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Editorial

Another successful meeting of theworldwide ICAcommunity is over.Compiling the information for this

Newsletter provided with the opportunity toknow that Ottawa was a success from atechnical and social point of view. I wouldlike to acknowledge Chris Board and AlbertaAuringer Wood for sharing with the readerstheir own views about Ottawa. FerjanOrmeling, Michael Wood and JacquelineAnderson also thoroughly contributed withdifferent pieces for this post-Ottawa issue. Iwould also like to thank Sjef van der Steen,Carolyn Weiss, Alberta Auringer and FraserTaylor for the materials sent to portray‘Ottawa in pictures’.

It has been quite an interesting taskproducing this issue, the first under myresponsibility. Fulfilling a long-term desireof Chairs of Commissions and delegates, Iplan to put the digital version of theNewsletter in the World Wide Web verysoon. I am investigating the best alternativesto have the same layout on the Web as thehardcopy, so that it can be easilydownloaded. I intend to finalise this processby February 2000. However, my prioritywas to produce the hardcopy and ensure aprompt distribution to the ICAcommunity,reflecting the guidelines suggested by theExecutive Committee.

Like my predecessor I acknowledge anynew idea that can improve thecommunication flow and informationexchange among members, as well as keenreaders discovering mistakes and reportingthem to the Editor. Constructive critics arewelcome!

Lastly, I would like to encouragemembers of Commissions, National andExecutive Committees and sister societies tocontinue sending contributions to thisNewsletter. For instance, news related toactivities being organised, outcomes ofmeetings, Cartographic Conferencesorganised by member countries (e.g.Australia, Brasil, etc.) are always appreciatedand worth sharing with the rest of thecommunity.

I wish all the ICAcommunity a merryChristmas and an enjoyable beginning to thenew Millennium.

Graciela Metternicht

New ExecutiveCommissionDr Bengt Rystedt of Sweden and ProfessorFerjan Ormeling (The Netherlands) wereelected President and Secretary General-Treasurer, respectively. Nine individuals hadbeen duly proposed as candidates for nomore than seven vice presidents’positions onthe Executive Committee. At the finalsession of the General Assembly, thefollowing were elected: Kirsi Artimo(Finland); Assistant Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny(Czech Republic); Li Li (China); ProfessorElri Liebenberg (South Africa); RobertMcMaster (USA); Takashi Morita (Japan);Alberta Auringer Wood (Canada). Dr.Michael Wood remains on the ExecutiveCommittee as Past President.

Christopher Board

President’s AddressDr Bengt Rystedt, National Land Survey,SE-801 82 Gavle, Sweden. email:[email protected]

Secretary-Generaland Treasurer’sAddressProf. Ferjan Ormeling, Faculty ofGeographical Sciences, Utrecht University,P.O.Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, T h eNetherlands; email: [email protected]

Commissions 1999-2003The 11th General Assembly has approvedseventeen Commissions, whose terms ofreferences are described in pages 10 to 12).Commissions’Chair names and electronicmail are as it follows:1. Education and Training, Chair: Vladimir

Tikunov ([email protected])

2. Map Production, Chair: Sjef van derSteen ([email protected])

3. Cartography and Children. Chair:Jacqueline Anderson([email protected])

4. Gender and Cartography. Chair: Eva K.-Blum ([email protected])

5. History of Cartography. Chair:Christopher Board ([email protected])

6. Census Cartography. Chair: Tim Davis([email protected])

7. Marine Cartography. Chair: Ron Furness([email protected])

8. Spatial Data Standards. Chair: HaroldMoellering ([email protected])

9. Theoretical Cartography. Chair:Alexander Wolodtschenko([email protected])

10. Visualization and Virtual Environments.Chair: Alan MacEachren([email protected])

11. Maps and the Internet. Chair: MichaelPeterson([email protected])

12. Map Generalization. Chair: RobertWeibel ([email protected])

13. Mapping from Satellite Imagery. Chair:Serge Le Blanc([email protected])

14. National and Regional Atlases. Chair:Timothy Trainor ([email protected])

15. Mountain Cartography. Chair: LorenzHurni ([email protected])

16. Planetary Cartography. Chair: KiraShingareva([email protected])

17. Maps and Graphic for Blind andVisually-Impaired People. Chair:Andrew Tatham ([email protected])

Every ICAmember nation has the right topropose members or corresponding membersto the ICA commissions. Proposals by thenational ICArepresentatives can be sent viaelectronic mail directly to the commissionchairs. Alternatively, proposals formembership can be forwarded to the ICASecretariat, ie. Ferjan Ormeling. Thecommission chair will decide aboutapplications/nominations.

Ferjan Ormeling, Graciela Metternicht

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Impressions of ICC ‘99Impressions of ICC ‘99

Isuppose regular attendees have becomeused to the oddity of the two sessions ofthe General Assembly occurring before

and after the conference proper. This mayexplain why there is rarely a full house ofdelegates at the first session of the GeneralAssembly. Not that the opening ceremony onthe following day was an anticlimax. DaveCarney the Conference Director made sure ofthat! We were welcomed by the minister anddeputy minister responsible for mapping butalso by local politicians and representatives ofnational societies concerned with geomaticsand the ICA. The dignity of the first momentsaided by the military bearing of flags and thenational anthem, was artfully set off byaboriginal musicians and local folk singers intwo intervals. Michael Wood’s thanks wereoffered in full Highland address ably assistedby the skirl of military bagpipes. Immediatelyafterwards we crossed the canal-side drive tothe old Union Station, now the GovernmentConference Center. Mounties held up thetraffic while we processed there. This was toattend the opening of a private view of themap exhibitions, which opened to the generalpublic on the following day.A very popularexhibition of 160 children’s maps of theworld entered for the Barbara PetchenikMemorial Competition attracted pressattention. The Canadian CartographicAssociation also organised a competition forcollege students with impressive results.

Some 500 papers, including posters, werepresented at parallel sessions, providing awide choice, where your badge was thepassport to any room. Two plenary sessionswere organised. One was a conventionalreview lecture on the history of cartographyby David Woodward, the chief editor of theChicago History of Cartography Project. Theother, billed as a debate, was based on a paperpresented by Mike Goodchild. David Rhindand John Pickles were due to speak, but thelatter was unfortunately prevented fromattending. Controversial views on all sidesprovoked a great deal of discussion from thefloor.

Most participants were content to receivethe “complimentary” CD-ROM of theProceedings, the paper version costinganother $CAN120. One can understand thatorganisers can keep registration feesmanageable, and ease the burden on theirbeing air-lifted home, but I doubt whethermany will ever consult the papers. I thoughtthat discussions after papers were less wellinformed and more affected by the vagaries ofpresentation than at other conferences. Of

1100 pre-registered delegates to the Ottawaconference, only 64 had ordered paper copiesof the Proceedings. But demand for papercopies has apparently provoked a reprint.

As usual the General Assembly was splitinto two sessions, largely to accommodatediscussions and “horse-trading” during theweek. At the first, sister societies, our guests,were represented by Chris Andreasen (FIG),

Laurence Fritz (ISPRS), Michel Huet,(IHO), Ron Abler (IGU), Klaus-PeterSchwartz (IAG), ICSU, Ivan Müller (IUSM),Peter Blekrode (IMTA). Under 40 countriesanswered the roll call and sixteen lost theirvoting rights for being three or more years inarrears. Four countries were asked towithdraw from ICAbecause they had notresponded to any communication in theprevious four years. Three new members(Estonia, El Salvador and Ghana) and twonew affiliates were elected. It was announcedthat the subscription unit for the next fouryears would stay at $US250, (which wasratified at the final session when 45 memberscast their votes).

Standing Commissions have beenabolished and replaced by Commissions.Working Groups, are now exclusively bodiesset up by the Executive Committee forspecific tasks. Although this was notuniversally popular, it was approved by thefinal session of the General Assembly.Thirty-one countries submitted nationalreports, a disappointingly small proportion ofall members. Some of these are in specialnumbers of journals, but another from theNetherlands was prepared in the form of abusiness card with a WWW address whereone could read the report.

Surprises were sprung on the delegates bythe conferring of medals and HonoraryFellowships. There were the customaryspeeches from outgoing and incomingPresidents. For chairpersons of Commissionsand national delegates there were workshopsorganised by Judy Olson. These areappreciated as much for the chance to meetcolleagues as for the exchange of informationand views. The spotlight was shone on ICAPublications with both Roger Anson(Chairman of the Publications Committee)and myself being summoned to meet theExecutive Committee. Web publication wasvery much to the fore and for more long-termpublications there was a desire to provide forworkshops held by Commissions beingpublished in selected journals. It has beendecided to develop a new publicationsstrategy which will be achieved by re-engineering the present situation.

Ottawa’s weather was warm and sunnymost of the time, making the huge barbecueat the Air Museum a gigantic success. Thisshowed the mettle of the organisers whoapparently simply laid on transport, food anddrink in such spectacular surroundings. Theaeroplanes, old and new, were amazing too.The final banquet was across the river inHull, at the Cultural Museum, which alsohouses a postal museum.

