December 2014 – Research Unit Cartography

22 December 201422 December 2014

Season’s Greetings from the Research Group Cartography

Dear friends, we would like to thank you for the pleasant collaborations in 2014. We are looking forward to working with you in the upcoming year! Our best wishes for a pleasant holiday season and a prosperous New Year!

Haosheng, Florian, Manuela, Violet, Georg, Wangshu (missing on this picture: Edith) — Happy holiday wishes from Haosheng, Florian, Manuela, Violet, Georg, Wangshu and (not in this picture) Edith!

9 December 201424 April 2015

Presentation of three master theses on 5.12.2014

On Friday, December 5, three of our students successfully completed their studies in the International Master of Cartography (2nd intake) by presenting their theses:

Alice Rühl: A Cartographic Approach to Spatio-temporal Data Visualization of Events in Visual Analytics Applications (together with PennState University, USA)
Ekaterina Chuprikova: An Assessment of the Solar Potential of Roofs within a Web-based Solar Cadastre (together with EURAC, Italy)
Anna Vetter: The automatic generalization of building polygons whilst maintaining the settlement structure – A case study based on the 1:50`000 Swiss National Map Series (together with SwissTopo and ESRI, Switzerland)

Georg Gartner, Alice Rühl, Anna Vetter and Ekaterina Chuprikova

Congratulations and all the best for your future!