Conferences

Society of Cartographers Summer School 2008
Steve Chilton writes in to remind us of the 44th annual summer school of the Society of Cartographers, which takes place from September 1 to 4 in Aberdeen, Scotland. “Presentations include ones on changing coastlines, 3D panoramas, kayak mapping, and… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Categories: Conferences
International Conference: Historic Maps and Imagery for Modern Scientific Applications
Ralph Rosenbauer writes to point out the upcoming International Conference on Historic Maps and Imagery for Modern Scientific Applications, taking place in Bern, Switzerland from November 28 to 30, 2008. From the web site: “The conference serves as a platform… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Categories: Conferences
Reports from Where 2.0
Beyond the conference blog, several geobloggers are filing reports from Where 2.0. Here’s a sampling: All Points Blog: Getting Warmed Up for Where 2.0; Where 2.0 Monday. Google Earth Blog: Day One. RenaLId: Day 1, Day 2 — Morning Sessions… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Categories: Conferences, Video
Where 2.0 2008
The 2008 iteration of the Where 2.0 conference gets under way tomorrow; O’Reilly Radar rounds up the week’s activities. Previously: Where 2.0 2007…. »
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Categories: Conferences
Mapping 2008
The British Cartographic Society has announced its 2008 annual symposium. Mapping 2008: Making the Most of Maps will take place from September 3 to 6 at the Harben House Conference facility in Newport Pagnell. No site yet; here’s the press… »
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Categories: Conferences
AutoCarto 2008
AutoCarto 2008, the Cartography and Geographic Information Society’s international research symposium on computer-based cartography, takes place September 8 to 11, 2008 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. “CaGIS invites cartographers, geographers, geospatial analysts, GIScientists, and others conducting research on the cutting edge… »
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Categories: Conferences
Under the Southern Cross
Te Taki o Autahi — Under the Southern Cross is a conference taking place in Wellington, New Zealand on February 10-13, 2008. “The conference will focus on the cartography of the Southern Hemisphere, with four main streams: Polynesian navigation and… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 9:43 PM
Categories: Conferences
New World Cartographies: Mapping America, 1500-1776
“New World Cartographies: Mapping America, 1500-1776” is a symposium taking place on November 2-3 at the American Museum in Britain in Bath; co-sponsored by the museum and Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, it “will focus on cartographic representations (and misrepresentations) of… »
Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Categories: Conferences
Society of Cartographers Summer School 2007
Steve Chilton writes in again with details of this year’s summer school put on by the Society of Cartographers: I thought that readers of the blog would be interested in the Society of Cartographers annual conference, that is to take… »
Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Categories: Conferences
A Map Blog Update: GeoWeb, Cartographismes and More
The GeoWeb 2007 conference, which takes place later this month and deals with “the convergence of Web technologies, XML, Web services, and GIS,” has a conference blog. The blog associated with Krygier and Wood’s excellent book, Making Maps (reviewed here),… »
Posted on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Conferences, GIS, Online Maps
Mapping 2007
Mapping 2007, the British Cartographic Society’s annual symposium, takes place at the University of Chester this September. The agenda includes a one-day cartography workshop for beginners as part of the Society’s Better Mapping campaign (see previous entry). Press release…. »
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Categories: Cartography, Conferences
Where 2.0 2007
The third annual Where 2.0 conference, O’Reilly’s get-together about geospatial and web mapping technologies, is now under way in San Jose, California. Glenn and Frank are at the conference, so be sure to check their blogs for updates, as well… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Categories: Conferences
RMCA 2007 Map Expo
The Road Map Collectors Association’s 2007 annual meeting and map expo will take place September 21-22 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Few details available as yet, but, they say, “We expect to have displays of rare Texas maps, courtesy of… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:42 PM
Categories: Conferences, Groups & Societies, Roads
NEMO Annual Meeting 2007
The North East Map Association’s annual meeting for 2007 will take place June 7-8 at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology campus in New York City. Via Maps-L…. »
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 8:21 AM
Categories: Conferences, Groups & Societies
International Cartographic Conference
The International Cartographic Association’s next conference — to be precise, the 23rd International Cartographic Conference — takes place August 4-10 in Moscow. Via Very Spatial…. »
Posted on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Categories: Conferences
Where 2.0 Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for the 2007 Where 2.0 conference, which takes place May 29-30 in San Jose, California; this will be the conference’s third year (Ed Parsons, Very Spatial). Entries on last year’s conference: Where 2.0 Begins Today; Where… »
Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Categories: Conferences
Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage
The second Joint International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage will take place on May 18 and 19 in Athens; hosted by the ICA’s Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage working group, the conference is about all matters digital, from… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Conferences
