Welcome to GeoCart'2018
Cartographies of Change: Then, Now and Tomorrow
The 9th National Cartographic Conference and the 46th Annual ANZMapS Conference, GeoCart'2018, will convene from 5-7 September in the "Coolest Little Capital in the World" - Wellington, New Zealand.
GeoCart'2018 aims to bring together a wide cross section of professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts engaged in cartography, map curatorship and research, geovisualisation, and GIScience. Participants will learn new techniques, explore the latest developments and research, engage with their colleagues in the greater community, and develop a deeper understanding of cartography and mapping. The conference is jointly organised by the New Zealand Cartographic Society and the Australian and New Zealand Map Society. It is endorsed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).
We warmly invite you to join us in Wellington this September for GeoCart'2018!
Call for Contributions
You are invited to submit professional or research abstracts of up to 1,500 words on any topic in cartography, map curatorship, history of cartography or exploration, geovisualisation, GIScience, or other related disciplines.
Each abstract must be submitted towards an oral presentation or poster presentation stream. Each will be reviewed by one member of the Programme Committee from an appropriate field and background. All accepted submissions will be published in the Conference Proceedings. See the Author Guidelines for further details. Please be aware some oral presentaton abstracts submitted for consideration may be accepted as posters instead.
If a submitted abstract is accepted, one of the following will apply, depending on the results of the review:
- Accepted for oral presentation at the conference and included in the conference Proceedings, subject to review recommendations
- Accepted for poster presentation at the conference and included in the conference Proceedings, subject to review recommendations
Principal authors of accepted abstracts are eligible for a 10% discount on the conference registration fee.
NZCS Young Geospatial Competitions
The New Zealand Cartographic Society is proud to announce two brand new competitions for young geospatial professionals at GeoCart'2018! The NZCS Young Geospatial Competitions will include poster and lightning talk streams, both to be held in sessions on the opening day of the conference (5 September).
Competition eligibility is restricted to those under 30 years of age. Only indidvidual authors may enter and all topics must be geospatial in nature. Abstracts must be submitted for review and are subject to the same criteria and deadlines as standard submissions. See the YGC Guidelines for further details.
Posters and lightning talks will be judged by members of the conference keynote panel. A prize pack for each competition will feature a map poster from The Map Kiwi and a $100 Prezzy card. Winners will also be featured on the NZCS website and in post-conference publications.
Approved authors of YGC posters are eligible for a 10% discount on the conference registration fee. Approved authors of YGC lightning talks are eligible for a 5% discount on the conference registration fee.
Keynote Speakers
Linda specializes in developing applied approaches to spatial analysis through real examples and applications. She co-authored the ground-breaking UK Environmental Health Atlas and her current work involves the development of Insights for ArcGIS.
Dr. Linda Beale - Lead Product Engineer (Geoprocessing) at ESRI
Linda moved to California from the UK to join ESRI in 2011. She was formerly a Research Associate at Imperial College London in the Small Area Health Statistics Unit and she co-authored the ground-breaking UK Environmental Health Atlas. Her background in spatial analysis saw her develop novel techniques for understanding hydrological flow during her PhD; she then went on to explore and analyze spatial epidemiology patterns and processes.
Linda has won numerous awards for the development of a Rapid Inquiry Facility for mapping disease rates. Her current work involves the development of Insights for ArcGIS, which aims to seamlessly blend data analysis with spatial analysis and visualisation techniques. Linda specializes in developing applied approaches to spatial analysis through real examples and applications.
Widely published, Linda has authored numerous papers, book chapters, and presented at national and international conferences. At her occasional cartographic conference presentations she uses her deep understanding of geographical processes to demonstrate effective ways of communicating findings. She has a keen cartographic eye and firmly believes that the map is only one part of a continuum from gathering and understanding data to meaningful analysis and effective presentation.
Aileen has been a research cartographer with ESRI since 2003 and a professional cartographer for over 30 years. She is currently both the chair of the U.S. National Committee to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and a U.S. Delegate to the ICA.
