NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AWARD IN MAPPING

Undergraduate students and masters-degree candidates are invited to apply for the 2014 National Geographic Award in Mapping. This award recognizes student achievement in the art, science, and technology of mapping and seeks to encourage student research. 

The first place award consists of a cash prize of $900 (U.S.) and the second place award is $300 (U.S.). Winners and honorable mentions also will receive National Geographic atlases or other map products. 

This award is administered through the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Cartography Specialty Group (CSG). Judging will be completed by representatives from National Geographic and will be based on the technical, aesthetic, and overall quality of the submission. The award winners will be announced at the CSG business meeting at the 2014 AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL. Applying students do not need to be members of the AAG. 


HOW TO APPLY:
Following the strong tradition of production cartography at the National Geographic Society, submission must be in the form of a static map in a vector (e.g., pdf) or raster (e.g., jpg, tiff) format. While group work is eligible for submission, the maximum numbers of students working on a single team is three. Entries must be completed as part of the student's curriculum (i.e., not for a job, including freelance work); the student's cartography instructor must confirm that the work was completed for university credit by completing and scanning the online form.

Please include the following in your application package: (1) your map, or a link for downloading your map (latter preferred); (2) a cover page that includes your name, institutional affiliation, degree program (e.g. M.S.), address, phone number, email, and cartography/GIS instructor's name; (3) a one page statement that provides some context of the submission (e.g., its purpose, how it may be used, how it was created, its limitations, etc.) along with a paragraph on how this award will help you with your educational plans; and (4) the completed form signed by your cartography instructor.

Please apply by sending all materials digitally to Robert Roth ([email protected]). Submissions must be received by March 1st, 2014. 

For additional details, please visit:http://www.natgeomaps.com/mapawards

Dare we say... mappy hour? | Comp Plan Map App and the Regional Equity Atlas


Thursday, November 14, 2013
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Lucky Lab | 915 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland, OR (map)

You like maps. You like Portland. You like beer. You like meetups.

Come to Lucky Lab for a discussion of two new web-based mapping applications dedicated to regional equity and planning issues:

Portland's Comprehensive Plan Map App
http://www.portlandbps.com/gis/cpmapp/ 

Coalition for a Livable Future's Regional Equity Atlas 2.0
http://gis.oregonmetro.gov/equityAtlas/ 

Have a drink with GIS staff and developers from the City of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the Coalition for a Livable Future, and Metro, who will discuss how the apps were built and how you can use them to learn about planning and equity issues facing Portland and the Metro region. Focus will be on the development frameworks, APIs, and server-side stuff used to build these mapping and public engagement tools. We'll also touch on what works, what does not, what we'd do differently if we could start from scratch, and what we'd love to do if we could figure out how (that's where you come in). Be fun! If not, there's the beer.

No sign-up required... just show up. Room holds 60.

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation can hosted a map competition, "Opening up the Map."  Check out the entries!  It is full of some awesome and diverse maps. 

http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/gallery/

Vote for your favorite!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/foss4g-map-contest/

Watch the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (http://cao.ciw.edu) make the world's highest resolution carbon map of a country (Panama) in less than one minute.

A new book of 75 personal maps of Manhattan is just the latest in a new wave of cartographic creations by artists – both famous and amateur – seeking to put the romance back into this centuries-old art form.  

Check them out!  http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/may/15/hand-drawn-map-cartography-new-york

The Google team has compiled a series of Landsat images to show significant changes on Earth over time - Dubai, Columbia Glacier retreat, Las Vegas growth, Amazon deforestation, and more.  Very cool!

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html

Making data beautiful - another reason to learn TileMill for web mapping!

To read the full article:
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/

Thursday, April 4th at 6:30-8:00 PM
Smith Memorial Student Union Room 238

Lecture: “Politics of everyday mapping and spatial narratives in China"

This lecture is on the efforts to investigate the intersection of the development and usage of geospatial technologies and the socio-political conditions to address questions that help to reveal and conceptualize the complexities of the increasingly embodied and everyday mapping practices in relation to knowledge production and civic engagement. The lecturer seeks to illustrate these complexities through case studies of VGI practices in China and situates these practices in China and to call for more attention to the nuanced everyday creativeness and the emerging network publics, shaped by the interplay of technological constructions and socioeconomic transformations in an increasingly urbanized society.

The lecture will be presented by Dr.Wen Lin, a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of
Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her research interests include critical GIS, public participation GIS, and urban geography. Her main research centers on examining the intersection between the development and usage of geospatial technologies and the sociopolitical conditions. 

Free and open to the public.

Interactive, animated, Map Projection mayhem.  Have fun with it!

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/
   

Not digital 3D models, but ones that you can hold and touch.  Solid Terrain Modeling Inc. makes geospatially accurate 3D terrain models for museums, municipalities, etc.  Check it out!

http://www.solidterrainmodeling.com/