ICA News Nouvelles de I’ACI Number 35, December 2000 Numéro 35, Décembre 2000 http://www.icaci.org Editorial his issue features a variety of contributions from all over the Dispatches T world. We join the celebrations of the Institute of Cartography at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the South Africa's National Mapping Organization in their achievements of 75 and 80 years of service excellence to the field of Cartography and Mapping. Ferjan Ormeling and Michael Wood present short reports of meetings with the International Geographic Union (IGU) in Seoul and the International Map Trade Association (IMTA) in Heidelberg. Several ICA commissions had active agendas over The ICA Executive Committee, Local Organizing Committee of the 20 TH ICC, and ICA the last six months with workshops, Editor at the August 2000 ICA Executive meeting. conferences and seminars organised in almost all continents. Likewise, the A Joint Message from Excursions to places like the Three reports' and upcoming events' sections the Editor and the Gorges, Xian, Lhasa, Chengdu, summarise the Commissions' workshops Executive Committee Hangxhou and Guilin are being finalized. and seminars planned to take place before Please keep checking the 20TH ICC the 20th ICC Conference in Beijing. n ICA Executive meeting was website (www.sbsm.gov.cn/icc2001/). A very interesting initiative on the held in Beijing, from August 7-9, We would like to thank the LOC for all 2000. In addition to discussions Websites of National Mapping Agencies is A the efforts made so far, and for sharing on the ICA commissions’ activities, ICA presented by Nicolie Emmer and Menno with us a 'slice' of the social program involvement with sister societies and in Kraak of the International Institute for ahead. Please stay 'tuned' to the ICC and global projects such as digital Earth, we Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences were briefed on the preliminary program ICA web sites for the latest (ITC). A request for paper contributions organized by the Local Organizing announcements, and do not hesitate to to the Geographical Sciences Bulletin of Committee of the 20TH ICC to be held at contact the Local Organizing Committee the National Institute of Cartography and the International Convention Centre in for the 20TH ICC at [email protected] Remote Sensing, Algeria is included as Beijing, next August. The call for abstract if you require any further information. well. submissions closed on the 31 October We look forward to seeing you in 2000, and authors will soon be notified Special thanks to the Commissions' Beijing!! about the acceptance of their papers. The Chairs for their prompt reaction to my bi- Conference program is being finalised, and Bengt, Ferjan, Kirsi, Alberta, Takashi, Li annual request for contributions. This it promises to be as successful as the Newsletter will continue to be successful previous International Cartographic Li, Elri, Robert, Milan, Michael and with your sustained support. In this regard, Conferences. Graciela. I encourage your feedback on new In an effort to integrate cartography, developments in the Newsletter and how it culture and entertainment, the LOC is may better serve our Society. organizing pre- and post- conference trips to cover all range of expectations. Graciela Metternicht, Editor ICA NEWS December 2000 1 20th International Cartographic Conference Barbara Petchenik 4. Clarity and legibility of the point, line Each national committee will select a and area symbols appropriate to the maximum of five maps to be forwarded to Children’s World Map media of expression, whether on paper or the ICA Secretary General. For the purposes ICC Beijing, 2001 Competition other surfaces, whether drawn or made of the national competition, criteria other up of indigenous materials; than those used for the international he Barbara Petchenik Award was 5. Expressive rendering and appropriate use competition may be considered. The maps created by the International of the perceptual dimensions of color, selected by the national committees must be TCartographic Association in 1993 as a i.e., changes in value for quantitative sent to the ICA Secretary General and not to memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice distinctions and changes in hue for the Conference site. They will be displayed president of the ICA and cartographer who qualitative distinctions; during the 20th International Cartographic worked through her life with maps related to 6. Overall aesthetic quality in such matters Conference of the International Cartographic children. The aim of the contest is to promote as balance and harmony among the Association in Beijing, China, 6-10 August the creative representation of the world in image elements. 2001. graphic form by children. When submitting their selected entries The awards are given every two years The maximum size of a map must not exceed to the ICA Secretary General, national bodies during an ICA conference or an ICA general A3 (420 mm x 297 mm or 17 x 11 inches). are requested to include a letter which, for assembly, preferably at least one for each Any number of "systems of projection" can each submission, gives the following continent, with special consideration to the be used to generate the coastlines and other information: the name, age, school address age of the child producing the drawing. The base material (e.g., international boundaries and country of its author, and the title in awarded drawings are submitted to UNICEF and graticule). These can include tracing or either English or French (the ICA's official for consideration as greeting cards. copying an existing world map or using a languages) as well as in the author's Participating nations are encouraged to computer program. language. All entries to the ICA Secretary report on the ways they have used for Each map must have the following General must have a label attached to the collecting drawing (video report, etc.) and to information on a label attached to the back back side of the representation which collect and archive maps for further research. side of the representation: the name, age, includes the name, age, school address and school address and country of its author, and country of its author, and the title in either Objective of the competition the title in either English or French as well as English or French (the ICA's official The aims of the competition are to promote in the author's language. languages) as well as the author's language. children's creative representation of the The winning entries will be submitted to world, to enhance their cartographic the UNICEF International Art Committee by Deadlines: awareness and to make them more conscious the ICA Executive for consideration as The maps and accompanying letter should be of their environment. greeting card designs. ICA may use them as sent so as to arrive by June 1, 2001 for the well. Any participant agrees that his/her Beijing conference (or June 1, 2003 for the Rules of the competition representation may be reproduced by ICA or Durban conference) to: ICA member nations will collect maps, on UNICEF or scanned for publication on the the theme "Save the Earth," produced by Internet by Carleton University without ICA Secretariat children under 16 years of age. The consultation or copyright fees. Competition c/o Faculty of Geographic Sciences international judging will focus on three maps are archived at Carleton University's Utrecht University criteria: 1) a recognizable message, 2) Map Library and are being prepared for web P.O. Box 80115 cartographic content, and 3) the quality of viewing (see 3508 TC Utrecht execution. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/children/ and The Netherlands In other words, judges will be looking http://www.library.carleton.ca/madgic/maps/c for: hildren/index.htm). National bodies are responsible for 1. A recognizable connection between the distributing the certificates awarded by the form, shape, and use of cartographic National coordinator's ICA Executive. These certificates will be elements which creatively address the guidelines for handling the produced and provided by the ICA Competition's theme; competition Executive. Participating nations are 2. A recognizable image of all or a large Each member nation must nominate a encouraged to collect and archive all of the portion of the world in which the shapes coordinator to run the contest in his/her entries in their national competitions and to and relative locations of land masses and country. The name of the coordinator must report to the Commission on their methods of oceans are as correct as can reasonably be received by the ICA Secretary General at announcing the competition, establishing any be expected for the child's age and within least one year prior to the submission date of other judging criteria, and the selection the context of the "system of projection" map entries. Countries in which no national process used. This information will be of used; coordinator is identified may participate value in evaluating the success of the 3. Appropriate cartographic elements such provided that the Executive receives the name Competition and in making adjustments in as symbols, colors, names and labels, of a country member willing to act as the the future. etc., which help address the coordinator for that country. Competition's theme; 2 ICA NEWS December 2000 Celebrating Cartography Zurich which is one of the largest collection 75 years of of contemporary maps in Europe. In the cartography at ETH second part, members of the institute presented current research projects: René Zurich Sieber announced the further development of Dispatches he Institute of Cartography (IKA) at the new "Atlas of Switzerland – interactive". ETH Zurich was founded in 1925 by Due to the success of the first edition, TProfessor Eduard Imhof. Therefore, in extended GIS, 3D and raster functions as well 2000 it can look back on 75 years of history.