We are very happy to welcome our new colleague Olesia Ignateva.
She received her bachelor’s degree in Cartography and Geoinformatics at Kazan Federal University and graduated with distinction from the International Cartography Master program in 2021.
Olesia will work with us as a researcher and lecturer and share her scientific interests in the history of Cartography, critical Cartography, cartographic education and ethics.
This Wednesday, 30th of March, 27 students of our Research Unit contributed to the UN Mapathon, a collaborative action organized by the UN Mappers and the UNGGIM Academic Network. The Mapathon aims to map areas in OpenStreetMap where the UN carries out field operations, encourage students to contribute to open geospatial data and raise awareness about the UN Mappers mission.
We organized a Zoom session, where students collaborated while performing their mapping tasks, and as a result, our students mapped 1881 buildings in Tripoli, Libya. In total, all Mapathon participants mapped 13700 buildings in 10 hours.
Thanks to all our students for their support!
We are very pleased to invite you to the European Cartographic Conference “EuroCarto 2022”, held from 19-21 September 2022 at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria. The conference is co-organized by us, the Research Unit Cartography at TU Wien, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the German (DGfK), Austrian (ÖKK), Swiss (SGK) and British (BCS) Cartographic Societies.
We aim to bring together Cartographers and those working in related disciplines to offer a platform for discussion, exchange and stimulation of research and joined projects. If you are interested in participating or contributing to EuroCarto 2022, visit our conference website for general information, registration and guidelines on our open Call for Submissions.
We look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful Vienna and celebrating Cartography!
We are happy to welcome our new intake of the International Master in Cartography program! The 21 students from 13 countries have finished their first semester at TU München and will spend the summer semester with us before moving to Dresden.
We wish all students a great and successful time and are glad to share social activities, such as our Carto Walk through the historical centre of Vienna.
Our lecturer Dr. Markus Jobst has published an atlas on the Sustainable Development Goals. “SDGs in Action – A Generations` View” includes maps, statements and biographies of various contributors to illustrate different perspectives on today`s problems and motivations for establishing a sustainable world.
For more information or to get the printed or digital bilingual atlas in English / German, visit: https://sdggeneration.cartography.at/
Congratulations, Markus, on this valuable work!
Vom 14.–18. Dezember 2021 fand in Florenz, Italien, die 30. International Cartographic Conference (ICC) statt. In diesem Rahmen wurde auch wieder die International Cartographic Exhibition organisiert – eine Ausstellung für digitale und analoge Karten aus aller Welt. Die Ausstellung fand im Italienischen Militärgeographischen Institut statt und wurde am 13. Dezember eröffnet. Von den 410 Beiträgen aus 32 Ländern war auch Österreich mit 12 Beiträgen vertreten!
Basierend auf dem Call for Maps wurden von der ÖKK 12 Beiträge aus Österreich nominiert, darunter 7 Papierkarten, 3 Atlanten, ein digitales Kartenprodukt und ein digitaler Service.
Continue reading “Österreichische Beiträge bei der International Cartographic Exhibition in Florenz”As part of the 30th International Cartographic Conference, held in December 2021 in Florence, the International Cartographic Association ICA awarded outstanding contributions to the ICA and the science of Cartography.
We congratulate Prof. Georg Gartner on the ICA Honorary Fellowship award and our lecturer Manuela Schmidt on the Diploma for Outstanding Services to ICA.
Congratulations to our M.Sc. student Nele Peschel for winning the Ravenstein-Förderpreis in the category students with Mapping SÁMI Languages. Designed in the Project Map Creation during her summer semester in Vienna 2021, the jury awarded her work with: “excellently designed map that makes outstanding use of semiotic rules”.
The Ravenstein-Förderpreis, which is awarded annually, promotes young cartographic talents in German-speaking countries. This year’s award ceremony took place at the Faculty of Plastics Engineering and Surveying at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
We are happy to announce a special issue on Recent Trends in Location Based Services and Science, guest-edited by Prof. Georg Gartner and our former colleague Prof. Haosheng Huang.
If you are interested in developments and research on location-based services, join the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services, held fully online on 24—25 November 2021.
As in former semesters, we would like to showcase a selection of extraordinary student projects from this summer semester.
The following maps are results from the class Project Map Creation:
Kamran on Bike by Hassam Ali (jpg, 3,3mb)
Transit Map of Vienna (Redesign of the official map) by Iaroslav Boretskii (pdf, 3,5mb)
Iztaccihuatl – Popocatepetl Hiking Map by Jose Pablo Ceballos Cantu (jpg, 2,7mb)
Wertheim Castle by Valerian Lange (pdf, 1,9mb)
The Alpine Network by Sangho Lee (jpg, 7,3mb)
Mapping SÁMI Languages by Nele Peschel (jpg, 5,2mb)
Ecoturism in Tayrona National Natural Park by Ana Oliva Pinilla Pachon (jpg, 2,8mb)
Hiking Sarek by Vivien van Dongen (jpg, 4,4mb)
The World of Scientists by Hsiang-Yun Wu (png, 6,7mb)
E-commerce Revitalizes Rural China: A Glance at Taobao Villages in the Yangtze River Delta by Zhuo Yang (jpg, 3mb)
Kenan’s Climb: Honoring Kenan’s Record Hike by Lydia Youngblood (jpg, 4,4mb)
A huge thank you to all students for their hard work in this busy summer semester. Enjoy the summer!
Results from earlier semesters can be found here:
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