organization:international cartographic association

Envisioning the future of cartographic research: International Journal of Cartography: Vol 0, No 0

▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23729333.2017.1316466

Lecture aride mais fondamentale pour nous.

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Cartography is in a pivotal moment, as the nexus of social and technological change now makes maps and geographic data visible and useful for the most serious as well as the most mundane human problems. In the last decade alone, location-based services have moved from a theoretical concept to a daily reality for millions around the world. Geographic data streams are growing in size and complexity, and user expectations for advanced analytical tools are increasing just as quickly. The distinction between map users and map designers is changing (or perhaps disappearing), and the methods used to research and evaluate maps are changing too. Yet, despite these developments in Cartography (or perhaps because of them), many research questions remain unanswered and many societal implications remain unexplored. It is with these influences in mind that we collect here a range of perspectives on the evolution and future of cartographic research.

Defining what is (and what is not) Cartography in the contemporary era is a challenge. The International Cartographic Association (ICA) defines Cartography as the discipline that deals with the art, science and technology of making and using maps. These key elements can be found across the research agenda articles we present in this issue, but many additional dimensions go beyond this common core. At present, there are 27 topics represented within the ICA by dedicated commissions. Some of these commissions are focused on application areas (e.g. Mountain Cartography), others on technological paradigms (e.g. Location-Based Services), or crosscutting concerns (e.g. Generalization and Multiple Representation). In most areas, there are tacit connections to allied academic and technological disciplines, including cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, human–computer interaction, information visualization, and statistics, to name but a few. The agenda articles in this special issue also engage with the diversity of topics and array of influences that represent the expanding edges of Cartography.

#cartographie #cartoexperiment #recherche

These Amazing Maps Show How Kids See Their Place in the World
▻http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/maps-kids-cartography-childhood

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If you want to see the world through a child’s eyes, ask her to draw a map. Or you could spend some time with this collection of maps from the International Cartographic Association’s (ICA) biennial children’s map competition. Kids between the ages of 5 and 15 from all over the world entered the 2015 contest, whose theme was “My Place in Today’s World.” Their work is captivating.

#cartographie #art #enfants

Comme le Brozoufland, l’association cartographique internationale à son hymne (voir ci dessous l’enregistrement et la partitione en pdf !)

ICA has its own anthem ! #icc2015rio International Cartographic Association

Et attention les yeux et les oreilles ...

▻http://icaci.org/ica-has-its-own-anthem-icc2015

ICA has its own anthem! #icc2015rio

ICA has its own Anthem! At ICC2015 the Brazilian organizers suprised the participants with the premiere of the ICA anthem, composed and texted from domain collegues of IBGE.

ica-anthem_live.mp3

▻http://icaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ica-anthem_live.mp3

ICA Anthem.orq.asvx - ica-anthem_full-score.pdf

▻http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2015/anthem/ica-anthem_full-score.pdf

#cartographie #musique #hymne

ICA European Symposium on Cartography

▻http://eurocarto.org

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to invite you to the 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography which will take place in Vienna on 10–12 November 2015.

#cartographie #petit_rappel #vienne

What is Cartography? - Canadian Cartographic Association

▻http://cca-acc.org/resources/what-is-cartography

:) Il faut - de temps en temps - revenir aux fondamentaux !

The International Cartographic Association defines cartography as the discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps. Cartography is also about representation – the map. This means that cartography is the whole process of mapping.

Cartography is a complex, an ever-changing field, but at the center of it is the map-making process. Viewed in the broadest sense, this process includes everything from the gathering, evaluation and processing of source data, through the intellectual and graphical design of the map, to the drawing and reproduction of the final document. As such, it is a unique mixture of science, art and technology and calls for a variety of in-depth knowledge and skills on the part of the cartographer. Sometimes one person directs this entire sequence of cartographic activities, but this occurs only in relatively simple cases. In the creation of a map, it is much more common for the various tasks to be split up and accomplished by several individuals.

#cartographie

The future of cartography in the 21st Century - HERE Three Sixty

▻http://360.here.com/2014/11/27/future-cartography-21st-century

via @cdb_77

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How is map-making organised, and its art and science progressed at a global level? Since 1959, the International Cartographic Association (ICACI) has met, discussed and published the work of leading map-makers, cartography and geographical experts.

#cartographie #visualisation #ica

Mapping Ephemeralities | Art & Cartography

▻https://artcarto.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/mapping-ephemeralities

MAPPING EPHEMERALITIES / EPHEMERAL CARTOGRAPHIES – Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 21-22, 2015

Workshop organized by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commissions on Maps and Society & Art and Cartography

Evanescent elements such as memories, stories, sensations and perceptions are just as much a part of places as more physical and tangible objects such as streets, buildings, landmarks, and topography. These evanescent elements contribute to our personal and collective relationships to places but as ephemeralities, they are difficult to identify, collect and map. Cartographers have begun to acknowledge the importance of such non-material elements in the mapping of places, though often it is through artistic practices that ephemeral mappings have been explored. Meanwhile, the idea of “locative” media serves to connect location with site-specific art or narrative that in turn helps one be more aware of the multiple dimensions of the immediate environment. With growing interest in ephemeral mapping and locative media comes the need for research and dialogue about some of the issues raised by both the collection of ephemeralities and their appropriate mapping. The goal of this workshop is to provide an intellectual and creative space to share different ideas and methodologies about mapping ephemeralities, as well as a practical environment to learn how some of these methodologies and technologies can be used and adapted for designing (online) maps of ephemeral phenomenon.

#cartographie #art

Mapping Out the Hidden World of Women Cartographers – News Watch

►http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/30/shining-a-light-on-the-hidden-world-of-women-cartograp

“Oftentimes the world of women cartographers seems to be hidden, much like the so-called dark side of the moon,” says Will C. Van Den Hoonaard in Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography, newly published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. As it turns, a woman—the Russian-born cartographer Kira Shingareva—was one of the first mapmakers to plot the dark side of the moon in 1965. We asked Van Den Hoonaard, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, to tell us more about what he calls “cartography from the margins.”

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What provoked your interest in the subject of women cartographers?

I started out as a cartographic editor, at one point served on a committee, and noticed how happy a colleague was. I asked why and she told me she had just been named chair of the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Gender and Cartography. That started me thinking…

#cartographie #femmes_cartographes