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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:58:57 +0100
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: 'Military mapping in the 20th century' announcement of
12.9.2 000
Sender: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>



Dear List subscribers (especially MapHist's Lars Bagge Nielsen, concerning
his enquiry of 13 September),

Professor Peter Doyle has been rather busy and elusive since I posted a
brief announcement of this Seminar on Tuesday 12 September.  Peter Chasseaud
(Chairman of the event), however, has this morning provided a more detailed
program[me] by e-mail attachment, which I am happy to attempt to send - as a
'normal' message - to you all.  Please note that a URL is promised in the
near future.

Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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http://www.rgs.org



The University of Greenwich is organising a 1-day seminar, on 5th January
2001, with presentations and workshop sessions, entitled:

Military Mapping in the 20th Century

Including sessions on the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, Small
Wars, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, etc.

To be held at Queen Anne Court, on the Maritime Greenwich Campus (the
historic former Royal Naval College) fronting the River Thames.

Registration (£15 including refreshments, lunch and tour of historic campus)
details and further information from:

Professor Peter Doyle
Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Greenwich
Pembroke
Chatham Maritime
Kent ME4 4TB
Tel: 0181 331 9832; email: [log in to unmask]

Website information will be available shortly.

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Aims:

*       To outline some of the major military survey and cartographic
programmes of the 20th Century (concentrating on the British experience at
this stage).
*       To identify available archives, collections, resources.
*       To establish a research agenda.
*       To explore the possibility of establishing a standing commission for
the history of military cartography.
*       To examine the possibility of establishing a permanent repository
and research centre for military survey historical material.
*       To discuss the methodology of research into military cartographic
history.
*       To publish the proceedings of the workshop in a suitable journal.




Provisional Programme for 5th January 2001
(Chairman - Peter Chasseaud, University of Greenwich):


09.30   Registration & Coffee

10.0    Welcome and Introductory Address


Morning Session - First and Second World Wars:


10.00   Peter Chasseaud (University of Greenwich):      Mapping the Western
Front 1914-18.

10.30   Col. Mike Nolan (Retd - ex Mil Svy):            Gallipoli Mapping.

11.00   Coffee

11.30   Dr Yolande Hodson (ex Mil Svy): M. N. MacLeod and Mapping
Preparations for WW2.

12.00   Dr Andrew Cook (India Office Library & Records) The Survey of India.

12.30   Lunch & Tour of Historic Campus.


Afternoon Session - Post 1945; Cold War, 'Small Wars', etc.

14.00   Dr. Ian Mumford (ex Mil. Svy)           Mapping for the Suez
Operation.

14.30   Major Alan Gordon (Retd - ex Mil Svy)   Photogrammetry & Remote
Sensing - Anaglyph to Digital.

15.00   Speaker from Defence Geographic Information Agency (Formerly Mil
Svy)    Recent Work of Military Survey/DGIA.

15.30   Tea & General Discussion - see 'Aims' above.

16.30   Chairman's Concluding Remarks.






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