Christopher Board

International CartographicConference Ottawa 1999:Closing Ceremony During the Closing Ceremony Dave Carneygave his final report on the conference notingthat there were 1,540 registrants, including 85students and 17 children, with representativesfrom 79 countries. There were 1,473 items inthe international map exhibit and 50 in theCanadian Cartographic Association one. Acount of visitors to the room with atlasesfrom Tuesday through Friday tallied over2,000, with nary an item going missing!There had been media coverage of theconference by CBC, CTV, CHRO, the OttawaCitizen, and three radio stations in Ottawa.David had special thanks for his committee,especially Cliff Wood, Peter Keller and LloydBowler. Immediate Past President Mike Woodnoted that 550 people had gone on thetechnical tours. Erin Kuyvenhoven presentedthe information about the results of theBarbara Petchenik Children’s MapCompetition and Roger Wheate (University ofNorthern British Columbia) announced thewinners of various Canadian CartographicAssociation awards including the mapcompetition. Tammy dePas of Sir SandfordFleming College was the winner of theNorman Nicholson scholarship, while thosepresented with exception contribution awardswere Michael Goodchild, Sir SandfordFleming College and College of GeographicSciences, and David Douglas (Ottawa).

It was a very full week, with manyoptions each day in terms of sessions of oralpresentations or posters, exhibits andmeetings. This conference provided a uniqueopportunity for members of the Canadiancartographic community to converse withtheir Canadian colleagues as well as onesfrom 78 other countries around the world.Dave Carney and all those involved inpreparations for it must be congratulated foran excellent job. Preparations will now beginfor 2001 in Beijing and 2003 in Durban!

Alberta Auringer Wood

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President’s Address President’s OpeningAddress

Mrs Deputy Minister, Mr Carney, MrDeputy Mayor, distinguishedrepresentatives of the Government

of Canada, Canadian Geomatics Societies,Commercial sponsors, distinguished nationaldelegates and other ICA friends. We are alsogreatly honoured to have with us today as ourguests, senior executive representatives fromour sister or colleague societies, namelyProfessor Klaus-Peter Schwarz (past-president) International Association ofGeodesy, Rear-Admiral Chris Andreasen(next Secretary-General) InternationalFederation of Surveyors, Professor Ron Abler(Vice-president) International GeographicalUnion, Dr Michel Huet (representing theInternational Hydrographic Organisation), MrLarry Fritz (President) and Professor JohnTrinder (Secretary-General) InternationalSociety of Photogrammetry and RemoteSensing, Professor Ivan Mueller (past-president) International Union of Surveys andMapping, and Mr Peter Bleekrode (past-president, European Division of theInternational Map Trade Association, (andtwo colleagues Mr Norman Strasma,Executive Director and Mr Will Tefft, Boardmember. )

May I bid you all welcome to the 19thInternational Conference and 11th GeneralAssembly of the International CartographicAssociation. Isn’t this just a splendid locationand magnificent launch for the mostimportant event in the calendar of ourSociety, and indeed the final CartographicConference and General Assembly of themillennium? A fine city, Ottawa, anoutstanding venue, thoughtful and generoussponsors and organising Committee hosts (ourgood friends) who have given so much oftheir lives and energies over the last few yearsfor our benefit.

The Theme of this event is ‘Touch thepast, visualise the future – Images du passé,vision d’avenir’, the most appropriateexpression for this point in time - and for thisstage in the evolution of our subject,Cartography. Canada is also a most suitablelocation for such a themed event, displayingin its own history, ancient and modern, thespectrum of change in both cartographicproducts and the evolving methods by whichthese can be created and employed. Withinthe magnificent exhibitions on display thisweek we can observe some of the fine imagesof early mapping, but also, if we considermore recent times and, perhaps the morerelevant past, this is the country whichproduced the Canada Geographic Information

System (the first real GIS) – a mostsignificant product and concept in the modernhistory of our subject. This innovativefacility was under development when, as apostgraduate student, I was just beginning tograsp the implications of modern digitaltechnology for cartography. The developers ofthe Canada GIS were also visionaries. Facedwith the challenges (for such a vast andlargely unpopulated land) of creating amapping system which could be responsive tochanging future needs, they appreciated andvisualised a future in which efficient storage,retrieval, manipulation and utilisation ofspatial data, largely through mapping, wouldbe essential.

Coming more up-to-date we can see evenmore significant innovations which will bepart of this Visualised future. Involved, as Ihave been, in international discussions on theimportance of moving towards GSDI (GlobalSpatial Data Structures) I was interested toread – in the latest conference issue of thejournal, Geomatica - of the CanadianGovernments announcement of the programcalled ‘Geoconnections’. The key element inthis is the Canadian Geospatial DataInfrastructure (CGDI), the nationalcomponent of what will eventually grow intothe framework of the Global structure.Returning briefly to Canada’s influence onthe wider world even the word ‘Geomatics’,adopted in Canada, has become one of themost popular terms, world-wide, to describewhat is now an increasingly digitaltechnology driven field.

It has been said that humankind hasinvented three great forms of communication:language, music and mapping, but by far theoldest is mapping. Technology has been thedriving force behind many changes inCartography. After possibly thousands ofobscured years of mapping during whichtechnological influence was low, we reachedthe middle of the current millennium. Thenprinting offered a stimulus for change,although the type of map to thrive during thenext five centuries was essentially a flat papercopy. But maps were not always so. Manymay have been drawn on rocks, in caves, onthe sand as well as on cloth-like material.Nevertheless examples of the iconic flat, so-called conventional map were created in theirmillions and the definition of ‘map’becamefossilised. Only in the latter stages of thiscentury, with the arrival of computers, haveserious changes begun to appear in mapproducts. They no longer need to be static andon paper. They are dynamic, virtual, enrichedwith multimedia and much more interactivethan ever before. However, although modernmaps can be described as graphic expressions

of essentially digital spatial data, it is thevisualised product which is, and always hasbeen, the essence of the ‘invention’ofmapping I mentioned before. And‘Cartography’describes the field in whichthese visible products, whether two-dimensional paper graphics, or virtual four-dimensional animated interactive holograms,accessed via the internet, are produced. Sodo not abandon the term. It works and it cannever be replaced by general or morecomprehensive terms such as GIS or evenGeomatics. Accept that ‘cartography’,although a relatively new word, can besufficiently flexible in definition to include allthese new dimensions. And thus our subjectcan continue to advance, instead of being lostin a sea of terminological chaos.

This is not to deny the gradualconvergence of operations and functionalityin Geospatial Science, but I still believe in thepower of new maps and the necessity for thissubject field to continue. If this unique andvery sophisticated graphic-visual sciencewere to be abandoned then no matter howcomprehensive and efficient the databases,how high the data quality, how effective thegeospatial networks and infrastuctures, localor global, the most significant facility forexploration, analysis and presentation wouldall but stagnate or would be left to what Imight refer to as the just acceptablemediocrity of the default world.

But of course that will not happen! Theexistence of the ICAand all its enthusiasticand active members from right across thespectrum of commissions, will ensure it willnot happen. They represent the best of WorldCartography and I believe their leadershipboth here and when back at home base, willhelp maintain the cartography along with andintegrated within all the other developmentswhich are taking place in the field of appliedspatial technologies. Considering the vitalneed to tackle world problems, the tools andfacilities must be developed to best extent inall their aspects for maximum effect. Afterall if we truly are a global family, we mustmaintain the good family name!!

May I conclude by paying tribute onceagain to Dave Carney and his wholeorganising team. They, with the support ofthe Canadian Government, CanadianGeomatics folk, and the sponsors, haveensured that this almost magical event wouldtake place. As far back as 1992 they not onlyvisualised the future but had sufficient faith intheir ability to make it happen. Now let usrepay them for their efforts by enjoying thisfeast, the Ottawa Conference, which theyhave prepared so carefully for us all.

Michael Wood



Ottawa in pictures


Dr Bengt Rystedt giving his first speech asICA President.

Closing ceremony of the ICA‘99. Ceremonialtransfer of ICA flat from Canada to China.

Michael Wood conferring the ICA HonoraryFellowship to Tositomo Kanakubo.

Folding of the ICA ’99 insignia.Commission on Map Production.Brinstorming session at a loca terras.

The ICC ‘99 Conference venue.

Dave Carney, Conference Director.

Canadiana Night Barbecue at the National Aviation Museum. 2nd session of the 11th General Assembly.

Three generations of ICA PresidentsLeft to right: Fraser Taylor, Bengt Rydstedt,Michael Wood.

Official opening ceremony of the ICC ’99Conference with native dancers.


