Manuela Schmidt participates in the openSolarCA’09 workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan as lecturer. Her workshop lecture is entitled
User interface design and cartographic quality in contemporary web mapping
The worksop from August 24 to 26, 2009 is a pre-conference workshop of GISCA’09 and is organized by the Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience and Eurasia-Pacific Uninet.
Find more information at the workshop website.


The book is part of the series “Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography” published by Springer. It contains selected papers of the symposium “Cartography and Art – Art and Cartography” which was organized by Research Group Cartography together with Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in February 2008.
Find all details about the first installment of the ICA Symposium on Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe, which took place on 16 and 17 February 2009 at TU Vienna, on the 



Research Group Cartography is organizing the First ICA Symposium on Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe. The symposium website including the call for papers is now online at 
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) held its executive committee meeting at Research Group Cartography on 3 and 4 February 2008. This was the first time that such a meeting took place in Austria.
The first ICA Symposium on Art and Cartography took place from 31 January to 2 February 2008 at Vienna University of Technology. Please find all details at
The website for our Symposium on Art and Cartography is online at