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Subject: CLARIFICATION - SURVEYING AND MAPPING EXHIBIT AT THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005
From: Virginia W. Mason <[log in to unmask]>
To: maps-l


CLARIFICATION - SURVEYING AND MAPPING EXHIBIT AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The exhibit is sponsored by ACSM and all four of its member
organizations: American Association for Geodetic Surveying,  Cartography
and Geographic Information Society, Geographic and Land Information
Society, and National Society of Professional Surveyors.

It does not feature any entries from the National Society of
Professional Surveyors Map Competition, although it does feature entries
from the Library's collection of ACSM-CaGIS Map Design Competition maps
over the last 22 years.

As the previous announcement states, the reception on Tuesday, September
13th is open to invited guests only and will be unveiled to the public
Wednesday, September 14, 2005.  For the Wednesday event, ACSM in
coordination with National Geodetic Survey, will have surveyors reenact
practices of historical surveying in front of the Madison Building of
The Library of Congress.

Maps in Our Lives

The Library of Congress presents Maps in Our Lives, an exhibition in
recognition of a thirty-year partnership between the Library of
Congress, Geography and Map Division and the American Congress on
Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), the nation's primary professional
organization dedicated to the nation's surveying and mapping activities.
This exhibition explores four constituent professions represented by the
American Congress of Surveying and Mapping * surveying, cartography,
geodesy, and geographic information systems (GIS).

The surveying section features selected items from the collections and
show the historical evolution in surveying around George Washington's
farm near Mount Vernon between 1760 and 1999. The cartographic section
highlights more than forty items selected from ACSM's annual map design
competition, and exemplifies notable strides in cartographic
interpretation, design, and production over the last 22 years.  The
geodesy portion of the exhibit (the field which involves the
determination of precise locations on the earth's surface, such as
latitude and longitude) demonstrates the value of geodetic surveying
activities and their impact on our lives. The exhibit also features a
video, which takes us through a historical and spatial comparison of the
surveying maps featured in this exhibit. These are overlaid with
contemporary GIS data of the same area show the power that GIS has in
presenting and interpreting landscape over time.

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Ginny Mason, GIS Cartographer
Congressional Cartography Program, Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4650
tel: 202-707-8520, fax: 202-707-8531








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Subject: Library of Congress Surveying and Mapping Exhibit
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005


SURVEYING AND MAPPING EXHIBIT AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS!!!!

The Library of Congress "Surveying and Mapping" exhibit, sponsored by
the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) and the
Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) will be unveiled
at its Geography and Map Division on the basement level of the Madison
building in the afternoon on Tuesday, September 13, 2005.  This exhibit
features winning entries from the ACSM-CaGIS Map Design Competition over
its 34 year history.  It also features winning surveying and plat map
entries from the National Society of Professional Surveyors Map
Competition.

The Madison building is located at the Southeast corner of 1st St. and
Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC.  1st Street SE lies on the east
side of the Capitol building, and separates the Capitol from the Supreme
Court building and the Library of Congress building (old ornate
building).

ACSM will hold a reception on Tuesday, September 13 immediately after
the unveiling.  The location for the reception is still being
negotiated, but will be nearby to the Madison building.  The public will
be able to begin viewing the exhibit at start-of-business on the morning
of Wednesday, September 14.

Thanks to all who have expressed interest in the exhibit, and especially
to those who donated so it could happen, including among others,
National Geographic Society, National Geodetic Survey, ESRI and POB
Magazine.  If you wish to donate funds for the reception please contact
Curt Sumner ([log in to unmask]
<BLOCKED::mailto:[log in to unmask]> ), Executive Director of ACSM.

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Membership Director/Publications
6 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 403
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
240-632-9716 ext. 105
240-632-1321
www.acsm.net <http://www.acsm.net/>



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