Ottawa in pictures


Michael Wood with travel award winners.Left to right: A Mwanza (Zambia), P Ogao (Kenya), T Bandrova(Bulgaria), R Darvishzadeh (Iran), M Wood, M Nyrtsov (Russia), YZhao (China), R Platina (Argentina)

Some of the Commission Chairs 1999-2003. Front: K Shingareva, CBoard, J Anderson, H Schlichtmann, E K-Blum. Back: S LeBlanc, LHurni, S van der Steen, R Furness, T Trainor

ICA Executive Committee 1999-2003.Front: Kirsi Artimo (Finland), Li Li (China), Elri Liebenberg (SouthAfrica). Back: Robert McMaster (USA), Takashi Morita (Japan),Ferjan Ormeling (The Netherlands, Secretary General), Bengt Rystedt(Sweden, President), Alberta Auringer Wood (Canada), MilanKonecny (Czech Republic), Michael Wood (UK, Past President)

Opening ceremony for the commercial exhibition and ‘icebreaker ’reception at the Ottawa Congress Centre. Back: S Furmann, D Miller,C Brewer, M Monmonier. Kneeling: B Buttenfield, C Baruth.

Workshop for Commission and Working Group Chairs Official opening of the International Cartographic Exhibition in theGovernment Conference Centre. Exhibit ribbon cutting by Michael Woodand Ian Wilson.


News from the Executive CommitteePaper Session forTravel AwardeesThe Executive Committee reports that thefollowing papers were delivered at the OttawaConference by thouse who received TravelAwards.• Temenoujka Bandrova (Bulgaria), 3D

cartographic modelling in cityenvironment;

• Roshanak Darvishzadeh (Iran), Semi-automatic change detection for updatinglarge scale spatial databases;

• Alick Mwanza (Zambia), RemappingZambia for census, elections and otherneeds;

• Maxim Nyrtsov (Russia), Mathematicalplanetary cartography basis for non-spherical celestial bodies;

• Patrick Ogao (Kenya), Visualisation ofurban growth using temporal cartographicanimations;

• Dragan Stojanovic (Yugoslavia),Cartographic visualisation and animationof the dynamic geographic processes andphenomena;

• Dr Yongping Zhao (China), Metadatastandard architecture based on digitalearth; and

• Romina Plastina (Argentina), Changesanalysis of land uses in an area of BuenosAires, Argentina.

ICA Awardsannounced at ICC’99Several ICA Awards were presented duringthe General Assembly in Ottawa with thefollowing citations:

Roger Anson served fifteen years aschairman of the ICA Publications Committee.He established a publication program andsystematized the processes for the acceptanceof manuscripts for ICApublications. Hetirelessly sought authors and guided themthrough the process. Anson coordinated theICANewsletter with Bernard Gutsell for tenyears. He has been a very active member ofthe Commission on Education and Trainingand has served as co-editor of the BasicCartography series. In recognition of hismany outstanding contributions to the ICAthrough his organizational work in thePublications Committee and commissionwork, Roger Anson is awarded the ICAHonorary Fellowship.

Dr.Christopher Board stepped in upon thedeath of Dr. Lech Ratajski and guided theCommission of Cartographic Communicationfor seven years. He edited the ICANewsletter

during the past four years. In addition, he wasone of the principal organizers of the ICAConference in Bournemouth in 1991. Inrecognition of his many outstandingcontributions to the ICAthrough hispublications, commission and conferencework, Christopher Board is awarded the ICAHonorary Fellowship.

Tositomo Kanakubo has served the ICAfor eight years as a Vice President. Heinitiated a working group on TheoreticalFields and Definitions in Cartography. In1995 this working group gained commissionstatus within the ICA. He published a bookentitled ‘Main Theoretical Issues FacingCartography’in 1993. Tositomo Kanakuboalso represented the ICAat UN RegionalCartographic Conferences for Asia and thePacific. For his many outstandingcontributions to cartography through hisExecutive Committee service and his work asa Commission Chair, and for his internationalservice to ICA, Tositomo Kanakubo isawarded the ICAHonorary Fellowship.

Jaume Miranda has served the ICAas aVice President for eight years. Hisbackground in computer science, remotesensing and photogrammetry has been helpfulto the Executive Committee on manyoccasions. He is well known as the Directorof the highly successful 10th GeneralAssembly and 17th International Conferenceof the ICAin Barcelona. Jaume Miranda’sinterest in cartography and his superbleadership has gained world recognition forCatalonian Cartography. For his contributionto Cartography and his outstandingconference and institutional leadership, JaumeMiranda is awarded the ICAHonoraryFellowship.

Fraser D.R. Taylor : Retiring from a four-year term as Immediate Past President, FraserTaylor also served as ICAPresident for eightyears and as Vice President from 1984-87. Hewas the first President of the InternationalUnion for Surveys and Mapping, IUSM. Hisinterest and activities in internationalcartography led to an increase in ICAmembership. He fostered relationshipsbetween ICAand the PanAmerican Instituteof Geography and History, PAIGH, thatincreased interest in the work of ICAin LatinAmerican countries. For his many, significantcontributions to ICA, especially as President,Fraser Taylor is awarded the ICAHonoraryFellowship.

Jean-Philippe Grelot has most recentlyserved as ICASecretary-General andTreasurer for the past eight years andpreviously served as ICA Vice President from1987-1991. He served on the Education and

Training and Population Commissions andhas presented several papers at ICAconferences. He prepared for publication thevolumes ‘ICAOrganization and Activities,1991-1995’and its 1995-1999 update both inpaper and floppy form. In recognition of hismany outstanding contributions to the ICAthrough his organizational work as SecretaryGeneral and Treasurer and his commissionwork, Jean-Philippe Grelot is awarded theICAHonorary Fellowship.

Jacques Bertin : The work ‘SemiologieGraphique’published in 1967 by ProfessorJacques Bertin has touched more than ageneration of cartographers. Training in mapdesign throughout the world discussesJacques Bertin’s ideas. The book has beentranslated into several languages, and JacquesBertin’s ideas are present in all introductorycartography books today. The ICAis proud torecognize Professor Jacques Bertin for hisoutstanding contribution to the field ofcartography by awarding him its highesthonor, the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal.

Ferjan Ormeling

Winners of theBarbara PetchenikChildren’s MapCompetition, 1999

This year, the committee received 87maps from 19 countries, including:Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria,

Canada, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic,Germany, Greece, Guinea, Hungary,Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden,South Africa, the United Kingdom and theUnited States. Thanks to all of you.

I believe it is important to note that theexceptional maps we have seen on displayrepresent only a small fraction of thosesubmitted to each national committee. Wewere limited in the number of winners wecould select, however, the committee believesthat every child who participated in thiscompetition is a winner. This year, thecommittee selected 8 finalists, with at leastone finalist in each of three age groups: under9, 9-12 and over 12. Furthermore, at least oneaward goes to a child from each of fourcontinent groupings, those being theAmericas, Africa, Asia and Australia, andEurope. No more than one award is given toany particular country and each award is ofequal merit.



Petchenik Winners In the under 9 age category, the winner is: Nikola Zlatanov (7

years), Bulgaria, ‘The map of the world’. In the 9 - 12 age group, thewinners are: Emmanouil Kopanezos (11years), Greece, ‘The olympicspirit unites people’, József Bodor (11 years), Hungary, ‘Flower-World’,and Kamila Sojka (12 years), Poland, ‘Wild animals -Inhabitants oflands and seas’. In the over 12 age group, the winners are: NataliaVadillo (15 years), Argentina, ‘Materialism is not good for us’, BarryThierno Hamidou (14 years), Guinea, ‘Torch of liberty’, Mika HayashiNagisa Kawasaki, (14 years) Japan, ‘Let bloom flowers over the world’,and Elizabeth Böhmer (15 years), Sweden, ‘It’s a hard world!’

Erin Kuyvenhoven. Images kindly scanned by Ms. Heather MacAdam


Japan

Poland

Guinea

GreeceSweden

Bulgaria

Hungary


President’s ReportPresident’s Report tothe General Assembly

This presidential report must identify thekey elements of recent activities andaccomplishments but my instinct is to

focus on my special respect for the people inour Association, their activities andaccomplishments. We acknowledge theirrecent work with gratitude, but we alsoappreciate that their rich and pioneering workis also building a structure for a new andexciting future for Cartography.

I start with the Executive Committee, myclosest allies. Jean-Philippe Grelot, Secretary-General and Treasurer, has provided the firmadministrative foundation on which ICAhascontinued to thrive. His task is enormous, buthas been carried out with consistenteffectiveness and reliability. His persistencein seeking contacts with overseas membersand groups as well as in following up thepayments of ICAfees is almost legendary.Thanks must also go to IGN, France, and tothe Comité Français, for their production, in1996, of the latest version of ‘The ICAOrganisation and Activities’– the only officialbooklet of the Society.

