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The 8th National Cartographic Conference, GeoCart’2016, and the 4th ICA Regional Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania, will convene from 31 August – 2 September 2016. It will be held at the outstanding facilities of the National Library of New Zealand in the Coolest Little Capital in the World – Wellington, New Zealand.
GeoCart’2016 is jointly organised by the New Zealand Cartographic Society and the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia.
The Conference is endorsed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).
Confirmed Keynote Speakers include:
- Dr. Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Chair ICA Commission on SDIs and Standards - Dr. Amy Griffin, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Chair ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualisation - , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Chair ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital
Special Presentation by:
- Menno-Jan Kraak, President of the ICA (The Netherlands)
Head of Geo-Information Processing, International Institute for Geo-Information and Earth Observation at the University of Twente
Attendees will have the opportunity to view the National Library’s excellent Unfolding the Map exhibition at the same venue as the conference.
Call for Abstracts for GeoCart’2016 conference now open – closes 10 June 2016.
To submit an abstract, to register and for more information visit the GeoCar’2016 conference website at http://geocart.cartography.org.nz/2016/
Submissions are now invited on any topic in cartography, map curatorship, history of cartography or exploration, geovisualisation and GIScience, or related disciplines, covering work of a professional and/or academic nature. Further details can be found on the Invitation page. Submissions are made through the GeoCart’2016 EasyChair conference management system.
The submission deadline is Friday, 10 June, 2016.
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