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Spring 2001
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James LowryIt's a Friday afternoon 3 weeks prior to our get-together in New York and just yesterday my student worker Serena told me my hair is getting a little shaggy again. Since I'm in need of a haircut this afternoon and since this is my last chair's column, I'll keep it short.
While I am personally not in favor of a CSG name change, I regret to have to inform the membership that we have not, as promised, given you the opportunity to vote on the matter this year. Looking back over board and business meeting minutes of the past few years, I see this is not the first time this has happened. At the CSG board meeting in NY, as one of my last duties, I will be appointing committees for 2001-2002. While committee members are usually board members, I'd like to encourage any of you who have strong feelings on this issue and who are willing to take the time to put together a ballot, complete with opinion pieces, to let me know. I'd like to appoint a committee that will get this issue off our agenda one way or another. Also, if you are one of the volunteers to write the opinion pieces, from the Pittsburgh business meeting, and have not been contacted about this, please write the pieces and forward them to me. I promise to make sure that the new committee receives them.
By the way, my last column generated a total of six responses. According to what Charlie Rader and Scott Freundschuh, the two most recent chairs before me, have said, that appears to be somewhat of a record number of responses vis-…-vis this issue. Just for the record, five individuals (two faculty and three professional cartographers) said they agreed that "cartography" is a perfectly good name for our group, while the other (faculty) was in favor of appending "visualization" to the specialty group name.
As for the NY meeting, please try to attend as many of the CSG sponsored sessions as you possibly can. Matt McGranaghan, our current vice chair, has worked long and hard on the program and we should support him and the CSG. Please also make plans to attend the CSG business meeting. It will be held at 7 pm (the program says 6:40 in one place and 7:00 in another, 7:00 is correct) on Thursday, March 1. See you there!
James
jlowry@mailclerk.ecok.edu
James Lowry, Chair of Cartography Specialty Group
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Cartography and Geography
East Central University
Elisabeth NelsonThe annual CSG Business Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 1, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm as part of the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York, NY. Please join us as we meet to summarize events and discussions over the past year and to make plans for the upcoming year. Check your programs for room and schedule changes.
Recent Tobler Presentations on WWW
Recent presentations by Waldo Tobler ("Exploring Geography
Cartographically," "Unusual Map Projections," and "Qibla Maps" can be found
on the website
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/tobler.htm
under the Recent Presentations link.
Call for Participation in ICA Workshop
Judith Tyner, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
Phone: 562-985-5332
e-mail: jztyner@csulb.edu
Michael Peterson
There will be a Workshop on Maps and the Internet
in Guangzhou, China July 31st to August 2nd, 2001. The ICA Commission on
Maps and the Internet announces a workshop preceding the 20th International
Cartographic Conference in Beijing 2001 (ICC 2001; August 6-10). The Workshop
is being sponsored by the Commission on Maps and the Internet, South China
Normal University, and the Guangdong Academy of Sciences. The ICA Commission
was formed in 1999 in response to the rapid growth in the use of electronic
networks to distribute maps and spatial data. The purpose of the workshop
is to bring together international specialists in the field of Internet
mapping and to disseminate information to a broader audience on new developments
and major areas of research.
Important Dates
FEB 28, 2001 - Abstracts Due (300 words)
MARCH 31, 2001 - Notification of Acceptance
MAY 30, 2001 - Working Papers due for Paper Sessions
JULY 31 - AUGUST 2, 2001 - Workshop in Guangzhou
AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 10, 2001 - ICC 2001 in Beijing
General Information
The workshop will focus on a variety of issues related
to the distribution of maps through the Internet. Working papers should
address the terms of reference of the commission:
1. Examine methods of promoting effective InternetIn conjunction with the working papers the workshop will also feature live demonstrations.
mapping techniques, including methods of map
distribution and Internet map design.
2. Examine Internet map usage and project future
areas of growth.
3. Examine web map user issues to better serve user
needs.
4. Examine the use of metadata to improve user
access to maps.
5. Promote instruction on Internet mapping and the
diffusion of the technology.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in the use of the Internet for the
distribution of maps and spatial data: members of academia who wish to
familiarize themselves with recent research developments and who are keen
to develop new perspectives; practitioners from mapping organizations as
well as software industry representatives who wish to contribute their
experience with commercial Internet mapping software and explore
new concepts and opportunities for software development; students of cartography
who wish to have a better understanding of the major areas of research
related to the distribution of maps through the Internet. The participation
of young researchers is particularly encouraged.
About the Location
The meeting will be held in Guangzhou, China. Located
just north of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is the economic center of South China
and one of the largest cities in the country. As the capital of Guangdong
province, it is the administrative and academic center of the province.
It is also the major city in the Pearl River Delta, the richest agricultural
region in China. Guangzhou is easily accessible via air, train, highway,
or waterway. It is about 30 minutes flight or 2 hours drive from Hong Kong.
State of the art computing and audiovisual equipment will be available
to support presentations and software demonstrations. Further travel to
Beijing to attend the International Cartographic Association conference
is possible by train (about $100) and plane (about $150).
About South China Normal University
One of the major national universities in China, the
university offers a wide range of academic programs at both undergraduate
and graduate levels. The Geography Department has a large group of faculty
in physical and economic geography and has a rapidly growing group in geographic
information science.
About the Guangdong Academy of Sciences
The academy is the research entity of the Guangdong Province
and consists of many research institutes that have full time research and
administrative personnel. The academy carries out basic research as well
as applied projects. The academy has a large campus in downtown Guangzhou
and well-equipped conference facilities.
The ICA workshop functions as a pre-conference event to the 20th International Cartographic Conference 2001 (ICC 2001) in Beijing, to be held on 6-10 August 2000. The three-day gap between the two events should allow those wishing to participate in the ICC to easily travel to Beijing. Train tickets between Beijing and Guangzhou are approximately $100 and includes sleeping arrangements. An airline ticket is about $150 (one way). A post-ICC 7- day conference tour returns to Guangzhou via the historic cities of Xi'an and Guilin. Information on the ICC 2001 can be viewed at http://www.sbsm.gov.cn/icc2001/.
Cost
A small workshop participation fee will be charged by
the organizers in Guangzhou - $50 for attendees, $20 for presenters.
Resulting Publication
Working papers will appear on the Commissions home page
at http://maps.unomaha.edu/ica/. Participants are encouraged to submit
final papers to scientific journals and, depending on the number of submissions,
an edited volume of papers may be published in book form.
Call for Abstracts
Participants will be selected from responses to this
Call for Participation. If you wish to participate in the workshop please
submit a 300 word abstract BY 28 FEBRUARY 2001 to Michael_Peterson@unomaha.edu.
The abstracts should be no longer than 300 words in length and indicate
whether you plan to submit a working paper or present a live demonstration.
Include title, complete address information for all authors, e-mail address
and abstract within an e-mail message. Notification of acceptance will
be sent out by 31 MARCH 2001. The selected participants will then also
receive more detailed information on the particulars of the workshop and
local arrangements (accommodation, etc.).
Working Papers
If you wish to participate in a paper session of the
workshop, you will be asked to submit the following material BY 30 MAY
2001 to a member of the Program Committee:
a PDF document containing your
working paper
(4000-5000 words), including:
a BRIEF biographical sketch
of for the author(s)
COMPLETE address information
for all authors,
including fax, e-mail, and homepage,
if available
Live Demonstrations
If you would like to present a live demonstration of
an Internet map or spatial data distribution product, provide information
on platform and audiovisual equipment requirements BY 30 MAY 2001.
Inquiries and Paper Submissions
Michael Peterson
Department of Geography / Geology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182 USA
FAX: +402 554-3518
TEL: +402 554-4805
Michael_Peterson@unomaha.edu (EMAIL PREFERRED)
Deadlines and Dates
28 February 2001 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
31 March 2001 Notification of acceptance; preliminary workshop program;
additional workshop information
31 May 2001 Revised working papers due; uploaded to Commission website
31 July - 2 August 2001 Workshop on Maps and the Internet,
South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
6-10 August 2001 20th International Cartographic Conference, Beijing
Program Committee
Guobin Chi, Geography Department,
South China
Normal University, China
Corn van Elzakker, ITC Division
of
Geoinformatics, The Netherlands
Georg Gartner, Cartography Institute,
Technical
University of Vienna, Austria
Bin Li, Department of Geography,
Central
Michigan University, USA
Yan Li, Institute of Geography,
Guangdong
Academy of Sciences, China
Michael Peterson, Geography/Geology,
Nebraska-Omaha, USA
Honors Competition for Student Papers
Aileen BuckleyThe Cartography Specialty Group will once again sponsor the annual Honors Competition for Student Papers on cartographic topics to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the AAG in New York, February 27-March 3, 2001. The competition is open to students at all academic levels who are presenting papers on original work relevant to the field of cartography and current cartographic research. These papers are based upon work done as an undergraduate or graduate student, and the research must have been completed within the past academic year, but the topics are not restricted to work derived from theses or dissertations. Congratulations go the following students who have been selected to participate in this year's competition!
Erik B. Steiner, Department of Geography, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
PA 16902. "Region Representation and
Cognitive Distance Distortion."James B. Herrington, Department of Geography,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060. "The Use
of Animated Maps in the Classroom."Isaac Brewer, Department of Geography,
GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802. "The
Design and Implementation of Temporal, Spatial,
and Attribute Query Tools for Geovisualization."Amy L. Griffin, Department of Geography,
GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State
University, State College, PA 16801. "Feeling It
Out: The Use of Haptic Visualization for
Exploratory Geographic Analysis."
Prior to the meeting, students will be submitting
to the judging committee a written version of the papers they will be presenting
in New York. Judging will take into account the academic level of the entrants,
and both the written and the oral version of the papers.
This is a wonderful reflection of the achievements of these students, and it is a great opportunity for them to showcase their hard work. I hope that many of you will be able to come hear their presentations in New York!
Master's Thesis Research Grant Award
Lawrence HandleyThe Cartography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers is pleased to announce the 2000- 2001 Master's Thesis Research Grants. These grants are available to master's students working on cartographic research and who are enrolled in a geography degree program. Grants are available up to a maximum of $300 and may be used for items necessary and relevant to research such as travel, materials, equipment, and human subject fees. Deadlines for applications are October 15th, March 15th, and June 15th.
Fundable Research
Fundable research must be cartographic in nature. Cartography
must be the central focus of the research, and not merely a tool used in
support of some other research.
Review of Proposals
Research proposals will be judged based upon (1) their
originality, (2) their research design or plan of work, and (3) their budget
and its justification. Proposals are reviewed in a non-blind process by
a committee of three people selected by the Non-Academic Director in consultation
with the CSG Chair.
Date of Awards
Awards will be made two months after the review date
for which the proposal was submitted. Application Form Required for Submission
An application form may be obtained from the Non- Academic Director. Fill
the form out completely. Note that the applicant and the advisor are jointly
responsible for the accuracy and validity of all information on the application.
Be sure to complete the budget and justification on the back of the application
form. List the requested items from highest to lowest priority and include
price quotations for these items. Below, provide a brief justification
of why the items you are requesting are necessary to your thesis. Finally,
state whether you will accept partial funding should the entire amount
requested not be granted.
Description of the Research Plan
A description of your research plan is also required.
Place your name and the title of your thesis at the top of the first page.
State the research objectives and the specific aims of the research. Describe
concisely the methods for achieving these goals. The research plan should
not exceed three pages. Please note that human subject clearance must be
obtained before grant money can be awarded, if the research involves human
subjects.
All applications must be typewritten or completed on a
word processor. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applications
must be received by the deadline in order to be considered for funding.