Dr. Aileen Buckley - Research Cartographer at ESRI
Aileen has been a research cartographer with ESRI since 2003 and a professional cartographer for over 30 years. Holding a PhD from Oregon State University, she was also faculty at the University of Oregon and is an adjunct professor at the University of Redlands. She is a past president of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society and is currently both the chair of the U.S. National Committee to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and a U.S. Delegate to the ICA.
Aileen has published and lectured widely on topics relating to cartography and GIS. She is an author of the Atlas of Oregon (2001) and the latest editions of the text and reference book Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation (2009, 2012, and 2016). Her current interests are in maps for the web, for temporal data, and for statistical data. She is a regular contributor to ESRI's ArcWatch and ArcUser and the ESRI blog.
Roger Carman - Group Manager, Topography at Land Information New Zealand
Roger has over 20 years' experience working in the field of spatial information. His experience has been split evenly between the public and private sectors. He has also split his time evenly between New Zealand-based roles and a decade spent in Europe. Roger’s current role sees him leading the Topography Group at LINZ. This group encompasses map production (LINZ Topo50 and Topo250 map series), the coordination of partnership programmes (National Imagery, Historic Imagery, Elevation and Earth Observation), and the development of a new set of Independent Topographic Datasets. Roger has a strong interest in helping his people develop their careers while building strong and adaptable teams.
Dr. Linda Beale - Lead Product Engineer (Geoprocessing) at ESRI
Linda moved to California from the UK to join ESRI in 2011. She was formerly a Research Associate at Imperial College London in the Small Area Health Statistics Unit and she co-authored the ground-breaking UK Environmental Health Atlas. Her background in spatial analysis saw her develop novel techniques for understanding hydrological flow during her PhD; she then went on to explore and analyze spatial epidemiology patterns and processes.
Linda has won numerous awards for the development of a Rapid Inquiry Facility for mapping disease rates. Her current work involves the development of Insights for ArcGIS, which aims to seamlessly blend data analysis with spatial analysis and visualisation techniques. Linda specializes in developing applied approaches to spatial analysis through real examples and applications.
Widely published, Linda has authored numerous papers, book chapters, and presented at national and international conferences. At her occasional cartographic conference presentations she uses her deep understanding of geographical processes to demonstrate effective ways of communicating findings. She has a keen cartographic eye and firmly believes that the map is only one part of a continuum from gathering and understanding data to meaningful analysis and effective presentation.
Dr. Aileen Buckley - Research Cartographer at ESRI
Aileen has been a research cartographer with ESRI since 2003 and a professional cartographer for over 30 years. Holding a PhD from Oregon State University, she was also faculty at the University of Oregon and is an adjunct professor at the University of Redlands. She is a past president of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society and is currently both the chair of the U.S. National Committee to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and a U.S. Delegate to the ICA.
Aileen has published and lectured widely on topics relating to cartography and GIS. She is an author of the Atlas of Oregon (2001) and the latest editions of the text and reference book Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation (2009, 2012, and 2016). Her current interests are in maps for the web, for temporal data, and for statistical data. She is a regular contributor to ESRI's ArcWatch and ArcUser and the ESRI blog.
Roger Carman - Group Manager, Topography at Land Information New Zealand
Roger has over 20 years' experience working in the field of spatial information. His experience has been split evenly between the public and private sectors. He has also split his time evenly between New Zealand-based roles and a decade spent in Europe. Roger’s current role sees him leading the Topography Group at LINZ. This group encompasses map production (LINZ Topo50 and Topo250 map series), the coordination of partnership programmes (National Imagery, Historic Imagery, Elevation and Earth Observation), and the development of a new set of Independent Topographic Datasets. Roger has a strong interest in helping his people develop their careers while building strong and adaptable teams.
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His main focus at NLS has been on curating digital mapping.
Chris Fleet - Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His primary focus has been on curating digital mapping, including the electronic legal deposit of map datasets, as well as managing long-term projects to make historical maps available online. He pioneered negotiations with Ordnance Survey in the 1990s to receive and archive deposits of their large-scale digital mapping in UK Legal Deposit Libraries, a process which has expanded today to include the electronic deposit of other digital map datasets.
