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Subject:     PRESS RELEASE: British Cartographic Society Awards
Date:     Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:42:01 GMT
From:     Clare Neal <[log in to unmask]>

Press Release

For Immediate Publication

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The BCS Awards are open for 2008

The British Cartographic Society (BCS) recently revamped the Awards
scheme to encourage entrants from all disciplines in cartography, and
to showcase products created through traditional or new, even
experimental, techniques. The BCS aims to help promote the best of
cartographic products and highlight good cartographic design in the UK
and abroad.

As part of the changes, two awards were added to the programme to
assist in covering all disciplines. Firstly, The Stanfords Award for
printed mapping is designed to encourage any printed products to
enter, from coffee table atlases to wallpaper or maps featured in
leaflets and topical articles.

The Avenza Award for electronic mapping was also added to allow
digital products such as interactive and web maps to also compete.
Entries can include power-point presentations, interactive CD-ROMS, or
websites.

These two awards join the established John C. Bartholomew Award for
Small Scale Mapping and the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Award for Better
Mapping.

Not only will the winners of these awards receive a crystal trophy and
certificate, but they also go head-to-head with each other to receive
the prestigious honour of being crowned the Best Mapping entry and
presented with The BCS Award. (Closing date for all the above entries
is 30th May 2008)

We are delighted to announce the introduction of a new award for UK
children, to run in alternate years to the ICA Barbara Petchenik
Children's Map Competition. The UKHO Junior Mapmaker Award is designed
to encourage map making in children aged 7 - 16. (Closing date is
Saturday 19th July 2008)

We also continue to support the NGS New Mapmaker Award in conjunction
with The National Geographic Society (same closing date), and The
Henry Johns Award for the best Cartographic Journal article sponsored
by Lovell Johns.

If you would like to enter any of these awards, entry forms are
available on the BCS website
http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=727

Information about the winners from 2007 are available on the website
http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=579




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Clare Neal
BCS Webmaster

http://www.cartography.org.uk