The Vice-Presidents share the greatresponsibility carried by the ExecutiveCommittee. Their activities have ranged fromlocal to global. They have travelled far andparticipated in hundreds of hours ofpreparation, face-to-face discussion, debateand decision-making at 6 multi-day ExecutiveCommittee Meetings. They also haveimportant liaison duties with Commissionsand Working Groups. While they may preferrelative anonymity I wish to highlight someof their recent good works. Judy Olson, astrong contributer to Committee debate, hasalso established and run, in characteristicallyfirm, effective and entertaining manner, theimportant workshops for chairs ofCommissions, Working Groups, and NationalCommittee Leaders. She also took onresponsibility for the ICA Web page in 1998and raised its content, value and profile.Regina Araujo de Almeida has been our onlyrepresentative from South America and hasacted as a most effective monitor ofcartographic activities there, as well assharing responsibility in Judy’s ICAworkshops. Tositomo Kanakubo has beenboth Vice-president and chair of theCommission on Theoretical Fields andDefinitions with great effect. In the formerrole he organised ICAmeetings in Japan andhelped publish their proceedings. He has alsorepresented ICAon the Global Map SteeringCommittee, and at the UN RegionalCartographic Conference for Asia and thePacific in 1998. Milan Konecny has travelledwidely and represented ICAin manyconferences and meetings relating to

cartography and GIS. He also organised twoICA-supported Conferences in Brno in 1996and 1999. Following the immense work oforganising the Barcelona Conference in 1995,Jaume Miranda has continued his valuablecontributions to the work of ICA, includingthe printing of the Canadian UNICEFWallsheet, with its award winning BarbaraPetchenik Competition maps, and supportingthe Secretary-General in his review of theSpanish site proposed for the 2003Conference and General Assembly. Thanksalso go to Bengt Rysted, who has taken onmany responsible tasks including ICAliaisonwith the International Standards Organisation(ISO), helping administer the ICA TravelAward, supporting the President during hisreview visit of the South African facilities fortheir bid for the 2003 Conference/GeneralAssembly, and, of course, being the Directorof one of the most successful InternationalCartographic Conferences, in Stockholm, in1997. Finally I have a special debt ofgratitude to Immediate Past President, FraserTaylor. He has participated fully during hisperiod of office, directly through hiscontinuing maintenance and development ofthe Barbara Petchenik Competition archive inCarleton University, and indirectly throughhis own international cartographic work inLatin America and China. He has also been amost valuable member of the ExecutiveCommittee during the past four years.

Commissions andWorking GroupsThe Standing Commission on Education andTraining has been supremely active in co-ordinating joint meetings around the world.Its list of achievements is long and I,personally, as well as ICA, owe much toFerjan Ormeling and his team. The StandingCommission on Map Production, led by Sjefvan der Steen, also has a fine record overrecent years, having held or been part of 5excellent meetings from Chile to Norway andIndonesia.

The achievements of Harold Moellering’sCommission on Standards for the Transfer ofSpatial Data are also quite outstanding withintheir vital technical area. As a Category ALiaison to ISO/TC211 it has played a majorrole at this international level as well aspublishing key texts in their subject area. TheCommission on Theoretical Fields andDefinitions, chaired by Tositomo Kanakubo,has an admirable record of completed tasks.From the ‘Map Summit, Gifu, ‘96’to thesuccessful publication of the text ‘MapSemiotics around the World’we see theuniquely international application of scientificresearch and review of this ICAteam.Cartography is always developing, and the

Commission on Visualisation exemplifies thepioneering edge of this exploration. Theunique collaboration which Alan MacEachrenand Menno-Jan Kraak have forged with ACMSIGGRAPH, continues to generate the mostexciting concepts and products. Jim Carterand The Commission on Map Use have alsobeen very active since 1995. Seminars,workshops, experimental work andparticipation in the Conference on MassMedia Maps exemplify this full programme.The Commission on National and RegionalAtlases, chaired by Tim Trainor and EvaSiekerska, have continued their activecampaigns.

My experience of their Seminar in Icelandin 1998 confirmed these views and that theytoo are probing new frontiers in access togeographic information through CD and theWeb. The Commission on Maps and Graphicsfor Blind and Visually-impaired People,chaired by Andrew Tatham, has also had abusy period. Activities range from workshopsin Tanzania and Slovenia to an electronicnewsletter and the preparation of a tactilesymbol encyclopedia for their Website. Themain achievement of Ron Furness’sCommission on Marine Cartography has beenthrough co-operation with IGU in theirCoastGIS series, and their focus on coastalzone management must be seen as of vitalrelevance in the Global view.

The new Commission on Gender andCartography, led by Eva Siekierska, has beenfocusing on UN policies, links with IGU, FIGand PAIGH, joint ventures and continuingdevelopment of their Website, trainingmaterials and the special Directory of Womenin Cartography, Surveying and GIS. Theother new Working Group on Cartographyand Children, chaired by Jackie Anderson, hasalso achieved much in its first session. Thisvital area for increased research andunderstanding has been developed through 4key seminars, as well as international surveyson elementary instruction and support of theBarbara Petchenik World Map Competition.

Map Generalisation is still one of thegreatest challenges for the ‘new cartography’and Rob Weibel’s Working Group hasstruggled tirelessly to meet it. Its world-wideforum, workshops and impressivepublications give confidence for the futureachievement of their longer-term aims.Although the accomplishments of theWorking Group on Planetary Cartography areexcellent in themselves (includingmultilingual planetary maps and amultilingual glossary), co-chairs KiraShingereva and Jim Zimbelman, must also becongratulated for their expanding contactswith over 11 other international organisationswith common interests. Tim Davis’newWorking Group on Census Cartography has



President’s Reportalso made a fine start to its work and, evenshortly after Stockholm, I was able to channeltheir expert knowledge to help another ICAmember nation facing serious map-relatedcensus problems.

These are but a few words ofacknowledgement of work done, but I amalso compiling a new edition of theAchievements of the ICA, which will appearafter the Ottawa Meeting, and will includedetails of new Commissions and their contactco-ordinates as well as fuller reports from1995-99.

ICAPublications in the past have beenimportant for education, publicity andprestige in the ICA. They have also,traditionally provided almost US$5 000 perannum to the Association. 1995-99 howeverhas been a leaner period, only two bookshaving appeared (Elements of Spatial DataQuality – ed. S. Guptill; Spatial DataTransfer Standards-2 – ed. H. Moellering) butimportant plans are certainly in place forfuture publication ventures. We have nowmoved into a period of rapid change and, inresponse to current problems the ExecutiveCommittee has instigated a re-engineeringreview of publications, which will be quitefundamental. Roger Anson’s immensecontribution to publications over the past 18years is fully acknowledged and hisexperience will continue to be called on inany future scheme. The other key publicationis ICANews. In its attractive new form andunder its new editor from 1995, Chris Board,it has increased as a reporting medium forICAand has already appeared as asimultaneous publication on the ICAwebsite.I am immmensely grateful to Chris for hisdedicated work since 1995, and we offer goodwishes to the new editor, GracielaMetternicht, as she takes up the task for thenext four years.

Special ThoughtsI have reported many achievements thismorning, but the ICAalso provides specialawards to those with outstanding service tothe ICAand to Cartography. HonoraryFellowships in 1995 went to Rudolfo Nunezde las Cuevas (Spain), Arpad Papp-Vary(Hungary), Don Pearce (Australia), ErnstSpiess (Switzerland) and Joseph Wiedel(USA); in 1997, to Richard Dahlberg(postumusly), Olof Hedbom, Christer Palmand Miroslav Miksovsky. We are grateful toJoel Morrison and his Awards Committee fortheir important work during this term.

Sadly there have been losses to theCartographic community, notably BogodarWinid, Dick Dahlberg, George Jenks, JohnSherman (all in 1996), Rolf Bohme, John P.

Snyder (1997), Gylfi Mar Gubergsson (1998)and Stig Jaatinen (1999). It is hard to cometo terms with such losses but we shouldrejoice in their lives and their specialcontributions to our subject.

Membership and FinancesThere has been a small increase in membernations and affiliates and with some newpossibilities in the near future. Finances arestill strong despite the static unit fee rate ofUS$250 since 1987.

Outreach Co-operation continues with internationalbodies such as IAG, ISPRS, IHO, FIG, IGUand ISO, and the Special session on Tuesdayafternoon will give delegates a chance tolearn more about these organisations and howwe might work together. Successfulcollaborations include the ICA session onElectronic Atlases at the IGU Conference inthe Hague (1996) and plans are in hand tohave a similar session with ISPRS inAmsterdam 2000. Although our links with theUN remained good until last year,Cartography lost status there early in 1998,with the original structure for the UNRegional Cartographic Conferences alsobeing lost. Following a special meeting,hosted by Dr Carlos Jarque of INEGI,Mexico, in March 1998, I and three othersfrom Europe, Australia and South Americahave been working to re-establishcartography/geospatial science at UN level.Progress is being made, but slowly and willbe reported in ICA News. I have also beenactively involved in the GSDI initiative, andretain a watching brief at GSDI meetings.