At NLS, Chris has been engaged in map digitisation and online delivery, which in the last decade has included developing the open-source web mapping applications and viewers for historical maps at https://maps.nls.uk. This popular website currently makes freely available over 200,000 high-resolution images of historical maps, the majority as georeferenced layers, using a variety of viewers and web services.
Chris has also been active in researching map history, especially Scottish mapping, having co-supervised several doctoral and masters students, curated exhibitions, given presentations, and published widely. He oversaw the Birlinn Great Atlas series of facsimile historical atlas publications, and is a co-author of Scotland: Mapping the Nation (2011), Edinburgh: Mapping the City (2014), and Scotland: Mapping the Islands (2016).
Kent Lee - Co-founder and President/CEO of East View Companies
Kent helped found East View Information Services in 1989. In 1995 he established East View Geospatial in order to accelerate the commercial development and research potential of maps and geodata coming from the countries of the former USSR. In subsequent years EVG developed global capabilities with respect to topographic maps, geological maps, maritime products, and remote sensing data. East View Companies has a mission to serve academic, government and other research professionals with high-quality information resources from Russia, China, and other challenging countries around the world.
Kent did his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and has a master's from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He lives in Minnesota, USA, and can be reached at kent.lee@eastview.com.
Chris trained as a geographer with a focus on cartography and human geography. He currently works with a range of organisations, including Figure.NZ, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping people make better decisions with data.
Dr. Chris McDowall - Professional Cartographer and Adviser
Chris trained as a geographer with a focus on cartography and human geography. He has worked variously as a cartographer, environmental scientist, and development manager at the University of Auckland, Landcare Research, and the National Library of New Zealand. He currently works freelance with a range of organisations, including Figure.NZ, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping people make better decisions with data. The common thread throughout his career is a desire to make the nation's data easier to find and understand.
Chris' maps have been exhibited at the National Library of New Zealand and the Auckland War Memorial Museum. He has made data visualisations for the NZ Herald and is a regular contributor to The Spinoff. Currently, Chris is hard at work completing a thematic atlas of Aotearoa.
Chris Fleet - Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His primary focus has been on curating digital mapping, including the electronic legal deposit of map datasets, as well as managing long-term projects to make historical maps available online. He pioneered negotiations with Ordnance Survey in the 1990s to receive and archive deposits of their large-scale digital mapping in UK Legal Deposit Libraries, a process which has expanded today to include the electronic deposit of other digital map datasets.
At NLS, Chris has been engaged in map digitisation and online delivery, which in the last decade has included developing the open-source web mapping applications and viewers for historical maps at https://maps.nls.uk. This popular website currently makes freely available over 200,000 high-resolution images of historical maps, the majority as georeferenced layers, using a variety of viewers and web services.
Chris has also been active in researching map history, especially Scottish mapping, having co-supervised several doctoral and masters students, curated exhibitions, given presentations, and published widely. He oversaw the Birlinn Great Atlas series of facsimile historical atlas publications, and is a co-author of Scotland: Mapping the Nation (2011), Edinburgh: Mapping the City (2014), and Scotland: Mapping the Islands (2016).
Kent Lee - Co-founder and President/CEO of East View Companies
Kent helped found East View Information Services in 1989. In 1995 he established East View Geospatial in order to accelerate the commercial development and research potential of maps and geodata coming from the countries of the former USSR. In subsequent years EVG developed global capabilities with respect to topographic maps, geological maps, maritime products, and remote sensing data. East View Companies has a mission to serve academic, government and other research professionals with high-quality information resources from Russia, China, and other challenging countries around the world.
Kent did his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and has a master's from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He lives in Minnesota, USA, and can be reached at kent.lee@eastview.com.
