From cover to cover, this issue of the ACSM Bulletin draws attention to cartography in its various forms. Hope you enjoy the maps and the varied viewpoints of the geospatial world presented. See you in San Diego! more >>

CARTO-GIS

A new edge for maps

by John R. Innes

Our printed maps sometimes lead readers to ask, “So, where can I click on this map?”—an unusual reaction for a paper map to elicit, and one that we can most likely attribute to our obsessive attention to user interface design. Yet, “user interface” on a paper map is not as strange as it may sound.
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American cartography and GIS

by Ilse Genovese

Cartography and GIScience received a major boost in 2008. The U.S.–based Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) has published on the Web all the scholarly research published in its academic journal since 1974 as well as all the papers presented at the CaGIS-sponsored AutoCarto research symposia between 1974 and 1997. Both resources are available on the CaGIS Web site at www.cartogis.org. more>>

COMENTARY

If you think education is expensive,
try ignorance

by N.W.J. Hazelton

It is important for surveying educators to be part of the surveying profession, in the widest sense. We have to be out of the ivory tower and involved in the profession and its discussion and debates. more>>

SURVEYING HISTORY

de Chapeaurouge and his Cadastral Atlas of Argentina

by Albert H.J. Christensen and Ruben C. Rodriguez

In the last years of the XIX Century, a Franco Argentinean, Carlos Victor de Chapeurouge, initiated a truly unique project—Argentina’s first complete graphic cadastre. The register covered all the rural properties within Argentina’s landmass of more than one million square miles, delineating also the country’s hydrography, hypsography, roads, telegraph lines, railroads, and international, province, and district boundaries. Aware that very little if anything on Chapeaurouge and his extraordinary work is found in English and, for that matter, in Spanish, we decided to amend the records with this narrative. more>>

EDITORIAL

Education for the future