I saw this on facebook and thought I'd pass it along ... I think we map
librarians are in a good position to recognize good cartography.


The Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography:

This award recognizes imaginative cartography. Cartography is often seen
by the public as work opposed to imagination, grounded entirely in
established fact. While this devotion to reflecting what is forms the
heart of cartographic thinking, cartographers and artists who use maps
as a basis for their work can (and do) take that grounding in fact and
use it to venture into the world of the possible. Some explore real
places from perspectives that allow us to see it fresh and full of
possibility, and some take our established traditions of mapmaking, and
indeed take fully-constructed maps themselves, and turn them on their
heads to make us see ourselves anew. This award is to recognize this
work and the perspective it brings to the field of cartography, and the
contributions it makes to the world as a whole.

Nominations are due March 15. Members and non-members of NACIS are
eligible to nominate.

http://nacis.org/index.cfm?x=53





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