Links with ICSU, UNESCO and PAIGH,remain firm, and we have just openeddialogue with IMTA with a view tocollaboration with some commissions. I wasinvited to submit a paper on the ICAto themost recent ICSU Newsletter, and focused iton ICAand Agenda 21. A final point relatesto IUSM. This umbrella organisation, whichhas been in existence for some years, hasbeen in difficulties. A meeting, chaired byPresident Ivan Mueller, took place yesterdayafternoon during which it was decided todisband the organisation. However, topreserve the principle of cooperation, a newjoint board has been identified which willallow member organisations to continue tomeet on an annual basis, on rotation aroundthe Member Organisations.

The participation by members of ICAinoutside conferences increases and, with theincreasing status of ICA, more conferencesare requesting endorsement from ourAssociation.

The Barbara Petchenik World MapCompetition continues successfully with afine display in Stockholm, 1997. Archives arestill maintained in Carleton University,Ottawa, with Web-page access to the imagesand it is hoped that the potential of thisarchive will continue to be recognised.

Other important outreach activities sharedby ICAhave included the internationalconferences for SE Europe, held in Greeceunder the guiding influnce of Prof Livieratos,and also the InterCarto series, organisedthrough Vladimir Tikunov which havefocused on the power of cartography and GISfor sustainable development. I am also glad toreport that new cartographic Societiescontinue to be founded, as in Indonesia,(1997)

Some final thoughtsAttempting to fulfil my promises atBarcelona, my own travel and participation inICAactivities around the World have beenmaintained at as high a level as possiblewithin my own work timetable. This involvedtravelling overseas on average about onceevery six weeks over the last four years. Ihave visited 22 countries on ICAbusiness,and some of these on several occasions, andbeen in touch with hundreds of new membersof ICA at local level, many of whom do notor cannot travel to international meetings. TheICAis a Global Family and I felt the need totake that message, personally, as far into thenational network as possible.

The past 4 years have been a period ofrapid change in most regions of the world,developing, transitional and developed. Newtechnology grows in its presence andinfluence although there are many placeswhere conventional methods and technologystill apply. However, despite the influence ofthe technology, I like to think thatcartography (a word that completely satisfiesme, even in these turbulent times) keepschanging as it has been doing for thousandsof years. In the past – in paper form - itspower to do more than represent was severelyrestricted. Today however, cartography in allits dimensions, including temporal, andassisted by technologies such as GIS, hasbecome a real power for data exploration,analysis and discovery. It is this potentialwhich has always excited us within ICAandwill continue to hold us together as we buildfor a better future. The world, with all itsproblems, physical and social, needsCartography, and I have been proud to play asmall part in this international endeavour asPresident of ICA.

Michael Wood



ICA Commissions 1999-2003Terms of Reference forCommissions 1999-2003The list of terms of reference has beenshortened, as commissions shall organisemeetings, serve as a focal point for their areaof interest, cooperate with relatedorganisations and transfer information to theworld cartographic community at large by, forinstance, maintaining home pages on theWorld Wide Web.

Commission on Education andTraining1. To produce an ICA-sponsored Internet

cartography teaching program, withregional workshops for training theteachers.

2. To produce an ICA-sponsored Internetprogram for continuing education, withregional workshops for teacher training.

Commission on MapProduction1. Extend Production Management

knowledge in economics, planning andorganising, cost calculations, guidelinesfor production, quality assurance andcontrol.

2. Complete publications : Compendium ofCartographic Techniques, Flow Charting- Tools for Managing and Education,Surveys of software and hardware.

3. Investigate (new) channels for publicationwith emphasis on technical, managerialand financial aspects. This includes alsomap publishing. Amongst all matters likePrinting-on-demand- Webpublishing andArchiving should be researched.

Commission on the History ofCartographyTo promote the study of the development ofcartographic traditions with a view tounderstanding the extent to which they varyfrom country to country by :1. examining the origins, development and

output of national mapping organisations,concentrating on topographic coverage ;

2. compiling an annotated bibliography ofpublished and/or accessible works onthese organisations for each country ;

3. holding a series of meetings andworkshops prepared with e-mail andconventional contacts, involving a smallnumber of active researchers mostlyidentified from Who’s Who in the Historyof Cartography, 9th edition, extending toinvolve other member nations of ICAandother countries ;

4. investigating ways of using newinformation technologies appropriate forthe history of cartography.

Commission on Spatial DataStandards1. To publish a book on national and

international spatial metadata standards.The assessment characteristics and pilotassessments have already been completed.

2. To develop and publish a cross tabulatedtable of selected spatial metadatacharacteristics by each national andinternational standard.

3. To plan a new task on the Spatial DataInfrastructure (SDI) working in the areasof science, technology and standards atthe Global, Regional and National levels,and to participate at the scientific level inseveral organisations active in that area.This work will be closely coordinatedwith the ICAExecutive Committee.

4. To continue to serve as a Category AScientific Liaison with ISO/TC211Committee on GeographicInformation/Geomatics.

5. To exchange information and reports bythe ICAmember countries and relevantbodies concerning the development ofstandards for the transfer of digital spatialdata, metadata and the SDI.

6. To collect and distribute in thecommission copies of all spatial datastandards published in ICA countries andby relevant international bodies.

Commission on TheoreticalCartography1. To study selected topics of theoretical

interest (such as mapping as a cognitiveprocess, cartographic semiotics and maplanguage).

2. To compare and contrast theoreticalstructures in cartography.

3. To conduct workshops or symposia aboutselected aspects of theoreticalcartography.

4. To compile and publish a report andcollected papers about the work of thecommission.

Commission on Visualizationand Virtual Environments1. To study and report on the changing and

expanding role of maps in science,decision-making, policy formulation, andsociety in general due to the continuingtechnological and conceptual advancesthat enable new map forms used as visualthinking/decision-support tools. Duringthis term, particular attention will be

directed to: (1) changes in the form andobject of cartographic representation forvisualization (due to developmentsassociated with distributed visualizationtools, virtual environments, intelligentagents, and others), (2) integration ofcartographic visualization methods withboth geographic information systems andgeocomputational methods; (3) design andtesting of new interface forms that takeadvantage of and support the changingnature of representation (associated withvirtual reality technology, interactive mapanimation, and others) and of the potentialfor Internet-based collaborativevisualization, and (4) cognitive issues thatunderlie design and use of map-basedvisualization tools.

2. To investigate and report on the linksbetween scientific visualization-computergraphics-virtual reality and cartographicvisualization and continue to facilitateexchange of ideas between cartographersand others working on problems invisualization and virtual environmentdesign.

Commission on Maps and theInternet1. Focus attention on disseminating maps

and spatial data through distributedelectronic networks.

2. Examine Internet map usage and projectfuture areas of growth.

3. Examine web map user issues to betterserve user needs.

4. Promote the exchange of informationabout effective Internet mapping for aninternational audience.

5. Collaboration / coordination with the ICAcommission on visualization and virtualenvironments.

6. Improve user access to maps byexamining the potential of Internet mapmetadata.

7. Promote instruction on Internet mappingthrough collaboration / coordination withother ICAcommissions (education andtraining; cartography and children;national and regional atlases).

Commission on MapGeneralization1. To foster research and practical

experience in multi-scale issues andautomated map generalization and to forma network and focal point for researchersand practitioners in this domain.

2. To foster and maintain a liaison withrelated commissions and working groups



ICA Commissions 1999-2003within the ICAas well as in relatednational and international organisations

3. To maintain a World Wide Web site forelectronic dissemination of research onmulti-scale issues and map generalization,including: - a bibliographic database- examples of research projects and test

data- links to related web sites- and (optionally) an electronic

discussion list

Commission on Mapping fromSatellite Imagery1. To analyse various types of satellite

imagery in view of their potential inputsfor producing and updating topographicmaps and databases. Establish workinggroups for studying these inputs :- the working group on mapping sensors

will list spatial systems which may provide data and will study their cartographic capabilities

- the working group on imagery processing will list data cartographic processing systems

- the working group on cartographic updating will try to define, for various mapping scales, the best compromise of scale, resolution and costs.

2. To publish and present results andrecommendations to the 2003 GeneralAssembly.

Commission on National andRegional Atlases1. Promote and support the design,

production and use of atlases and atlasinformation systems by:- demonstrating design and production

applications of national and regional atlases

- documenting guidelines and proceduresfor the design and production of global,national, and regional atlases via the Internet and, where applicable, printed proceedings

2. Explore and develop new tools for atlasdesign, creation and dissemination by:- encouraging exploration and

implementation of new atlas design concepts

- recognizing static, interactive, and multimedia approaches for accessing geographic information

- evaluating the use of the Internet, CD-ROMs, and other formats for dissemination of integrated geographic data

3. Encourage efforts for integrating data forthe development of electronic atlases andnational and regional atlas informationsystems by:- evaluating metadata standards as they

apply to atlas design, creation and dissemination

- acknowledging requirements for diverse geographic and temporal data themes

- identifying and exploring various alternatives to data integration issues

4. Promote educational access to electronicatlases.

Commission on CensusCartographyThe commission would :- examine the role/contribution of census

cartography programs in the nationalspatial data infrastructure in variouscountries and regions.

