Welcome to the website of the Research Unit Cartography at TU Wien. We are one of the seven research units that form the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation.
We are a proud partner university of the International Master of Cartography.This year again, our cartography students have created stunning maps, as part of their course “Project Map Creation”. They had full freedom over the topic, data, software and techniques used. The results are truly impressive.
You can now see all of them online using this link.
Thank you to Camila Narbaitz Sarsur for setting up the exhibition!
The 15th intake of cartography students finished their semester! During the past 4 months, they have practiced many cartographic skills: web mapping, location-based services, theoretical cartography, graphic design, and many others. And they learned by doing, as this semester is almost fully assignment-based.
In the Project Map Creation course (supervised by Manuela Schmidt and Camila Narbaitz Sarsur), they had the chance to apply all the techniques they want to realize one big project, which they exhibited at the occasion of our yearly Map Exhibition on June 25th!
We celebrated the end of their semester, and their beautiful maps. It was a great moment — although we are of course always sad to say bye.
Their next stop, after a well-deserved summer break, is the Technical University of Dresden! We wish them a great semester and hope to see them soon.
Our open-source web map, Grätzlfarben, which visualizes land use in Vienna and is based on the Berlin project, Kiezcolors, has now also been implemented and adapted for the city of Basel: Quartierfarben!
With its own color scheme, corporate design, and new features like an inset map on the postcard, automatic neighborhood-based labeling, and multiple basemaps to choose from, it shows how open-source collaboration can benefit everyone. The Statistisches Amt Basel-Stadt has also published the visualization in their statistical dossier (April 2026) and as posters around the city, offering a postcard printing option at events. It’s wonderful to see this project spread and evolve.
If you want to build such a web app for your own city, make sure to check out our GitHub repository and reach out if we can support you.
Florian Ledermann, Senior Lecturer
Andrea Binn, University Assistant
Ester Scheck, University Assistant
Nicolás Martínez Heredia, University Assistant
Parinda Pannoon, Project Assistant
Sacha Schlumpf, Project Assistant
