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Welcome to the New Zealand Cartographic Society

Welcome to the New Zealand Cartographic Society's Website

On this website you will find information on NZCS activities, conference materials,

information about our publications, and the International Cartographic Association.

 

Cartogram 73 is now available

Cartogram 73 is now available. This edition of the New Zealand Cartographic Society Newsletter contains articles on, amongst others:

- Reports on four cartographic events in 11 days! (August 27th - September 6th: Thematic Cartography Workshop, GeoCart'2012, 8th Mountain Cartography Workshop, Design Principles for Statistical Maps talk)

- Life membership for president Geoff Aitken and the Geoff Howard and Robin Pickering Memorial Scholarship

- NZCS publications update

- A gift from Argentina, LINZ news, 2013 cartographic conferences and 2015...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Last Updated ( Monday, 17 December 2012 02:00 )
 

"Geospatial Visualisation" published

 

The long awaited book "Geospatial Visualisation" has been published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography and Publications of the ICA subseries. The chapters in this book evolved from papers on completed research submitted to GeoCart’2010 / the 1st ICA Regional Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania, held in Auckland, New Zealand, 1st -3rd September 2010. The book features cutting edge topics such geovisual analytics, mobile / Web 2.0 mapping, spatiotemporal representation, cognitive cartography, historical mapping and 3D technology.
 

Children's Map Competition now open

 

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…Is a mapping competition run by the New Zealand Cartographical Society (NZCS) on behalf of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). Prizes include posters, NZ chart series, wall maps, books, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience for 2 lucky winners. Open to all children under 16 yrs – 4 age categories (under 6yrs, 9-12yrs & 13-15yrs)

Theme: “My Place In Today’s World”                Entries due in 28th March 2013

·       Winners of the NZ competition will receive an individual prize and a prize for their school, then winning entries will be forwarded to the ICA for international judging.

Click on the banner above or go here for more details.

 

NZCS and ICA NZ conference wrapup

Three major NZCS / ICA conference / workshop events ran in August / September this year. GeoCart'2012, the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop and the Thematic Map Design workshop all ran successfully. See Cartogram 73 for reports and some photos. The ICA Commission on Mountain Cartography website has a report and other materials from the workshop at Taurewa, Tongariro National Park. A post-workshop publication of papers is to follow in 2013.