The State of the Map
OpenStreetMap’s first conference — The State of the Map — will take place July 14-15, 2007 at Manchester University, according to the OpenGeoData blog. Conference organizing is taking place on a wiki page. Previously: Yahoo! Imagery on OpenStreetMap…. »
Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 1:03 PM
Categories: Conferences
Resistant Maps Report
Régine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art attended the Resistant Maps conference over the weekend, and has a two-part* report here and here. Summary: “It was a small, unaffected and friendly event but it was also one of… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 2:26 PM
Categories: Art, Conferences, Exhibitions
Upcoming Conferences: AMC, Where 2.0
February 11-14, 2007: 35th annual conference of the Australian Map Circle, National Library of Australia, Canberra. Via Maps-L. May 29-30, 2007: Where 2.0, San Jose, California. Proposals due January 7. Via O’Reilly Conferences…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 9:23 AM
Categories: Conferences
Resistant Maps
Geobloggers points to an upcoming conference/exhibition in Genoa, Italy this weekend: Resistant Maps: Artistic Actions in the Interconnected Urban Territory. The representation of territory holds a historical role in the privileges of power. Geographical data has always been in its… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 9:11 PM
Categories: Art, Conferences, Exhibitions
Better Mapping 2006
In addition to the Map Designers conference next month in Glasgow (see previous entry), the British Cartographic Society is running Better Mapping 2006, four day-long seminars on map design: London, Oct. 30; Cardiff, Nov. 7; Liverpool, Nov. 23 and Edinburgh,… »
Posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 12:45 PM
Categories: Cartography, Conferences
Maps and Society Lectures
The program for the 2006-2007 series of “Maps and Society” lectures at the Warburg Institute, University of London has been posted; they take place one or two Thursdays a month and are free to attend. Via MapHist. See previous entry:… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 7:29 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences
Upcoming Conferences: Garrett Lectures; Map Designers
The theme for the fifth biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography is “Mapping the Sacred: Belief and Religion in the History of Cartography.” They take place on October 7 (lecture program) at the University of Texas at… »
Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 at 8:41 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences
OpenStreetMap at Where 2.0
Steve Coast’s Where 2.0 talk on OpenStreetMap is now available in MP3 format from ITConversations. Via OpenGeoData. See previous entries on OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap Animations; Ed Parsons on OpenStreetMap; OpenStreetMap: Manchester’s Next; OpenStreetMap to Map Isle of Wight; OpenStreetMap London Poster… »
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Categories: Conferences, Copyright, Podcasts & Audio
OpenStreetMap Animations
Brady Forrest, covering FOSS4G2006 for O’Reilly Radar, links to some fascinating animations from the OpenStreetMap project. This one tracks two days’ worth of courier activity in London: There are also videos that track the growth in GPS traces for OpenStreetMap… »
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Categories: Blogs, Conferences, Copyright, Tracerouting
A List of Upcoming Conferences
Some upcoming professional conferences: Maps for the New Nation: Mapping and Cartography of the United States, 1776-1860, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, November 3-4. Perceptions of the World in the Middle Ages a postgraduate colloquium dealing with geographical and… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 3:09 PM
Categories: Conferences
SoC Summer School 2006
From Steve Chilton: “Keele University is welcoming the Society of Cartographers for the 42nd Annual Summer School. It will be the usual eclectic and stimulating mixture of lectures, workshops, demonstrations, visits, social activities — quiz, dinner and opportunities to network.”… »
Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 8:26 AM
Categories: Conferences
SXSW Audio: How to Make the Most of Maps
Via Daring Fireball, I stumble across a page of podcasts from the SXSW Interactive conference from last March, and notice that one of them is from a session about maps called “How to Make the Most of Maps.” The description:… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Categories: Conferences, Hacks & Mashups, Podcasts & Audio
Where 2.0 Final Roundup
Last one, I promise. Just some links to summing-up posts for Where 2.0. Geography 2.0: Alan Glennon on how his expectations of the conference turned out Mapping Hacks: Jo Walsh sums up the conference O’Reilly Radar: Some of Tim O’Reilly’s… »
Posted on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 7:20 PM
Categories: Conferences
Where 2.0: Day Two
Roundups of the second day of the Where 2.0 conference (see previous entry): Anything Geospatial (the day’s posts; Glenn is a machine) Ed Parsons: It’s All About Data … Google Earth Blog: Day Two at Where 2.0 Monkey Bites (the… »
Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 2:08 PM
Categories: Conferences
Where 2.0: Day One
Reports from across the geospatial blogosphere on day one — yesterday — of the Where 2.0 conference (see previous entry): All Points Blog: “These first sessions are not really about the future of mapping. … Where is about local search… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 2:52 PM
Categories: Conferences
Google Roundup: Geo Developer Day Recap; Geotagging in Picasa
A look back on Google’s Geo Developer Day on Monday, with some additional links on the subject. For summaries of the event, look at these reports from MacWorld and Search Engine Watch. The Google Maps API Blog discusses the… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Conferences, Geotagging, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups
Where 2.0 Begins Today