Submit the original signed application form and research plan, along with
two copies, to:
Lawrence HandleyCSG Sponsored Sessions for 2001 Meeting in NYC
U.S. Geological Survey
National Wetlands Research Center
700 Cajundome Blvd
Lafayette, LA 70506
February 28 - Morning
HISTORY of CARTOGRAPHY IN THE 20th CENTURY: Instances
and Issues (1)
Organizer: Mark Monmonier
<Mon2ier@maxwell.syr.edu>
"Overview of the session and introductions"
Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University"From Rails to Trails: American Tourist Mapping in Transition"
James Akerman, Hermon Donlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography"Experimental Cartographic Design Research in the 20th Century: Using Psychological Theories and Methods to Make Better Maps"
Dan Montello, UC Santa Barbara"Innovation and Stagnation: the Adoption of Air Survey Techniques in the British Empire, 1918-1939"
Peter Collier, Univ of Portsmouth, UK"Aerial Photography at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration: Acreage Control, Conservation Inducement and Overhead Surveillance in the 1930s"
Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University
HISTORY of CARTOGRAPHY IN THE 20th CENTURY: Instances
and Issues (2)
Organizer: Mark Monmonier
<Mon2ier@maxwell.syr.edu>
"Sketching Rationalization: Cartographers and Automation at the US Geological Survey"
Patrick McHaffie, DePaul University"Twentieth Century American Academic Cartography"
Robert McMaster, University of Minnesota and Susanna McMaster, Macalester College"Eight Steps in the Post-War History of Geographic Information Science"
John Cloud, US Santa Barbara"Summary and Comments"
David Woodward, History of Cartography Project, UW-Madison
February 28 - Afternoon
ATLAS CARTOGRAPHY
Organizer: Trudy Suchan
(trudy.a.suchan@census.gov)
or (301-457-2419).
James Meacham and Erin Aigner
Jean McKendny
Cheryl Northon
Richard Wright, Paul Ganster, Harry Johnson
Cynthia Brewer and Trudy Suchan
INTERROGATING TOURISM MAPS
Organizer: Stephen Hanna
Mary Washington College
Stephen Hanna
Mary Curran
Karen Jill
Dydia DeLyser
Vincent Del Casino
CONSTRUCTING PLACE IDENTITY AND MEANING: CRITICAL
PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY MAPPING
(Panel discussion )(CSG is second sponsor)
Organizer: Pete Kellor
250 721 7333
pkeller@uvic.ca
Laxmi Ramasubramanian, UW-Madison
Will Craig, Univ Minnesota
Renee Sieber, McGill Univ
Emily Talen, Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign
Trevor Harris, West Virginia Univ
Nancey Obermeyer, Univ of Victoria
Peter Kellor, Univ of Victoria
March 1 - Morning
VISUALIZATION 1: Applications and Issues
Organizer: Scott White <white_s@fortlewis.edu>
and R. Maxwell Beavers <RMBeave@unco.edu>
"Visualizing Change: Dynamic Temporal Aggregation and Temporal Filtering"
Mark Harrower"Using GIS and Visualization Techniques to Optimize Location Management for a Regional Film Production Market"
Chris Lukinbeal"Ranchettes on the High Plains: Visualizing Residential Transformation of Agricultural Landscapes in Weld County, Colorado"
Robert Maxwell Beavers and Charles Collins"Challenges in Geographic Visualization"
Aileen Buckley"Visualization in GIS: The Digital Leap Backwards"
Robert Aguirre
VISUALIZATION 2: SPATIALIZATION
Organizer: Sara Fabrikant and
Andre Skupin
<askupin@uno.edu>
(co-sponsored by the GIS specialty
group)
"Cartographic Design for Map-Like Visualization of Information"
Andre Skupin"Regionalization and Scale-Dependence in Semantic Information Spaces"
Sara Fabrikant"Spatialization and Spatial Metaphors in Social Science"
Heiri Leuthold and Michael Herrmann"Spatialization for Accessing Geospatial Images"
Chris Badurek
March 1 - Afternoon
VISUALIZATION 3: COGNITIVE ISSUES in GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION
1
Organizer: Sara Fabrikant and
Scott Bell
<bell@geog.ucsb.edu>
"Self-Organized Cognitive Maps and Map Projections"
Robert Lloyd"How Geographic Uncertainty Information Affects Decision-Making"
Alex Keuper and Dan Montello"Mental Models of Large-Scale Information as Learned from Route Following"
Scott Bell"The Relationship between Adolescent Cognitive and Cartographic Map Skills"
Janet Smith
Discussant: Dan Montello
