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THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S 31ST ANNUAL TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM
AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE MAP CURATORS' AND TEACHERS' GROUPS
in association with the DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th September 1994
OUTLINE PROGRAMME FOR THE SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOPS (Message approx 290 lines)
MAP CURATORS' GROUP WORKSHOP
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THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
1400 - 1800 WORKSHOP SESSION 1 in Syndicate Room
Chair - Anne Sutherland, Edinburgh Univ Library, Group Convener.
The session will identify how digital mapping packages and
techniques are used in varied map library environments. It is hoped
to show those still contemplating going digital some of the pitfalls
of doing so. Discussion will provide those proposing to start, if
not with a digital first aid kit, then with useful advice on how to
progress.
1) Introduction to the implications of digital mapping for libraries
Tony Campbell, Map Curator, British Library.
2) Making electronic map packages work for the user
Bob Parry, Department of Geography, Reading University.
3) Maps on screens in the local authority environment
Roger Monk, Principal Land Surveyor, Birmingham City Council,
Economic Development Department.
4) Maps on CD Rom - The role of the copyright library
Nick Millea, Map Curator, Bodleian Library.
2000 - MCG ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
The meeting will discuss a variety of issues including land use
contamination, mapping and farmers' subsidies and future events.
LIBER meetings, LIS-MAPS (the map enquiry/event/information system)
and BRICMICS will also figure as will Union Map Listings and
progress with the UK Directory of Map Collections.
FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
0830 - 1330 Visit to CHATSWORTH HOUSE Archive, Map
Collection and House. (All costs included.) A packed lunch will be
provided to allow the maximum length of stay at Chatsworth.
TEACHERS' GROUP WORKSHOP
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THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
2000 - 2130 Teachers' Group Informal Meeting in Hulme Hall Library
FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
0930 - 1230 Teachers' Group Workshop in Syndicate Room
Title: TEACHING GENERALISATION
The Group will explore practical exercises in generalisation,
exchanging experiences and views resulting from teaching in this
area. The accent will be on informal discussion of ways to
introduce concepts, with all participants encouraged to bring ideas
and exercises to the notice of others. Those wishing to come with
material to be shared and worked on in the meeting are requested to
contact David Forrest beforehand if possible to allow copying of
sheets for distribution.
BCS SYMPOSIUM
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1994 is the 400th anniversary of the death of Gerhard Kremer,
usually known by his latinised name, Mercator. His great fame rests
principally upon the construction of the projection which bears his
name and which he first used in his famous world map of 1569. To
celebrate this, the theme of the Symposium's first session will be
Mercator and his period. This will be preceded by an invited
address given by Professor F J Ormeling. In addition, the fourth
session will examine aspects of modern European mapping at the
leading edge of cartography.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME - SYMPOSIUM
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FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
1405 - 1630 TECHNICAL SESSION 1: "MERCATOR 400 YEARS AND BEYOND"
As the theme setting session of the Symposium, the organisers have
attempted to bring together a number of speakers able to reflect
through their works and interests, the debt we owe both to Mercator
himself and to the other scene-setting cartographers of the first
Elizabethan age.
Chair - Eila Campbell, formerly Professor, Birkbeck College, Univ of London
1) Mercator Astrolabes
Gerard Turner, formerly Professor, Imperial College London.
2) Mercator mapping of Britain
Peter Barber, British Library.
3) The Welsh National Atlas - conception to fruition
Harold Carter, formerly Professor, University College
Aberystwyth, Wales.
4) Damning Mercator - the Mercator Projection and the struggle for
the new cartography
Dr Peter Vujakovic, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.
1730 - 1900 UNIVERSITY and DEPARTMENTAL WELCOME & EXHIBITION OPENING
by Head of Department, Professor Peter Dicken.
2015 - 2100 PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
0900 - 0945 INVITED ADDRESS - Professor F J Ormeling
0945 - 1215 TECHNICAL SESSION 2: "DIGITAL - PRESENT AND FUTURE"
Beginning work with digital systems can strike terror into those who
have worked on the bench. But help is on hand! We hope to open the
door on this sometimes confusing, disorienting and complicated work.
The accent here is on practical help.
Chair - Frank Blakeway, formerly of Ordnance Survey.
1) Archiving and storage of Digital Databases
Peter Burnhill, Edinburgh University Computer Service.
2) Easing the Transition for Technical Pen Users
Nick Tasker, Hydrographic Office, Taunton.
3) MGE Map Generaliser
Katherine Mac, Intergraph Corporation.
4) The Admiralty Raster Chart Service
Martin Wakefield, Hydrographic Office, Taunton.
1000 - 1200 TECHNICAL SESSION 3:
1400 - 1600 "CD ROM - ATLAS"
This session offers symposium participants the opportunity for
hands-on use of a wide variety of different CD-based cartographic
products. They will be accessible on networked or stand-alone
machines. Amongst those available will be Global Explorer, Digital
Chart of the World, SCAMP(Map 91), the World Climate Atlas, OS Mapvision,
GEBCO Digital Atlas together with 4 or 5 others.
1400 - 1620 TECHNICAL SESSION 4: "EUROPEAN MAPPING"
The session takes a pan-European view of European mapping. The
speakers all have such an interest but are from different walks of
life in both the business and academic communities. The new Europe
is upon us and will prove to be an exciting experience.
Chair - Henderson McCartney, Managing Director of Map Monde, Paris.
1) The new political map of the European Union
Guillaume Muller, Head of Division, Directorate-General X,
Information, Communication, Culture, Audiovision, Publications,
European Commission, Brussels.
