Conferences

Library of Congress Conference on Civil War Mapping: Tomorrow at the Library of Congress: Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography, a one-day conference on Civil War mapping. Free to attend and open to the public, but a reservation is required to attend. (Don’t know whether…; posted to Conferences | May 19, 2011
Mercator Revisited: A conference taking place next spring in Belgium: Mercator Revisited: Cartography in the Age of Discovery runs from April 25 to 28, 2012, in Sint-Niklass, to mark Mercator’s 500th birthday. “The conference focuses on the place of cartography in general…; posted to Conferences, History of Cartography | May 11, 2011
Where 2.0 2011: The 2011 edition of the Where 2.0 conference was last week. Google Earth Blog had reports for day one and day two. Meanwhile, O’Reilly has put together a YouTube playlist of talks at Where 2.0 2011 — 47 videos and…; posted to Conferences | Apr 25, 2011
Coming Soon to the Bodleian Library: A couple of events taking place at Oxford’s Bodleian Library in the near future. The Gough Map (previously) will go on display in an exhibition called Linguistic Geographies: Three Centuries of Language, Script and Cartography in the Gough Map of…; posted to Antique Maps, Conferences, Exhibitions | Apr 13, 2011
London Mapping Festival: Oh, hello there, London Mapping Festival — “an 18 month programme of activities designed to promote the unique range of mapping, innovative technologies and applications that exist for the Capital. The festival will showcase all mapping-related disciplines including cartography, surveying,…; posted to Conferences, Exhibitions | Apr 7, 2011
Exploring the Origins of the Portolan Chart: The Washington Post reports on a conference held last Friday at the Library of Congress: Re-Examining the Portolan Chart: History, Navigation and Science explored the mysterious origins of the portolan chart, which apparently appeared from nowhere, with no known antecedents,…; posted to Antique Maps, Conferences, Nautical | May 26, 2010
Where 2.0 2010: Day One: O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference got under way yesterday; Google Earth Blog’s Mickey Mellen and All Points Blog’s Joe Francica wrap up the first day’s events. The conference can be followed on Twitter, as you might expect from a bunch of…; posted to Conferences | Mar 31, 2010
The History of the ICHC: The International Conferences on the History of Cartography themselves have a history: this page is an index to pages on every conference since 1964; each conference page has a list of the papers presented, and some of them have photo…; posted to Conferences | Nov 11, 2009
Osher Map Library Grand Reopening: The University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library is holding a number of events on the third weekend of October to celebrate its grand reopening: on Friday, October 16, a lecture by John Hessler on Thoreau; on Saturday the 17th,…; posted to Conferences, Libraries | Sep 7, 2009
Society of Cartographers Summer School 2009: Every year, Steve Chilton writes to remind us of the summer school put on by the Society of Cartographers; this year’s summer school takes place at the University of Southampton from September 7 to 9, 2009. This year’s themes include…; posted to Conferences | Jun 28, 2009
WhereCamp 2009: WhereCamp 2009, an “unconference” taking place May 22 to 23 in Palo Alto, California, right after Where 2.0 in nearby San Jose: We are self-organized in true bar-camp style. Bring your projects, work and ideas to get feedback from a…; posted to Conferences | Apr 21, 2009
Mapping 2009: “Mapping at Work” is the theme of Mapping 2009, the British Cartographic Society’s annual symposium. It takes place from June 17 to 20 at the Harben House conference facility in Newport Pagnell — the same venue as last year’s symposium….; posted to Conferences | Apr 20, 2009
Waldseemüller Symposium at LOC in May: “Exploring Waldseemüller’s World” is a two-day symposium to be held at the Library of Congress on May 14 and 15, 2009. According to the press release, it will “examine Martin Waldseemüller’s cartographic vision and address the complex historical and…; posted to Antique Maps, Conferences, Fiction About Maps | Jan 30, 2009
Where 2.0 2009: Call for Proposals: Where 2.0 2009, the conference’s fifth iteration, will take place from May 19 to 21, 2009; proposals are due by December 2. O’Reilly Radar outlines some of the topics the conference may cover….; posted to Conferences | Nov 14, 2008
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 to Conferences | Jul 15, 2008
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 to Conferences | Jul 9, 2008
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 to Conferences, Video | May 13, 2008
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 to Conferences | May 11, 2008
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 to Conferences | Apr 25, 2008
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 to Conferences | Apr 11, 2008
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 to Conferences | Aug 15, 2007
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 to Conferences | Jul 28, 2007
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 to Conferences | Jul 20, 2007
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 to Art, Blogs, Conferences, GIS, Online Maps | Jul 8, 2007
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 to Cartography, Conferences | Jun 27, 2007
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 to Conferences | May 29, 2007
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 to Conferences, Groups & Societies, Roads | May 9, 2007
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 to Conferences, Groups & Societies | Mar 30, 2007
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 to Conferences | Mar 8, 2007
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 to Conferences | Feb 19, 2007
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 to Antique Maps, Conferences | Feb 7, 2007
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 to Conferences | Jan 11, 2007
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 to Art, Conferences, Exhibitions | Nov 29, 2006
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 to Conferences | Nov 28, 2006
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 to Art, Conferences, Exhibitions | Nov 22, 2006
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 to Cartography, Conferences | Oct 20, 2006
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 to Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences | Oct 3, 2006
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 to Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences | Sep 25, 2006
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 to Conferences, Copyright, Podcasts & Audio | Sep 24, 2006
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 to Blogs, Conferences, Copyright, Tracerouting | Sep 17, 2006
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 to Conferences | Jul 26, 2006
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 to Conferences | Jul 13, 2006
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 to Conferences, Hacks & Mashups, Podcasts & Audio | Jun 21, 2006
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 to Conferences | Jun 19, 2006
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 to Conferences | Jun 15, 2006
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 to Conferences | Jun 14, 2006
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 to Conferences, Geotagging, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups | Jun 14, 2006
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 to Conferences, Podcasts & Audio | Jun 13, 2006
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 to Books, Conferences | Jun 11, 2006
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 to Books, Conferences, GIS | May 11, 2006
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 to Conferences, Groups & Societies | Mar 27, 2006
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 to Conferences, GPS, Online Maps, Triangulations (Links) | Feb 24, 2006
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 to Conferences, Scholarly Journals | Feb 2, 2006
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 to Conferences, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial, Software | Jan 13, 2006
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 to Blogs, Conferences, Groups & Societies, Libraries, Map Thefts, Miscellany, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial | Jan 12, 2006
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 to Conferences, GIS | Jan 10, 2006
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 to Antique Maps, Cartography, Conferences | Nov 24, 2005
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 to Antique Maps, Conferences, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals | Nov 22, 2005
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 to Conferences, Groups & Societies | Sep 10, 2005
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 to Collecting, Conferences, GIS, Groups & Societies | Sep 7, 2005
Cartography Calendars: John Docktor maintains online calendars of upcoming cartography events and exhibitions….; posted to Conferences, Exhibitions | Aug 10, 2005
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 to Conferences | Jul 5, 2005
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 to Conferences | Jul 3, 2005
Where 2.0: The Where 2.0 Conference gets under way today. Update: Here’s Nathan Torkington’s opening address….; posted to Conferences | Jun 29, 2005

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