Dear all,
You may not be aware but you do not have to be a member of either society to attend Cartography 2003, (a joint event of the British Cartographic Society and the Society of Cartographers. This year, the venue is at Reading University from 2 – 5 September.
If you are hesitating to sign up there is an exciting programme of lectures, workshops, visits and some socializing on offer, which should not be missed.
This naturally includes the Map Curators’ Workshop.
Come and renew old friendships and make new ones. It is a great opportunity to get together.
For full details of all the various sessions, costs and registration go to the conference website at:
http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/bcs-soc_2003/Prog.htm
In addition this year the Helen Wallis Memorial Lecture will be given on Tuesday afternoon 2 September by Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. His title is “The maturing of British commercial cartography: William Faden (1749 –1836) and the map trade”.
The Map Curators’ Workshop is on Wednesday afternoon 3 September commencing at 14.00.
Entitled “Archiving, manipulating and distributing digital data” there is an impressive line up of 5 speakers. Full details are given below with an extract (just to whet your appetites) taken from the authors’ abstracts.
MAP CURATORS’ WORKSHOP Wednesday 3 September at 1400
1. “Creating a digital database from the OS orthophoto maps from 1946-1952 “
Dr. Seppe Cassettari, currently Chief Executive Officer of The GeoInformation Group, specializing in aerial photography and derived databases such as land
use.
“…With increasing interest in historic aerial photography for the purposes of reviewing historic land use patterns and identifying potentially contaminated land sites, the OS orthophoto map series produced at a scale of 1:10 560 for much of Southern, Central and Eastern England is a valuable source of information. The GeoInformation Group has been creating orthophoto databases from RAF archives of the period and has now converted the OS map sheets into a digital database with the support of the Cambridge University Map Library…”
2. “Go-Geo! the Geo Data Portal”
Philip Abrahamson, Edina, University of Edinburgh
”Go-Geo! is a new portal designed to provide the UK academic community
with a means of finding geographic data and related information that is
geographically relevant. It has been developed as a proof-of-concept by
EDINA, Edinburgh University Data Library, and the History Data Service
(HDS), UK Data Archive, with funding from the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC)…”!
3. “Putting the Great Britain Historical GIS on the web: from a GIS of
Britain to a GIS for Britain”.
Dr Humphrey Southall. Reader in Geography at the University of
Portsmouth, and Director of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project.
” The original Great Britain Historical GIS held digitized boundaries and
social statistics for administrative areas, served a relatively narrow
audience of academic researchers, and encountered technical
difficulties when scaled up from 600-2,000 districts to c. 20,000
parishes. This presentation will demonstrate the new system being
constructed with National Lottery funding….”
4. “An introduction to mapping the UK Census”
Richard Harris. Principal Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Glamorgan
”Advances in geographical data handling and dissemination – including GIS and web-based mapping – will make the 2001 Census data the most publicly available and user-friendly to-date. Yet for the uninitiated obtaining, mapping and making sense of census information will seem a daunting prospect. This, a beginner’s guide to mapping Census information, offers words of encouragement, friendly advice and pointers in the right”.
5. “Ever wondered what Ordnance Survey stores on behalf of the National
Archives? “
Eunice Gill, The National Archives. Jonathan Holmes and Russell Jones,
Ordnance Survey.
”This short presentation will reveal the history of the agreement between
National Archives and Ordnance Survey; the problems associated with
setting it up; what data is stored and how; ….”
Thursday morning 4 September gives the opportunity for technical visits and tours.
Not to be missed is the following to the University of Oxford, a rare opportunity to see two very interesting map collections.
Visit to the map collections of Merton and Christ Church , University of Oxford
This visit will take in the map collections from two of Oxford's oldest colleges: Christ Church (founded 1546) and Merton (1264). Archivists Judith Curthoys and Julian Reid will guide us through their extensive holdings of estate maps covering much of
the country, reflecting the national influence of both colleges.
NB Numbers restricted to 40. Priority to Map Curators’ Group.
If this is not to your taste the following are still available:
Visit to the Geographic Engineer Group (GEG), Denison Barracks, Hermitage
The GEG is part of the Defence Geographic and Imagery Agency, and its mission is to provide field deployable geographic support to defence. The visit will include a tour of the camp to see how its field deployable capabilities are delivered through the 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) and how its officers and soldiers are trained in geographic skills (geographic information capture, analysis, production and dissemination) at the Royal School of Military Survey.
NB Numbers limited to 40.
2. Visit to the SGI Reality Centre, Theale
[Temporary blurb] The SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) Reality Centre offers complete, immersive visualization environments, enabling groups of people to share a single visual experience and collaborate in a decision-making process. The visit will feature a number of spatially-related software systems and data sets.
NB Numbers limited to 12. A FEW PLACES LEFT
If you have any queries please email me at
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or email the Reading organizers at
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I look forward to seeing everyone at Reading
Ann Sutherland
Convener, Map Curators’ Group,
British Cartographic Society
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