- study the cartographic concepts,standards, technologies and techniqueswhich are used in the various membercountries.

- identify opportunities resulting from theemergence of new technologies andmethods.

- propose means by which greaterharmonization of concepts and practicescould occur, in order to facilitate theintegration of data for regional and globalanalysis.

Commission on MarineCartography1. Promotion of marine cartography2. Promotion of ICAand cartography as

major contributors in the field of coastalzone management- Continue to conduct, in conjunction

with the IGU Commission on Coastal Systems, the CoastGIS series of symposia (CoastGIS ‘99 is scheduled in September 1999 for Brest in France, and CoastGIS ‘01 in Canada in 2001)

- Explore opportunities for training and workshops in GIS applications to the Coastal Zone within developing nations.3. Encouragement of publications in the

areas of marine cartography and, inparticular, publications dealing with thecoastal zone

4. Ongoing Cooperative Activities- Support initiatives aiming to promote

training of nautical cartographers.- Provide input on special features,

objects and attributes relating to the coastal zone to IHO.

- Provide any proposed change to IHO Publication S-23 (Limits of Oceans and Seas) and to the Undersea feature names gazeteers (following the guidelines stated in IHO Publication B6).

Commission on MountainCartographyMain objectives : to define the scope ofsubjects of high mountain cartography, topromote mountain cartography and to providea platform to promote the exchange of ideasand scientific collaboration between scientistsin high mountain cartography and relatedfields, by :1. Internal and external communication

- E-mail, web site, organisation of joint workshops on specific thematic subjects in mountain cartography.

- Collaboration with other ICAand national commissions.2. Survey and indexing of topics within

mountain cartography and its relatedfields.- Compilation of web-based

compendium.- Collection of mountain cartography

specific and related links.- Collection of bibliographic references.- Status of national mountain

cartography activities (federal agencies, private companies, etc.).3. Promotion of joint research projects with

other other organisations and ICAcommissions.

Commission on PlanetaryCartography1. Promotion of all aspects of planetary

cartography in an international setting. Inthis effort, we identify three distinct butmutually supportive uses for planetarycartographic materials: cartographicproducts used for scientific research,materials intended for use in education,and materials for public outreach.

2. Documentation and analysis of thepresent status of planetary cartographywithin the international community.

3. Evaluation of possible methods toenhance harmonization of planetarycartographic activities around the world.During the last term, we progressed onthe development of a map of Mars withmarginal notes presented in severallanguages. This map is nearingproduction, and we intend to explore howmulti-lingual planetary maps (andsupporting documentation) can be usedeffectively in several different countries.



Cartography, Reports4. Communication of conclusions and ideas

with groups representing a wide varietyof international scientific and educationalcommunities.

Commission on Gender andCartography1. To serve as a resource on issues related to

gender and cartography :- by preparing papers for presentation at

conferences or for publication in cartographic journals

- by preparing and disseminating on the Web a basic, working bibliography on publications (professional papers, atlases, maps) related to gender that are of interest to cartography.

2. To study existing atlases for gendercontent and problems, keeping in mindthe possibility of an ICAworld thematicgender atlas, by :- selecting a small set of national

atlases, analyzing atlas contents, looking at gender data availability in those nations, and attempting to determine level of awareness of genderin those nations

- outlining the barriers to producing a world thematic gender atlas and suggesting ways to overcome those barriers.

Commission on Maps andGraphics for Blind and VisuallyImpaired PeopleThe commission aims to further internationalcooperation, communication and education inthe design, production and use of maps andgraphics for blind and visually-impairedpeople by :1. exchanging and disseminating

information on user’s needs, design,production technologies includingdeveloping and appropriate technologies,and resources ;

2. providing guidance on, and encouraging,good and appropriate practice in design,production, and use (including that byother user groups) ;

3. developing communication andcooperation with organisations of and forblind and visually-impaired peopleinvolved in cartography, communication,education, and welfare.

The commission will pursue these objectivesthrough the further development of itswebsite, by the provision of workshops, andby the publication of papers, etc.

Commission on Cartographyand ChildrenThe mandate of the commission is toimprove general cartographic literacy by

promoting the discussion about, awarenessof, and research into the problems related tochildren as map makers and map users.

1. To maintain and build upon the

commission’s existing international

database of people working or with

interests in mapping and children so that

this inventory can be made available on

the World Wide Web, in digital or paper

format

2. To enlarge the commission’s select

bibliography on topics related to

mapping and children and the various

technologies appropriate to generating

cartographic images and solving spatial

problems.

3. To develop closer links with other

international bodies concerned with

children. These would include the IGU

Commission on Geographic Education,

UNESCO, and UNICEF.

4. To assist the Executive of the ICAin the

preparation of guidelines, and the

organisation of the Barbara Petchenik

Children’s Map Competition.

Ferjan Ormeling


Cartographic Gatheringin Bratislava

Fulfilment of my final commitment asPresident - to visit Slovakia - had to bepostponed until after Ottawa. The

invitation came from my good friendProfessor Jan Feranec, Head of theDepartment of Cartography andGeoinformatics, Institute of Geography,Slovak Academy of Sciences, and ProfessorCizmar, President of the SlovakianCartographic Society. The event was a jointconference of the Czech and SlovakianSocieties and so the visit provided a fineopportunity to meet old friends (and new)from both countries and find out more abouttheir national and joint activities. Jan hadorganised a full timetable enabling me tomake contact with various organisations,academic (Slovak University of Technology,Slovak Academy of Sciences, Geodetic andCartographic Institute, and ComeniusUniversity) governmental (especially to meetMr Hornansky, President of the Geodesy,Cartography and Cadastre Authority of theSlovak Republic) and commercial (from thelarge and impressive state-owned mapping

comnpany VKU Harmanec, to the small butexceptional enterprise, MAPA Slovakia). I wasalso treated, by Professor Krcho, to anenthusiastic tour of that outstanding feat ofSlovakian hydro-power engineering on theDanube at Gabcikovo. The conference itselfwas impressive both in its lecture programmeand the technical and map exhibitions. The

closing social gathering reflected the real ICAspirit of the region. With apologies to my‘older’ colleagues (!) I have chosen to present(in the attached photo) some new friends -mapping science students attending themeeting… a rich future for the ICA.

Michael Wood

Cartographic gathering in Bratislava. Left to right: A Meciarova, M Ofukany, S Hudak, PPavlicko, M Kosuch, P Vanis, M Szabova, A Benova


ReportsMaps and the Internet

Anew commission on Maps and theInternet was established at theOttawa meetings. The commission is

a continuation of the Commission on MapUse. The chair of the Commission is MichaelPeterson from the University of Nebraska atOmaha in the United States([email protected]). The vice-chair is Georg Gartner from theTechnical University Vienna in Austria([email protected]). The web page for thecommission is located at“maps.unomaha.edu/ICA/Maps&Internet/”.

The following activities are planned for theyear 2000.1. The commission is co-sponsoring a

workshop at the University of AppliedSciences in Munich, Germany, in March2000 (see web page for date and time).

2. The chair of the commission is presentingthe Keynote address at the MapdaysConference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Theconference is scheduled for March 29-31.A workshop may be held in conjunctionwith the conference.

3. The commission is co-sponsoring a oneday symposium on Maps and the Internetin conjunction with the North AmericanCartographic Information Society(NACIS) in Knoxville, TN, USA, onOctober 11, 2000. The commission willalso co-sponsor workshops to be held inconjunction with the conference (see webpage for speakers and workshops). TheNACIS web page is at www.nacis.org.

Please contact either the chair or the co-chairif you are interested in contributing to thework of the Commission or if you would liketo be added to the mailing list.

Michael Peterson

Marine Cartography

The Marine Cartography Commissionparticipated in the Workshop forExecutive and Commission Chairs,

held immediately prior to the ICC in Ottawa.It was apparent that such meetings bringabout a better understanding of how the ICACommissions are expected to work, a betterappreciation of the aims and aspirations ofeach Commission and, as well, a clearer ideaof where there might be overlaps or potentialsynergies between the various Commissions.

During the highly successful ICC itself, ameeting of the Marine Cartography

Commission was held. During the meeting,which was attended by 12 members,discussion was conducted around the Termsof Reference. The Terms of Reference weresubsequently updated and were approved laterthe same week at the ICAGeneral Assembly.

Membership of the Commission is drawn

widely and the great majority of the work iscarried out by correspondence. Countries

represented by membership are: Colombia;Canada; Iran; Guinee; Belgium; Colombia;

Hong Kong and China; Israel; Spain;

Portugal; Greece; Belgium; USA;Netherlands; Hungary; Denmark; Ireland;

Mexico; Scotland; Australia; France; Tunisia;Argentina; Sweden; Finland; South Africa;

Japan; Russia; Brazil; Croatia; and, Monaco.