Where 2.0 gets under way today in San Jose and runs through tomorrow. I won’t be there, because travelling to conferences is expensive, but a number of mapping and geospatial bloggers will be, such as Glenn from Anything Geospatial, Ed… »
Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 9:02 AM
Categories: Conferences, Podcasts & Audio
Terra Nostra; CCA Conference
Cartography notes the upcoming launch, during the Canadian Cartographic Association’s 2006 conference this month, of Jeffrey Murray’s upcoming history of Canadian cartography, Terra Nostra, 1550-1950: The Stories Behind Canada’s Maps. The book sounds quite interesting. So does the conference… »
Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 10:03 PM
Categories: Books, Conferences
Mark Monmonier
Directions reports that the keynote speaker at this week’s NEGIS conference was professor and author Mark Monmonier, which led me to his web site. Coincidentally, a copy of his classic book, How to Lie with Maps, arrived from Amazon this… »
Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 10:52 AM
Categories: Books, Conferences, GIS
Conference and Meeting Roundup
A few upcoming meetings to tell you about from both the technical and historical side of mapping: This weekend: The Texas Map Society’s spring meeting takes place from March 31 to April in, I guess, several locations in west Texas…. »
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 9:16 PM
Categories: Conferences, Groups & Societies
Link Roundup for February 24
Yes, I’m still alive. Should be back to normal on Monday. Meanwhile: The centre of Google Maps’s universe is apparently Coffeyville, Kansas. And you thought talking on the phone while driving is bad. You’d think that consulting a map while… »
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 7:50 AM
Categories: Conferences, GPS, Online Maps, Triangulations (Links)
Journal of Maps Issue Two; BGRG Conference
Issue two of the Journal of Maps (see previous entry) is now online, as is a call for papers for their upcoming poster session at GESS 2006— the conference of the British Geomorphologic Research Group — in June…. »
Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 9:59 AM
Categories: Conferences, Scholarly Journals
Link Roundup for January 13
If I make these posts a regular occurrence, I’ll have to come up with a catchier title. Anyway, onward, with a few things about online maps and a couple of conferences to tell you about: Ads appearing on Google Maps?… »
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Conferences, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial, Software
Link Roundup for January 12
As an experiment, a lot of new links at once: A new Google Earth blog with a rather unwieldy title: Using Google Earth for Earth Science and Remote Sensing (via Ogle Earth). The Prejudice Map is built by querying Google… »
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 9:41 AM
Categories: Blogs, Conferences, Groups & Societies, Libraries, Map Thefts, Miscellany, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial
AHA: GIS and History
At last weekend’s meeting of the American Historical Association, there was a session on GIS and History, the papers presented at which are available as PDF files (on the page, click on the name of the presenter). Historians regularly import… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 12:30 PM
Categories: Conferences, GIS
ICHC 2005 in Budapest
To follow up on my previous post, here’s the home page for this year’s ICHC, held last July in Budapest, which its coordinator, Zsolt Török, wanted me to point you to…. »
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 10:19 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences
Swiss Journal and Conference on the History of Cartography
Thomas Klöti passes on links to the home pages of the Swiss-based Cartographica Helvetica, a German-language journal about the history of cartography, and the forthcoming International Conference on the History of Cartography, which takes place in Berne in July 2007…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 10:58 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Conferences, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals
NACIS Annual Meeting
The North American Cartographic Information Society’s 2005 annual meeting takes place in Salt Lake City on October 12-15. John Krygier reports that David Rumsey (about whom see previous entries: 1, 2) will be the keynote speaker, “which is a great… »
Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 8:09 AM
Categories: Conferences, Groups & Societies
Map Events in Colorado
Denver is going to be a busy place for map lovers this month. The International Map Collectors’ Society’s symposium takes place between September 18 and 23, and is held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Map Society’s antique map fair,… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 9:31 AM
Categories: Collecting, Conferences, GIS, Groups & Societies
Cartography Calendars
John Docktor maintains online calendars of upcoming cartography events and exhibitions…. »
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 6:27 AM
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions
Summing Up Where 2.0
Daniel Steinberg’s summary of last week’s Where 2.0 conference describes a few of the presentations (see previous entry). Via (and see also) All Points Blog. Update: Michael Higgins’s notes from the conference, via All Points Blog…. »
Posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 11:20 AM
Categories: Conferences
Society of Cartographers Summer School
Steve Chilton writes to announce the Society of Cartographers’s annual Summer School, which takes place in Cambridge this September. Here’s his spiel: The world of spatial data is changing rapidly. But, will things change as far as data licencing and… »
Posted on Sunday, July 3, 2005 at 10:48 PM
Categories: Conferences
Where 2.0
The Where 2.0 Conference gets under way today. Update: Here’s Nathan Torkington’s opening address…. »
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 8:18 AM
Categories: Conferences

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