department of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) 30-02 July: ICA Commission on Generali- Besides the academic research and educa- with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Later he sation and Multiple Representations tion, the Austrian Geographic Association and was also appointed deputy director of the Israel Workshop and Tutorial | Paris | France | aci. the Austrian Cartographic Commission were Survey Department. ign.fr/

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