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Events > Mapping 2013 > Workshops & Presentations


Workshops
Wednesday Workshop 1: Choose from one session below
workshop summaries and descriptions [PDF]
Platinum Sponsor Esri UK
  • Mapping the Swiss Way - Led by Esri Switzerland
  • The Fashion of Map Design - Led by Global Mapping
  • OpenData Masterclass - Led by Ordnance Survey
Thursday Workshop 2: Choose from one session below
workshop summaries and descriptions [PDF]
Platinum Sponsor The GeoInformation Group
  • Mapping the Meridian - Led by The GeoInformation Group
  • Mapping the Immediate Smellscape - Led by Canterbury Christchurch University
  • Restless Earth - Led by BCS Programme Committee
  • Editing OpenStreetMap - Led by Steer Davies Gleave



Presentations
Wednesday Session 1: Mapping Technologies for Tomorrow summary and speakers biographies [PDF]
Platinum sponsor Leica Geosystems
  • Mapping using the convergence of Survey and GIS - by Mike Cooper, Leica Geosystems
  • Cartography and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Actionable Knowledge for Human Security - by Max Baber, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
  • Water, Water Everywhere... - by Richard Carpenter, UKHO
Wednesday Session 2: Future Mapping, Databases and Standards summary and speakers biographies [PDF]
Platinum Sponsor Star-Apic
  • What can lessons from the last 30 years tell us about future mapping? - by Tom Timms, Star-Apic
  • Utility detection and mapping, setting the standards for the future - by Graham Mills, Technics Group
  • Designing mapping databases for the future: UKMap - the next generation - by Seppe Cassettari, The GeoInformation Group
Wednesday Keynote (Session 3): The Future for the UK World Leaders in Mapping
  • 13:30 Geospatial Information Management: the path to the future - by Vanessa Lawrence, CB, Director General and Chief Executive Ordnance Survey
  • 15:55 Maps in Combat: 50 years of Geographic Support to the UK’s Armed Forces - by Paul Hancock, Director, Defence Geographic Centre
  • 16:20 From Limelight to Satellite: Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland - past, present and future - by John Wilkinson, Chief Executive, Land and Property Services
  • 16:45 Refreshments
  • 17:00 Sextant to Satnav - by Ian Moncrieff CBE, BA Chief Executive, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
  • 17:25 The Geological Model for Tomorrow’s World - by Professor John Ludden, Executive Director, British Geological Survey
  • 17:55 Panel discussion
Thursday Session 4: Technology and Map Design summary and speakers biographies [PDF]
Platinum Sponsor Cadcorp
  • Intuitive, reliable, and fast. How open standards and web services are influencing the way we share map-based information - by Ian Robinson, Cadcorp
  • Ordnance Survey's Cartographic Design Principles: An approach to promoting good map design - by Paul Naylor, Ordnance Survey
  • Cartography on a PC: 20 years of putting languages on the map - by Irene Tucker, SIL International
  • The Walker's Map: Designing GPS-enabled mapping for the urban recreational walkers - by Brian Dixon, Glasgow School of Art's Institute for Innovation Design
Thursday Session 4: Mapping for the Challenges of Tomorrow summary and speakers biographies [PDF]
Platinum Sponsor Newgrove
  • Mapping the Grassroots: 200 Ways Maps Can Help Run Local Government - by Hugo Boylan, Newgrove
  • Bedmap2; Mapping, visualizing and communicating the Antarctic sub-glacial environment - by Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey
  • Future mapping to reconstruct the past - by Jason Peters, Posthumous Plans
  • Animated and interactive cartography to improve the understanding of the regional dynamics - by Couillet Armelle & Alexandre Moine, ThéMA Research Unit - UMR 6049 CNRS-UFC
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