Liaison is maintained with IHO, ICAExecutive, IGU and other bodies such as

MSIAhere in Australia.I think the reader will agree that we have

managed to reflect the wide international

interest in both marine cartography and alsothe potential of GIS for the coastal zone.

It is appropriate for me to comment on afew of the objectives implicit in the terms of

reference outlined in page 11.

TOR1 Dr Green, at the University ofAberdeen, has established a web site for our

Commission but because of my inability toget material to him for some time, the site is

out of date. The site will be updated in the

near future. You will find the web sitethrough the University of Aberdeen site,

Dept. of Geography. I will publish thespecific address following the expected

updating of the site.

TOR2 Proceedings of all threeCoastGIS were provided to delegates and

were published. The best 25 papers forCoastGIS’99 held in Brest will come out as a

published IFREMER publication under the

editorship of Dr Populus of IFREMER. TheProgramme for the recently held CoastGIS’99

Conference was most successful. Around 180scientists and professionals from many

countries met in Brest in September 1999 for

a most stimulating and successful thirdCoastGIS conference. Dr Populus and his

many colleagues at IFREMER in Brest are tobe congratulated on their most professional

and rather brilliant efforts, with typical Gallic

style, in bringing the conference to fruition.The next CoastGIS’01 is to be held in Canada

under the local guidance of Dr Andy Sherin.We are very hopeful of persuading colleagues

in South Africa to take on the local

organisation of CoastGIS’03 in South Africa

contiguous to the 2003 ICC and GeneralAssembly planned for Durban that year

TOR3 A publication put together by Dr.

Dawn Wright and others which contains,

among others, articles by some members ofthis Commission will be published shortly by

Taylor and Francis. Articles were prepared

after invitation. Details can be found at

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/book. December 1999

is the likely revised publication date.TOR4 Dr Matyas Marton in the

Department of Geography at the Eotvos

Lorand University (Budapest) has work

underway on the “Multilingual Gazetteer of

the World Ocean”. Since 1992, seven studentshave written their Masters’theses on this

theme. The following parts of the gazetteer

have been completed thus far:

• the small-scale maps of the World Ocean,

showing the undersea relief;• the list of the names of the different seas

and bays, used in different languages;

• a list of the names of the different classes

of undersea features, used in different

languages;• a multi-level system of undersea regions;

• the list of the different names of the

undersea features. This list contains the

names of about 5000 features and it is due

to be extended continuously. This list andthe multi-level system of undersea regions

can be read on the World Wide Web.

Dr Marton intends to make an interactive mapof the undersea geography of the WorldOcean and it is hoped that this will bepublished on a CD-ROM. The research workalso is presently working on the

English/Hungarian version of the IHODocument “Standardization of UnderseaFeature Names”. Work is almost completefor presentation to the IHO and Mr Huet will

be the liaison person at the IHB. Dr Marton’sfax number is +36-1-372-2975 for thosewishing to find out directly more about thiswork.

The next realistic opportunity forCommission members to get together in aface-to-face meeting will be during the nextInternational Cartographic Conference

scheduled to be held in Beijing in 2001. Ihope to meet you all there.

Ron Furness, Commission Chair,



Commissions’ ReportsCensus Cartography

This is a new commission that wasestablished at the 1999 ICAconference in Ottawa. We welcome

feedback and comments from the ICAcommunity. Activities planned for the term1999-2001 include:1. Expand the membership to include

additional countries to gain the fullestrepresentation possible.

2. Compile a bibliography on censuscartography.

3. Compile a list of useful Web sites oncensus cartography.

4. Input information on the ICA Web site,such as the Terms of Reference, thebibliography (see #2), and the list ofuseful Web sites (see #3).

5. Commence a survey on the geographicunits used by various statistical agenciesto determine if greater harmonization ofconcepts is possible for census thematicmapping.

6. Arrange to have conference calls at leasttwice a year.

7. Attempt to have a joint meeting with theCommission on National and RegionalAtlases (Spain, autumn 2000).

Tim Davis, Commission Chair, October 1999

Mountain Cartography

The social and economic importance ofmountain regions has been increasingin the last few years. A growing use of

alpine areas as leisure parks can be observedin the service societies of Europe, NorthAmerica and Japan. In Central Europe, thealpine countries play a major role for transittraffic between Northern and SouthernEurope. In third world countries thepopulation pressure leads to a more intensivesettlement and economic harnessing ofmountain regions. Finally, the number ofnatural hazards with devastatingconsequences for man is growing in all ofthese areas due to this pressure and partiallydue to climatic influences. Together with thegrowing importance of mountain areas, thedemand for adequate cartographic base datawith respect to its contents, graphic designand the media is also increasing. Especiallythe visualisation of a large spectrum of newthemes requires new cartographic methodsand approaches which go beyond classical

topographic cartography. In this domain,cartographic research stands only at itsbeginnings.

During the 19th InternationalCartographic Conference in Ottawa, a newICACommission on Mountain Cartographyhas been established in order to meet thesedemands. The ”seed work” for theestablishment of this group has already beendone in the Commission on High MountainCartography of the German Society ofCartography, mainly by organising the firstWorkshop on High Mountain Cartography inthe Silvretta area in February 1998 (see ICANews No. 30).

Currently, the group consists of thefollowing about 60 members. A new web-sitehttp://www.karto.ethz.ch/ica-cmc is currentlybeing installed. One of the first tasks of thegroup will be to structurise this site accordingto the sub-topics of mountain cartography andto collect links to existing mountain sites,projects, databases and other references. Thisis being discussed at the first group meetingon November 7 in Vienna.

The second Workshop on MountainCartography will take place at theRudolfshuette in Austria from March 29 toApril 2, 2000. The Call for Papers can befound at: http://www.tu-dresden.de/fghgik/aktuell/high.htm

If any of the readers of ICANews isinterested to actively participate in this group,please contact the chair or another member ofthe group.

Lorenz Hurni, Commission Chair, October1999

Mapping fromSatellite Imagery

Join us! A call from the Commission onMapping derived from Satellite Imagery.This important Commission, re-

established at Ottawa this year under the newchair, Serge Le Blanc, is looking for

members. Although many enthusiastic responses

have been received to Serge’s initial

invitations for membership, most prefer to actas correspondents. To be successful a

Commission needs active members. So farthere are six in this core but more arerequired. Please indicate, as soon as possible,

the aspects of this subject which interest you

and in which you could play an active role.

Would you also be willing to lead one of theworking groups of the Commission?

Please provide a brief CVand yourcomplete postal address including phone, faxand email. Serge’s contact details are: SergeLe Blanc, Spot Image, 5 rue des Satellites, BP4359, F-31030 Toulouse Cedex 4 - France.Tel: +33 (0)5 62 19 40 99 Fax: +33 (0)5 6219 40 52; Email:[email protected] Web : http://www.spotimage.fr/

As Executive liaison to this Commission, andan enthusiast for the subject, I am anxious toencourage its healthy development over thenext few years. I thank those who havealready agreed to join the active team andhope that some readers of ICANews will joinin this important research thrust for the futureof cartography.

Michael Wood (Past President)

TheoreticalCartography

The commission “TheoreticalCartography” continues the fruitfulactivities of the commission

“Theoretical Fields and Definitions inCartography” (1995-1999). The Chairpersonis Alexander Wolodtschenko (Germany),Vice-Chair is Hansgeorg Schlichtmann(Canada) and ICA EC Contact person isTakashi Morita (Japan). So far, thecommission has recruited seventeencandidates, and it is expected that severalnominations will arise from the nationalcommittees in the near future. Futurecommission events include (for the next twoyears):• participation in the meetings of the

Commission Education and Training, to beheld in Budapest, Hungary, in February 4-6, 2000, and in Apatity, Russia, fromAugust 22 to 24, 2000, during InterCartoVI conference;

• A seminar on ‘The Selected Problems ofTheoretical Cartography 2000’ to be heldin Dresden, Germany, October 14-15,2000,

• commission meeting in Beijing, China,during the 20th ICA Conference,

• establishment of a home page on theWWW for dissemination of thecommission’s information.

Alexander Wolodtschenko.



ICC 2001, BeijingInvitation and Call forPapers

The Local Organizing Committee of the20th International CartographicConference, Beijing, 2001, invites

abstracts for papers proposed to be deliveredas part of the scientific conference program.

There are 27 technical topics of theConference, including Education and Trainingin Cartography, History of Cartography,Cartography and the Environment, MarineCartography, Satellite Mapping, GIS andDigital Mapping, Mapping on the Internet andthe World Wide Web, Cartography andChildren, Spatial Data Visualization, andGlobal Mapping, amongst others. Authorsshould indicate which one of the followingtopics is addressed. A full detail of the topicsis available in the Web site specially createdfor this event (www.sbsm.gov.cn/icc2001/).The abstract should be 300-500 words long inEnglish, the conference language.