VISUALIZATION 4: COGNITIVE ISSUES in GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION
2
Organizer: Sara Fabrikant and
Scott Bell
<bell@geog.ucsb.edu>
"Visualizing Campus' from 2D and 3D Maps"
Scott Freundschuh and Cathryn Campbell"Learning in Desktop and Immersive Virtual Environments"
Anthony Richardson"Visualizing Geographic Information in Multimodal Computer Interfaces"
R. Danial Jacobson"Assessing Geovisualization Effectiveness: a Paradox and and Approach"
Robert Edsall
Discussant: Dan Montello
QUALITATIVE METHODS AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
Organizer: Dan Haug (haug@geog.psu.edu)
and
LaDona Knigge (lknigge@acsu.buffalo.edu)
(jointly sponsored by the Qualitative
Methods,
Cartography, and GIS SGs)
Harvey
Ryavec
O'Connell and Kellor
Knigge
Haug
March 2 - Morning
MAPS AND THE INTERNET (1)
Organizer: Rex Cammack
<rexcammack@mail.smsu.edu>
and
Michael Peterson (w/ Web
specialty)
Michael Peterson
Robert Cromley
Rex Commack
Matt McGranaghan
Peter VanDemark
MAPS AND THE INTERNET (2)
Organizer: Rex Cammack
<rexcammack@mail.smsu.edu>
and
Michael Peterson (w/ Web
specialty)
Linda Barret
Timothy Trainer
Jay Donnelly
William Cartwright
March 2 - Afternoon
MAPS AND THE INTERNET: SHOULD
CARTOGRAPHY ABANDON PAPER? (panel)
Organizer: Rex Cammack
<rexcammack@mail.smsu.edu>
and
Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson
Timothy Trainer
Jeremy Crampton
Matt McGranaghan
William Cartwright
Rex Cammack
There is also a session dealing with the National
Geographic Society in which David Miller (dmiller@ngs.org or 202/775-7841)
will address the evolution of mapmaking and innovation of map products
at National Geographic.
February 27 - March 3, 2001. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New York, New York. http://www.aag.org/
March 4-7, 2001. Geospatial Information and Technology Association Annual Conference 2001. San Diego, California. http://www.gita.org
March 17-21, 2001. American Congress on Surveying
and Mapping Annual Conference and Exposition. Riviera Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada.
http://www.survmap.org/spring01.html
July 9-August 10, 2001. Popular Cartography and Society: A Summer Institute in the History of Cartography. Chicago, Illinois. For information email Susan Hanf at hanfs@newberry.org
July 31-August 2, 2001. Workshop on Maps
and the Internet in Guangzhou, China, preceding the 20th
International Cartographic Conference in Beijing 2001.
For information email Michael Peterson at
Michael_Peterson@unomaha.edu
August 6-10, 2001. International Cartographic Association Annual Meeting. Beijing, China. http://www.sbsm.gov.cn/icc2001/
September 19-23, 2001. Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Morro Bay, California. http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/cosit01/
October 3-6, 2001. North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon. http://www.nacis.org/meetings.html
Max Beavers
Department of Geography
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO 80639
RMBeave@unco.edu
Chair (2000-2001)
James Lowry
Dept of Geography / ECU Box Q2
East Central University
Ada, OK 74820
580-310-5397
jlowry@mailclerk.ecok.eduVice Chair (1999-2000)
Matt McGranaghan
Geography/University of Hawaii
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
matt@hawaii.eduPast Chair (1999-2000)
Charles Rader
Department of Geography
Univ.of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, WI 54022-5001
charles.p.rader@uwrf.eduSecretary/Treasurer (2000-2002)
Elisabeth Nelson
Department of Geography
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402
esnelso2@uncg.eduAcademic Director (2000-2002)
Jeff Torguson
Geography / Stewart Hall 359
720 Fourth Ave S
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
jtorguson@stcloudstate.eduAcademic Director (1999-2001)
Aileen Buckley
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1251
aileen@darkwing.uoregon.eduNon-Academic Director (1999-2001)
Lawrence Handley
U.S. Geological Survey
National Wetlands Research Center
700 Cajundome Blvd
Lafayette, LA 70506
318-266-8691
larry_handley@usgs.govStudent Director (2000-2001)
Jill Hallden
Department of Geography
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
halldenj@msu.edu