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 TelecartographySpeakers:
Michael P. Peterson
Department of Geography / Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska, USAWilliam E. Cartwright
School of Mathematical and Geospatial Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaGeorg Gartner
Research Group Cartography, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, AustriaOrganized 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
November 4th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
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…