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. Via First Printing.

May 12-13: A conference at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford: The Image of Maps — Maps of the Imagination. Via MapHist.

July 10-12: In Boulder, Colorado, the First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference, looking at the use of virtual globe software (e.g. Google Earth) in the earth sciences. Via Very Spatial.