REMEMBER - The early booking deadline for Cartography 2003 is 30th June.
The penalty for late booking is £25.
Please contact the local organisers ASAP if you are intending to come
but cannot send your booking form in before 30th June:
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The website at http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/bcs-soc_2003 contains the
full programme of events, which this year includes workshops on
MAPublisher and Geomatica software and on mapping the UK census. The
lecture sessions cover a variety of topics ranging from mapping in
Location Based Services to the problems of placing names on maps. For
example Session 3: Archiving, manipulating and distributing digital
data, includes papers by:
Seppe Cassettari
Creating a digital database from the Ordnance Survey orthophoto maps
from 1946-
1952
Philip Abrahamson
Go-Geo!, the geo data portal
Richard Harris
An introduction to mapping the UK census
Humphrey Southall
Putting the Great Britain Historical GIS on the web: from a GIS of
Britain to a GIS for Britain
Speaker from the National Archives
Title to be announced
We look forward to seeing you here in Reading!
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J.A.Fox
Map Room
Geography Department
University of Reading
Whiteknights
RG6 6AB
Tel: 0118 378 8735
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/maproom/
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