On September 9, Sigita Grīnfelde, student of the International Master in Cartography, presented her Master Thesis „Motorway network depiction from OpenStreetMap data in accordance with cartographic demands“. We congratulate Sigita and wish her all the best for her future career!
Master Thesis Presentation:
Invitation to a master thesis presentation on September 8, 2016
We invite you to the master thesis presentation by Sigita Grīnfelde on the topic of Motorway network depiction from OpenStreetMap data in accordance with cartographic demands.
- Date: September 8, 2016, 1pm (13:00 Uhr)
- Place: Seminar room 126, Erzherzog-Johann-Platz 1, 1st floor
Be welcome!
Farewell to the fifth intake of the International Master on Cartography
The fifth intake of the International Master Programme on Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a farewell session to review the semester and to showcase results of their hard work in this semester.
We wish them all the best!
To find out more about the International Master in Cartography, please visit cartographymaster.eu.
Meet & greet with representatives of all 4 partner universities of the International Master of Cartography
On April 14, the Research Group Cartography hosted a meeting of representatives of all partner universities of the Master of Cartography programme. We were happy to welcome programme coordinator Juliane Cron from Technische Universität München, Dirk Burghardt from TU Dresden and Corné van Elzakker from ITC, University of Twente.
The students from the 5th intake, who spend the summer semester 2016 at TU Wien, had the chance to get to know the colleagues from Dresden and Twente and get information about upcoming classes and excursions.
To find out more about the International Master in Cartography, please visit cartographymaster.eu.
Welcome to the 5th intake of the International Master in Cartography
We are happy to welcome 21 students from all over the world at TU Vienna for the summer semester 2016. Countries of origin include China, Bosnia and Herzigowina, UK, Iran, Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt, Kuwait, USA, Brazil, Ukraine, Poland and Namibia!
After finishing their first semester at TU München, the students are now here with us for their second semester, before proceeding to TU Dresden. We wish them a fun and successful semester!
To find out more about the International Master in Cartography, please visit cartographymaster.eu.
Master thesis presentation on 16.12.2015
On December 16, Francisco Daniel Porras Bernárdez, student of the International Master of Cartography (3rd intake), presented his master thesis on the topic of “Extraction of user’s stays from GPS logs: A comparison of three spatio-temporal clustering approaches”. His presentation is accessible online here.

200 cartographers will meet in Vienna
Next week will be a very busy week for our Research Group: We will host the 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography (EuroCarto). From Tuesday to Thursday participants can expect a dense program of cartographic input. Feel free to scroll through the program on eurocarto.org.
Just before the conference, a meeting of representatives of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) will take place at TU Wien. All ICA commission chairs are invited to join and plan their activities for the next years. This will also include a meeting of the Working Group on the International Map Year (IMY).
On Wednesday, the consortium of the Cartography M.Sc. programme will meet to discuss the future of the Erasmus+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.
Great student projects, summer semester 2015
After a busy summer semester we would like to showcase a selection of extraordinary projects from the classes Webmapping, Multimedia Cartography, Project Map Creation and Applied Cartography:
- Indy Wien Map Guide by Myles Cook (pdf, 12mb), Project Map Creation
- Hiking map for Brdy Hills by Vlach Pavel (pdf, 11mb), Project Map Creation
- Tombstone Territorial Park Map by Allie Strel (pdf, 12mb), Project Map Creation
- Prater Running Map by Aleksandra Draksler (pdf, 24mb), Project Map Creation
- Typographic Map of Vienna by Shuoyan Huang (pdf, 9mb), Project Map Creation
- Thematic Map about Vorderland-Feldkirch (pdf, 2mb) by Lisa Ertl, Applied Cartography (assignment)
- Thematic Map about Asylum seekers in Europe 2010–2014 (pdf, 5mb) by Katharina Berger, Applied Cartography (assignment)
- kaffein.wien by Isaak Granzer and Gabriel Neuner, Web Mapping (group project)
- Krkonoše MTB Track by Pavel Vlach and Jakub Jaroš, Web Mapping (group project)
- Designing animated maps with the map reader in mind by Silvia Klettner, Multimedia Cartography
A huge thanks to all students for their hard work! Enjoy the summer.
Projects from earlier semesters can be found here: summer 2014 | winter 2014 | 2013 | 2012
Farewell to the fourth intake of the International Master on Cartography
The fourth intake of the International Master Programme on Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a farewell session to review the semester and to showcase results of their hard work in this semester.
We wish them all the best!
To find out more about the International Master in Cartography, please visit cartographymaster.eu.
Anna Vetter won the 2015 swisstopoEDU-MSc promotion programme

Anna Vetter, alumni of the second intake of the International Master of Cartography, won the 2015 swisstopoEDU-MSc promotion programme for her thesis The automatic generalisation of buildings whilst maintaining the settlement structure: A case study based on the 1:50‘000 Swiss National Map Series, which she wrote in collaboration with swisstopo, ESRI Switzerland and the Research Group Cartography. Congratulations, Anna!
More about the swisstopoEDU-MSc promotion programme can be found here: swisstopo.admin.ch