meeting the map-makers

Boris and I took a last minute day trip to Ottawa to attend this.

(Tracey P. Lauriault was one of the organizers and these presenters are leaders in the field, so we decided to check it out)

Special Seminar by Internationally Renown Cartographic Scholars

Is there a future for cartography? - setting directions in contemporary cartography

Nov. 2, 2005 in Room a220 Loeb between 11:30AM and 2:30PM.

Topics will include:
Internet Cartography, Multimedia Cartography and Telecartography

Speakers:

Michael P. Peterson
Department of Geography / Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

William E. Cartwright
School of Mathematical and Geospatial Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Georg Gartner
Research Group Cartography, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Organized by Cybercartography and the New Economy Project and the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University

I got to hang out with Sebastien again (I had a few drinks with him on Saturday night). He’s seems very funny. I think I remember him saying “I find your naive optimism quite charming”.
;-p

One Response to “meeting the map-makers”

  1. mtl3p Says:

    mapping and cartographers

    from this paper by Anne Galloway and Matthew W “the map is open, connectable in all it’s dimentions, and capable of being dismantled; it is reversible, and susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to montages of…

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