The Map Room

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 it’s too late now.) Via MapHist.

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 and of Mercator in specific in the 16th century. … This Age of Discovery presented mapmakers with both unprecedented opportunity and scientific obligation to collect, record and categorise the world ‘as it was’. At the same time, the greatest mapmakers of the era were also scientists, craftsmen and humanists influenced by international politics, science and philosophy. Their maps not only reflect the factual discoveries of the time but also the environments within which the maps were produced.” Via MapHist and @jpmaps.

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 six hours’ worth as of this writing.

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 Great Britain, which runs from May 14 to June 26, 2011. The exhibition closes with a colloquium, The Language of Maps: Communicating Through Cartography During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, which runs from June 23 to 25. Via MapHist.

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, GIS, GPS and remote sensing.” Starting, apparently, in June. See the (preliminary) calendar of events for an idea of what’s going on; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single event attempt to be so all-encompassing. More at Londonist. Via MapHist.

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,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

“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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

“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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

“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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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),…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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:…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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.”…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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:…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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?…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

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,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

John Docktor maintains online calendars of upcoming cartography events and exhibitions….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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….  •  Continue reading this entry.

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…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The Where 2.0 Conference gets under way today. Update: Here’s Nathan Torkington’s opening address….  •  Continue reading this entry.