News from USNC-ICA

—by Cindy Brewer

The abstract deadline for the XXIII International Cartographic Conference—ICC2007—is November 1, 2006. The conference is in Moscow, Russia, August 4-10, 2007. Please consider presenting U.S. mapmaking advances, whether you are in academia, government or industry. Conference information is online at www.icc2007.com. USNC will again work to assist ICC presenters with partial travel funding to encourage U.S. representation at the meeting. To be considered for a USNC Travel Award, please e-mail your abstract to Cindy Brewer (USNC-ICA Chair), cbrewer@psu.edu, at the same time you send it to the ICC2007 program committee. Themes and topics for ICC2007 are:
1. Theoretical Cartography
2. Map Projections
3. Map Design and Production
4. Education and Training in Cartography, Internet courses
5. Digital Cartography and GIS for Sustainable Development of Territories
6. Geoinformation Systems
7. Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI, GSDI and SDI), Development, Standards
8. Incremental Updating and Versioning of Spatial Data Bases
9. Cartographic Generalization and Multiple Representation
10. Cartography and Satellite Imagery for the Management of Natural Resources and the Environment
11. Maps and the Internet
12. Internet Location-Based Services, Mobile Mapping and Navigation Systems.
13. Marine Cartography, Navigation and Ocean Mapping
14. National and Regional Atlases, Electronic Atlases, Thematic and Multimedia Cartography
15. Copyright and Access to Cartographic Data
16. Virtual models, Visualization, Animation and Cartography
17. History of Cartography
18. World and Aeronautical Cartography and Military Mapping
19. Mountain Cartography
20. Tourist Cartography
21. Cartography and Children, Educational Products
22. Maps for the Blind and Visually Impaired
23. Planetary Cartography
24. Research and Development: New products and Cartographic Systems.
25. Other themes: Cartography and Advertising, Maps in the Media, Census Cartography, Cadastral Maps, Three dimensional Mapping, New concepts in Cartographic Symbols, Space and Time in GIS, Toponymy, Analytical Cartography, Cartography and Health, Cartography against Poverty