2) Information in Europe: the availability and content of data
Dr Denise Lievesley Professor of Social Research Methods and
Director of the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex.
3) The New European Map from Bartholomew
Alex Elder, Bartholomew, Edinburgh.
4) Michelin Europe
Gilles Galindo, Tourism Services, Michelin, Paris.
5) The European Data Pool
Alain de Taeye, Managing Director of Tele Atlas, Ghent
1400 - 1620 TECHNICAL SESSION 5: "CARTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHICS - AN
ANALYSIS OF COMMON VARIABLES"
Map users and their makers are frequently faced with the question
"when does my product become a map?" A broad range of devices and
techniques are shared by maps with the worlds of general and
technical illustration. Colour, space sharing, dimensionality,
qualitative and aesthetic issues all have their places and vie for
our consideration.
Chair - Michael Wood, Dept of Geography, University of Aberdeen.
1) Mapping, graphics and illustrations: semiological parallels
Donald Addisson, Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen.
2) Clarity and the sense of place in maps
Iain Burt, Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University,
Aberdeen.
3) Symbols with attitude: time varying symbolism and data visualisation
Ifan Shepherd, School of Geography and Environmental
Management, University of Middlesex.
4) Routeing and mapping: qualitative and aesthetic aspects
Cameron Campbell, Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen.
1630 - 1730 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SUNDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER
0830 - 1200 VISITS AND ACTIVITIES
13.00 - 15.30 TECHNICAL SESSION 6: "MAPS - A PERSONAL VIEW"
We welcome to this the last session of the Symposium, a group of
well known thinkers from the Halls of British Cartography. Their
remit is, if necessary, to be provocative in putting forward their
views on where Cartography is going. They will almost certainly be
entertaining - they are always worth waiting for.
Chair - Charles Beattie, Ordnance Survey.
1) Money and Maps
Ben Hill, Managing Director, Lovell Johns, Oxford.
2) My Mentors are Maps
Michael Wood, Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen.
3) Cartographic Impressionism: conveying Meaning rather than Fact
Alan Collinson of Alan Collinson Design.
4) Desert Island Maps
Greg Cole, formerly President of the Society.
SUNDAY RECREATIONAL VISITS
The following have been arranged. The Organisers cannot guarantee
that any particular trip will run. Places will be allocated on a
first come basis.
KINDER SCOUT
The classic 6 mile Dark Peak hill walk from Hayfield around the edge
of the Kinder Scout Plateau. This trip is for the reasonably fit
and you should bring boots and waterproofs. Costs include coach to
Hayfield leaves 9.00am and returns for lunch.
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, CASTLEFIELD MANCHESTER
A chance to visit one of Europe's largest science museums located on
the southern edge of the city centre in the Castlefield Urban
Heritage Park. Entrance costs and the short coach ride to the
museum are included.
REGENERATING THE VICTORIAN CITY
A guided walk around the city centre of Manchester, to see how the
Victorian heritage is being conserved, and to visit the sites of
recent initiatives aiming to bring new life to the city. Cost
includes coach to the city centre.
TECHNICAL VISIT TO GENASYS AND DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY
OF MANCHESTER
A morning's visit to offices of Genasys and to the Department of
Geography in the University. We will be able to view new products
on offer from the GIS vendor, and to see demonstrations of various
research projects currently being carried out by the Department's
GIS unit.
BCS ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM - Administrative details
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
We intend to maintain the late booking penalty for those booking
after the 30th July. This is indicated by the second, higher price.
All prices UK pounds sterling. Booking early greatly assists your
Committee in organising the Symposium. WE THANK MEMBERS FOR THEIR
COOPERATION AND WOULD POINT OUT THAT THIS YEAR'S BOOKING DEADLINE IS
THE 30TH JULY.
SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee of 39.00/58.00 has been maintained at the same
level as last year and covers such items as: Pre-symposium expenses
for visits to the university (3-4 years ahead for booking and 10
months ahead for local organiser and detailed arrangement meeting).
Expenses of Programme Committee members when organising programme
and speakers and symposium expenses including hire of lecture rooms
and exhibition area, visual aids and audio aids, insurance, printing
booking brochures and final programme, non-BCS speakers
meals/accommodation, travel expenses, gratuities to University staff
and students helping over the weekend. Invitations are also given
to Department senior staff to attend the banquet. Printed Symposium
Proceedings are provided to all registrants as an integral part of
their arrival information pack. In addition, by comparison with
other conferences, your Committee believes the fees charged by BCS
are extremely good value.
MAP CURATORS'/TEACHERS' GROUP REGISTRATION FEE
This year the MCG registration fee at 18.00/27.00 is considerably
higher than normal. This results from the decision to make the MCG
Technical Visit to The Duke of Devonshire's Chatsworth House. The
full cost of the coach, entrance fees and extra cost of a specially
arranged visit to the estate's map and manuscript collection are
included. The fee for Teachers' Workshop is 2.00/3.00.
ACCOMMODATION
Residential accommodation will be in the University's HULME HALL of
Residence which is only a minute's walk from the Lecture Theatres,
Dining Hall and Exhibition. A booking form will be forwarded if a
request is sent to Chris Perkins at the address below. Prices are
B&B 17.85/Dinner 8.95/Lunch 6.85/Banquet 13.65.
BOOKING
1) Please contact Chris Perkins at the address below to request
a booking form or for general enquiries.
2) Please note increased Registration fees after 30th July 1994.
Chris Perkins (BCS) Email: [log in to unmask]
Dept of Geography, University of Manchester, MANCHESTER M13 9PL
Tel: +44 61 275-3657 Fax: +44 61 273-4407
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