Important Deadlines:September 1, 2000: typed abstracts must bereceived by the Local Organizing Committee.

December 1, 2000: notification to theauthors of the acceptance as session paper orposter.

April 1, 2001: fully typed version of thepapers accepted for oral presentation andpublication in the conference proceedingsmust be received by the Local OrganizingCommittee. Only the papers received by thisdate are assured publication in theproceedings. Abstracts and papers should bemailed to the following address:

Local Organizing Committee forICC 2001State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping ofChina (SBSM)9 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100830, ChinaFax: +86-10-68311564/68339095Tel: +86-10-68346614/68339095E-mail: [email protected]

Further details are available at:www.sbsm.gov.cn/icc2001/

(extracted from the Web site and the 1stCircular sent by Mr Bai Bo, Vice ChairmanLOC for ICC 2001)

Barbara PetchnikChildren’s Maps Award:2001 Competition

Rules for the 2001 Barbara Petchenik

Award are as follows:

• ICAmember nations will collect mapsfrom children less than 16 years old, onthe theme: “A World Map”. Each national

committee will select a maximum of 5maps according to its own criteria, such assubject, age groups (for example, three agegroups under 9 years, 9 to 12 years andover 12 years of age.), etc.

• The maximum size of a map must notexceed A3 (42 cm x 29.7 cm or 17 x 11inches). Each map, preferably in colour,should represent the whole world ratherthan a part of it.

• Each map must have a title, and the name,age, school address and country of itsauthor: all this information must be writtenon a label attached to the back side of therepresentation. It should be printed clearlyor typed by the teacher or another adult(which may be on a separate sheet ofpaper attached to the map).

• The maps selected by the nationalcommittees must be sent to the ICASecretary General by 15 June 2001 at thelatest. They will be displayed during the20th International CartographicConference of the InternationalCartographic Association in Beijing, China6-10 August 2001.

• The winning entries will be submitted tothe UNICEF International Art Committeefor consideration as greeting card designs.They may be used by ICAas well. Anyparticipant agrees that his/herrepresentation may be reproduced by ICA,UNICEF or others without consultation orcopyright fees.

Note that any original artwork selected for agreeting card will have to withstandappropriate reduction in size.

The guidelines for handling the 2001Barbara Petchenik Award are as follows:• The aim of the competition is to promote

children’s creative representation of theirworld, to enhance their cartographicawareness, and to make them moreconscious of their environment.

• Five to fifteen awards will be given, with amaximum of one per country, preferablyone to each continent with at least oneaward given to children in each of thethree age groups; under 9 years, 9 to 12years, and over 12 years of age.

• The Petchenik Award Committee will beestablished by the ICAExecutiveCommittee prior to the conference atwhich the contest is taking place.

• Each member nation is advised tonominate a coordinator to run the contestat the national level.

• National bodies submitting their selectedentries to the ICASecretariat are requestedto ensure that each map title is alsoprovided in either of the ICA’s officiallanguages (French and English).

• Participating nations are encouraged tocollect and archive the maps for furtherresearch. They are invited to report ontheir use of the collected drawings, toevaluate the process they used, and to givesuggestions to the ICAExecutiveCommittee for guidelines and rules for a2001 award.

• National bodies are responsible fordistributing the certificates awarded by theICAand provided by the Secretariat.

Ferjan Ormeling, Secretary General

Travel Awards for ICC2001, Beijing, China

Alimited number of travel awards tothe International CartographicConferences of the ICAwill be made

to young cartographers who are nationalsfrom developing countries. ICAgenerallyuses the United Nations definition ofdeveloping country, which can be found inthe U.N. Statistical Yearbook. Recentdefinition includes all countries in Africa,South and Central America including theCaribbean, and much of Asia and Oceania.

Applicants must be giving a paper at ICAfor the first time and be 35 years old or less.They must send a full copy of the paper aswell as abstract to the Conference Secretaryand to the ICASecretary-General in time toarrive by 15 December 2000. In addition,applicants must arrange for a letter of supportfrom a recognised cartographer from thehome or other country (due at the same timeas the paper; writer sends it to the Secretary-General).

Applicants should have at least acertificate beyond their high school education.Papers must be original and clearly writtenwith appropriate citations and credits. Papersshould be reports on research studies or othercartographically-related projects.

Awards will cover transportation(economy excursion ticket) and registration atthe conference. The Executive Committeewill make an effort to spread the awardsregionally and to include both men andwomen. Up to 15 awards will be madedepending on number and quality ofsubmissions. Preference may be given toapplicants from member countries in goodstanding but the competition is open to youngcartographers in all developing countries.

Notification of awards will be providedby 1 March 2001. Further information can beobtained from the ICA Secretary General :Ferjan Ormeling, P.O.Box 80115, 3508 TCUtrecht, the Netherlands; fax : +31 302540604; e-mail : [email protected]

Ferjan Ormeling



Future DatesFor Your diary

Aconference on ‘Teaching maps for

children: theories, experiences and

perspectives beginning the 3rd

Milleniumm’is being organised by the ICA

Commission on Cartography and Children, at

‘Eötvös Loránd’University, Budapest,

Hungary, from September 6 to 8, 2000.

Abstracts specifications and further

details are available at

http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/dolgozo/jes or by

email to: Jesús Reyes Nuñez

([email protected]). Contact address:

Jesús Reyes Nuñez, Eötvös Loránd University

Department of Cartography, Pázmány

Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest 1117, Hungary.

The abstract may be sent as a paper

document (snail mail, airmail or faxed) to the

organising committee (address above) or

electronically within a regular e-mail

document or as a WORD 6 or WORD 97

attachment. Deadline: December 10, 1999.

Geomatics 2000Montreal, Canada, from 8 – 10 March 2000Contact: Diana Nivelle, Canadian Institute of Geomatics.Tel.: 514 383 3679Fax: 524 383 7166Email: [email protected]

28th Symposium on Remote Sensing of theEnvironment. Cape Town, South Africa, from 27-31 March 2000.Enquires to: Jim Weber,Tel.: 1 (410) 455 5573,Fax: 1 (410) 455 5575,Email: [email protected]

ASPRS Annual Conference 2000Omni Shoreham HotelWashington, DC, USA,From 22 – 26 May.Enquires to: Tel.: 1 301 493 0290Fax: 1 301 493 0208Email: [email protected]

International IT Conference on Geo-spatialEducationHong Kong Conference and ExhibitionCentre, Hong Kong,From 6 – 8 July 2000.Enquires to: Berlina Ho,Conference Secretary, ITCGSE,Dept. of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, Hung Hom, Kowloon, HongKong.Email: [email protected]

ISPRS 2000RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands,From 16-23 JulyEnquires to: Saskia Templeman, Secretary,Local Organising Committee, P.O. Box 6,7500 AA, Enschede, The Netherlands.Tel.: 31 (53) 487 4358,Fax: 31 (53) 487 4335,Email: [email protected]

VI International Congress on Sciences of theEarthDiego Portales Convention Center, Chile,From 7 – 11 August 2000Enquires to: Instituto Geografico Militar deChile, Nueva Santa Isabel 1640, Santiago,Chile.Tel.: 562 460 6813 / 460 6814Fax: 562 460 6978Email: [email protected]

29th International Geographical CongressSeoul, South KoreaFrom 14 – 18 August 2000Enquires to: Tel.: 82 (2) 876 0401,Email: [email protected]

Second European GIS Education SeminarBudapest, Hungary,From 7 – 10 September.Enquires to: Bela Markus, SEFFFK, P.O. Box 52, H-8000Szekesfehervar, Hungary,Tel.: 36 (22) 312 988,Fax: 36 (22) 327 697,Email: [email protected]


Correction

The ICANewsletter 32, contained alist of Member Countries (page 6).Unintentionally, Iran was not

published in the list. We apologise for thismistake and acknowledge Mr BehadadGhazanfari for noting and reporting thismistake.

Editor

Auringer Wood, Alberta 2

Barbara Petchenik 2001 15

Barbara Petchenik winners 7

Board, Christopher 2

Bratislava gathering 12

Census Cartography 14

Commissions 1999 – 2003 1,10-12

Conferences 16

ICA Awards 6

ICC '2001, Beijing 15

Impressions of ICC’99 2

Kuyvenharen, Erin 7

Mapping from Satellite Imagery 14

Maps and Internet 13

Marine Cartography 13

Metternicht, Graciela 1, 6,

Mountain Cartography 14

Ormeling, Ferjan 1, 6, 15

Ottawa in Pictures 4-5

President's Opening Address 3

Theoretical Cartography 14

Travel Awardees ICC '99 6

Travel Awards ICC '2001 15

Wood, Michael 3, 8, 9, 12

© Published by the International Cartographic Association. President: Bengt Rystedt, National Land Survey, Sweden.Secretary General: Ferjan Ormeling, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Editor: Graciela Metternicht, School of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.


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