Dr. Chris McDowall - Professional Cartographer and Adviser
Chris trained as a geographer with a focus on cartography and human geography. He has worked variously as a cartographer, environmental scientist, and development manager at the University of Auckland, Landcare Research, and the National Library of New Zealand. He currently works freelance with a range of organisations, including Figure.NZ, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping people make better decisions with data. The common thread throughout his career is a desire to make the nation's data easier to find and understand.
Chris' maps have been exhibited at the National Library of New Zealand and the Auckland War Memorial Museum. He has made data visualisations for the NZ Herald and is a regular contributor to The Spinoff. Currently, Chris is hard at work completing a thematic atlas of Aotearoa.
NZCS National Map Exhibition 2018
The New Zealand Cartographic Society invites you to submit an entry to the National Map Exhibition 2018. Entries in this competition will be displayed and judged at Geocart'2018 where a panel of judges will decide on how successfully a map delivers on its stated purpose, taking into account its design, execution and presentation.
Subject to the number and quality of entries received, a winner will be announced for each of two categories: Printed Map Product and Digital Map Product. Additional prizes will be awarded at the judges’ discretion. All entries will be eligible for selection to represent New Zealand at the 2019 ICA International Cartographic Exhibition in Tokyo.
Entries may be submitted by any individual or organisation and there is no limit on the number of submissions. Entries must be original products, in their finished state, and first produced/published after 30 June 2016.
Venue
All GeoCart'2018 sessions, breaks, and the Ice Breaker function will be held at the outstanding facilities of the National Library of New Zealand in Thorndon, Wellington. The Gala Dinner will again be at the acclaimed Dockside Restaurant on the Wellington waterfront.
Workshops
The conference will be preceded by three workshops:
NZCS Map Design Workshop (MDW'2018): Discovering ArcGIS
3-4 September | Kirk Building, VUW Kelburn Campus
Dr. Aileen Buckley will provide a comprehensive introduction to mapping with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online. The first day will focus on reference mapping and the second day thematic mapping. Morning sessions will teach creating print and on-screen maps; sessions after lunch will be dedicated to web maps and apps. By the end of this workshop, few stones will be left unturned in discovering the power of the ArcGIS platform to meet any mapping need.
This workshop is designed for anyone wishing to know how to make and share maps using the ArcGIS platform.
ANZMapS Historical Maps Online Workshop
4 September (09:00 - 13:30) | Rutherford House, VUW Pipitea Campus
Chris Fleet, Map Curator of the National Library of Scotland, will teach about creating and curating online map collections. The venue is sponsored by the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
The workshop is designed for individuals in charge of online collections as well as those with interest in the process.
ANZMapS Map Conservation Workshop
4 September (14:15 - 1700) | National Library of New Zealand
Conservators from the Alexander Turnbull Library Collection Care team will lead a workshop on assessing maps for treatment, different techniques for conservation and repair, as well as recommendations for housing and storing maps. The workshop will be followed by a tour of the Alexander Turnbull Library Cartographic Collection.
This workshop is designed for individuals responsible for the management and storage of map collections in all organisation sizes.
Important Dates
| Deadline for abstracts submission | 25 May 2018 |
| Decision on submissions relayed to author(s) | 15 June 2018 |
| Deadline for revised submissions | 29 June 2018 |
| Deadline for Early Registration | 31 July 2018 |
| Deadline for Map Exhibition entry | 31 Aug 2018 |
| GeoCart'2018 Conference | 5-7 Sept 2018 |
Important Dates
| Deadline for abstracts submission | 25 May |
| Decision on submissions relayed to author(s) | 15 June |
| Deadline for revised submissions | 29 June |
| Deadline for Early Registration | 31 July |
| Deadline for Map Exhibition entry | 31 Aug |
| GeoCart'2018 Conference | 5-7 Sept |
Organising Committee
- Michelle Knight - Aeropath | Conference Co-director (NZCS)
- Shannon L. McColley - Land Information New Zealand | Conference Co-director (NZCS)
- Mark Bagnall - Alexander Turnbull Library | Conference Co-director (ANZMapS)
- Geoff O'Malley - Land Information New Zealand
Sponsors
A special thank you to our sponsors:
